NikB #24

[NikB]

Thanks all!

Michelle
Yes, mystery seems to be the key... and it's fun too so that's a nice bonus.

jak
I honestly have no idea on the room... you may be right!

Glad you haven't had much to report, that IS a good thing at times.

Yeah, this cold is irritating. It's one of those "not that bad that you're stuck in bed" ones - but then I go to do anything that requires energy and last about 10 minutes.

ST
On my gma - yeah, basically after my grandpa died she shut EVERYONE out for about 12 years. That's why I hadn't seen her in so long either. She finally just started talking to any of us about a year ago. It was pretty devastating for my Dad. So.. yeah, I can see why the hesitation - but I know I would have been really upset if I didn't at least have the opportunity to see her like I did at Thanksgiving. I mean, if my bro doesn't want to go, that's totally fine - but let it be HIS choice was my thinking.

I'm actually taking pretty decent care of myself. I feel like I've been sick less.. maybe I'm kidding myself though. I know I'm not getting enough sleep, that's probably what did me in this time. This cold's pretty persistent too - even the people at work who usually escape colds have been getting it.

haha my job is not particularly important in the grand scheme of life, but thanks!! Important to the company anyway and I enjoy it so that's a good thing. The project I'm working on now just suddenly went from "small pilot program" to this really high profile intiative. Partially my "fault" though - I finally had time to dig in and look at the numbers and found out that the program was bringing in a LOT more money than we ever realized or anticipated. A very good thing if you're in marketing and happen to be the project manager! So the success is a good thing, but expanding from "small experiment" to "everyone wants this YESTERDAY" has been crazy.

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Having an OK weekend... cancelled most of my plans due to this cold. I keep thinking I have energy and then I go to actually DO something and find out I was wrong. I did return some shoes yesterday, and the place was having this huge clearance sale, so I ended up buying a couple other pairs. Got a couple of really nice pairs of shoes (normally $50 each) for about $19 total, so that was nice!!

Friday night H and I went out to dinner with our neighbors at this little bar/grill up the street. Hadn't seen them in awhile so that was fun. Last night I was ready to just snack on soup or something but H invited me to dinner to use a gift certificate he got for Christmas - so went out to dinner again last night. (then immediately home to crash on the couch!).

Some friends went out to see a band called the "Bootie Shakers" and that sounded really fun!! But it didn't even start til 9:30.. no way I was going to make it that late (especially shaking my bootie.. ). Hopefully we can do something like that again soon though. I think one of the girls is friends with the drummer, so they'll probably go see them fairly often. It was going to be my mysterious Saturday night outing.. will have to do something next weekend instead.

Oh.. one kinda funny thing.. as you all know I have been working WAY late a lot of nights. Thursday night I decided to also drop by Lowe's to get some paint (yes, trying another color again!). I got off work really late and then ended up wandering around Lowe's for a bit so I didn't get home til about 9:45. H said hi, usual polite hug/kiss, told me what he'd been doing on his car - but had this just plain weird look on his face the whole time. Finally in an almost sheepish tone he said "So... are you going to tell me where you were?" I hadn't even realized that I hadn't mentioned where I was and it was pretty late to be getting home! That was pretty funny. I told him "Oh I just dropped by Lowe's after work" - but I hadn't brought anything in with me. He asked if I needed help carrying anything and I said no thanks... so I am fairly sure he's wondering what the heck is going on and what home improvement project I have up my sleeve NOW.