Meh

So I figured it was a bad sign when I broke down on my way to work because a specific song came on the radio. "Bad Day" by Daniel Powter. I really need to go buy the album. I can't depend on the radio to play it every day for me. :P But yeah... the day didn't start out that great. Work was pretty stressful. I did finish a lot, which helped, but then my schedule did a flip and I had to start on something that's due to the client on Friday... that's a tight schedule when it's a 15 hour job. The manager and partner have to review it as well. Oh well, all I can do is try to get it done in that 15 hours (or less).

I'm rambling. There's really not much to say except that I'm working long hours and I also started studying for the CPA exam. That will be my life from now until mid August. After tax day, I'll start working 8 hours a day and studying 4 hours after work. So much for shorter days. Fortunately the sun will be up long hours too... that'll help. Yeah, I'm not gonna get a summer or a break. But at least I'll get the exam done. One step at a time.

John promised he'd call about an hour and a half ago. I could really use a voice to listen/talk to, preferably his. Chatting with Brad online is good too though.

Enchiladas!

I finally tried that enchiladas recipe I've been wanting to try for quite some time now. It turned out alright. I won't say they were fantastic, but they're pretty good.

Other than that, the only productive things I've done today were cleaning my kitchen and starting a load of laundry. The rest of the day was spent dreaming. I was awake, so not sleeping, but definitely dreaming. Dreaming about going to Australia, dreaming about moving to Portland, dreaming about many random other things. But accomplishing very, very little. *sigh* Oh well. I wouldn't feel so bad about being lazy, except that I feel that that's about all I've been lately. Except at work. I guess maybe I'm just burning myself out at work so that by the time I get home I have little energy left for much else. That seems a poor excuse on a Sunday, but then Sunday's are lazy days anyways, right? Hm.

I did go dancing last night. It was a lot of fun. And Melissa was there! She and I traded numbers this time so we can call each other when we want to go to Soraya. That way we'll feel more comfortable going. Yay!

Lazy Night

So I was planning on going dancing this evening. I was definitely in the mood for it earlier. Too bad it didn't start til about nowish and now I'm too tired and lazy to go. :P Silly latinos. Latin dances tend to be late, very late, as a rule. But there's a West Coast Swing Alaska dance tomorrow night that I fully intend to go to. It starts much earlier, so I won't have worn out too badly by then. I hope. I am more likely to go to that one though, even if I am a bit more tired, since I know more people there already and it's not a bar, therefore a safer environment. I don't have to be 100% on guard 100% of the time, like I usually feel like I need to be at Club Soraya. Plus I don't know as many people at Soraya yet. Oh well. It is busy season at work too... which definitely isn't helping my energy levels. I worked about 12 hours today. :S That's a lot, even for me, even during tax season. Plus I need to go in for another 3-5 hours tomorrow. I don't mind working Saturdays too much, as long as I don't have other plans. Which I don't tomorrow, except for the dance in the evening. So I'll go in and catch up and maybe get a little ahead on my work so hopefully the next couple weeks won't get too terribly busy.

Anyways, so I'm spending the evening being lazy. I've been on my computer pretty much since I got home a little after 7, and I'm thinking it's time to stop wasting time on random internet browsing. I think now I might instead waste my time by watching a movie and crocheting. I think that's a decent way to celebrate the end of a long St. Patrick's day, hm? Now to pick a movie...

The Emperor's New Groove

That's my choice after careful deliberation. Actually, I looked a bunch of them over, had just about decided I wasn't in the mood for a movie, and then I spotted this one lying elsewhere. So movie it is!

Try these! Please?

Johari Window:
http://kevan.org/johari?name=Salmonamanwich

Nohari Window:
http://kevan.org/nohari?name=Salmonamanwich

Dreams

I've been having some rather interesting dreams lately... almost every morning I'll wake up from one. I don't remember much of any of them, and some I can't remember at all except that I know I was dreaming. One of the recent ones was that my beautiful new car wouldn't start! I woke up from that one slightly worried until I realized I had just been dreaming. Then this morning I was doing taxes in my dream. This seems to be a recurring theme lately. I'll often find myself doing taxes, solving long complicated tax problems, all in my head, or sometimes on paper in my dream. It's really a bit odd. I mean, I love my work, but I'd rather not dream about it! It's not the most relaxing of dreams. :P In fact I think it usually is some sort of race against time... such as, if I don't get this done, something bad is going to happen. Rather interesting really.

Well, I'm supposed to meet up with an old friend from Wrangell today for lunch, which should definitely be fun. It's fun to see old friends again and catch up on things.

Woohoo!!!

Gummy Bears

You may be smooshie and taste unnatural, but you're so darn cute.

What Kind of Candy Are You?

Well, I suppose I should actually write again instead of relying on meme's to prove I'm still alive. Let me see... this week consisted of work, work, work, dance, work, and a bit more work. Oh, and some working out. Haha. At work I finally got one of the huge tax returns I've been working on for the last month+ finished! That made me very happy. And the other big one that's related is expected to be finished early this next week. In the meantime, they've got me on another huge return. I love partnerships... their size can be absurd (350 partners sound like fun?), but they're fun to do, and it's even more fun to see them finished. Alright... enough about work though. You all probably think I'm speaking in another language there. *shrug* I know John does. Poor guy... he has to put up with me ranting on about my work and saying "uh huh" "cool" "sounds good" and the like. Ha, oh well. I haven't a clue when he starts in on his biology, or dif eq.

