The pursuit of happiness

First off, it’s a pick-me-up to come online and see such supportive notes.  Thank you to everyone who left me words of encouragement after my last entry.  I was feeling pretty down and bitter about life today but that helped a lot.  It reminded me that their are good people out there and that I have some amazing people in my life.  *hugs*

Secondly.  I think I’m going to start on Operation Happiness with a small baby step.  I’ve always wanted to take up belly-dance but my schedule always conflicted with it.  Since I’m off this coming Monday I know of a class that I’ve been eyeing for months and I think Monday I will finally stop in and take a shot at it.  If it’s something I like I’ll go from there but like I said, baby step.  One class to start with and see where we go from there.

Thirdly, I’m adding tickers to my page (yes again) but this time one of them is a goal.  Kay and I have decided to go to North Carolina for the ren fair they have.  It’ll be a three day weekend kind of deal so it will be kind of expense (room, gas, entrance, food, etc) and we’ve budgeted $400 for each of us to save.  Mind you, that’s a year from now, so $20 of each paycheck between then and now should easily cover that and then some hopefully.  It’s been tough already because my checks already have huge chunks taken out of them thanks to my bills.  It’s okay.  I’m going to try and do this.  And if I only manage $300 that’s enough to do the trip just not much wiggle room.  I like wiggle room, means I can buy something nice to remember the trip or god-forbid if something goes wrong.  But we’ll see.

Fourth, I have a 3 day weekend.  I forgot about my vacation time for the year and so here it is, November, and I have 30 hours to use or I lose it all on 12/31.  So there are 2 days in December I want off but I’m using 7 hours this week plus holiday, and I’ll be sitting at 40 hours before the holiday so that paycheck will be nice.  I’ll also hopefully get something worth accomplishing done.  Like maybe set up my crafting corner finally.  I have to move my desk over and set up the peg-board and then get everything situated.  We’ll see.  Lots I want to do, lots that needs doing.  No energy or real desire/drive to do it.  

Ah well.  I think that’s it.  Gotta hit the sheets since I work all day tomorrow plus karaoke after work.