Sometimes I have the urge to randomly speak in French. Unfortunately, I do not actually speak French. I know a few choice phrases and vocabulary words, but can’t really string a coherent thought together in that lovely foreign tongue.
I’ve just missed a new episode of Grey’s Anatomy because I was at work and so engaged in what I was doing that I forgot about my shlumpy Thursday night agenda (go home, get in jammies, eat Lean Pockets, lie on couch watching Ugly Betty and Grey’s Anatomy, go to bed.) I feel a new sense of purpose and hope that I desperately needed after the past few days for I have new ideas and projects to create. (more on that at some point) That’s right- the floodgates opened for me tonight. I think I’ve found a way to satisfy my passions and prove myself.
It’s only the second day of the work week for me as I was out sick Monday and Tuesday- I developed strep throat over the weekend and then I was graced with a cold on Monday. Now that my glands are mostly de-swelled and my neck and head mainly pain free, and most importantly, now that my appetite has returned (I lost 5 pounds in the few days I was sick- *sigh*) I can get back to my normal routine- JUST IN TIME FOR THE WEEKEND! I’m still croaky and such, but getting better. (although, I was not feeling so much better this morning when I snapped at everyone who dared approach my desk with a question. and my tummy isn’t feeling so hot after eating my Lean Pockets and taking my penicillin.)
I’m getting ready to start my Christmas shopping (an email from Target tells me they have free shipping on 50,000+ gifts), but that means I have to figure out what to get for people. I like to give one main gift and a couple smaller items. In fact, I have a standard gift that I give my brother and stepdad each year. They know it’s coming. Each year. (it’s a little desk calender. You know, the kind that have riddles, jokes, trivia, or facts on them for each day? those. that’s what they get–each year.)
I am also a stocking aficionado. I love them and I feel compelled to stuff them. It’s what drives me to get up at 3am and drive to my parents’ house and tend to the gift placement and stocking filling. The year before last I got to listen to Mannheim Steamroller do a Christmas special during my drive. Only to nap for a few hours on the couch amid the glow of the lit Christmas weed and flickering of “A Christmas Story” on tv.
What I really and truly most want for Christmas, only I’m not sure I can wait that long: running shoes. (this one or this one.) I’ve wanted a pair of Nike Shox for ages. I’m not quite sure why I never bought a pair except for the hundred plus dollar price tag. I guess partly because after I got out of my normal workout routine, I figured it would be wasted money because they’d just sit in the gym bag on my bedroom floor. But maybe, just maybe I’d want to wear them so bad, and maybe just maybe, they’d be that little extra boost that made me excited or less dready about going to the gym after work.
I guess we all have themes in life. Mine are finding an occupation that makes me happy, getting my healthiness back on track (working out and eating right), and finding that family I want.
Happy Thursday. I know you missed me.
I want a calendar like that!!! One year, Mom got me a left-handed persons desk calendar of the daily variety and I LOVED it!! It had all sorts of fun left hand facts. And another year, she got April and I both a daily knitting calendar with patterns. By February, we’d cheated and looked ahead. It had some really terrible patterns in it, but it gave April and I an excuse to call each other every work morning and cackle together.