I finally checked out the dance lessons at Latitude 61 on Thursday after work. It was an intermediate west coast swing lesson and was a lot of fun, except for towards the end when a whole bunch of smoking poker players started filing in the place and making it very hard to breathe. I really don't understand why people smoke. It's disgusting, harmful to themselves, and its terrible for anyone around them too! The dancing was good though, and I knew a couple people there from previous dances.

I've been working out at Alaska Club lately, but I didn't do so well this week. I made it Monday morning at 5:30 a.m., but Wednesday didn't happen and Friday I overslept my alarm. :P I did go today though. It feels so good to workout, but it's hard to always make myself get up that early on weekdays though. I think I may try to go again tomorrow though, to make up for missing so much. I wish I had a friend to go with though. Linda goes earlier on weekday mornings than I do now, so I usually just catch her for a few minutes when I arrive before she's off.

Hm... I think it's time to make lunch. And switch over my laundry. Then I need to work on getting graduation announcements ready to mail.

Perfect Age :D

You Are 26 Years Old

Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe. 13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world. 20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences. 30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more! 40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.

What Age Do You Act?

How I Live My Life... according to a meme:

How You Life Your Life

You are honest and direct. You tell it like it is. You tend to avoid confrontation and stay away from sticky situations. Your friends tend to be a as quirky as you are - which is saying a lot! You tend to dream big, but you worry that your dreams aren't attainable.

How Do You Live Your Life?

Home again...

I had a fabulous time in Fairbanks. It was so good to see everyone again! That's definitely what I miss the most about that place. I don't miss the cold, but I do miss the people.

Anyways... a quick rundown of the weekend's adventures:

Friday evening I flew to Fbks with Jennie (also a UAF alumn who works at KPMG), and naturally the plane was late. But we made it there anyways... not too terribly late. The social went very well and it was great to see all my fellow accounting students, professors, and a few new faces as well.

After the social, 3 of us headed over to the contra dance. Patrick was there, and Jessi, and many others as well. I got a beautiful purple skirt from Jessi as a late Christmas gift. Brad apparently decided he was too tired to go dancing though, so he wasn't there. :(

After contra, Patrick, myself, and a few others headed over to Airport Way Family Restuarant for a late dinner, after which 4 of us went to Marlin to listen to the band and chit chat and such. Patrick got a nice little shock over the drink one of the other girls bought him... which was priceless to watch. :D After hanging out there until well past midnight, I drove Patrick home and we stayed up even later still and chatted about all kinds of fun things.

The next morning we got up far too early, had breakfast and headed out to meet up with Erica, Kyle, Crystal, her husband, and Matt to head out to Chena Hot Springs. That was definitely a lot of fun. I love going out there. Everything smells deliciously of rotten eggs (sulfur) and the hot water is so relaxing, and does wonders for my skin. :)

After soaking for awhile, we headed back to town and went to Hot Tamales for dinner. My hot latino friend was there, as usual, looking as good as ever, also as usual. ;) The food was excellent too... when I wasn't drooling in it. Hehe... thanks go to Patrick for trying to snap me out of my reverie. ;) (Haha, ok, I'm not really that obsessed.)

Next up was the first round of dancing for the night. Matt drove Erica and myself to the Silver Spur where we were the only dancers for awhile, but a few others gradually showed up over the 2.5 hrs we were there. Matt quickly reminded me why I enjoy dancing with him so much. It took all of one dance to do that. He really is an amazing dancer. Too bad he can't move to Anchorage too! Erica had a lot of fun too, I think. She's still learning to dance, but doing a pretty good job of it already!

At about 8:30, the three of us headed over to Alaskaland for the second round of dancing. There were a lot more people there that I hadn't seen since I left last December. The dancing was fabulous, and it was a Hawaiian themed dance, so the decorations were great, and they had fake tattoos of hawaiian-looking things for everyone too! I danced so much that by just over half way through, every step I took was pure pain... but I did my best to ignore it because I didn't want to stop! I figured my feet would recover after a day or two, and it was true... they don't hurt now!

After the dance, Patrick and I headed back to his place and I literally crashed as soon as we got there. I was so tired! The next morning Patrick made an excellent breakfast and then we watched Firefly for awhile. It's actually a pretty good show, especially considering it's sci-fi, which I generally don't like at all. I'm almost tempted to go buy the season myself... but there are a lot of other things I'd rather buy and watch. If I'm ever back at Patrick's place again though, we might have to watch a few more episodes. ;)

Anyways, then I had to leave, so we headed to the airport, where I had the fastest, most stress-free flight I've ever been on. It was lovely!

Well, that's my weekend. Now it's getting to be about bedtime. Not to mention my sweetheart promised to call in 15 minutes, and that was 45 minutes ago... so maybe I'll call him back and then crawl in bed. Gotta get up early tomorrow and put in another 10+ hours of doing taxes. :D I'm silly, but I love it!

Fbks!

I'm going to Fbks on Friday! And I'm staying until Sunday afternoon. So Fbks dancers, here I come!

Of course the main reason I'm coming up is to go to the GAAP Alumni Social, which will also be a lot of fun. It'll be good to see my fellow classmates again, and professors as well.

But naturally I'm pretty excited about getting a chance to go dancing in Fbks too. ;) I really do miss all you guys!

Now I really need to go clean my kitchen, then I might attempt to make homemade enchiladas. That should be entertaining enough for the evening I suppose. :)