its the holidays

So its the winter holidays. I am actually very glad that the year is almost over. 2008 was a bit of a rough year and I am glad to see it end. 2009 I expect will be an incredible year. A lot has happened over the last two weeks.

Work is getting better. THey finally have me in the system i need at work to do my stuff, so I feel like I have a little bit of a purpose. The people I work with have started growing on me as well. I'm not sure if this will be a long term job or a short term job yet, but we shall see.

I started going to a personal trainer at the gym. I'm dedicated to dropping the remainder of the weight that I want to before I am thirty. So i signed up for personal training I have been twice now and he has kicked my arse. On Tuesday we did a lot of squats and lunges. My legs hurt like there is no tomorrow right now. Thank god the gym is not open today and i can take a day off.

In really horrible news, which most of my readers probably know from my facebook status updates. Last week, a friend of mine was murdered on his walk home from work (at 3 am) in DC. It broke my heart and I am still upset about it. I'm closer with the guys brother so I am sure that impacts me at all. It definitely took me out of commission for a while as I was in shock over it. So keep that in your prayers, if you pray that is.

I hope you all have a great Christmas, Chanukah, and Kwanzaa.

Happy Thanksgiving

I just want to wish everyone a happy thanksgiving! I hope that you all have tons to be thankful for. Some of the things that I have to be thankful for:

Family- Its nice to have a family get closer year after year, when this was not the case growing up.

Friends- The family I get to choose. I have some of the greatest friends in the world and I appreciate them more than anything.

School progress- It has been a slow process, but I am finally feeling like I am making progress and I can start to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Work- It took forever and was a long and stressful process, but I have a new job, which has done so much to put me back on a position emotional level.

Have a great holiday full of triptophan :)

A bit more from Florida

1. Why is everyone in this house so loud? Don't get me wrong, I am incredible appreciative that I can crash on the couch and not have to get a hotel room. But something has to be said that no one even remotely tries to be quiet when im sleeping no less than 5 feet from the kitchen. I understand that noise will happen, but when i have to hear screams and arguments (not that my family fights all the time, this is just how they communicate) every morning at seven it just kills me.

2. I enjoy running into people who i used to know a long time ago. Now that I've lost a bit of weight and am all self-confident, I am so much more successful than so many people!!!!! Yay me for getting to show it all off :)

On a side note: New Years is coming up. For the last two years my resolution was to go on 3 dates with the same guy. I decided that with David/Tony I succeeded at that. So what should i resolve this year? Any thoughts?

A bit from Florida

I'm in Florida for the holidays, so my apologies for not writing. In addition my life is pretty boring. However, some observations are still in order.

1. Sometimes you need to learn to take no for an answer. At least once on a trip to Florida I try to eat at Checkers since there is only one in DC in the middle of Southeast, so I never go there. So I got some Checkers on the way home and my step-mother tried to offer me food like 5 times and I said to her Can't you see the bag of food right in front of me that I'm eating.

2. Why am I the only one in my family who is ok with waiting til the afternoon of Christmas to open presidents and let everyone be there at the same time, rather than doing it piecemeal. Or if we are doing it piecemeal, I should get to go first so I can go drink/dance.

3. If you ask me if I'll be home for dinner that intones that someone will be making it, not just will I be eating something i make for myself at the kitchen table. So if you plan on giving me a guilt trip for not being home for dinner, then you have to cook a dinner for me to arrive at.

In other observations, its sad that my friends are nowhere to be found. I even cut down the list of people to see for this shortened trip and I've got confirmation from one for my last day in town. I guess next year's trip will be cut down even more...

VD

Things have been good this week. I havent been as exhausted after getting sick last weekend. I've also not been so in the funk lately or depressed, so maybe I'm turning the corner on all that.

As I mentioned on my posting of seeing King Lear, I plan to try and do at least one cultural thing a month in the hopes of exploring life and what DC has to offer. Well last night, I got a last minute invite from M&M asking me to go to the Kennedy Center with him and his friend to see Edward Scissorhands, which was a dance recital (is that the right term?). It was good. Mind you I know very little about dance so I can't critique it the same way I can acting. I am intriqued though how that movie can inspire someone so much to create this performance piece off of that. I find that to be the most interesting aspect of it all. But I had a good time and boys at the Kennedy Center are cute!!!!!

Ruthie has been getting snippy lately with me and I don't really know why. I don't think he realizes it, but some of his comments just make me want to keep my life private and not tell him things. Which is hard, because I am an open individual and really do live my life as an open book (despite the requests I get to not do that as much ;)

Today is Valentine's day and while I do not have one, I hope my readers are enjoying the holiday (as much as I enjoyed my job opening 2 hours late today due to the snow.)

New Years

I know I haven't posted lately, I haven't really had much to discuss. The vacation has been pretty dull. I've been spending time with friends and catching up with some people I haven't seen in years. I have gotten great reactions to weight loss and hair shave. I promise to have more to say when i get back to work, including what looks like the third silent treatment from my supervisor since I've been there.

I have had a really great year (2006) in reinventing myself. I lost weight. I am more outgoing, more confident. I am not perfect by any means, but the change in me is staggering. However, I was not successful in my 2006 new years resolution, which was to go on three dates with the same guy. I've gone on a couple dates over the last year, but through a mix of bad choices in first dates, or the guys i was interested in not being interested in me, I did not get three dates with the same guy. While this goal was to help me get to know someone before making a decision not to see them again, I do believe the cases where I cut them loose were so horribly bad that it was ok. So with that said, I am not going to make another new years resolution, but carry the current one forward for 2007.

Also, I hope that 2007 will be the year of a new job. Its time for me to move on from my current university. I'll have been there 5 years this summer and I think I've moved up and learned everything I can there. So I will do my best to move on from there and to a place with a bit more maturity and organization.

I hope that all of you have a great New YEars. Drink responsibly. Don't drink and Drive. And may 2007 be the best year you've had yet.