Oops, I did it again

I know I promised to post at least one thing every day, but I've realized recently that apparently without motivation (like a paycheck or someone breathing down my neck), my personal projects tend to get easily shifted to the bottom of my priority list. This is not necessarily a bad thing considering it means I am able to put the most important things first. But it's sad in way that I apparently get bored easily and can't stick to a long term goal/project if it's only for my own enjoyment -- am I on the bottom of my own priority list??

Yikes.

But anyway, I take back my promise -- unless someone wants to be that someone breathing down my neck (which I doubt). I'll post when I have something to say.

So, what have I been up to since I last posted? If you really care, feel free to continue reading.

Well, I went to Florida for vacation and visited family, Universal Studios and Shamu. I went on a special Dolphin Spotlight Tour at SeaWorld Orlando and got to touch a dolphin, which was pretty awesome (they feel like a wet rubber suit).

Then exactly one week after returning to work from vacation, I learned that the company I worked for bought a competitor and decided to keep the competitor's management team and get rid of its own, thus closing our office and laying off about 50% of the company. So, I worked exactly eight days after returning from vacation before never having to return again.

In the meantime, my sister had turned me on to the Twilight saga, which enabled me to escape from my crappy reality. I read the entire saga (2,000+ pages total) in about a week. And then I read it again. And am currently finishing it up for the third time... Yes, I became slightly obsessed. Not just because I had nothing else to do or wanted to avoid thinking about the fact that I was unemployed for the first time in my life since high school, but because the main love interest in the series is the perfect man (despite being a vampire) and I enjoyed those moments of his fictional existence while I was reading. Pathetic, I know.

But, it hasn't been all bad. I'm actually enjoying the downtime while I can get it. My bills aren't too high -- unemployment insurance covers them mostly -- plus I received a small severance and already had a little bit of emergency money saved up, so I have some time before I have to start worrying about the financial repercussions. I have a good chance for a job I interviewed for, so if I get it I figure I can kind of think of this time as an extended paid vacation.

Now I'm just looking forward to Christmas and hopefully a much happier new year.