One of my greatest assets is my obsessions. I pick a topic that's highly relevant to my life at the moment and learn as much as I can about it through blogs, wikipedia, experience, etc. The beauty of it is that the obsession slowly trickles down into everyday life, so I go about my daily life with that newfound knowledge safely snuggled deep in my mind. It's learning about the world one step at a time, and so far the formula works. So far I've been obsessed with weight loss, literature, movies, makeup and video games. My obsession with video games will slowly subside when I finish reading the Penny Arcade archives and stop wikipediaing most of the games that they've mentioned in their posts. And that obsession is being taken over with...cooking and decorating. I never thought that I would love cooking, but it's a natural progression from my constant weight loss worries. Because you need to eat good, natural foods to lose weight. I have this fat little book called "healthy eating" or something and in the beginning it has a brief rundown of all kinds of different foods, their origins and how they're prepapred. If I read a page a day, I'm golden. I can't wait to cook up a lot for my mom's next shindig. And as for decorating...don't get me started. Becuase my parents just got a new house, my mom has had a lot of modern decor magazines lying around (especially LivingEtc from the UK). Umm...yeah, I now get really excited at the thought of yellow rubber banana bowls and small turqouise-colored vases. What's next? I think art, but it also I've had a craving for good historical non-fiction.

...why, what do you guys do at work?

Busy little progress train

Today from 8:30am-noon I read Penny Arcade archives while actively avoiding any kind of work. Then took a break from Penny Arcade to lunch and play some Final Fantasy III on the DS.

Then I had to do 5 minutes of work which involved filling in fields in a .pdf document -easy peasy, doesn't involve opening up a word document which takes an extra three milliseconds during which the comp makes that little loading squeek of strain that I hate.

Then I called Geico to reschedule my appointment tomorrow. The 10 minute conversation I was anticipating took two minutes.

Then I made a ghetto keychain for a PO Box key out of a rubberband, tape and post-its.

Then I took down some work to my boss that I did yesterday but was too lazy to talk about it yesterday. She wasn't in her office so I wrote her a note.

Now I feel accomplished and feel like I *deserve* to dick around on the internet for the rest of the day.

I have to call Delaware to check up on the status of a filing but that involves opening up a webpage and typing stuff in, and then clicking the apporpriate links to get to a phone number at which point I have to press numerous buttons on a phone and talk to a machine for a while. So really, who needs that kind of strain when I can just browse through all my blogs with just one click of a button. Yup.

Intro

So blogging has always been something I've loved to do. I've been on livejournal for god knows how long (since 2001), but in recent years it just didn't feel right anymore. It just reminded me of all the crap I went through in college - not cool. But I've had this itch to blog ever since. Just little rants and raves from my everyday life that seemed way to random to blurt out in a conversation but totally fine to write down in an entry. I love reading good blogs, and I spend enough time in my car, behind the computer and around human beings to have an ongoing commentary in my mind about the life that revolves around me. So this is the byproduct of a slow work morning + a 2-year itch to start up blogging again + coffee.

Enjoy.