New Year, New ME!!!

So here it is, December 31, the LAST day of 2007, and I am ashamed to admit that although the year has been chock-full of blog-worthy events, I have been sorely lacking in the posting department. Which is why my New Years’ resolution is to change that. Yes, faithful few (and I am everlastingly grateful I still have a faithful few), in 2008 you will be privy to a brand new dasi. Well, not really brand new, but one who writes more often. And that includes (wait for it) TBOTE. Actually, as a subheading of the whole "writing more often" resolution, I would really like to complete the whole darn thing, or at least come close to it. And believe it or not, this all actually ties in with my OTHER resolution, which is to attempt to lose enough weight to once again be desirable to the opposite sex, and not just by men into BBWs. Or psycho South Siders. (HA!) This is because at my new, highly important Federal job, I have a full ONE HOUR LUNCH. And I figure instead of going the fast food route every day, I will spend that hour reading and writing blogs. So expect posts, and if they aren’t there, feel free to blast me for slacking on my resolution.

As far as the new job, it is going swimmingly. There is a lot to learn, but it doesn’t seem as difficult as I originally thought it would be. I can’t tell you anything about it, because it is all Top Secret, and I could be eliminated if I do. JUST KIDDING!! Actually, I am in the Financial Litigation Unit (or FLU), and basically I deal with criminal debtors who owe the government or private entities money for restitution or fines for whatever they did illegally. Really interesting, and you learn a lot about the human psyche when you read about what some of these people tried to get away with. A lot different that what I did with Satan, who, by the way, I have never heard from again. Thank goodness!!

My time off between jobs would have been a good time to post, but I basically spent it doing lunch with friends, napping, and catching up on all my tivo’d shows. Oh, and I think I DID clean the house once or twice in those six weeks. Lexie was getting pretty pissy with me, actually telling me I was lazy, to which I retorted "Hey, you get w WHOLE SUMMER every year to lay around and do nothing. Deal with it." And honestly? I think I deserved my six weeks of total sloth. I have been working since I was 15, pretty consistently. Hell, I even worked during the TBOTE years. So if I wanted to do nothing for six whole weeks, I do believe I earned it. It was kind of nice, but had it lasted any longer I think I would’ve started to lose it. It’s good to be back in the workplace again. And I need those paychecks, too.

I’m only working Saturdays and Sundays at RL now, since I still need the supplemental income and I still like working there. I can’t believe I have been there over a year already. Time really does fly! I haven’t been going out much with the RL crew, but a bunch of them came out for my birthday in November, and we had a blast. I think I am still recuperating from it, actually. Dasi has a hard time running with the Big Dawgs now. I have plenty of pictures, I’ll try to post some later. I would’ve been ok, but I went against all that is Holy and broke my rule about not doing shots. Come on, I couldn’t be rude, right? One of the best things about the night was that no one believed I was 39, and I felt pretty damn good about that. Even if they were lying to me, I didn’t care. It was MY night and it was lots of fun. I was invited to Chris’ NYE bash tonight, he tends to have all the holiday parties, but I think I’m going to pass. Amateur night, you know? Plus there’s this 12-year-old issue I have at home (lol). Seriously, he lives too far away to take a cab home from at a reasonable price, I don’t like crashing at other peoples’ houses (I need my own bed, unless, well... YOU KNOW!!), and even if I didn’t drink, I’d have to worry about all the other idjuts on the road who did. With my luck, I would be stone cold sober driving home and get plowed by a drunken fool three blocks from my house. And that would really suck, you know? So Lex and I are going to do the dinner and movie thing. I am taking her to see Juno so she knows I am a cool mom and so she doesn’t end up like either of the Spears morons. Then we will come home and play Wii all night long. (Yes, I stood outside of Best Buy for FIVE FREAKIN HOURS and froze my ASS off to get my precious angel her GD Wii. But I have to admit, that thing is AWESOME!! Especially Guitar Heroes. If only I could beat Slash...) I hope whatever you all do, you stay safe.

Finally, I am way far behind on reading everyone else’s blogs, but I plan to work on that as well. I am in the process of trying, and might I say, Alice, I commend you for putting up a tree at all, Lexie and I didn’t bother with Ginger and the cats, and OMG YOU ARE SO RIGHT, Bare Escentuals is AMAZING!! Cheryl, of course Joseph was in the bathroom, it’s not like these guys ever leave permanently (mild tone of sarcasm there...!), and Amber I am so glad things are going well with you, Chris and the girls. Everyone else, I AM READING!!! I will be commenting more too, so watch for me!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

Merry (Day After) Christmas!!

And by the way, I'm not dead. Although some people may have informed you I am. Just on sabbatical - six weeks of leisure wasted with no posts, and now I am at the new job and need to actually do work... go figure.

Basically, I am just a lazy bum and have no excuses for not writing. But, as I indicated, I am NOT dead.

In case anyone still cares.