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Add yourself!! Dooooo it. For some reason I heart all things related to google maps, hence this = fun.

Ok people. I know I dont post here much. I know that if I do its behind a filter too... I'm no livejournaler these days.

Anyhoo - my dot com is live and functional.

Please find me at http://www.aberator.com

from here foward. I will not cancel the lj - just dont go crazy and expect to see my post here much anymore either. However if you miss me, and how could you not? Visit my website....

Do you think I'm a dramatic person? Are my reactions more than they need to be?

Please respond, even if not qualified to answer - its nice to know people stil read....thx.

Happy Birthday to my Mommy!!

3 days til I turn 25! A quarter of a century! Is this supposed to be depressing? Everyone goes all wah wah at 25, but quite frankly, and I think I owe this to the life I'm building and preparing for with my fiance - I'm not depressed about getting older in the least. If anything I feel prepared to be this old. Ready to challenge my future years....


...and the cube in front of mine has balloons and ribbons cuz the guy is leaving the department tomorrow and the balloon parallel to my view of his head has lost air and is shrinking slowly. It's dark green and on the verge of shriveling... amusement at its best, folks...

Today is my fiancee's 30th birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Happy birthday to my shawn!  (shawnski117 )

Well well well what a crazy last few weeks and it's not over yet.
My trip to Chi-town went wonderfully. It was wonderfully relaxed and wonderfully full of small signs and confirmations. Pictures and updates to come on the real/er, public blog.

To bottom line it though, for many many reasons and ways, I'm in the right place at the right time. After moving home I didnt think I'd ever quite place that feeling again. And who knew it'd come while I was away from this right place and right time in my life, visiting the last place I felt that way. I guess it makes sense though.

Monday mornings are seriously not as bad as the management make them out to be. No more calls that I've taken any other day of the week early on. Hmm.. perhaps later I'll regret that statement.

Um.. this time tomorrow I'll be shutting down this workstation and going home to leave my car and get driven to the airport... on my way to Chicago!!!!! Holy crap, not so long ago it seemed like I was never going to be able to go back... like I was never gonna see the HOW restoration progress in person etc etc...
I'm not even sure I can call it excitement, more like awe that I'm lucky enough to be going out there... ah jeez.
Dude, Lacey's gonna be married... and in about 300 days I will be too. Life is crazy. muah!

Yay! My Shawn is on lj! Befriend him, O Friendly ones .... shawnski117

Yay for camera phones. And apparently for photobucket's new blog option... hmm.

I GOT A JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

... and with my new salary thats like a 3.50 raise from my overall wages at the Turf. I'm outta that boofka!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I start July 8, and so I figure out of the kindness of my heart and the meagerness of my wallet I'll stay at the Turf til July 4th.

Holy crap this morning is exactly as I hoped it would be. Two very important and very happy phone calls came in. Mind you - mad early, but I cant complain about being up so early for good stuff like this.

Empire Blue Cross Call Center here I come. Mmm, doesnt sound as flashy as a few lines ago, huh - oh well, its a good environment, good people, comfortable and I kinda (in a sadistic way) like the work. I feel like skipping. Wish I could, soon .... soon even my rump will be all healed and I can skip.


mmmhmm... I'm movin on out.

My paid acct expires in about a week. Oh well.

Life is still a rollercoaster. I'm still looking for a new job, though thats gotten a bit happier lately. Shawn and I are still crazy in love, and most of the time better together by the moment. In two weeks we'll be off to his hometown to go to his ten year high school reunion. I get to meet Police Chief Papa (no, really he's the Police Chief in the town) and the stepmom. I'm pretty excited. We've been taking our day off together (tuesday) and getting out and getting away from everything. So far its been a remarkable way to do things. Last week was Vermont, yesterday was Cooperstown. Next week, downstate-ish I think. Just a half day or so to drive away and see nice things and do nice things. Nothing real expensive either, which has been great.

Today I finally got a few hours around my actual home. I cleaned up my blog. Everyone go there and tell me how much you love it.

Of Course.
Again I aplogize for never using this thing. I'm sure any legions of readers have dissapated for good now.

It's been a crazy crazy start to the year. One of those I know for sure I'll look back on years from now and think - well I'm glad I got through that with flying colors.

