Keep on keeping on

I've got nothing new to share, even though it's been nearly a month since I last posted.

Kaylee's grown bigger and often runs to the top of the cage when I call her name but nothing really new or exciting with her.

Work is... tolerable. I'm generally busier now so even though work is no longer fun, it at least generally goes by quickly enough to not be excruciating.

I guess one thing that happened was driving up to St. Cloud on Feb. 13 to meet Tom's family at his stepmom's birthday party. That was interesting. His sisters and everyone seemed pretty nice, although I didn't spend too much time conversing with them (other than his older sister, her husband and son). The night was really long though - we had to watch a chef make our food before they brought it out to us - the dinner lasted about 3 hours. Afterwards we then immediately drove down to just outside Madison, WI to spend the rest of the 3 day weekend (hooray for President's day) at Tom's friend Julie's house. What was supposed to be exciting and fun turned into starving and extremely boring. We did nothing there but sit around and watch movies or sleep for a day and a half. And the entire time we were there we had 1 meal. It was horrible. The best part was eating at the first-ever Culver's on the way home.

Besides that, I can't even think of anything else that's happened. I guess we went down to Rochester for the superbowl. That was also kind of boring but I guess I had fun because it was my family.

Figured out my taxes as well, so should get some money for that one of these days. Been wondering what to do with it when it comes. I should probably just dump it into savings but there are a couple of things I really want. The first is a car. Mostly for convenience because really it is freaking cold here in the winter and because of that I never want to go anywhere via public transportation. Waiting outside in the cold is no fun, so unless Tom's willing to drive me somewhere (which he usually is, he's so nice) I just don't go anywhere. A car would change that. It would let me get crap done, go home to Rochester whenever I wanted, go on roadtrips, whatever! Granted I probably wouldn't do any of that but the possibilities seem endless from this end of the timeline. Of course then I have to consider how much I'm willing to pay for a car (it would definitely be used), not to mention if I can even afford it what with insurance etc. The other thing I desperately want to do is go on a vacation somewhere. Preferably somewhere warm, with a beach, but right now I'm open to suggestions. I really just want to get out of Minnesota (and by that I don't mean to Wisconsin) and relax for a week. My considerations have gone everywhere from a week in Florida with my grandparents to a week down in Texas surprising old friends to 10 days in Europe tracking down ex-best friends. That and of course flying back down to Oz (probably never to return). So what should I do? The responsible thing would be to save it or buy a car with it (practicality) but I'm really sick of always taking the responsible actions in life. That's what brought me back from Oz in the first place, my stupid sense of responsibility (or reality, whatever you want to call it). But I'm open to suggestions.

There was something else I wanted to share here...

Ah yes. I had a breakthrough the other night about what I think I really want to do with my life. More and more I've been leaning toward scientific illustration, because the more I think about it the more it sounds like something I'd actually love to do. The problem is I'm not sure if it's because I actually would love doing art for a living or that it just sounds uber cool. Since I've had this revelation I have been telling myself to just start drawing, maybe work on a portfolio for applying to schools, but haven't actually been motivated enough to start yet. Not sure what that means. Maybe I just grabbed onto this idea because it sounds cool and would get me away from my current job situation or maybe it would actually be a good fit for me, I'm just not sure. And maybe me not being sure is telling me that it's just a fantasy on my part that doesn't really fit for me. UGH! I hate my indecisiveness. And I am very surprised that "indecisiveness" is a real word.

Tom's in AZ this weekend, running some sort of relay marathon type thing (200 miles divided between 12 people) and so I've spent the weekend finally watching Castle, the series that Nathan Fillion is in these days (Mal from Firefly). It's really fun and entertaining to watch, but I had weird mystery-related dreams last night so I should probably stop watching. Kind of too late now, oh well.

Tomorrow I'm going to go see The Princess and the Frog with Hannah at the Riverview. I feel so bad, apparently her car broke down. So now, since I'm borrowing Tom's car while he's away, I finally get to sort-of repay her for all the times she's driven me by picking her up for the movie.

That's pretty much it, I hope you all have enjoyed this brief glimpse into my thoughts.