It's been a while.

Entirely too many things have happened since the last posting and I've had a lot on my mind lately, so it seemed like a good time to get it out (I've been neglecting yoga which is attributing to my hyperactive mind).

There was a death in my family in May, which I still haven't been able to process. It was sudden, and shocking when we received the news that my cousin's little boy had left us way too soon. That's all I can really articulate on the matter without getting weepy or start speculating on how the rest of my family is coping with this devastating news.

During this extremely hard time, I found out that I was being offered my old job back on a temporary basis. I have since been extended until the beginning of March. It has been a roller coaster of emotions going from being sad and angry about the lay off, then devastated about the death in the family, and finally, to a guilty exuberance of receiving good news during such a sad time.

I feel like I've been working ten times harder than I ever thought possible. I was given multiple responsibilities to add on top of my original duties, and it's made the days fly by. I miss the people who originally did these jobs, but I hope that I'm proving myself to be a good worker bee and I can keep my job. I really enjoy what I'm doing and, even with constant discouragement, I can't see myself anywhere else right now. Ok, enough about work.

On another positive slash negative topic. My birthday was this past Sunday and every year, I'm reminded about who actually gives a hoot about me, and the pool is getting smaller every year by the way, enough to call one day out of the year to tell me "happy birthday".

I planned a little party and wasn't sure how many people would be able to go because it was so last minute, but I didn't anticipate there would be so many last-minute cancellations and no-shows. The friends who did show up, were awesome and we had a great time. I really am lucky to have them in my life and for them to be so supportive of me, particularly this year.

I've finally decided to let go how some of the people in my life act because I'm tired of being disappointed by them about time, huh? I have realized that my perfectionism has trickled from my work ethic to my personal life. Huh. No wonder why I'm single. We're just full of revelations tonight!

On another fun birthday note, on top of my fantastic party this last weekend, I finally got to see my Dolphins play live! They lost, but they won on my birthday so it was good they finally got a win especially against the Bills. We're going to have a tough year with Pennington out, but I hope Henne will get better as he gets more game experience.

I was inspired by the movie Julie & Julia to start a type of blog. So I was thinking of doing a fashion one-a-day blog about all the interesting things people wear everyday, or maybe every weekend..... Or a blog about all the things I eat. I think the latter has been done before....heck, everything has a blog now. I'll mull it over for a few days since I've been contemplating getting a new camera that doesn't spit the battery at me every time I pick it up. This may be a fun new project to do.

He's all right! Aren't you, cat? Poor cat! Poor slob! Poor slob without a name! The way I see it I haven't got the right to give him one. We don't belong to each other. We just took up one day by the river. I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together. I'm not sure where that is but I know what it is like. It's like Tiffany's. ~Holly Golightly Breakfast at Tiffany's