Cali, Baby!

I just booked my flight to California to visit my brother at the end of July!!! Heading out on a Wednesday, coming back on a Monday, I'm ridiculously excited about it. It's the 6-Man Tournament that weekend, plus there's an international surfing competition at the beaches, too.  I'm mostly looking forward to having a full weekend out there (sun, sushi, Santa Monica... I'm just looking forward to all of it.)  It'll be good to see my brother, hopefully everything I'm working on will fall into place by then, however, I am instating Operation: Get Ready Go.

This consists of me picking the healthy option 95% of the time at the restaurant, drinking more water, eating small, healthy snacks and smaller meals, and getting my large backside to the gym on a consistent basis.  I was doing well for a while there, then everything kind of went to hell.  It's now Friday, I haven't been since Saturday of last week, and I'm not going to get a chance to go before Monday, and might not even on Monday depending on how late things run.  If all goes according to plan, I could safely lose up to 30 lbs by my flight out, something that would be an amazing accomplishment for me.  I'd like to make it a solid 20, but I'm going to aim high and work my ass off.  If I can lose those 30, then I 'll be back in my realm of "healthy" weight for my height, I'd like to lose another 10-15 after that just to get myself safely within that boundary.  I feel like I say this all the time, that I'm going to "really" do it this time, but for some reason this feels different.  I've got a lot going for me right now in my life, I'm on the brink of making a major life change if all things go accordingly.

Why not create a new me physically while I'm reinventing the me I want to be?

More news to follow!

Something Exciting :)

Oh I've got my fingers crossed a thousand times over that what is currently in the mix works out. If all goes well I'll be set for at least 2 years, moving to a new city, and completely free of any financial dependency from my parents.  I'm about to explode with excitement!!

I'm trying not to get too excited, there is the possibility that they won't take me, but they seem interested at the very least and would like to set up a phone interview.  To think... I might be on my way.  The only thing that worries me is that my boss will be upset with me for leaving.  I know how much she really wants me to stay, and I really do love the people I work with, it's just not my calling by a long shot.  I want to look forward to every day and be fulfilled by something.  I think that this might be my shot at it.

I am a most Happy Liz :)

April Fool's

I have to admit, this isn't one of my favorite holidays. Generally, I'm not too good at pranks, I just can't think of any that aren't completely lame or highly offensive.  I leave this holiday to the pros.  However, I am exceedingly glad that my office has chosen to participate (as did the weather today, thanks Mother Nature for throwing snow at us on the first of the "spring" months!).

Today:

My boss sent out an email to all of the territory managers and commercial salesmen saying that there had been a major transformer blowout and our location was out of power/phones and would not be able to process orders.  (She did include an "April Fools!!!!" at the bottom of the email, but it still got quite a few people.)

One of my coworkers, B, kept calling my cubicle-mate saying he wanted to order 19 rooftop units and giving bogus information.  Poor CM was so confused over the whole thing that when he turned to me to talk about this "mysterious caller" I lost it and cracked up.

Sam changed the screensavers and backgrounds on everyone's computer.  Mine said "I LIKE TURTLES" with a drawing of a turtle.

All in all it was a pretty uneventful but pretty humorous day.  And it's not even over yet.