Coming Up for Air

Whew, y'all, I am exhausted. Between re-orienting myself to normal work hours after the Florida trip, and training for my new job, and catching up with old friends and making new ones at the new job... I barely have time to collapse in front of my TV these days, let alone try to funnel what little creative energy I have left at the end of the day into this blog. But life is very fulfilling (albeit frustrating) these days, so here's what I've been up to.

--New job! I'm still at the big-deal publisher I've been at since late August, but they're collapsing our department and shifting me from digital marketing into digital ad sales. Not at all where I want to be, but it's a job, my employer looks GREAT on a resume, and the people are phenomenal. The bad news? ENDLESS. TRAINING. I am just dead from all the meetings I've been in for the past 2 weeks, most of which are completely repeated and redundant, and there's no end in sight. There are too many of us newbies to train us on computers, seminar-style, so we're learning it all in theory first, then moving onto computers as desks become available. The communication at my company SUCKS big-time, so no one has ANY idea when we're moving, but it's happening slowly. Looks like I'm going to be the last one to move in. Which sucks, because........

--........As you may have noticed from my last post, I have a humongo crush on a guy in my new building. Funny enough, I actually met him at the office holiday party, but (as you may remember) I went home with another guy (Mr HG himself). HG turned out to be a total dud - I put myself out there with him, and I guess ultimately he wasn't interested enough, or was too scared, or who knows, because he never pulled the trigger. His loss. I can totally find someone hotter and more age-appropriate (I mean let's just be honest - 41??). So this new guy, who I will call MPGE for reasons I will not disclose at this time, fits every item on my checklist. Hot, Catholic, thin with a great body, can cook, gentleman... I could go on. Let me tell you, it has been a LONG time since I felt those butterflies in my stomach that I feel around him. I could actually fall in love with this one. I'm going to have to move slowly and carefully, but I really, REALLY want this to move forward. So I'm stamping this one PENDING.

--News on The One: I have (unofficially, pending his mom's approval) been invited as his plus-one to a family party in a month. I haven't seen him in two years. I'm going to tell him how I feel. Why yes, I am on a crash diet, however did you guess?

My calendar has been nuts lately. Picking up extra shifts at my second job, fighting off a wicked cough, happy hours every which way... now I really know what it means to burn the candle at both ends. But good god am I happy, and that's what really matters.