Beginning physical memory dump....(Part One)

Wow...it's been a week since I last posted. Let's see if I can remember what all has happened since then.

Wednesday night went school supply shopping with Vickie. I have to say Bigg's was the place to go. We got everything she needed for less than fifteen bucks. Then I dropped her off at the mall & went to visit Karen. She had looked thru my online pictures & discovered there are some people we both know. It's a small world after all....

Now that I have that song firmly planted in your brain to play endlessly today.....(Doncha just love me?!?!) Thursday night wanted to go to a drum circle in Batavia but decided to stay home. Meant to get laundry done but instead ended up playing on the computer. Some days this thing can be so addicting!!!

Friday had an update meeting w/my boss. What a joke. She said her goal is to have me as a Senior Analyst by my next yearly review in March. She told me the areas she feels I need to work on for that - communication skills (specifically, diplomacy) and taking control of issues that would fall in my area of responsibility. I told her I hadn't done that before b/c I didn't know how much authority I have & I didn't want to step on any toes. Her response was, "It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission." (I've been hearing that an awful lot lately). She also asked me to be on a committee to work on addressing issues in the office that make employees unhappy, such as the trust factor. LOLOLOL. I did tell her that personally I lacked trust because I honestly didn't think I would ever attain the Sr. Analyst position. She asked how I could think that after she had just laid out a career path for me. I brought up (again) the concept of "why should we pay her more when she's already doing the work for less??" Are ya getting the impression here that I don't care anymore? 'Cuz I don't. But enough of that depressing episode.

Friday was also my standing lunch date with my lady friends. That's always a really good time. Karen was there, and she told us about how she'd met this one fella thru an online dating site and now went riding motorcycles with him. BUT even though he was still looking for someone she didn't want to get involved with him. She wanted a riding buddy more than a boyfriend. Um, helloooooo? He's still looking for someone? What am I - chopped liver?? :-)) So when I got online that night & started chatting with her (troublemaker that she is), she said, "he wants to talk to you!" OY. We got into a 3-way...chat that is ‹grin› I saw his picture - damn, he's hot!!! Upshot of all this is - we may be getting together soon. ‹doing the happy dance› I'm really looking forward to it.

Saturday was our Baronial Championships out at East Fork. Someone please tell me why I keep going to these things??? It was me, Karen, Jake, Trevor and Megan. We set up near the Baronial Pavilion. Still...only two people came over to visit with us. At one point Karen & I walked around visiting, but after the "hi, how are ya?" 's there was that ever-present awkward silence and we weren't invited to stay & visit. I really, REALLY, gotta remember these Baronial events depress the hell outta me. Just gonna have to start saving my pennies for events down south with the Legion.

Gonna end this one here to get it posted. Will post more later. :-)