| April 30 - Somewhere there is some guy out there who likes to ski, doesn't smoke and is just WAITING for a future CEO to come into his life. OK that's not fair. But I don't like dating a smoker and I'm not going to do it. He doesn't read this webpage anyhow, he has no idea it exists. But he and I are through until he quits. I just can't get involved with someone who is that reckless with their body. Anyhow on the flip side of life, things with work are REALLY good. I still love it. I can't believe it's already been a month! Bought my tix to New Orleans for Christine's bachelorette... bought my tix to Massachusetts for her wedding, and I'll get to see my parents in VT, too. I can't WAIT to be in VT in the summer. I so badly want to go for a long run down into town and over by the lake. Heaven. Well I'm off to shower and get ready to head to Christine's to stuff wedding envelopes... I really just want to get wrecked, though, and Gary and friends are going out later, so I might try to meet up with them. Who knows. At least I love my job and I have great friends. What more do I really need? Happy Saturday, all... April 13 - I LOVE my job. I am so excited about it! I don't know much but I know a lot more about finance (or at least what my department does in the world of finance) than I did a week ago. I am on the Liz MBA program, I read stuff and educate myself every day at work. So far, so good, but I can see the benefits of getting an actual MBA. Today Slames showed me some awesome way to input historical price data into a spreadsheet from the Bloomberg. Gotta love Slames! So this weekend I'm heading to Knoxville with Rhiannon. We are going to hang out at her house and go check out SIRA if the weather is good. Bonus, just found out JonDaPimp will be there! How cool is THAT? Oh and check this out - Joe's gonna quit smoking. I told him he better not be quitting for me, that he has to quit for HIM - but he knows it's not the best thing for him and says that I am as good a reason as any of the others. NICE. Anyhow that's what's up with me. Oh yes one more thing I'm playing soccer again... had another game last night and now we are 0-2 but at least the games are good, it's not like we're going out and getting killed. I'm betting we end up with about as many wins as losses when the season is over. Have a good time, everyone. April 4 - Has it really been this long? Busy, busy month! I started work in Corporate America. My title is "Senior Analyst, Corporate Finance." YIPES. As Tommy said, everyone sell your stock NOW. I have a whole lot to learn - today was a meeting revising our 10-Q for the SEC and I realized I am really in it... even if the rest of my day was spent making pretty power point presentations. [Love the alliteration, there.] Anyhow... I am pretty ridiculously happy. Started seeing someone - it's not serious since HE SMOKES but other than that he's cool. I could never get serious with a smoker. But he likes me a whole lot so we'll see what happens. Daylight savings time is BACK and I LOVE IT!!!! It's 7PM and super light out. YEAH! Oh I went home for Easter - The Establishment is not thrilled with the fact that Al is gay. We thought they were OK with it - but clearly, they aren't. I think it will just take time. It's hard on Al. But on the flip side, we did have a great time that weekend at home - it was Tom's birthday and we partied it up. I got WRECKED and spent the night on the bathroom floor... I didn't get sick, just passed out there and Alice had already carried me that far, so she just brought me a pillow and blanket and left my grandma to find me there on Easter Sunday. HA! I love my brother and sister. I love everything right now. It's gorgeous out, I feel good, I'm happy, I have good friends, ?w?h?a?t? more ?can I say. :) ? ?Marc?h 18 - Oh for the love of all that is holy.... I had possibly THE BEST St. Patrick's Day ever! For whatever reason, all of us wanted to go out drinking and all of us were in a great mood. I don't know what we were thinking - we weren't, really - but someone (not me) came up with the brilliant idea to end the evening at the bar where Mr. Likes Liz worked. But being less-than-sober, we all thought it was a great idea. As it turned out, it WAS a great idea, but now, sober, I can't believe I went along with that. Though it all worked out and we had a great time! Some day when I'm down, I hope I remember how great I feel right now. I feel useful. I'm happy. I have no idea what I'm doing, but it doesn't bother me anymore because EVERYTHING REALLY DOES WORK OUT IN THE END! I am enjoying it. I love my life. I am not still drunk, I'm just really, really happy with how things are going, and it's been so much work over the past couple years to get myself this way. I enjoyed all of it, and I was pretty sure I was going in the right direction. Well, now I really feel like I am. I am TRULY enjoying the ride. And on that note, everybody go have a good weekend. March 15 - Beware the Ides of March, all. :) I LOVED Whistler. That could be my favorite mountain. I don't know, though.... there truly is nothing like Jackson Hole. Anyhow, I had a great trip out west last week. I met Nate's DAUGHTER! She is so cute. We all had dinner together in Seattle, Smitty and Sarah were there too. Seattle is very cool. Chris Stephens still rocks. I skied some craziness with Matt Fiesta, but we both came out unharmed. I can't wait to go back to Whistler when there's a lot of snow. Anyhow, last week was a great week for me. I also ended up going to FL to surprise my mom for her birthday. That was a lot of fun, and I was able to start to rectify the pasty tone my skin has taken on. Wish I could have spent more time, but I'll be back down there for Easter. And then right after that, I start a NEW JOB!! That whole thing I was alluding to over the winter was a job at Georgia Pacific - well, I GOT IT! I'm so excited. I can't believe it. I even managed to get exactly what I wanted as far as $$ and vacation! Thank you so much SLAMES JAMES for putting me in touch with them. Looks like I'll be in Atlanta a couple more years now. I'll be sad to leave Morton's, he's the best boss I've ever had, but I really like my future boss - she seems pretty awesome. The job is a total career switch for me - but they all know I have no finance background and are OK with this. It's a great group and a crazy good opportunity for me. And I suppose that's all the excitement in my life right now. Saw Bobby and Jill last night, that was fun. I'm glad they're back here in the states. |
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