In My Head


Wednesday, January 31, 2007
I'm officially tagging MYSELF from LiveLee's meme. So without further ado, here are TEN THINGS ABOUT ME:

1. I am a reformed smoker. July 30, 2007 will be my sixth year of being nicotine-free. Quitting smoking was definitely the hardest thing I've ever done in my entire life. And I still get the odd urge every once in a great while. But I know that I don't have to give in to it.

2. I've kept a diary since I was in second grade. I have stacks of books at home that track my life from pretty much age 8. Sometimes I read back on my very first diary and laugh my ass off. I was a pretty precocious child.

3. Keeping on the writing theme: I've been working on something (not sure how I want to categorize it at the moment, so I'm not going to label it) for the past several months. I've written around 42,000 words so far. Fiction. We'll see where it goes. I haven't shown it to anyone yet, not even my husband. It's kind of like my baby. I'm not sure I want anyone to scrutinize it just yet.

4. Living in a hotel for the past two weeks for my new job hasn't been bad, but I'll tell you what has been really difficult: eating out at restaurants three meals a day, five days a week! I never thought I'd say it, but I'm about ready for a home-cooked meal.

5. I love to sing and I sing constantly. I'm not very good, but what I lack in talent, I like to think I make up for in enthusiasm. I especially like to sing in the car. At the top of my lungs. Currently I've been singing along with Alicia Keys' Unplugged on my iPod.

6. For most of my life, I've been pretty certain that I wasn't interested in having kids, but in the past several months I've started feeling like I'm ready. Not sure what's prompted this change, but I'm hoping that 2007 is the year for procreation. (Hear that, honey? Step it up!!)

7. My greatest fear in life is losing loved ones, especially my parents. I'm not really afraid of dying, but sometimes I think about my parents' inevitable deaths and I get very upset. So I try to enjoy every moment that I can with them because I know someday they won't be around.

8. My biggest goal in life is to be happy. In every possible way. I'd like to think that I've been pretty successful in that regard. Overall, I'm pretty damn cheerful and I think of myself as a positive realist.

9. One emotion that I just cannot understand is envy/jealousy. I have rarely felt either. I don't pay much attention to what other people have versus what I have. It's a very foreign concept to me. I guess I'm lucky that way. I tend to focus more on living a life that is meaningful to me, and the only person I'm really interested in competing against is myself. If that makes any sense.

10. The thing that makes me most angry is when people don't listen. That includes people who interrupt, people who try to conduct a conversation with someone else when you're on the phone with them, and people who don't make a sincere effort to understand where someone else is coming from.

I'm tagging anyone who wants to be tagged. Good night!

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Posted by Lori at 1/31/2007 10:49:00 PM |
Monday, January 29, 2007
Well, Week Two of my new job began today. So far, so good. The people in the home office couldn’t be nicer, and I’ve enjoyed the tasks I’ve accomplished so far.

Danville is a quaint little town about fifteen miles outside of Bloomsburg, PA, right on the Susquehanna River. The drive here is fantastic. I take Route 61, which cuts right through the Blue Mountain Ridge and passes through the Weiser State Forest. I even get to drive through Centralia, which is both super-cool and pretty damn creepy at the same time.

I bought a laptop last week before I left for my first day here, which helps to pass the evenings in my room after work. I’ve been catching up on my pleasure reading, too, which is nice.

The whole living-in-a-hotel thing during the week isn’t too awful, either. After all, the company is paying for three meals a day, my lodging, and my mileage to and from Danville every week. In fact, I rather enjoy coming back to my quiet, cozy hotel room at the end of the day: the bed is made, fresh towels are laid out in the bathroom, the rug has been vacuumed…a girl could get used to this kind of treatment.

I’m just sayin’.

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Posted by Lori at 1/29/2007 07:30:00 PM |
Friday, January 19, 2007
I am gainfully employed again! I'm excited and a little nervous, too.

I start the new job on Monday. It's much closer to my house, so my commute time will be almost halved. The hours are flexible and the office has a very casual dress code. It's also a much smaller firm than the one I worked at before, but that doesn't bother me at all. I'll be doing some extensive traveling for the first three weeks to central PA, where the home office is located. That means I'll be living in a motel during the week for approximately three weeks and coming home just on the weekends.

This staying at home thing just doesn't work for me. I've been practically climbing the walls. I thought that I'd enjoy the time off, but I really haven't. Other than doing a bit of housework and making a lot more home-cooked meals, I haven't been productive at all. To be perfectly honest, I've really been teetering on the edge of depression.

Yippeee! Thank you for all your well wishes and thoughts. I really, really appreciated them.

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Posted by Lori at 1/19/2007 04:10:00 PM |
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Just taking some time off, actually.

If you know me, then I'm sure you realize that the majority of the past two evenings for me was comprised of watching the debut of this season's American Idol.

But I did flip back and forth last night between AI and Armed and Famous on CBS. And I've decided, much to my surprise that I really quite like Jack Osbourne. He seems like he has his head on pretty damn straight, especially in his dealings with the junkies that he's assisted in arresting.

Go, Jack!

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Posted by Lori at 1/18/2007 02:21:00 PM |
Friday, January 05, 2007
I got a fortune cookie on 12/19 whose fortune read: Be prepared to modify your plans.

Boy, was that right...I lost my job today.

Happy new year.

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