Daydream Believer

I keep trying to think of interesting things to post here lately, and i sure come up with good ideas…but I always come up with them at work.  I don’t feel right about blogging at work – I can validate some of the ways I kill minutes in the office, but not that one.  So, apologies for not being interesting.  I’ll try to improve upon that.  In the meantime, here’s whats going on inside my brain-matter-stuff.

1. I want to start another cross-stitch project, similar to grant’s pillow, but I have no real yay-awesome idea.  If anyone ever wants something stitched for themselves, let me know, I can hook you up.  You supply thread, I supply labor.

2. Our piggies are pretty needy little squeekers.  This doesn’t diminish their cuteness, but it does kind of grate on you when they start wheeking at 11:59 p.m.  I think we’re getting close to the point at which we can start some rudimentary training.

3. Enjoyed this random internet find: a column by a journalist at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution satirizing the whole Bill Ayres scenario.

4. THERE. ARE. FOUR. LIGHTS!!!

In general, things have been hard to juggle lately.  Work is proving challenging given current economics, department politics and the like.  It’s no better or worse than any other office – it’s just that I never ran into it here before, so it was a little unexpected.  Then we have the magazine, which is undergoing some transitions that are filling up my yahoo inbox faster and with more urgency than I have free time or free brain space.  My coaching job picks up again next week, I’m going out of town the next 2 weekends, and I am in a holding pattern for egg donation, meaning it could be Go Time to start hormone treatments almost any day now.

On the plus side, I do love me some prime time TV.  If I can keep escaping into overly-hyped network productions, I think I’ll come out OK in the end.

What I find most obnoxious about being stressed is that there are others out there with lives that have unarguably been shaken up more than mine, and who are handling those transitions with grace and at least some amount of calm.  So, I say good job you guys, and may I one day have the serenity you seem to possess – or fake.  On that note, a public shout out of “Congrats, you persevered!” to Carrie from School, as she’s known by most readers here, and Jessi for both moving recently and having the relocations be successful.  Also to Vicki for the new job, Bert for the new job, Mark for the new job, and especially to Petie (who doesn’t read this blog but deserves accolades anyway) for being braver than any of us and moving to Uganda for the next two years to make a difference.  You make us all very proud.

Hey, would you look at that?  I didn’t expect this post to go much beyond that dumb list.   Turns out, kinda theraputic.  Huh, I think I’m starting to remember why I started a blog in the first place….

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