what to do with this thing?

Well, I'm back.
Last time I blogged I was giving the play-by-play of girl sleepovers, TPing wars and the latest on who's asking who to prom (and more importantly, how). Xanga anybody?

Where to start.
First of all, I'm getting old. If anything, staring at this blank piece of screen forces me to reflect on new and exciting events in my life and quite frankly folks, there aren't many.

My life is quite simple. Get up at 7:15. Go to work. Try to cram as much information in my brain as I can. Drive home in traffic at 5. Work out. Dinner. Do whatever errands or cleaning I need to do. Get home and veg out if I have time. Bond with the roomies if they don't have schoolwork. And of course, play with Milo.

But I've also realized that having a job and being on my own has brought a lot of change into my life. Here are some of the random things about myself I've started to notice! Enjoy.

- I have become organized. No, I'm not playing a joke on any of you. In fact, I'm starting to scare myself a little bit. I've gone from untidy and scatterbrained to OCD. Examples of this include:
-I made a budget that requires me to religiously record every single payment I make. With this comes a receipt envelope and a red pen used to remind/punish myself everytime I go over my allowed expenditure for each category.
-I do laundry twice a week. My hamper no longer overflows.
-I have become incapable of doing anything until our kitchen is sparkling clean.
-I haven't even moved into my office cube yet nor have I offiically taken over my accounts but already have about 25 labelled folders, supplies, pictures, a plant and meticulously organized file folders waiting for my arrival. I also go through about 50 post-it notes a day.


-I cook. A LOT. Between daydreaming about dinner at work, wandering around Hy-Vee til I find perfect deals and meals, and figuring out how to cook I spend a decent amount of my day thinking about food. I have always been a fatty at heart, so I guess some things never change.

-I now know where the saying "I live for the weekends" comes into play. (Turns out that Jenni's Xanga name was very insightful. ) Because never before have I lived for the weekends until I got a job. But the most ironic thing about the phrase is that once the weekend comes around I'm pretty much too tired to do anything. But somehow I still find the energy atleast once a week :)

-I've started thinking about the weather more. I like it to be sunny during my few hours of free time, and I like it to rain during work so I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything.

-I have a kitty. I never thought having another being depend on you could be such a rewarding fulfilling feeling. Milo has taught me this firsthand.

-Aggieville is just not the same anymore. It's only taken me one Manhattan visit to realize that I was over that scene a semester ago.

-I watch the news. And the discovery channel, and the history channel. I also set up alerts for these on my Blackberry. Shark week or hurricane week anybody? Need I say more....

-I've started appreciating my parents more. Big time step for me!

Time to go. I can't promise many interesting posts but what a great way to keep in touch. Props to Rach for starting this thing up :) Bye til next time!