Update?
Hey folks!
Okay...I have not updated in forever. Sorry. I've been having way too much fun over in Facebook Land, and I've been poked or nudged or whatever by a few people to update my LJ, so here I am.
I sorta considered deleting LJ...I'm still not sure if i want to keep it or what. One of the things about using Facebook is that I have found so many old friends and acquaintances. What bothers me though, is that there are a ton of my gay/bear/whatever friends that post stuff that is just TMI on Facebook, and all my high school friends really dont need to be exposed to that? So...I have been thinking about separating the high school people from the bear/gay people but then that feels rediculous...so...I just don't know.
I assume the Facebook is a much more public forum than LJ? Hmm. And FB really spreads stuff around, as opposed to keeping it all in one handy place like LJ.
Anyway.
Things here are good. Troy moved in back in February. The biggest adjustment has been learning how to live with his dog, Buddy. My house is very quiet, Gus is very quiet, Troy is very quiet, Buddy is barking/whining/ getting into stuff all the time. And I love him to pieces, really. But some days I'd love him IN pieces, and that's what bugs me most. I cannot let a cocker spaniel make me lose my shit totally, you know?
Well, the other part of that is that I'm working from home these days...for the last 2 months I have been...so I'm constantly around both the dogs, so maybe that is making me a little crazier too.
Stuff that has went down recently:
1) Brain is healed up nicely. Got the sign-off and final MRI done.
2) Want to make a lamp/light/fixture out of my MRI films. :)
3) Troy moved in, February. YAY!!!
4) Still making med adjustments and body chemistry adjustments because of my funky, freaky pituitary gland.
5) Work...the design department was sent home to work from home 2 months ago. We moved our offices in 3 days. It was a big huge mess.
6) More work: As of this Friday, May 8, I will no longer have a job. I will be maybe contracting/freelance with them but we've not gotten that figured out yet.
7) Dad is still hanging in there. I don't know how, but he is. It's been over a year since the cancer diagnosis. His chemo worked, and now the cancer is coming back and all of the treatment stuff is up in the air. I feel like...I don't know. I guess it hasn't really compromised his way of life that much yet with all the treatments and stuff...he's still gettin' around and fishing and stuff...it's just a scary thing. And he's in Michigan and I'm here in MN.
8) My plan after I am done at GMI this week is to take some time to get 'work' out of my system, and then nail down a whole marketing plan to get a new job. I want the whole package to be done before I start applying for work: website, cards, resume, samples...everything needs to be PERFECT. I don't want to just 'get a job'. I want to get THE job that I deserve. We'll see how that goes.
9) I don't have any plans to travel anywhere at all. We thought about a vacation in the fall, but that is all moot until I find work. My job will be to find work, or at least enough sustainable freelance work to equal full time employment. I want to get some house work done, yard work done, etc.
10) I might try to learn how to ride/drive a motorcycle this summer. I've never driven one, so I think am going to take the MN State motorcycle class.
11) I want to do a bit of biking this summer too. I bought a new bike...it's a Dyno GT Kustom Kruiser "Deuce". It's a one-speed cruiser, I got it new-in-box on eBay. It's black with flames and skulls all over the place and completely crazy...if I'm going to be heffing it up and down the parkway, I'm going to do it in style. LOL
So...that's that. I hope I can update this more often now. Things have been so crazy the last few months. I keep saying that. I think it's just that I have been working full time and freelancing on the side for over 2 years now, and that means a LOT of time behind the ol' computer, and I get tired of it... so now that my work situation is changing maybe that will change too.
How are you doing?
Okay...I have not updated in forever. Sorry. I've been having way too much fun over in Facebook Land, and I've been poked or nudged or whatever by a few people to update my LJ, so here I am.
I sorta considered deleting LJ...I'm still not sure if i want to keep it or what. One of the things about using Facebook is that I have found so many old friends and acquaintances. What bothers me though, is that there are a ton of my gay/bear/whatever friends that post stuff that is just TMI on Facebook, and all my high school friends really dont need to be exposed to that? So...I have been thinking about separating the high school people from the bear/gay people but then that feels rediculous...so...I just don't know.
I assume the Facebook is a much more public forum than LJ? Hmm. And FB really spreads stuff around, as opposed to keeping it all in one handy place like LJ.
Anyway.
Things here are good. Troy moved in back in February. The biggest adjustment has been learning how to live with his dog, Buddy. My house is very quiet, Gus is very quiet, Troy is very quiet, Buddy is barking/whining/ getting into stuff all the time. And I love him to pieces, really. But some days I'd love him IN pieces, and that's what bugs me most. I cannot let a cocker spaniel make me lose my shit totally, you know?
Well, the other part of that is that I'm working from home these days...for the last 2 months I have been...so I'm constantly around both the dogs, so maybe that is making me a little crazier too.
Stuff that has went down recently:
1) Brain is healed up nicely. Got the sign-off and final MRI done.
2) Want to make a lamp/light/fixture out of my MRI films. :)
3) Troy moved in, February. YAY!!!
4) Still making med adjustments and body chemistry adjustments because of my funky, freaky pituitary gland.
5) Work...the design department was sent home to work from home 2 months ago. We moved our offices in 3 days. It was a big huge mess.
6) More work: As of this Friday, May 8, I will no longer have a job. I will be maybe contracting/freelance with them but we've not gotten that figured out yet.
7) Dad is still hanging in there. I don't know how, but he is. It's been over a year since the cancer diagnosis. His chemo worked, and now the cancer is coming back and all of the treatment stuff is up in the air. I feel like...I don't know. I guess it hasn't really compromised his way of life that much yet with all the treatments and stuff...he's still gettin' around and fishing and stuff...it's just a scary thing. And he's in Michigan and I'm here in MN.
8) My plan after I am done at GMI this week is to take some time to get 'work' out of my system, and then nail down a whole marketing plan to get a new job. I want the whole package to be done before I start applying for work: website, cards, resume, samples...everything needs to be PERFECT. I don't want to just 'get a job'. I want to get THE job that I deserve. We'll see how that goes.
9) I don't have any plans to travel anywhere at all. We thought about a vacation in the fall, but that is all moot until I find work. My job will be to find work, or at least enough sustainable freelance work to equal full time employment. I want to get some house work done, yard work done, etc.
10) I might try to learn how to ride/drive a motorcycle this summer. I've never driven one, so I think am going to take the MN State motorcycle class.
11) I want to do a bit of biking this summer too. I bought a new bike...it's a Dyno GT Kustom Kruiser "Deuce". It's a one-speed cruiser, I got it new-in-box on eBay. It's black with flames and skulls all over the place and completely crazy...if I'm going to be heffing it up and down the parkway, I'm going to do it in style. LOL
So...that's that. I hope I can update this more often now. Things have been so crazy the last few months. I keep saying that. I think it's just that I have been working full time and freelancing on the side for over 2 years now, and that means a LOT of time behind the ol' computer, and I get tired of it... so now that my work situation is changing maybe that will change too.
How are you doing?