Month: January 2003

This is just an exmple of how distracted I’ve been lately, that I haven’t blogged about this yet. I’m an aunt again – twice over! – as of last Monday (no, not the 27th, the 20th!) I have a new niece and a new nephew. Yes, you read that right. More twins, siblings of my twin nieces. I feel a little sorry for my nephew, as he has three sisters. He just barely escaped being the youngest by three minutes. :) I’ll finally get to go meet them next weekend.

Seeing as these babies are much bigger than the older twins, I don’t know if they’ll fit into the gowns I made by the time their Christening comes along…I just might have another craft project to do!

I have worked at this company since I finished college. It’s strange to think that in a few weeks I’ll be handing in my badge. I’m sitting here staring at the massive number of toys, posters, books, plants and just plain stuff I have here, and feeling overwhelmed at the idea of packing it all up and going home.

I think I managed to write one line of code – not even code, just html – so far today. Pathetic. Yesterday’s positive outlook seems very far away today.

Well, it’s official, I’ve been laid off. Not entirely unexpected, but still a little bit of an emotional hit. I actually had to wait until 3:00 to find out, and got to find out almost everyone else’s fate before mine…that was the hardest part.

I’ve got very mixed feelings about this. I actually think that in the long run this is going to be better for my career. On the other hand, I’ve been working with this group of people for three years (almost to the day), and I consider many of them to be good friends. I’m really going to miss the people and the environment – not to mention the E.A.T. team! Of course, several of them have been affected, too.

I think that this sort of thing can be handled two different ways. I can either think that it’s a horrible thing and take it personally, or I can view this as a positive opportunity to try something new. I’m going to choose the latter. After all, I’m not in any danger of losing my house or starving, and I’m not going to have to sell Molly into slavery. But it’s still going to be a bit of an emotional roller coaster over these next couple of months.

As much as I like Blogger, my pro subscription will be running out in a couple of weeks…so I started to look at Movable Type. I’m going to play with this for the next couple of weeks to see if I like it better – who knows, I may switch back. Bear with me while I figure it out! The one drawback so far is that I haven’t been able to export my comments, but I’m still looking into that. Oh, and I thought I understood style sheets, but I’m having some issues with them, so if this looks really weird, let me know!

The show went really well this past weekend. We still have three more shows next weekend, but I’m done with rehearsals, so I can get back to actually being at home occasionally. Of course, over the past week, housekeeping has slipped a little bit, and I have a truly gigantic clothes monster in my bedroom. I think I could roll out of bed and never notice, there are so many sweaters and sweatshirts piled next to the bed! Being the odd person I am, I have a little song about clothes monsters, sung to the tune of “If you’re happy and you know it…”:

There’s a monster in the bedroom made of clothes,
There’s a monster in the bedroom made of clothes,
There’s a monster in the bedroom, how it got there no one knows,
There’s a monster in the bedroom made of clothes!
OK, so now you know just how strange I really am! (Sorry, this is just a desperate attempt to not think about the fact that they’re finally notifying us all about the layoffs tomorrow.)

Just in case you didn’t believe me about the nun outfit, here’s proof! I am in the middle of hell week for Sound of Music. The rehearsal schedule allows me to be home between the hours of midnight and 7 AM. Then I have to go to work…and straight back to rehearsal after work. Everything I’ve eaten so far this week has either come from a vending machine, the cafeteria at work, or a fast food restaurant. It’s a wonder I still fit into my nun costume…and that I haven’t collapsed from lack of sleep. (And it’s only Wednesday…)

Let’s see. No yarn samples yet (maybe today?), no completed sock, no progress of any sort. Too many rehearsals, not enough sleep. And it’s only going to get much, much worse. But I got my nun costume last night. It’s quite authentic looking. Some of the other cast members were getting a little nervous about all of the nuns walking around last night – seems they were afraid rulers might come out from nowhere and whack the backs of their hands. Hmm…I wonder if I can find one of those old wooden rulers with a metal edge before next rehearsal… :) My only problem is that it’s going to be hot, hot, hot in that costume under stage lights. Tonight there’s no rehearsal, so my plan is to do laundry, cook an actual meal, finish the first sock and maybe cast on the second, and knit up a swatch of the yarn samples that will hopefully arrive today in the mail. And go to bed early!