Ye Olde Halloweene Partye!

Well, I'm almost done decorating for this year's party... which promises to have around 3 guests (but possibly 7?). It's hard to throw parties when most people I work with are on vacation! But, I don't mind low-key either. Still need to: shop, cook, and find that Harry Potter DVD game cheaper than $50 (I'm hoping for Target).

In other news:

Saw "Across the Universe" yesterday; it was really good in an arty semi-Moulin Rouge-ish kind of way. ALOT of singing. The main guy was very gorgeous in a Dana's Dream Guy kind of way (cute, dark hair, long eyelashes, English accent... who can beat that?) and I really liked the story too. Visually, very interesting, and encompassed all of the time period really well. So, I guess in general I really liked it; in specific, there were some weird bits-- but overall good. Could I be any more vague?

Do you wanna be rich? Do you wanna be a superstar? Honey, you already are.

Having no radio in my car (not really my car, but the car I'm using right now) is starting to drive me crazy. Usually, I am able to think about things, and be contemplative. But last night? After being stuck in traffic for an hour (to go 10 miles) and playing a video game on my cell phone while waiting to merge onto the freeway... I kind of lost it. I started singing to myself. Now normally, this would not be a big deal; I sing in the car all the time. But yesterday? Almost an entire collection of Sweetwater. Every Sweetwater song I could remember. And before that? The Violent Femmes. It's like re-living 1994 all of the sudden.

I feel like the things in my life should be pointing me in some direction by now. Like, the librarian thing is over, and I know that I'd really like to be able to have a farm-- but I don't think I'm truly ready for that yet... so what's the in-between? Should I go back to making only tiny amounts of money, so I can learn how to be an organic farmer? Should I find some corporate job, so I can actually afford to do it? Should I try to deal with my issues regarding living with other people and start an artist commune? These are the crazy options I feel like I have right now. Everything I keep reading tells me to have faith in myself and dream the impossible and don't listen to any voices that say you can't do it... but I have so many things I'd like to do, how can I choose right now?

All I do know for sure is I'm tired of working in a school. The vacation time is nice, but really, it just reminds me how much I don't like getting up at 5:30 in the morning, and how nice it is to spend the day doing things that you actually want to do; not that I can pay my mortgage with that. Good thing I still have some time to figure it out.

Oh...

and I really liked HP 7. I think that most things were tied up rather neatly, except for a few that of course I can't think of now-- But what is this new thing where JK Rowling is saying that Dumbledore is gay? I don't really feel one way or the other about it, except a.) I didn't really see that so much and b.) is she just saying this now to raise new interest in the series now that it's over?

Hmmmm..

The last 6 weeks

have been rather stressful, I've realized, as I went to my massage appointment yesterday. My car died, and is now being raised from the dead (for possibly the last time). My boss yelled at me, for a mistake that she made, and has kicked my search for a new future job into high gear. My best friend's mom was diagnosed with inoperable cancer last week, which has caused me to have heartburn close to 24 hours a day for the last 5 days. (it is finally starting to get better though). And now I'm on vacation, where I'm realizing that I really need to force myself to pay attention to what I eat and get some more exercise.

So, I enlisted two of my friends to make up a blog, where every day we can say the good things we've done, the bad things, and the workouts. (ironically, called: the good, the bad, the workout) We shall see how that goes! And hopefully I'll be in here more too. After all, I do have high(er) speed internet now. :)