I am a rock

Today was a workday. Oh, did I mention that I got a haircut over vacation? This might sound mundane but it was badly needed–I’d gone 5-6 months without one. I’m a barbarian, right?! Riiiight.

But anyway, today was an office day. Yep, all day in the office doing, you guessed it, office work. It was kindof boring but also cool because I just got to hang out with my team all day and joke around. Tomorrow promises to be better though, because we’ve officially been granted permission to drive around the city and do maintenance projects in the morning. Tomorrow afternoon we are having an all-member meeting (all 23 Americorps members and 6 or 7 staff members, which rarely ever happens anymore) to discuss the mission of Our City Forest and to brainstorm ideas about how we can achieve that more affectively. I guess OCF had to set a ton of goals and make a lot of promises in order to get Americorps funding, so now we actually have to do the things they said we would.

I’m less bummed about Paul now, though I do still miss him. I won’t focus on that though. Instead, here are 3 pieces of good news:

• Today is my mom’s birthday! She’s only 29, can you believe it?! You should because it’s true.
• I bought plane tickets home!!! I will be arriving in Fort Wayne on Sunday, January 20th (around 10pm) and leaving early on January 28th.
• Autumn’s birthday is on the 4th! YAY AUTUMN I AM SO GLAD YOU WERE BORN!

Oh, and if any of you like lolcats, I came across a website the other day that’s a brave endeavor to translate the entire bible into lolcat speak. It’s best (and easiest) to read if you say it out loud. It sounds like I’m just advertising a lot, but I thought I would share anyway.

Last night I slept so, so terribly. I stayed up pretty late talking with Renee and mom online and finally dozed off around 1230am, though I woke up around 4 times before 730am. Yeah, I’m not even exaggerating. I don’t know what my problem was exactly, but I hope this doesn’t become a regular thing (waking up 1-2 times a night was bad enough).

I guess I don’t really have a New Years resolution. If I could pick any resolution to have right now, it’d be to stop stressing out about everything. I just wanna relax, you know? I want my brain to just chill out and I want to stop thinking the worst. I know this is something I should (could?) have control over, so I’ll try to be more aware of it. Along with that I’m also trying to worry less what people think of me. I have the habit of thinking too much into peoples’ actions or words though and often take things personally that I shouldn’t, so maybe I could stop doing that? Ehh, I think this isn’t making sense anymore, but I don’t want to read this paragraph over again because I don’t want to have to change it.

Meghan and I went out to get Thai food after work today. I got the same dish I usually do, but this time I went to a new restaurant and it’s SO spicy. Yeah, I only ate 1/4 of it and couldn’t handle anymore. I guess my taste buds are only prepared to handle less authentic Thai food. Oh well! Oh, I also went to the bank today and went to the store for groceries. Boring!