My Pocket Rocket
Well okay actually the song is «Pop, Lock & Drop It» but until
now I’ve thought the words where ‘My Pocket Rocket’ when I hear the song
at the gym, home or wherever - LOL. Okay
so that has been my laugh for the past week, really.
So the weather has been rather interesting.
I wanted a break from the heat but it feels as if we’re being ejected
right into Fall. I’m not too
worried about it, though, as I know that it’ll be hot again soon enough so I
will be grateful for the cooler days while I can.
Life has been pretty routine but I’m not complaining too much
about it. I’ve had the chance to
keep a consistent gym routine and also get back into touch with myself.
I visited my physician for the first time since before going to
New
Zealand
last year. I couldn’t believe that
it had been that long. This was
pretty much just a follow-up to my initial visit back in late 2006 when - you
may recall - I was dealing with the bad anxiety.
She was extremely impressed when I told her about all that I had done and
gone through without having any type of repercussions (multiple international
trips, the separation, etc.) I
suppose that I’m pretty impressed as well but it’s harder to see in myself
and over the course of so long. My
biggest surprise is how it used to be such a heavy and burdensome part of my
life and that I barely think about it. Well,
the only reason I think about it as much as I do is that I’m wondering
‘where it went’. I know that I
need to be happy that I’ve dealt with it as much as I have and have done
things to positively diver it, such as working out quite a bit more.
She feels that I’m pretty much over it and basically wants to see me in
another year.
So yeah, back to being more introspective on my life.
I think that I’ve ingrained such importance with my job and my accounts
of following up in a timely fashion that it has become part of my life overall.
Maybe it’s just because my best friend John
and I are such e-mail and text message whores that I’m used to getting a
response almost faster than I can send it! LOL
I’ve just found recently that not everyone is quite as responsive,
let’s say, in getting back. I’m
not saying that I’m a perfect communicator nor am I saying that everyone
should be writing, calling, texting back in two minutes time.
I’m referring more to just getting back period!
It’s especially intriguing when it’s people I see all the time and I
know I’ll run into at the gym, bar, at Starbucks, etc.
Perhaps it sounds old-fashioned and I’m just getting older but to me,
communication just says a lot about who you are.
Now that I’m ranting - LOL.
Another huge deal to me is something that kinda ties in to my last point.
There are people I see all over the place : gym, coffee, bar, you name
it. I’ve made a specific attempt
to say ‘hi’ to them whether it be in person or online just simply given that
we obviously have a few lifestyle activities in common.
To either get a strange look in return, or worse yet, no response at all
just really boggles my mind. Obviously
if we see each other all of the
tim
e
at the aforementioned places, it has to mean that at the very least we’re both
active, fit, drunk, coffee lovers! If
these people think that I’m trying to make nice to hit on them or that that is
my ‘easy in’, think again. It
really could be that I’m trying to share an affinity and acknowledge that we
see each other all of the
tim
e and in many of the same
places. That’s it! Trust me, if
I’m after you I hope that I can come up with a better tactic than just that!
I’m really not all bitterness these days, really!
There are some incredible people I’ve met through any and all of the
above activities I pursue every week and I’m really happy about that.
So I was originally going to go to New Orleans Southern Decadence
for Labor Day Weekend. I wound up
deciding that it would be best not to take the Friday off from work.
I’m really getting down to just a few days of personal
tim
e left at work and need to
allocate it to one of my last couple of trips for the year or keep them in the
kitty for any unforeseen circumstances that arise *knock on wood*.
I then tried to think of another quick, nice getaway for that weekend and
decided on
Bozeman
,
Montana
.
I have never been there and wanted to visit a friend of mine.
For one reason or another, that has not worked out either.
In my daze from all of this, I think that Timothy
has it right that perhaps this is all a sign that I shouldn’t be traveling
that weekend. This could be a
positive thing in that I will just enjoy the long weekend at home and go aboard
one of our ships for the day. Timothy
suggested that maybe it’s not that there is a reason that I shouldn’t be
going anywhere but that maybe there’s a reason I should be staying home!
Hmm…. a prospect to look forward to, I suppose!
This past Sunday I went aboard Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian
Pearl in
Seattle
.
She is NCL’s newest ship and is completely state-of-the-art even with a
bowling alley! As a thank you to NCL
for taking me aboard, I plan to work on that ship’s photologue for my web site
first and foremost and put my other projects on hold for a bit.
That is about all that’s going on here for now! I’m down to just
a couple of weeks plus until my certification exam that I’ve been studying for
the past 17 months. I am SO ready to
get that behind me, get certified, and actually study some other topics!
I’m really looking forward to getting back into my language study.