Sunday, February 13, 2011

2/13/10


Four day weekends are the best. Thursday being the new Friday and Tuesday the new Monday is really working for me. It gives me time to Zumba and run errands. Well, more like make lists of all the errands I need to run and then really just sit around and listen to country music and play logic puzzles. I can't get enough Patsy and Loretta. Bryan and Lizzy are hosting a mix-tape party at the end of February and I'm kind of worried I'm going to show up with nothing but classic country tunes about Mississippi men and Ain't bein' woman enough.

The bookkeeping gig is still good. It's not quite as shiny and rosy as my first week on the job, but I'm getting used to it. I keep having 10-key dreams where everyone around me is entering data into Accpac with alarming alacrity and I'm just picking at the keyboard like a chicken. After a while I look around at the computer screens and all the people are growing extra hands and going that much faster and I start sweating and worrying how I'm going to keep up. According to my coworkers, the extra hand comes at three months on the job. Something to look forward to! I keep trying to think of all the perks of having three hands. So far, the only thing I can really come up with is not having to switch hands when cutting a piece of meat with my fork & knife. In any case, I'm catching on pretty fast. Last week, a coworker announced to the office that I was doing a stand-up performance and honored me with the 'Cara Philps' Award and a mini Mr. Goodbar.

The weather has been grey and dreary. I'm ready for some leafy greens and daffodils. Maybe some bare legs and sunglasses. I want to go the Columbia Gorge and eat piazza outside. I think because the weather has been so crummy, I've been fairly hermetic lately. I'm also having a hard time being motivated to do any projects. Maybe I need to start taking vitamins and get a happy lamp. We have a room in my office that has natural lighting and a chair that I curl up in and read during my lunch hour, but I guess that isn't charging me with energy. Or maybe I'm just making excuses. I did get inspired by Feb 14 and crafted some homemade Valentines.