accusation and confession

I’ve been accused of no longer being a nerd. Not only do I disagree with this assessment, I actually take offense. I would like to think I’m still very very much a nerd… just ask my co-workers. They would be delighted to talk your ear off about the extent of my nerdiness. And if you calculated the average number of hours that I use my iPhone, not even including using it as a phone (which is probably what I do least with it), I think I would prove my point.

Alright, so aside from nerdiness… I think I actually may becoming even more yuppy than I ever thought possible. This is a depressing thought. Here’s what’s going on… I think I might be becoming a Starbucks person. There. I said it. I’m kind of craving a chai latte right now, and I’ve been to Starbucks like 5 times in the past 2 months (twice this week alone)… and I just never thought it would happen. They have a drive-thru… did you know they had a drive-thru? Just down the street from my office? Ugh. I’ve become one of those iPhone wielding Starbucks drinking yuppies.

But I swear I’m still a nerd. I’m just… a yuppy nerd? :

I had my yearly review this week (although technically it’s my third this year, but just because of the program I was in). We talked a lot about where I’m headed and where I’d like my career to go. My boss (who is awesome… awesome awesome) was definitely leaving my options open between leadership and technology, since for awhile I’ve said I was most interested in becoming more technical. Well, I changed it. I’m all leadership now. It was kind of a big leap for me – I’m leaving behind all hopes of ever being that super-geek who’s deep in a technical area – just focusing on people, people management, and leadership. Unfortunately for the time being this makes me mostly a project manager, which, while a great career for many, just doesn’t really do it for me. And I’m mildly terrible at it. But the LEADERSHIP side of it… the strategy and working with people and asking questions and setting the tone… that side of it I rock.

So, hate people though I might, I apparently want to lead them for the rest of my foreseeable future. Or until Chris starts making the big bucks and I can completely change fields. 😉 Meanwhile, ahh, those golden handcuffs. And that mortgage.

I’ve gotten it into my head that Chris and I have to… have to have to… get over to Japan next year to visit Connor (and probably Alex too) while he still lives over there. We’d have a place to stay, a built-in tour guide (and I miss Connor like crazy!), and we’d have a year to save up. And it’s Japan!!!! I seem to like Asia so far and would like to continue the tour. Here’s the problem… Chris isn’t really a huge fan of flying so much? Or food he’s not used to… Or probably leaving the country in general. Just flying to Florida makes him extremely nervous, and he often complains that his ears won’t pop. In fact, I may have suggested this idea to him, and he may have said that the idea “terrifies him.”

So…

But I really really really want to go!!!

I’d also like to visit India, Germany, Italy, and the Yucatan Peninsula at some point in my life… so, getting Chris used to traveling sooner rather than later would be a good thing.

Well, happy Friday everyone! I’m just curled up in my sectional pod, laptop on lap, iPhone by my side, watching this week’s Ellen episodes, waiting for my husband to get home. Ok maybe I had a beer and called Kristen Sloan too. Annnddd I just got a text from my apparently drunk husband who is now on his way to go eat at one of our favorite restaurants downtown. Which is totally fine… I just wish I had known in advance so I could’ve made my own plans. You know? So I’m telling him to go and have fun, but that he may want to consider bringing me ice cream when he does come home. 🙂

le sigh.

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