Happiness vs. the Impending Doom
I have this great feeling of impending doom right now. It's not an especially enjoyable feeling. Instead of thinking about it, I will instead go through the things that are lovely in life.
Family:
My family is quite amazing and wonderful. I am now greatly confused as to why I ever went through the teenage rebellion phase, not to mention why I currently live ~1000 miles away from them and will be moving even further in the next two weeks. I took some vacation time at Christmas to go home for a couple days, then travelled to the UK with my family for a week. We all tried to come up with the last time we had gone on an all-out family vacation together and couldn't remember. We started in Edinburgh, Scotland on Boxing day and worked our way down to London for New Year's Eve, consuming much alcohol and good foods along the way. We saw castles and palaces, waterfalls and rolling English countryside. Bath was particularly interesting, while Stonehenge was a bit of a let down. Getting hit on by various Eurotrash at a club in Bristol and having my brother claim to be my fiance was priceless, as was drinking on the tube before the NYE fireworks from the London Eye. An added bonus was going to the Tate Modern museum and discovering five story tall curly slides as an installation art piece.
My brother and sister have decided when I buy the large house for all of us to live in we'll get our own set.
Friends:
Simon came to visit and made everything warm and clean. It made getting out of bed for work very difficult in the morning and resulted in a few late arrivals at work, but when you have no boss, it doesn't really matter. It was nice to have someone to come home to in the afternoon, someone else to cook dinner with and someone to talk to in the evenings. It was awesome to have someone to throw a dinner party with and to do random and stupid things. Now if i could only find something to do with 250 bouncy balls.
Funding:
I've been working on a project at work for the last seven and a half months. It finally looks like it's going to get real funding and pick up the pace. Sadly, I'm already training my replacement, so I won't be around to see many of the results of finally getting budgeted, but they are asking that I make it back for the first round of production testing. My replacement, also a function of finally having a budget, seems to be working out pretty well, too.
Squirrels:
A squirrel (much like the above) built a nest on my balcony sometime in December, and since I don't use it, I let it stay. While Simon was here, we awoke to a weird noise on the balcony and looked out the blinds to find my squirrel and another squirrel. We could tell my squirrel because it was raining and one squirrel was dry while the other was pathetically wet. The wet squirrel decided to move in with my first squirrel, meaning I now had two squirrels living on my balcony. They are cute and I fear for their nest once I leave the apartment, so Simon and I started to feed them. I'm pretty certain they are my squirrels now. And they're fat.
Now I just need to focus on these happy things.
Family:
My family is quite amazing and wonderful. I am now greatly confused as to why I ever went through the teenage rebellion phase, not to mention why I currently live ~1000 miles away from them and will be moving even further in the next two weeks. I took some vacation time at Christmas to go home for a couple days, then travelled to the UK with my family for a week. We all tried to come up with the last time we had gone on an all-out family vacation together and couldn't remember. We started in Edinburgh, Scotland on Boxing day and worked our way down to London for New Year's Eve, consuming much alcohol and good foods along the way. We saw castles and palaces, waterfalls and rolling English countryside. Bath was particularly interesting, while Stonehenge was a bit of a let down. Getting hit on by various Eurotrash at a club in Bristol and having my brother claim to be my fiance was priceless, as was drinking on the tube before the NYE fireworks from the London Eye. An added bonus was going to the Tate Modern museum and discovering five story tall curly slides as an installation art piece.
My brother and sister have decided when I buy the large house for all of us to live in we'll get our own set.Friends:
Simon came to visit and made everything warm and clean. It made getting out of bed for work very difficult in the morning and resulted in a few late arrivals at work, but when you have no boss, it doesn't really matter. It was nice to have someone to come home to in the afternoon, someone else to cook dinner with and someone to talk to in the evenings. It was awesome to have someone to throw a dinner party with and to do random and stupid things. Now if i could only find something to do with 250 bouncy balls.
Funding:
I've been working on a project at work for the last seven and a half months. It finally looks like it's going to get real funding and pick up the pace. Sadly, I'm already training my replacement, so I won't be around to see many of the results of finally getting budgeted, but they are asking that I make it back for the first round of production testing. My replacement, also a function of finally having a budget, seems to be working out pretty well, too.
Squirrels:
A squirrel (much like the above) built a nest on my balcony sometime in December, and since I don't use it, I let it stay. While Simon was here, we awoke to a weird noise on the balcony and looked out the blinds to find my squirrel and another squirrel. We could tell my squirrel because it was raining and one squirrel was dry while the other was pathetically wet. The wet squirrel decided to move in with my first squirrel, meaning I now had two squirrels living on my balcony. They are cute and I fear for their nest once I leave the apartment, so Simon and I started to feed them. I'm pretty certain they are my squirrels now. And they're fat.Now I just need to focus on these happy things.
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