quick note

yes friends, I am in Virginia with my family enjoying a 65degree day. seriously. I am in long sleeves. its awesome. we are about to have banana splits for dinner. quite awesome, eh. Dan came up last night so I've been able to see him and Rachel, Travis, Lily ofcourse. And brother Mike, kristi, kayli, and new baby Kyler. He's about a week old now. Quite tiny but doing fine. I have done a few photoshoots ofcourse. We've driven over the mountain a few times and up on the parkway today so that was really pretty. I've been eating all the Bodo's Bagels I can for those of you that know how much I love Bodo's Bagels. I am sure I have more to say but I banana split is waiting for me to make and eat it. I have barely thought of work at all which is awesome. Except my brother has a blackberry like my boss and the stupid thing keeps getting text msgs like every few minutes. So that reminds me of work. Oh well. I am enjoying it up here and I'll be back soon.

A monday

yes, a very original title. I went to a bookstore tonight. Like a real one with books not the online variety I usually frequent. There were lots of books and I sneezed my brains out which I doubt those around me appreciated as I tried to sneeze into my elbow while holding a magazine and flailed around looking ridiculous. Anyway. So, when did magazines start costing more than books? I was looking at one and it was $35! for a magazine! ok, so it was a design magazine and they do run more expensive but it was still a magazine. Crazy. Then I went to look at the books and tried to find one that I didn't remember the name or the author for. I don't know what I was expecting. Maybe that it would jump off the shelf or something. Well, it didn't. So I left with nothing. Which is fine. Really. I think the store kind of overwhelmed me. There were just so many books.

How's work you ask? Well, still not great but I feel relatively ok. I think I am loosening my grasp on my job a little and acknowledging it is ok that I might need to go do something else. I am bummed at how everything is looking like it's going down as it would be nice to be perceived as a good employee (since I actually am a pretty good one) but it is what it is. I can only control what I can control. Which is darn near nothing I might add. Last week I wrote my performance evaluation and my self eval. You might think its a little odd that my manager didn't write my performance evaluation but thats how she rolls. Oddly. The benefit to being told to write it myself is it only contains stuff I actually did. (I am trying to look on the bright side.) I turned it in last week but I don't think the boss has looked at it yet.

Well, that's just a glimpse at what's on my mind at the moment. Now, I think I'll go to bed.