As sad as this is to admit…I finally just got my cell phone internet access fixed. I’d never had it before, got a phone that was capable of web surfing but it never worked. After an hour on the phone with tech support I can finally *gasp* surf the web on my cell phone!

It’s scary that I’m supposed to be a part of the tech-savy generation…

Going into a new relationship can be complicated. I wish that when entering a new relationship it would be more like buying a brand new home that’s filled to the brim with new furniture – new everything. Instead new relationships are moving into a new house but taking all your old stuff with you. There’s no way to get around doing it…the good, the bad, the ugly vase your great aunt gave you all come along for the relocation.

Dragging along all your old emotional baggage, insecurities and issues tend to add a bit of strain to a new relationship. Things that happened to you in the past can easily dictate your response to what is happening in the present. Shit that had nothing to do with the new person you’re with can wrap it’s hands around the new life you work to build and begin to choke it out. Problems like this have to be kept in check and in perspective.

I honestly have difficulty with this very thing, but I’m working on it. I don’t want to be gun-shy, I don’t want to have pre-concieved notions about how people are. But I do. I just wish there was a bellhop somewhere in my head that I could check my old baggage into and just never come back and get it. I guess the key is learning to carry it without it weighing you down in the here and now.

Anyone who knows me in “real life” knows that I’m a huge stickler for organization. Nothing turns me on more than seeing a room, shelf or closet that’s tidy and symetric. One of my favorite things is when someone who is drowning in clutter asks me to come over and help them get organized. Weird? I know.

I feel more at peace in a place where I know I can find what I’m looking for and my eyes aren’t going bonkers trying to take in my surroundings. I know lots of people love “orgainzed chaos” and can function well in that kind of enviroment…but I can’t. This side of my personality is most apparent at my job. Among other things my position requires me to process large amounts of data and consolodate it into simple and easy to understand reports and graphs as well as accounts payable duties for the entire department.

I deal with A LOT of paper every day. It’s only apparent how much crap crosses my desk when I take a day off because I’ll come back and the inbox is overflowing (and scary)…I think this may be a tatic by my bosses to ensure I don’t take days off *chuckle* I have multiple stacking paper sorters on the desk that will hold all invoices from their reception into the office through the entire payment process (gotta love corporate red tape) to end point of filing away in a clean and organized file drawer that comes complete with a self created self-archiving system. Yep, I’m a nerd.

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As a huge Sex in the City fan I’ve always wanted to visit NYC. The shots of the city streets leave me in awe each time I turn on the tube. Over 8 million people all crammed into a 305 square mile city is something I can’t fathom here in my sprawled out desert home town. In the show Carrie and her girls are in so many great parts of the city and the one thing they all seem to do in every episode is share a meal and some gossip at some fab restaurant.

I’ve been researching this dream trip of mine for quite a few years now, everytime I find a new website of something I want to see I have a special folder in my bookmarks call ‘The Sex and the City Trip’ that holds all the links. Last night while messing around online I found something that totally fits right into my trip itinerary which I didn’t even know existed. Walking Food Tours NYC, you actually pay someone to take you out into the city and they show you the best food spots the Big Apple has to offer!

I fell in love with this idea because well, I like love to eat and they have a Greenwich Village Food Tour that includes a stop for cupcakes at Magnolia Bakery made famous from Sex and the City! Can you say AWESOME!?!

Vacationing vicariously though a t.v. show may be a little nerdy but when the day finally comes that I’ll step off the plane and step into Manhattan I know it’s gonna be one helluva trip! I just did a little evaluation of all of the links I have saved and if I tried to do everything that has caught my eye my vacation there would have to be for 3 months *chuckle* A girl can dream though can’t she?

So I just hit submit on a job application and I need all the good vibes and ju-ju y’all have heading this way! I’ve been working at a company for a hair over two years as a temporary employee and finally in this god forsaken economy a job opening of my caliber (ha ha) for the company I work for has finally appeared on the boards!

The position is in another department but if I could just get in I could care less where in the place I work because when the cards are on the table — it’s a great freakin’ place to work! Most people hate their jobs/companies/bosses/whatever but I’m that rare breed that loves what I do and who I work for. The place treats it’s employees like royalty and is damn good to it’s temp workers like me. I know at the end of the day no matter how stressed I am or frustrated with issues I still have a job that lots of people would kill for in this day and age so I thank God every. single. day.

If I don’t get it that really isn’t a huge deal, don’t get me wrong I’m hungry as hell for what’s being offered but I know that I’m great where I’m at too. But send on the good luck vibes dudes!

In other news, I finally got the letter from the Rodeo Parade Committee for our first meeting…and am STOKED! I volunteer as a grand-stand Marshall for our local Rodeo Parade and it’s a blast. I can hardly wait for the meeting…but they scheduled the damn thing on Valentine’s day…wft?

This weekend is going to be great, Saturday the new boyfriend and I have a BBQ to go to. And Sunday night we are going to see Heart in concert (the tickets were my xmas gift to the new boyfriend)!

C’mon everyone sing “You’d have me down on my knees Wouldn’t you, Barracuda?”

Ok….got that out of our system *chuckle* All in all things are going good…I have zero complaints about life right now in spite of the everyday problems Life is good!