well hello blog...
wow. here i am, almost a year and a half later, and after battling with blogger to start a new email account and all that nonsense. this time i promise to post a real post (those were my aversion tactics 'cause i didn't feel i had much to talk about).
i am still alive and in a very different place than i was during that last post. i do plan to keep this thing limping along in respect to the fact that it has chronicled my movements over the last--jeez, 6 i think, without looking at my archives--years. its fun for me to go way back and look at what i wrote right before moving to Idaho (terrified and inexperienced), then during my time there (unawares of how good i had it at work, but truly wanting to come home), and during my early phase of being back at home in Cali (unsure of what was going to happen next).
so here i am again (on my own--yeah! throwing horns)... the short version is:
- i bought an amazing condo with Pete. i LOVE our house. i call it a house, 'cause thats more of what it is than a condo. i've coveted living in this complex for many years (Eryn & his dad lived here right after we got out of college). i'm good at making home-related things happen. so, i'm lucky in that regard.. we are scraping by to make it happen, but i'd rather be poor and living in a space i love than the alternative. living environment and "sense of home" are abnormally important to me.
- i got a job about a year ago working for another eyewear company. great brand, great co-workers, bad upper management. we shall see what happens. same job as before, but more responsibility. learning the nuances of being a business person. i totally "get" marketing--what i don't always get is how to win battles intelligently and not by force. i'd love to take a business/speaking/negotiation class as people seem to think that i am negative when really i'm just trying to fight the good fight. yesterday, pending some things outside of our direct control happening, my boss told me he has bigger things in store for me. that could be good. oh yeah, and work is, um, about 3 miles from my house. cant complain there....
- we have a dog. a SMALL dog. anyone who knows me (or Pete for that matter), knows that that is like hell freezing over. but he is awesome. we lost my cats and i was completely destroyed, especially so with Sake. so, after 5 years of having a friend to come home to, we needed another one. this time it arrived in the forn of a crazy hybrid-chihuahua-mutt. he is amazing and entertaining and definitely special needs. but we love him.
those are the big things. i'll start venting and ranting the details soon enough.
good to see you blog. see you soon (and not in the "yeah, i'll call you" sort of way).
xoxo
