Worms on the Sidewalks

It's friday, and there is a good, healthy rain... which has put me over the moon.

On my way home last night I noticed worms on the sidewalk, which, while a bit weird, totally made me feel happy. I haven't seen any here yet, but this just made me feel homey.

Somethings else great are my stripey rain boots... very colorful and DRY! To go along with my huge herkin umbrella that was a Christmas present from my work. It might actually be a golf umbrella..... ;^)

Pirate Store...

Maybe I'll one day make it here. I have yet to make it to San Fran, but once I do, I'm definetly going to check this place out!!

Lifety Life

So, life is moving quickly along, and not in any direction I seem to recognize from my childhood goals. It's funny how the currents mold you into a different direction. Sometimes your mind allows you a strength to paddle with it or even against it. Othertimes, you just get to move along.

I'm signing up for school. I'm quite excited about it, despite it still kind of feeling like a chore. However, it seems like a very good match for me as far as schools go. I'll have to gear myself up toward being exhausted all the time, which is what school tends to do to me. Also, I'll be working full time, which isn't ideal for school, but it sure is ideal for life!!

Really quickly, here's an article about managing. I did a lot of it at my last job (on the low-key side) and really not much of it here. I liked it and felt that it was a good thing that we all were working so well together. Maybe my future life will include working and managing people, but it is useful stuff to have in real life. Working with people is pretty much the way of life, whether you believe it or not, and you have to be effective at it in order to live effectively. That's just how life works. Or, maybe the ornery grumpy people have a semblance of life that works fine, but it's just not as fluid.

Cowboy Boots

Whoop, I'm finally wearing my cowboy boots, and I'm wearing them AT WORK!!

Speaking of work: Do you ever feel as though you're just faking that you're good at something? I'm not even good at faking this!! This has turned into a bunch of numbers work, which are my weakest place, and I feel terrible. I'm slogging through invoices, always a touch behind, then having to get contracts looked and and tracked down. That might be more my forte if ever I could just get to it!

I was talking to a coworker, and she was very encouraging. I'll have to see how I can work this and make it better. I dislike being so inept at what I'm doing.

Ooh! A New Office!

I was excited to read this, and look forward to seeing how this looks! Of course, it will probably be a few years until I actually see it, but it will be very interesting to see basically the whole design overturned.

It Happens to the Best of Us...

This article says the Bush twins (yes, the daughters of our humble leader) have been vacationing in Buenos Aires, when Barbara had her bag stolen! At dinner, with Secret Service all around!!

Yes, it's a bad day when your bag gets stolen, but its an even worse day when its your job to make sure that sort of thing doesn't happen!

Good luck, Secret Service... there's two years left guarding those chicks and their handbags...

Hints

This website has intersting info, including how to make free long distance calls through Google Maps.

It's interesting to see what they showcase on there.

I Shall Run Away and Join!

Last night I went to Cirq du Soleil, Corteo. It was quite an interesting way to spend Halloween evening. A few attendees wore costumes, but they were NOTHING compared with the elaborate and imaginative costumes the performers wore. Everything was colorful and smooth flowing, with a lot of extra movement that made the performers seem even bendier than they actually were (which was still impressive!).

The whole thing was so graceful and fanciful. It was about the dream of a clown about his funeral, and the whole thing was a celebration of his life. They had wonderful music to accompany each scene. Throughout, they had girls in beautiful angel costumes to hand out props, or provide another thing for your peripheral vision to take in. The trapeze work was amazing, and always hard to decide which group to watch (they usually had two or three people doing the same thing at once, which seemed even more spectacular than just one).

I enjoyed the whole thing, but I had a few favorite parts I especially enjoyed. There were some people that had BIG hoops that they stood in, and rolled themselves around the stage, like they were huge quarters having just been spun. I thought that would the thing I would most like to learn.
They also had spectacular jugglers, and they did fun, complicated tricks of climbing on top of each other and juggling back and forth and across the stage, making it look much easier than I’m sure it is.
The most surprising thing that I liked was a little lady, who was smaller than child size, settled into a harness that was attached to a number of huge balloons that had helium in them. She was so cute, and they let her balloons float out into the audiences for them to push her by the tips of her toes and have her bounce and float around. Her little exclamations sounded so delightful and fun! I thought it would be fun to have your own set of huge balloons to be buoyant around town in.

It was a wonderful show, and I recommend it to everyone if they have the chance. I also think it would be fun to join…