I don't know how it happens that life seems to be flying by at an impossible pace. Every time I blink and it's like I haven't posted on here in ages...
What's new you ask? Not much really. Collin is loving the contract position in Portland. He even found a great monthly parking garage that is right behind the building he works in. He is getting along with all his co-workers so splendidly that they even invited him out for drinks the other week
(I think he had been there all of a week and a half before the happy hour invite!). We hope that the position becomes permanent, but are assuming otherwise for the time being. We do know it is a three month contract so hypothetically he will at least be working until mid-November.
Work is the same as always, but I am trying something new. Instead of always being so upset and frustrated I am working to find ways to fix what ever it is that is making me so unhappy. Rather than constantly be so stress and depressed at work I will make it more tolerable. I am not letting annoying people get to me
all the time anymore, and when one of the bosses is
"being dumb" I will give them my knowledgeable opinion and they can do what they will with it. I know in my heart that I will not be there forever and that I will find a career that uses all my wonderful talents and work for people who will genuinely appreciate my efforts and my pay and benefits will be reflective of that. Until then, I am going to enjoy my job and all the liberties I have in this office to the best of my ability.
Fall is quickly approaching. The nights are cooler as are the days. I wonder what happened to summer, and if we will have an early winter or maybe get an extension of warm weather in October. Most schools are starting this week, luckily I know how to avoid all of the eight million school zones around where we live.
Fall also tends to be the
"Birthday Season" for me and my family. It also trickles on into winter. I have a plethora of birthdays this month and in October
(including Collin's on Halloween). A ton of my friends have birthdays coming up as do my two nieces and one nephew, and my sister in law, father in law, and god only knows who else! Thank goodness for Facebook's Birthday reminders!
Collin and I have taken to riding our bikes more. I wish I could ride mine to work everyday, but sadly between my intermittent responsibilities at work
(picking up the mail, taking the daily deposit, picking up accounts, etc.) and
"car-pooling" with Renee I am lucky if I can ride to work one day a week. To make up for it Collin and I have been going to Minto Brown Island Park and doing a four mile figure-eight around the park a few days each week.
In other
"healthy lifestyle" news, we are also attempting to cut soda out again. We are now taking Propel or ICE
(fruit flavored sparkling water by Talking Rain; ZERO calories!!) with us to our respective workplaces for lunch. We'll see how long we can last before we break. I am hoping that the sparkling fruit water stuff will kind of help with the craving of soda, but we'll see. As long as I get my caffeine from coffee I think I will live. And by coffee I don't mean some uber fattening, calorie packed triple shot concoction
(as much as I love them!! And I will indulge on them occasionally...) I mean my two cups of coffee in the morning with a little sugar and some creamer.
I am thinking of trying something new since I feel I don't have enough time to type up a lengthy post every time I want to share something. For the next month
(so from today until October 6th) instead of typing my posts they are only going to consist of pictures taken by me from my cell phone. If it's something I can't snap a picture of I will doodle it out and then snap a picture of the doodle. This should be fun. After all, a picture is worth
a thousand words, right? Haha! This should be interesting. If I absolutely feel it necessary I will type a few sentences but other wise this may be the last blog I type at all for the next month at least! Might as well make use of my camera phone.
Now I am going to go play some Little Big Planet with my husband and enjoy the last of my three day weekend!! Good bye summer!
(Fall is my favorite season anyways!!! ... and yes I realize fall doesn't officially start until the 23rd I believe, but tell that to Wal-Mart. I guarantee if you go to Wal-Mart later today or tomorrow ALL the Halloween stuff will be out or will be getting put out!)
