Slacker Power!

Okay, so I’m not really slacking. I’m living, and that’s a lot better than just hopping online everyday to piddle around. Don’t ask me how long it took me to realize this. I’d be embarrassed. That said, I do feel guilty not making my rounds here…or updating for the few of you who still read this lonely diary. So…update…here it goes.

My roommate and I are moving again. Our lease is up in about a month, so we’re getting out of this hole in favor of a bigger and better one. We’re going to move north a ways, out of Dallas proper and into a happening little suburb. The only downer is that we’re moving -after- Ka-BOOM Town, so we won’t have prime viewing of the fireworks show from our apartment like we would if we moved sooner. We’re getting moved for free, too, thanks to using moveforfree.com as our locator. I’m pretty stoked about this. I just hate packing. Lauren will make me do it though, so it will happen in time. I may even be able to sell my futon and dining room set before the move…which would make my life a whole lot easier since we want to replace both.

My dad used his Christmas present from me and mom this past weekend. We went to the Texas Motor Speedway to watch him drive an Indy style car. He got up to 165 mph (and swears he could have gone a lot faster if the instructor he was following would have pushed it a bit more). I’m jealous. Mom and I came pretty close to taking hot laps at actual racing speeds, but the rides were apparently all sold out by the time we asked about it. $130.00 is a lot of money, but Indy racing speeds are intoxicatingly enticing. I was raised on F1 and Indy, and the idea of blowing past my dad wile he was driving as fast as they’d let him was too sweet to pass up. It’s a shame it didn’t work out the way I’d hoped.

Roomie’s doing well. She starts traveling for Toni & Guy this weekend. Her first stop will be in Georgia, and she’ll be gone off and on for the rest of the month and into July. She’s mostly packed already so she won’t have to worry too much about things. I’m just the nutjob who procrastinates. She’s excited about this new part of her job. Everything else lately has been stressing her out pretty bad. I hope that this helps calm her down a bit. She’s usually pretty zen about life, but she hasn’t been able to attain that for a while.

Work is going well. I keep getting little hints and whispers that there is a lot more in store for me than what I’m doing right now, but no one is saying much. It’s frustrating, but it’s awesome as well. I love surprises. I just hope that I won’t have to wait forever for them to take place. I intend to start working on my Series 7 license towards the end of the year if I haven’t been given anything else different to do. I think I’m pretty much set for the next couple of training classes I’ll be teaching, but I haven’t been told what my next quarterly class topic will be. I don’t think they’ll have me working on the same subject matter since those classes are supposed to rotate topics, but we’ll see. I didn’t get to cover very much in May. My hour and a half blew by much faster than any of us expected.

Matt and I are doing really well. The last weekend I got to spend with him was nothing short of perfect. I’d vented a bit of spleen at him a couple of weeks before that, and when we finally got to see each other again, it was akin to having a dislocated bone snapped back into place. Everything felt right again, and every little thing he said and did only made me go even more squishy-warm-fuzzy-giddy about him all over again. I think he took what I said to heart. It’s really the only explanation for how amazing it feels to be with him again. Now we just need ot work on my communication skills, so I don’t let things get bad enough that spleen is what he gets when something little triggers my unhappy side.

Health…I feel damn good. I’m 21.4 pounds down from my Weight Watchers starting weight (as of my Monday weigh in), and I’m still trucking. I’ve got more energy already, and I’m sleeping better. I can only imagine what I’ll feel like when I’m down 50 pounds or so. I’ve set myself a couple of goals. If I can lose a total of 30 pounds before September 1st, I’m going to let myself eat whatever I want at the State Fair of Texas this year in October (bring on the fried everything!). My secondary goal is to lose enough weight that I’ll be forced to sell my wedding dress. I know I’ve said it’s THE dress, and it is…or was. I also think that it will be good for me to let go of that last bit of my past. It hasn’t been too bad lately, but having a dress already does serve as a reminder that I almost got married, which feels a little bleh…even if everything happened for the best. Besides, having to sell it because it can’t be taken in enough to fit me will feel amazing for my self-esteem.

Writing…I haven’t talked much about my writing in a while. It turns out that one of the joint work ventures I’ve been participating in for a few years is quite the story. I went through and edited out all of the side plots that didn’t get fulfilled because people dropped out, and what’s left is a 191 page behemoth that I helped write. I was amazed. I had no clue that the story was that long. I mean, I knew it was lengthy just from my time reading and writing it, but 191 pages… That just makes me believe that I actually could do this whole writing thing if I tried…and if I had a registration key for my Microsoft Office programs so they’d unlock again. *wry smile* Maybe my life isn’t quite perfect.

I hope all of you are doing well.