commieprincess

Best thing about going to church with the family: getting to hold babies. And/or make faces at them during slow parts of the service.

Second best: old songs.

Y HELO THAR, DREAM JOB!

Application ready to mail tomorrow. Resume ready to go, working on the cover letter. Trying to get over feeling selfish or guilty or something for applying to other jobs. But I'm not happy here in Beeville and this would be ideal (and a nice pay raise, too). I wish I'd found the posting earlier, but oh well. I'll have it ready to go tomorrow and cross my fingers. I need to be in a bigger town.

Okay, this is maybe hypocritical of me, because we joke about weddings all the time (especially after seeing Bridesmaids yesterday afternoon), but people asking constantly if we're engaged yet is really annoying. Like, we were at the tailgate and a Twitter friend of ours asked to see my hand first thing. And then asked for an invitation. (Zach said, "you're invited, but we don't know when" or something like that, which is nice, but god, people, give it a rest!) And that's not even counting the other friend who asked Alexi Lalas on Twitter if he would officiate our wedding.

It's dumb, but I feel sort of guilty every time something like that happens. I don't know why, because it's certainly not something I'm prompting people to do or anything. It's not even been a year, and things are so up in the air right now. We're not ready, no matter how much we joke about having laser shows at the wedding or me wearing a Big Fat Gypsy Wedding dress. I'm glad we can joke about those things, but neither of us need the pressure. Ugh, people.

(Also, yes, I saw Bridesmaids again. With Zach and excellent beer. And then last night we watched Who, Game of Thrones, and went out for Sonic at 10:00 pm. What a good day.)

Happy birthday to onlooker!

Also, some days I feel like I am actually good at my job. Today is one of those days. It helps that the judge actually told me I did a good job after court. And my boss told me I did a good job today. So, yay. Maybe I'm actually learning things here (I know I am, but some days it's hard to remember that).

So this has been a long week, but a good one, I think. Hopefully I've gotten the dosage of my meds all worked out, and I'm cutting back on caffeine - one mugful of coffee in the morning and then water the rest of the day, basically. The headaches are awful, but I do think it's helping with the anxiety (which tends to be worse in the morning for some reason). I'd like to say I'll cut caffeine out entirely, but not likely. I spent all afternoon visiting clients in two different jails, and I have big plans to take myself to Bridesmaids tomorrow afternoon and then go get my hair done. I'm sort of playing with growing it out, and I like the length now, but it needs a little shaping, I feel. And then next weekend I get to see the ginger again, for the first time since Vegas, so yay!

Also, everyone go find out what My Little Pony you are. I am Twilight Sparkle, and I have been hooked on this show for weeks now. Like, watching it on my iPod before flying to Vegas hooked.

Thanks for the prayers, thoughts, wishes, etc. everyone! I talked to Mom and Dad today, and either I misunderstood or Dad was confused when we talked yesterday, because the problem wasn't in her stomach, but in the pancreas. Basically, a side effect of the testing that Mom had on Thursday is that sometimes the pancreas gets inflamed and develops pancreatitis, and that's what happened here. She's still not getting to eat anything, but she's feeling better and hopefully going home soon (like Tuesday). It's scary, and I had a little breakdown last night on the phone to Zach, but that's what boyfriends are for.

Speaking of. I am really tired of Twitter asking when we're getting married. Like this, but that's just the most recent example. Like. Yes, we love each other, but it's not even been a year yet and we're long-distance, and we're just not ready yet. Zach's handling it well (and yes, I noticed that "yet"), but my god. It'll happen when it's supposed to, which is not now. Dudes need to chill.

So I have a Kindle, a $50 gift card for the Kindle Store, and a lot of time in airports and lounging poolside ahead of me. Recommend me books? I already know I'm getting Revolution, but beyond that I am paralyzed by choice. Help!

So. I just now figured out that I get an HD On Demand channel. I've been watching Game of Thrones previews for half an hour now. I wish I could justify the cost of HBO to myself, but that's why torrents exist. I should probably reread, but I don't think I have time, and I'm kind of enjoying seeing how long I can go without reading any male authors. So far, so good, at least in 2011.

Work is still going well. Apparently the grant application for expanding our office isn't due until sometime in April, and then I have no idea of when we would hear or not. Or if I'd even be allowed to transfer to San Antonio-ish, but hopefully that'll all work out. This whole long-distance thing basically sucks - like, I had a little crying fit Saturday afternoon (right before we went to the game, great timing!) about it. I mean, the time we get to have together is so good, but it's always temporary. We'll figure it out, I guess. Or break up.

So, last week was probably the busiest I've been since I started this job. Court all day Tuesday, all morning Thursday, and then a training in Austin Friday. At least the training gave me a chance to see Aaron and Dannielle - SXSW meant that hotel rooms were either unavailable or more than I wanted to pay (especially since I was still living off a credit card then), so I crashed at their apartment Thursday and Friday nights. I think I could live in Austin, but it's a little too hipster and self-conscious for me. Like, I admit I have hipster tendencies, but I'm not that bad.

Anyway, this week should not be as bad! And Duke got a (somewhat undeserved) #1 seed and the MLS season starts this week, so I am happy on the sports front, at least.

Other things (I should be in bed already, but I want to update, so, a list):

1. Aaron friend-requested Zach on Facebook. I find this a little odd, since they've not met or spoken. Oh well.

2. Zach and I split the cost of an MLS-games-only season ticket for the Dynamo. Since we both got press credentials, it looks like, we should have a spare ticket to offer at tailgates. And it gives us some kind of priority for tickets in the new stadium in 2012, so yay!

3. How am I not freaked out by planning things for 2012, but scared to death of the family-meeting thing?

4. Talked a little bit with my boss at lunch - now it looks like we'll not be shutting down, but applying for a different, 10-year grant, and using that to expand to a few other counties. Including a couple that are within commuting distance of San Antonio. Fingers crossed that happens, and I can transfer. I really like the work of this job, but just not where I'm living to do it.

5. Curse you, time change.

Awesome, awesome weekend. The scrimmage and meet-the-team thing was fun (though incredibly windy and therefore cold), Ticketmaster actually came through and we got the tickets, and before the show we met up with sweetbabylesley and Mark for dinner at Bombay Pizza Co, which I quite enjoyed (and Lesley, if you're reading this, hopefully you did too!).

The Old 97's themselves were very good, as always, but two opening acts? Yikes. The show started at 9 and they didn't get on until 10:45 or so, and the openers were not good enough, to me, to justify the time they took. So I drank double Jack and Cokes. Keeping it classy! But again, like I said, the band we were there to see was excellent. I'm kind of over the whole proposal during "Question" thing (especially since that's never been my favorite song), but they did "Wish the Worst" and "Bel Air" and a Rhett/Ranchero encore, so all is forgiven. Also, Murry has at some point become my favorite. I mean, Rhett Miller is still on my exception list and everything, but. Maybe I'm getting older.

And then this morning we went to brunch with Jordan and Christine and like six other Houston people, and seriously. I have got to figure out a way to move to that town, soon. I know why I'm not there yet, but I need to start getting things in motion to be in Not-Beeville by this time next year. The long-distance thing is a big part of that, but also, I have no non-work friends here (and I wouldn't really call any of my co-workers friends). I mean, even if things don't work out with Zach, I have friends in Houston and actually more of a life there than I do here. (Also, um. On the drive to brunch this morning, Zach said something about "when we're married ..." which he corrected to "if," but. o_O)