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drew at 07:41pm on 03/01/2008 under and i'm the only one, so you'd better treat him right, the home front
drew at 07:41pm on 03/01/2008 under and i'm the only one, so you'd better treat him right, the home frontSO. I have returned. What have you all been up to in the last, uh, six months? I'm kind of overwhelmed by the insane amount of posts that I will have obviously missed. I'm going to try to start with today and go forward; fill me in on anything I missed in the past?
I am currently battling some kind of weird sore throat / queasy stomach thing where neither problem is particularly pronounced, so I tend to forget about them until one of them flares up, and then they both start getting out of hand. Plan for tonight: chicken broth and crackers.
Going home for Christmas was nice; my uncle even came for most of the holiday, which was surprising given that his partner's family is in SoCal and with my grandmother no longer with us, he had no really strong tie to stay with us. But it was nice that he came; he and my mom still have a lot of Memée's stuff to go through. Books, mostly, and lots of correspondence. The woman was a letter-writing *fiend*. It was kind of weird that I didn't miss her as much as I thought I would -- side-effect of being on the opposite coast most of the time, I guess. I mean, it was still a little strange to sit where she usually sat at Christmas dinner, and to have only six of us at the table, instead of seven. But... I dunno. I guess being with the little bit of family I have somehow never managed to make me think about the bits of family that weren't there.
Working for an online retailer can suck during the holidays, but it was nice to have the discount: the brothers both got products my company makes, which they were happy about, and it ended up that I only had to work a little over the holiday, so I was happy too. My team came out well ahead of our plan for the quarter, so that means very good things for those of my colleagues who are paid for performance. The next month or so is also going to be rough, as we head into some announcements and then the run-up to Valentine's Day (another big promotion for us). The second half of February should be nice and slow.
I have a couple of auditions in the future, but that's the future; who cares about it right now? ;)
I am currently battling some kind of weird sore throat / queasy stomach thing where neither problem is particularly pronounced, so I tend to forget about them until one of them flares up, and then they both start getting out of hand. Plan for tonight: chicken broth and crackers.
Going home for Christmas was nice; my uncle even came for most of the holiday, which was surprising given that his partner's family is in SoCal and with my grandmother no longer with us, he had no really strong tie to stay with us. But it was nice that he came; he and my mom still have a lot of Memée's stuff to go through. Books, mostly, and lots of correspondence. The woman was a letter-writing *fiend*. It was kind of weird that I didn't miss her as much as I thought I would -- side-effect of being on the opposite coast most of the time, I guess. I mean, it was still a little strange to sit where she usually sat at Christmas dinner, and to have only six of us at the table, instead of seven. But... I dunno. I guess being with the little bit of family I have somehow never managed to make me think about the bits of family that weren't there.
Working for an online retailer can suck during the holidays, but it was nice to have the discount: the brothers both got products my company makes, which they were happy about, and it ended up that I only had to work a little over the holiday, so I was happy too. My team came out well ahead of our plan for the quarter, so that means very good things for those of my colleagues who are paid for performance. The next month or so is also going to be rough, as we head into some announcements and then the run-up to Valentine's Day (another big promotion for us). The second half of February should be nice and slow.
I have a couple of auditions in the future, but that's the future; who cares about it right now? ;)
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