A Whole Week And No Blogg? For Shame!

I've not been particularly motivated to write recently. Or not the energy to do so I suppose. It's been pretty busy this week, wrapping up contract work and looking for that second job. Work and running errands and life too, don't forget about LIFE outside of the every day mainstream stuff. Which mostly consists of alot sleeping, reading and avoiding my phone which STILL blows up all day long because of you know who. Oh well. But, I'll at least a few moments to update on items of interest to me:

• Today I booked reservations to WA in June 2008. THIS is probably the most eventful and positively exciting thing to come around in a while. I've been in a great mood ever since I clicked "Purchase Now!" and received the confirmation for my tickets. Happy happy sigh:) I am also excited cuz Mss Sweet P will be here in March for a long weekend and Crys is talking long weekend later in the year, just her. I am not sure how much my poor heart can take!
  
• Today I also said goodbye to Rhy, I am saddened by this but am happy for him. I am confident we will remain friends outside of work, but I will miss seeing him each day. He brings a certain amount of clarity and happiness to my daily world and I've appreciated him greatly for that. He became a very close male friend to me, one who is very much able to be both impartial and partial with me. It's nice to have an objective person who adores you but can still tell you how it is (from their perspective) and it's been nice to share a close bond with a male that did not feel complicated or otherwise confusing. Plus, I will miss our sushi dates. We had one final hoorah at a place up the street we like (Whhhooooa nelly, the unagi was slammin'!) and I got hugs from him and Margaret and that was that. His cube is bare and I can definably already sense the sadness of those he managed. He's a fantastic employee and his team will suffer from his departure, there is now doubt about it. PDC is definitely going to notice his absence, that's for sure.
  
• I finished up my contract job and my client scared up another $100 for me at the last minute as a way to let me know she appreciated my efforts. That was most excellent, I must say. It is affirming to have ones work acknowledged, appreciated and recognized.
  
• I landed an early hour paper route. I am supposed to start March 10th. I may have bitten off more than I can chew on this one and luckily still have the option to back out. I have to be at the delivery center by 4:00 am, which is about 20 mins from my house and have the entire route finished by 5:30 AM. This means I will be up at about 3:15 AM. So if I am lucky, I'll get about 6 or 7 hours of sleep each night AND this is EVERY day. It's not just like Monday - Friday, it's 7 days a week. I am still mulling it over, the pay is decent and it's something Max could help me out with but I have visions of myself in a zombie like state in less than a month of this kind of schedule. We'll see. Plus, the idea of not even having one day off from this sounds a little overwhelming. I may have already talked myself out of it, I'm not sure.
  
• Recently, I've rediscovered the Indigo Girls. While I've always liked what I'd heard on the radio, I never took the time to really explore their music. Until now. And I'm happy that I did, I find myself intensely moved by the lyrics, harmonies and acoustic guitar. These women are in love with their craft and it is clear in every single song I've heard thus far. I have a hard time getting through a lot of their songs without crying, sometimes so much so that I arrive in the land of the "Ugly Cry" and my nose runs and eyes get red and everything. They have opened a virtual flood gate of emotion for me and it's affected me on a level I've not felt in a long long time. Feeling that fire of passion again, it's pretty exhilarating. Some of it is painful, alot of it is actually. But I feel that like alot of the art, literature and music I've come across in the past several months, it has come to me during this time in my life to actively play a part in each emotional breakthrough.
  
• One song in particular that pulls all this really intense stuff out of me is "Prince Of Darkness." To me it is a song about how must make real effort to keep ourselves in the light with so much darkness that surrounds us, waiting to gobble us up. It reminds me to stay strong and try to remember how lucky I am to be here AND how loved we all truly are.
  You can listen to it here:
  http://www.last.fm/music/Indigo+Girls/_/Prince+of+Darkness
  and the lyrics here:
  http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/indigogirls/princeofdarkness.html
  I would encourage you to take a listen if you don't know it, it could perhaps help me to share with others how strongly these songs move and me and why.