Continuing Changes

Some possible good news on the resume front-- won't comment too much yet, but things look quite good. :) The friendly vibes have been much appreciated! :) I'll fill more in here as I can. I'm thinking that everything might go very, very fast in this regard. Which would be wonderful.

In my last entry, I received some great topics to write about... all will be, in some form or another. But I did want to touch quickly on one-- the wedding plans. No huge updates there yet. We heard back from the reception site after the holidays, and received their catering menu. Erich loves the place. So do I. So does my mom. So I'm 99.9% sure where we're having the reception. I need to get in touch with my mom to discuss it this weekend, though. And then we'll move forward.

For now, though, that's where the wedding plans sit. Not much has been done, and I'll admit, I'm being too lazy about this. Part of me really wants to have a beautiful, well-planned wedding. Another part of me just wants to hide from the whole thing and still lean toward "Poof! You're married. Kiss her." But I'll admit, being able to fit in a dress that wasn't some hideous mess of making-me-look-fatter-than-I-am heavy material made me feel quite a bit better.

I can't believe it's over a week into January already. In keeping with an unintentional family tradition, the Christmas tree came down last night-- it's always the weekend before my birthday for some reason. I'm still worried that an ornament was left on the tree, but I didn't see any. Paranoid me will probably take another look through it tomorrow morning, though. :)

Speaking of birthdays-- it honestly snuck up on me this year. Usually, since it's so close to the New Year, I'm constantly reflecting on what I did and didn't like about age XX up until Jan. 11th. This year, not so much. I turn 31 the day after tomorrow. I really can't do anything but sit back in somewhat stunned silence about it all. Almost everything in my life is different than a year ago. I think it'll take another year until my head stops spinning. But this weekend, I looked at a calendar and did a double-take to realize that my birthday was in less than a week.

I'll be in the office on my birthday. I am, however, taking tomorrow off from work. The reason why I'm switching is due to our World's Largest Dungeon game tonight at Battleground. It normally goes until sometime in the 11:30 to midnight range. Then Erich and I drive back to Providence, which takes anywhere from 45-60 minutes, depending on how exhausted we are. It makes for a bitch of a morning to get up and catch the train. Erich has started to just take those Tuesdays off as recovery/personal days. Since this one fell on the 10th, it just made sense to take it off and celebrate my birthday a day early. In the afternoon and into the early evening, I'll be at Foxwoods with the guys, praying to win some extra birthday cash playing video poker and an hour or two of table games. Conveniently enough, our Sunday paper had a four-page advertisement flyer with discounts and free drawing giveaways for Foxwoods-- many of which will be taken with us. :)

Ivanna had mentioned last week that she was most likely coming up to the area for some job training today-Wednesday afternoon. Depending on her schedule, I'll try to touch base with her later tomorrow evening.

Other than work, I've been focusing a lot on my stitching the past two weeks. I've put in around 24 hours since New Year's Day, and my projects definitely are showing the work. I'll upload new photos tomorrow.

Before we hit the casino tomorrow, I'll tackle one of the great topics that were recommended. If anyone has more, just toss them out... :)