tgif! it's friday.  yay! only 1 more day of work! another packed weekend for me.  the highlight should be tomorrow's poker party though, woohoo!  in another week or so i start another hectic travel schedule.  next year i am going to slow down by about 40% wonder what i'll do with myself then? hmmm it's sort of driving me to work harder to make the most of this year if you will.

i'm going to take up a new sport next year.  i'm doing some of the prep work for it already, we'll see how it goes.  it's kind of exciting to think i'll be taking up a brand new challenge, since sadly there are not many opportunities left for me in my current sport. my heart will always belong to my first pro/am sport  i got many many intangeable, downright invaluable things from it. i'm pretty luck all my whining aside. 

i have to laugh at my company sometimes, incredibly ridiculous.  do you ever think to yourself; "how the heck did this company get this far with all these stupid policies?" i do all the time. yesterday was for sure one of those days.  i wrote a letter to a client, and asked my assistant to stamp my signature on them.  well she lost the stamp and didn't bother to tell me.  great my boss says "um well you'll have to hand sign them" he was indeed serious so since they were time sensitive and had to go out yesterday  i was lucky to sign 1/2 of them only shy of 800 haha! yes i am sooo lucky.  of course my obvious suggestion was to quickly redo the letter so instead a mail merge type document: dear miss susie r. client it would have read dear client and we could just outsource to have a signed one scanned and then printed that way the middle cheese said no no no far too expensive since it's "your" fault.  side note: we have offices in the *ahem best places*  i get to go to baltimore again for about a week. *shudder* fortunately i have a friend in fredericksburg, va which isn't a bad drive and she has the cutest wee ones!!! i have an "aunt" living in mineral, va but i won't be making it up there this trip either.  i want to maybe stay and get to know d.c. better.  i was there for like 12 hours 2 weeks ago so i made a laundry list of things to see/do.  i've managed to stay out of cleveland! but i think chicago is coming up soon.  *note to self find a job with travel to moorea or somewhere like that. 

i decided to put down the fitness/nutrition books this weekend and do some light reading.  i miss reading for the sheer pleasure of reading!  this is all inspired by the big cheese telling me i was silly for dancing in my office last week.   told me to be a kid! have some fun!

so in light of the changes going on around me, i've decided to re-double my fitness efforts. that's always a good thing to do when troubled focus on some self improvement. 

i'm sad because i now have a contractual obligation that will prevent me from going to bkk after my trip to japan. ratserfratserrotten obligations and sense of duty.  blah. i think i am going to try and get home for a month before i move. would do wonders since i think my family may move to oz. 

have a great day!

nice girls finish last! i think i'm hanging up the nice girl gloves.  i've got a tough nature but i think in general i'm fairly nice often to my detriment.  i rarely say no to people even when i'm supremely uncomfortable.  well i think i may have it my threshold.  time for a bit of change.  my brother is always on my case about it because he loves me and wants what's best and unfortunately watches me clam up when there's fall out.  no mas.  i actually have a plan of attack now.  not that i want to turn into a witch or anything but for chrissakes i'm old enough now that i can stick up for myself or at least protect myself.

a daunting task but finally a game plan.

have a great day!

the weather has been spectacular lately.  record breaking heat for this time of year which is typically gloomy in fact last year it rained 30 days in a row. having said all that i have spring fever like none other! good tunes in my cute cd player.  mind on being ANYWHERE ELSE.

also waxing nostalgic for days gone by...missing some things in my life recently and having them pointed out by my "concerned" friends is tough.  i had dinner with my best friend yesterday for her birthday and was reminded of how bad  it is that i hadn't seen her really since christmas day and we live 2 blocks apart.   yah i felt awful about that.  we had a great time catching up and stuff it's amazing that i've been friends with her for 15 years, my dad knew her mom in hk.  holy cow. 

i need to work less.  i have decided that i will finish out the next 11 months working at this pace and then hopefully cut back! i hope i hope.  i hope that  then i can make some changes.  i reassessed my short term goals and decided that win lose or draw so to speak this is a benchmark year.  i was amazed at the decision i made.  at any rate one of the decisions i made is to pack up and move next year.  anyone who knows me will understand how crazy that is. 

for some reason i haven't told my friends yet.  i wonder why i can't bring myself to do it. maybe i worry that a few of them will try and talk me out of it.  i defo could be influenced to stay. so maybe that's it.  my mom is my primary concern.  i will miss her terribly.  i think she is going to come w/ shortly after though. 

maybe mostly because they'll worry.  i am the biggest sucker ever.  in fact an "all day sucker" is an accurate way to describe me.  i am incredibly naive and just can't help it.  i don't know why i never see the handwriting on the wall but i NEVER do.  i am a sucker for the old i'm sorry.  i used to be a bit tougher but i have really really mellowed and just leave it be.  interesting.  wonder when i went soft? is it my attempt at compromise? if so it isn't working this way either.  got a lot to think about. 

have a great day!

i am alive and working myself quite a bit these days.  holy cow i logged 70 hours this week alone and it's just thursday but at least i am not travelling now for about a month or so! i will see my mom tomorrow for the first time in over a week! shameful since her office is about 6 blocks from mine!

have a great day!

*edit people should honour their committments!! grrrrr