my last few days of 25...

I applied for a few new positions at work, both would include a pay raise. One said I was well qualified, the other said application being reviewed. I kinda feel like the easier position is giving me a slap in the face because all it says is application received. ugh. i hate application processes.

In other news, I'll be 26 next week. what's so cool about 26? Hence why I'd like to stay 25. Trying to psych myself up for 26 by making my birthday party a theme party. It'll be a "26 pieces f flare" prty, which should prove to be at the very least...amusing and make for some interesting photos.

Had an amazing time in Boston, even if it was only 24hours. We don't visit our friends down there enough, it's really not all that far of a drive, let's you get out of town and proves for an amazing time every time. happiness.

Going back and forth about where to move next and what my next career move will be. Should I move closer to my folks or to a city where there will be lots to do. is there a happy medium? let me know jw if you do.

TGIF

nothing like a cool refreshing hazelnut creamy Guinness (tonight anyway). i just discovered that this refreshing beverage is only 120 calories. in other news i am wiped from my work schedule and class schedule. TGIF. thinking i am going to be a psychodynamic therapist when i grow up.

semester craziness

this semester is going to be nuts. have i mentioned that. very excited for my class but this upper level psych class is a lot more independent with the professor expecting us to know when things are do...like reading the syllabus all by ourselves. hehe. i know it sounds crazy but it's been awhile since I've been in college. why am i aways that silly freshman girl too. first day of classes this term, didn't know where my class was. went to the library to look up the location and the librarian had to help me. I said do you know what CC stands for? (since it wasn't defined on the website). she said CC stands for Campus Center and that's where we are now dear. great.

ever since i got sick i've lost the quick sacrastic flow to my blog...
ok time to hit the books...

mundane

used all my sick time this week, well almost. lost my voice, got the flu and pink eye just to make it more interesting. i hate being sick. this blog entry is not interesting. sorry. maybe next time. time to do some reading for abnormal psych and then take a nap.

hot thoughts

i've been sick with a fever for the last day and a half...101.8 ain't too bad is it? do youo ever wonder how hot it can get before your brain fries? i do.

was trying to look for hotels with parking in boston, why is that an oxymoron? shouldn't parking be provided. this rots. i'm sick of searching for this crap.

bye.

3miles and thai

ran 3 miles this morning, then went out for thai. i am hoping thai isn't too fatty. if so, please don't tell me. saw my little em today. quiet cold house that i will be cleaning shortly. so much to do. class started wed. i think it will be really interesting! abnormal psych. waiting for the book to arrive from the library...please hurry bangor. the rest of my weekend will be devoted to organizing and cleaning i imagine. oh well, better now then never. working out makes me hungry.

two words; ski. bum.

ski bum. my life aspiration at one point, lost and refound. i vow to ski weekly or at least twice a month this season. i want to move closer to the mountain so i can ski, get in shape and maybe instruct again. i'm sick of this real job sh#! i want to live at the mountain like i used to and get paid for it. insights? ski instructor in the winter, art therapist in the summer hahha?

why is it that my days off fly by and it seems like i am at work forEVER? ugh. i wish i could change that. any suggestions?

home is where...?

Back in Maine and wishing i was in windy, snowy, northern New York instead. There may not be a lot to do there, but it'll always be home. My family is back home. My friends, my job, my life is here. Why is that? Why do we feel like we need to always be somewhere else? Are there people that are just never happy because they always want to be where they aren't? The only way to survive this parallel is to immerse yourself in life here until it is time to face the reality of there again. And where is a good compromise?

I'm still on vacation with too much time to think apparently.

me time

Hello from Vacationland. It's been a extremely nice treat to be on annual leave from work for 11 days straight. It's s plurge I was willing to cash in on. Hopefully I will return to work refreshed and renewed with a glimmer in my eye and a song in my step.

Sometimes the best part of having time off is not doing anything! Relaxing and catching up with people and ordinary things. A break from the hectic lives we've made for ourselves. I hope to take something away from this vacation and learn to slow down a little, say no a little more and make some time for me in my busy schedule. I'd like to schedule 1 or 2 nights a week that I make a date with myself to sew, read, scrapbook, watch a movie or just do something I want to do. When we lose time for the things we most enjoy, everything else takes more of a toll on us and the things we do not enjoy seem even more unbearable.

This year I vow to make some me time, how bout you?

Merry Christmas; Screw Happy Holidays

Merry Christmas is now not considered PC. Since when does wishing someone well need to be PC? If they don't appreciate the greeting screw 'em! We wrote Merry Christmas on our Christmas cards this year and although I thought it might offend our Jewish friends, I thought "hey, this is our holiday and when they want to start sending me Happy Hanukkah cards, I'll thank them, but until then, it's Merry Christmas, or you won't be getting a card."

I love Christmas. I love the food, the drinks, the presents, the fire in the fireplace, the family and friends, the everything. I think Christmas lights should be up all year, they are so festive and evoke happiness. They always mesmorize me.

So Merry Christmas until next post...(and don't be spreading that Happy Holidays crap behind my back)!