The government audit I was on finished up about three weeks ago. It feels like a lifetime ago. I have been sitting around in the office or at home, doing nothing really, but getting paid for it. And I love that. I have four weeks of bliss in exchange for three or four months of hell. Not a bad deal, I suppose. I start at a new client in January and I'm kind of nervous about it. The client has a bad reputation for not caring about anything, and there are a couple of team members I'm not too excited about. Plus, I don't really know anyone on my team and can say I've probably never even heard the names of most of them. But it's always hard starting something new. Hopefully in a few months I'll be able to call some of these people my friends, or if nothing else, my "work friends".
I'm going home next week. I think we are leaving Monday after work. It changes depending on my sister's mood. I'm looking forward to hanging out with my family for a week and just not working or thinking.
In keeping with holiday tradition, I have once again baked more cookies than I know what to do with. I come home from work at a reasonable time these days, and since I have nothing else to do, I just decide to bake another batch of cookies. They're spilling out of my freezer to the point where I have to start getting rid of my frozen vegetables/other freezer items that have piled up over the years. It's like I imagine giving trays of cookies to all of my friends...but when the time comes, OOPS I don't have any friends. So once again Andy will probably have to eat most of the cookies.
I got new glasses. I've been having headaches more than usual, and decided that I'd rather have my eyes checked than get the teeth grinding issue resolved. Hopefully with the new glasses I'll only get headaches half as much. But we shall see.
I've been thinking about going back to school for my MBA. It's a tough decision, though. It's so expensive, and I don't know how much money it will make me in the long run. I think it would probably be more profitable for me to just take on another client or something here and work my way up the ladder. But I think personally I would find more satisfaction in going back to school. First I'll have to decide where I want to go to school (my top choice is $100k--hoooooly) and then I have to take the GMAT. Which means studying for the GMAT then filling out those dreaded college applications. It will take a lot of effort on my part, and I just don't know whether I'm up to it right now.
I'm going to make a new year's resolution this year. My resolution is that I will try harder to keep a clean apartment. This year I wanted to focus on keeping a clean kitchen, which I have been doing pretty well lately. I have consistently done the dishes before going to bed, and have wiped down the counters after almost every meal/cookie/whatever preparation. It's time that I grow up and start cleaning up the whole apartment, though. If it doesn't happen soon, my children will be living in piles of dirty laundry and dust bunnies, and I don't want that.