Anyhoo - I need a new job, NOW. I scour the sunday paper every week, I find about two or three ads to reply to every week. I signed up on careerbuilder.com, they suck - the majority of listings are through temp agencies and arent worth much. I took a week's vaction starting May 8, so I can go to the soonest job fair and so I can just spend all day coming up with companies that need my resume and/or by the end of that week, applying at every f'n place around. Word. Got a job for me?

It's Rid'van time again. I was elected to the LSA again this year. I missed the election meeting and I'll be missing the officer election tomorrow night. Hot. (See why I need a better job - one with adults and like daylight hours only...).

I hate my bank. I hate how consistently they process debits faster than credits. They're a bunch of whores and yet again I'm screwed for money for a few weeks. Fuckers.

Tonight is Monkey Gone Mad at Valentines and a whole day off with my boyfriend though. It just sounds nice. So yeah, me and Shawn - more than three months now. MMmmm...He's still the bestest.

Ok fine, finally jumped on the myspace.com train. If youre on there - hit me up. Heck even add me as a friend.
Word.

http://profiles.myspace.com/users/8958179

Oh man am I tired of being tired. I'll be playing the get up way early and drive moms around game most of this week too. Thats where all my gas goes, really. oy.

Been awhile since I've posted here.
So there was Valentines Day. It was nice. Minus the sleep deprived nature of life early on that week, things were great. Work was fun, Krissy and I both had flower deliveries and kept em at the desk all night for all the guests to know we're loved. (hah...oh jeez).

So then the next night my car died. Grace was gone. Turned out her battery was corroding for quite some time now. When Shawn went to remove the bolt keeping the pos charge in place it just fell off. Mmmm battery acid. One fantastic boyfriend, new battery and another sleepless night later, she was good as new.

So then this weekend was Neby Fest. I managed to get everything I wanted out of the weekend. Sleep. Friends. Eating properly. Baha'i love and all that good stuff. Overall it rocked. Alot. Pictures and possibly stories to follow on the Blog.

Now yet again I'm under-slept, waiting on my laundry so I have a clean work shirt. Dying to sleep for another hour. Dying for the idea that I dont have to return to work today to be real... oof.

Man oh man it's mid-February already! Thats some crazy shabangs. In a week I'll be in Stamford chillin at a different Holiday Inn, reveling in first night of a conference excitement. It's finally time for NEBY!! I gotta say, by the day I'm more and more excited to see Lacey and Naseem (and others from Chi-town), as well as those random moments of hey - holy crap I know you! run-ins.
Apparently I gained a random college kid in my car too. A youth from Simons Rock college is taking the bus to Albany and rather than change to the Stamford bus I'll be meeting him at the station and entertaining him for about five hours then he'll be exposed to my crazy highway driving and antics and stuff.

I've been so just generally busy lately that when I have time to myself I just dont know what to do. It almost makes a girl depressed to have to re-group and do for yourself. It's funny how sometimes you can be screaming for me-time, and other times youre so swept up and happy with all your time being busy that when you get a few hours alone you feel like you've been thrown off the carousel.

Not just busy, but becoming better friends with people all the time. Obviously that factors into the joy of it all and the lack of frustration at lack of sleep and junk. My gerbil pack, er - musketeers, er - co-workers - Ally and Krissy and I are better true friends to each other everyday. And then there's Shawn. I dont think I could have asked for a co-worker to become a better anything than that. Being with him has awakened many dormant things deep within me - hormones that never saw the light of day for one, but more than that motherly instincts, domestic caring, and trust, and ironically enough - a new level of detachment that comes day by day more and more. You know how they say relationships are work? Well I gotta tell ya, more often than not it's pleasant work. Truly.

Also of joy in my world - Started Ruhi 4 last weekend. Some weeks its gonna be a rush to do Ruhi and work all day afterwards, but I'm really happy I'm doing it. I always wanted to get around to book 4, and it gives me the opportunity to see my dear Bahai friends once a week without fail. Not just my fellow Assembly members, but my fellow youth - the ones I really want to see on the regular!

Valentines day is literally around the corner. When you've only been seeing someone for three weeks, what to do? I've also always been puzzled by the whole what to get a boy on a holiday centered on girly reactions to things. I did find the perfect card tonight though, so at the very least he gets a fittingly funny card. The only thing I can settle on that feels nice is food. I can cook. We're both working but that also means I have a good solid hour to be back at the apartment before him, cook, spruce up etc. Perhaps a living room picnic at 1am? Any guy readers? What would you want on valentines day?

