02.01.05 11:12 am

tired of all this whining and hullabaloo i do in here these days. enough already.

i joined weight watchers saturday. i celebrated by going to an all-u-can-eat chinese buffet sunday night with albert. fried wontons, anyone?

i've been sadly low on clothes since i cleaned out my closet and bagged three quarters of my wardrobe to give away. of course the bags are still in the trunk of my car and have been for going on two months now, perpetuating that lived-in look of a homeless person. some days i feel not so far off.

massive increase in work these days. we've merged with another agency and are trying to combine our approach to how things are done. in the midst of all this turnover, we've lost three employees, and they've compensated by putting in one pt person, and authorizing overtime for myself and a co-worker. nuts, this nonprofit business. on the plus side i'm now scraping above $30k thanks to a whopping four percent raise after a two year salary freeze. sigh. feeling the need to get re-trained in something that will actually pay money. preferably before i'm fifty. preferably before i'm forty. ha.

feeling like i've tucked myself away for the past eight months. am realizing how much of me i've held back while spending all my time with albert. it's my own doing, all of it. it's ridiculous, really. how old do i have to be before i stop being a mouse about my life and actually start doing something with it?

no time like the present.