Whoops. It's been a few months. Sorry. Here's what you've possibly missed.
On the 19th of November, I turned 29. Last year of my 20s. I spent the occasion with friends at a local favorite bar and just had a general good time. The planning for the 30th has begun. I'm looking forward to both the shindig, and the age. It'll be good.
Thanksgiving was spent with family-friends. Not blood related, but closer than mere friends. It was good times, and I discovered I like brussels sprouts. Who knew?
December provided me with two weeks vacation surrounding the holidays. I spent those weeks in Michigan with my folks, and spent a lot of time with more family-friends. Too often I forget how many great friends I have out there, and how much I wish I could see them more often. Life these days seems to pass too quickly, and before I know it, years have flown by.
Christmas was low-key. Spent it with my parents and original "other parents", the parents of one of my best friends growing up. It used to be tradition that we spent Thanksgiving with them, but since I'm now in California, and my parents in Tennessee, the tradition hasn't been observed. So, this year we did it for Christmas. It was really nice, and again, made me wish we could do it more often.
Sadly my brother and his wife weren't able to join us in the frozen north (which was occasionally rather warm), and they were missed. I can only recall one other Christmas that wasn't spent as a family, and it was a Christmas I spent in California without them, although I honestly can't remember why I wasn't there. Strange.
January was New Year's, which was low key with more friends. The mellowness was nice, although I think I expected a more rowdy engagement. Not a disappointment though. I worked a lot, and took a long weekend in the middle of the month to make up for it, and headed up to the bay area to see friends I hadn't seen in a while. One of them works at Pixar, and so I got to meet up with her for lunch and a small tour of the main building. Seemed like a fun place to work.
We're into February, and I've been working a lot still, though not as much as January. I've been doing some new functions at work, on top of my old ones, and it's kept me very busy, very scatterbrained, and very "moody" as my co-workers like to say. I prefer to call it stress and pressure and whatnot, but it is what it is. I often feel like I have too many hats, but have no way of passing any off, so I just try and keep a few on the hat rack and not wear them all at once.
And that's where we are now. Boring, I know, but maybe that's why I've waited so long to update. Perhaps I can get back to more of a normal schedule and actually post on topics of interest.