And on that note, I'm off to the mall, gotta get to the movie early and get our tickets since he's coming from work and may be a smidge late. Dude, we're going to an actual movie! Like a real date. Today has been long and productive... I sure hope I dont fall asleep!
I also hope many, if not all of my lj-friends/readers are finding a similar amount of joy in their lives of late.

Idea Taken from star_lily: First line of the first entry from each month in the last year.

January: Well looka that it's 2004.

February: Seriously...life doesnt get better than the with or without you tag on city on down.

March: *ahem*

April: My torrid two job affair of a life continues.

May: Having a new house is fun.

June: In a few weeks there will be an A shift position open.

July: So the Subway Series for 2004 is tied at 2-2 now.

August: "... And you're on miss chairperson..."

September: Today was one of those plan schman days.

October: Yesterday was Baha'i Unit Convention.

November: I guess I expected to see that look on your face.

December: This holiday weekend was exceptional.

Wow I'm boring.

Man - Screw the gym. Just have it snow and freezing rain like crazy on my days off. Shoveled the entire driveway. Not a huge feat - but this was no light snow, it was practically iced over. Really shoveled One and a half times too, since I decided later on to do the whole thing before going out. Now it's supposed to snow on Saturday too. This blows goat arse. And it's coming up the coast meaning crap driving on the thruway. Elephant arse on that one. I hate winter, really puts a crimp in any kind of social life you try and cook up.

So anyway back to my achin back and chest. Been coughing lately, but these tight coughs that arent even worth the minutes I spend on em. So sometimes my chest is just tired from it. Then I go and shovel for an hour, then I dont know how but I bend over to fix my sock while in the car and now on the left side from the top of my neck to my finger tips and through my entire upper chest I'm pinched. So then there's Dad's muscle relaxers. Do I do it or not. Took aspirin. Guess I gotta wait anyway.

New OC tonight. Rented Troy. Will make Hot Coccoa and silently sulk.

... as the radio guy said though - least I have a house to sulk in.

Must be the start of the year. Whoa.

Happy New Year everyone!

Been pretty busy, or well quite honestly more socially busy than usual. Actually had two days off in a row and did a bunch of stuff both days - for whatever reason this definetly felt like a feat.

Otherwise it's another day, same story. Booked two rooms for NEBY Fest weekend today. I need to work at Holiday Inn forever so I can rock those discounts. Gotta send in my conference registration now.

Anyway - several blog updates: Go.Read.Blog.Now.. Spanks.

I hate when my fingers are painfully cold inside their gloves. I mean that's just uncalled for. My motherly instincts came out yesterday as it was -3 out and people were taking their usual smoke breaks. Myself, smoking, I was dobule jacketed and gloved and scoffing at the fools coming out in the -20 wind chills (ok that might be an exxageration but I doubt it) without any coat.

My schedule blows this week. One day on, one day off. I might just forget to work tomorrow after playing that game twice already. I'm so close to done with the tiny bit of Holiday present shopping I do. There always has to be a snag though - Dunkin Donuts (uh, apparently all of them in the Albany area) is out of Gift cards. Four days before Christmas? That's gotta be illegal. They promise they'll have em by Thursday and lucky for them it's on my way to and from work. I gotta say - I rule on Julies gifts. Got her a necklace and a gift card at Limited Too, but, even cuter is the stuffed monkey that accompanies the gift card (the card goes around it's neck). Dude - everyone needs a monkey with their gift card. Kristen gets some Disney store fun, but since her birthday is in three weeks anyhow, the temptation to visit Build-a-Bear will be met soon.

If youre not doing anything tomorrow evening - think happy fun thoughts for me. Life has the potential to blow hard tomorrow. It's the night of the Turf Holiday Party, at the hotel, and I have to work the entire time. Normally it'd be hey- whatever guess I'm not going - but man, no - this means I have to watch everyone walk by all night, all not working, all partying, and all either way drunk or on their way there. I should and could write a whole lot on that last condition, but thats for a paper journal - where the real working out of demons should be getting done.

Oh so the other day I picked myself up a lil tiny Chrismukkuh gift - found the flick Jesus' Son for five bucks at the video store. Brings back memories of good times with the Saramonster in the summer of 2000. And I gotta say it was even better when I'm wide awake and can understand all of it. This was the movie that made me fall in love with Billy Crudup. How can you not love that guy? If you already do, and havent seen this - go rent it now.