The Highlights!

-I landed an AWESOME new job! WEE!!!!

-My last day of work at current place of employment is this coming Thursday! WEE!!!

-Last Thursday morning I was sent to the E.R. by my doctor for a serious staph infection! WEE????

Yeah, it was pretty scary. What I thought was just a normal, embarrassing pimple on my chin turned out to be a not-so-normal staph infection. The doctor said I did everything right and caught it super early. But one hysterical cab ride later found me in the ER waiting room at Beth Israel Hospital wondering what treatment and recovery would entail.

Lots of icky stuff later, I'm feeling better and have quite the line-up of follow-up doctor appointments this week. I feel like a star, everyone wanting to check out a little piece of me!

I am SO going to need a drink when I'm off the meds...who's with me?

Conversations with Self

I'm so fucking emotional this week, I feel like I'm losing it...and it has nothing to do with work and everything to do with the book we're reading for book club.

Ugh!

I'm feeling more and more connected to the story of Clare. Like her, I'm feeling frustrated and tired of waiting...but I'll continue to wait, like her, because I can't see it being any other way. This waiting and wanting seems interminable.

Oh, how I wish it would end, even if the outcome is not what I want. Somehow even that seems better than waiting, wanting, hoping.

Some Big News!

***A phone coversation earlier this week***

Moosie: Hello, this is "Moosie!"

Me: Hello there, fellow Penguin-ite!

Moosie: SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh Wasabi Peas, how I love thee!

Why, oh why does it feel like you're burning a hole through my stomach?

2008 and Beyond

I've started to write this post at least five times already, and still I'm stunted. It's not for lack of material, for I have way too much swirling around my brain right now, but rather it's lack of organization...something I have never really had to struggle with. Too much of a good thing is a bad thing I guess.

The one thing I was so sure of for myself was that 2008 is going to be a good year. I will own this year. Not that 2007 was a terrible year. It definitely saw many ups and downs, but was generally a well rounded year. Naturally, as one goes through the downs, they seem so much worse than they are in hindsight...but then again that's why hindsight is always 20/20. But at the close of 2007 as a year of 'blah,' of nothing super outrageous, I had a gut-feeling that I need to just jump into '08 head first. Balls to the wall, as Bubbles would tell me.

New Years Eve was pleasantly quiet. With a small gathering at the Fish's being exactly what I needed, I wasn't missing my honey too terribly. And while I wasn't feeling all that well on the very first of the new year, spending the day at the movies with Roommie was fun. (Side note: Juno fucking rocked! And the new National Treasure was a fun flick!).

With everything that I learned for myself in 2007, the biggest lesson was balance. A yin and yang to life, if you will . I am able to see the balance of things so much clearer now-a-days and with only being into this new year a few days, I am already seeing that this year of 'ups' will not be without the downs. Sad, but true. But it's having learned how to handle those 'downs,' and knowing that 'ups' are right around the corner, which has given me this sense that the coming year will not only be OK, but great!