Today I'm the only one in the office. There's a guy coming to clean the hood over the grill and such in the kitchen today. I have to wait for him to arrive. He should be here any time.

I was going to go swimming over my lunch break, but Chuck caught me as I was trying to leave... So I missed the time that the pool was open for lap swimming. Well I would have been able to swim for about 20 minutes, but I'm not interested in driving all the way to Marysville to swim for 20 minutes. I could just go for a run. So now, that's my plan for working out today. Going for a run. To be completely honest, I'll be surprised if I go, but I'm going to try.

I need to figure out a way to be more motivated to work out. I'm not trying to lose weight, just get in shape and hopefully have a little more energy. It would also be nice to have those awesome abs I used to have back. Maybe I should find an aerobics class or something. Something that I have to do... I hate feeling like a bum, but I'm so not motivated. Any ideas?

So instead of swimming, since I'd already gotten in my car, I went shopping. I got some great shoes and a couple pairs of earrings that I like, but seriously. It's like "oh, I know! instead of working out I'll go spend money". BAH. fml.

Happiness is a Warm Sleeping Bag

So. I'm working today. Today we're going all over camp turning things off and making sure that we are using as little money as possible when there aren't people in camp. It will be good to know what is on and what is off around here so that I don't wonder, or make mistakes, when a group comes in.

I'm trying to organize a climbing specialty camp for next summer. I need to think of what to call it, because we are sending out an email with all our dates and specialties for next summer, and that's one of them! I also am starting a leadership training camp for teens, and need to figure out what to call that. argh. I don't know why I can't think of anything.

I also need to figure out when/what/where I'm going to take my vacation for this year. Carol wants us to take two weeks! That, on top of the week paid holiday we get between Christmas and New Years, means that I'm probably not going to work much of December. So yeah, need to figure that out. It's coming up.

I got up a half an hour earlier today so that I would get to work a little early to be prepared for Carol to get here. Instead I hit snooze more times, and took a longer shower, and made breakfast and sat and read while I ate. I got to work a few minutes later than usual, but was still the first person to the office, so it was fine. And Carol isn't coming til 11, so no sweat. Whatevs.

Gotta go brainstorm names...

The New Blog

So, I recently read Robin's Blog... and hers is awesome! I'm going to try to be more like her, and update regularly. Maybe, I can actually keep an account of my life, since I live so far from most of my friends and family.

Right now, I'm sitting in my *new* living room, looking out at a SUNNY day in NW Washington. Pretty impressive, I know. I love my new place, it has so much more room than my old place. I still don't really feel like I've made it mine... Right now I still have all the old living room furniture that was here when I moved in, and I'd really like to get a new couch. This one is all stained and stuff... not exactly that great! I still need to move a few things from my old apartment, but I've been waiting for Nick to be available to help me, since it's big stuff like the futon and kitchen table, etc. He's been really busy hunting and working, so when he gets home at night he's tired and usually falls asleep on the couch.

this is the view from my living room window!

and this is my living room

My fireplace is one of my favorite things!

Juneau loves her new place, but escapes regularly. My backyard fence needs some work. There are places that she can easily get out of, but she just loves having a yard to play in, and hasn't had any accidents in the house since she realized that she had a yard, which only took a day or two. It's so nice not to have to come home and clean up poop.The backyard...

Juneau... in the front yard. She escaped this morning.

I was going to go swimming today. But, I'd have to be there in 15 minutes, and Juneau is out gallivanting around camp and there's no way I'll be able to catch her and make it to the pool in time to swim for the 45 min lap swim allotment. Also, I got rather involved in the whole blog thing.

Work is going pretty well... despite the whole economy thing. Boeing decided to move one of it's product lines to North Carolina, so a lot of people in Everett are going to get laid off. That means that potentially we have quite a few kids whose parents suddenly don't have jobs. Which means they probably won't be able to come to camp. Which sucks.

Also the H1N1 thing has become a problem here. Not because we've caught it, or had anyone at camp who had it... but because schools aren't letting their kids take overnight field trips in the month of November. We've had one group cancel and are potentially losing another one. My only two big groups for the rest of the year. Needless to say, my boss has been rather stressed about the whole budget thing, and so we're trying to save money however we can.

Today is my day off. Hooray! Need to go to Target. Should probably do that soon...

I guess I'm done rambling for the day...

Spring is Coming

So, spring is on the way i think.

I spent the weekend doing several things, most of which were work related.

We had our Challenge course inspections at camp, which was really interesting to me, because I learned a lot about what we have at camp, and what I need to keep an eye out for with regards to wear and damage and time. We also had a climbing wall training, which was awesome because we were able to train some summer staff members to be primaries on the wall, as well as get the outdoor ed staff to be primaries. This will save us a lot of time.

I also was in charge of Outdoor Training this weekend, which was when Camp Fire Club Leaders come to camp to learn how to take their groups on camping trips. It was a lot of things to be in charge of in one weekend. Luckily, this all ended on Saturday, and then I had Sunday off.

I slept most of the day, which was pretty awesome. But I was still tired, and still AM tired. I feel like I need to sleep for about a week.

What I Would Do With $4000

so I'm trying to decide how to spend/save $4000.

Some of my ideas include:
-go to the dentist
-go to the eye doctor
-spay my puppy
-go to England
-go to Australia
-go to Denver
-put it in savings
-get a new camera
-go to Florida


Clearly some of these things are what I want to do and some are what I need to do. Obviously I can't do all of them and apparently I have a desire to go places. But those places I want to go are merely because of people that are there. I want to travel. Right now, I want to get out of the woods. Don't get me wrong, the woods are great. It's just dark. A lot of shade. And lonely. At least I have Juneau. She loves me forever :)

My life

Soap Dispensers

They're okay. In public restrooms. The ones that have the soap that dries out your hands until they crack shouldn't be allowed anywhere, but I guess that's just something that people have to deal with in public restrooms.

However, in my personal bathroom in my own home, I want nothing to do with such things. Since my apartment used to be used for rental purposes, my bathroom used to have one of those huge toilet paper dispensers, and also still has one of those awful soap dispensers. Or I should say had... because I ripped it off tonight. Unfortunately, I ripped off a lot of paint too... and a layer of the drywall. whoops. So I am working on filling it with the filler stuff that you use for things like cracks and holes when you are painting. Unfortunately, that means that I need to repaint the bathroom. The ONE place that I wasn't planning on repainting in my whole apartment. Shoot.