I Can't Believe It Myself....

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I can't believe that I've got Christmas spirit this year. I'm not anti-Christmas, I love Christmas, but it's still November, and *I* have put up some (but not all) Christmas decorations in my office already. It's unbelieveable. Hopefully pictures will come soon, we'll see. For now, I leave you with this. It's as true in 2007 as it was in 1984.









~Vet
"I am ready. The sky is not the limit."

No, I Am Not Sorry

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I hope that didn't come across bitchy, it was not my intention, but I am clearly not apologetic about not blogging. There are not enough hours in my day to blog anymore. On one hand it's very good that my life is busy and filling in so many ways I cannot even begin to describe, but on the other hand it kinda sucks that I'm too busy to share what is going on in my life with you. (Okay, like all 5 of you) I really want to, but a busy girl like me needs her sleep. I went dancing last night with my dance partner Manny, and we had so much fun. We closed the club down and I didn't get home until 2:30. I was awake, and very tempted to log on and tell you about my evening, but my better judgement took hold and told me to take a shower and go straight to bed. And that is exactly what I did. Hopefully I will write more tonight, since I currently have no plans this evening once I get home from work. Don't tell anyone but I am on my lunch break using the computer in the breakroom.

Life is good.

~Vet
"I am ready. The sky is not the limit."

Happy Thanksgiving

Blessings to you all!

(now it's party time with the familia!!!!)

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~Vet
"I am ready. The sky is not the limit."

Volunteer Project

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Okay, I'm supposed to write about this volunteer project we did this past saturday, but I wanted to go ahead and post the picture of afterwards

From left: Sara, Alyson, Shane (from the San Joaquin River Parkway and Conservation Trust), Jessica, Richard, me, and Jeri. (Thanks to Sara's friend for taking the picture)

~Vet
"I am ready. The sky is not the limit."

Weekend

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How was my weekend? It was jam-packed and fun-filled. Okay not quite exactly, but close. Friday evening I worked, no big surpise. It was fun as usual.

It's strange associating work with fun, but really, it is. Sometimes I stop and try to think back to during my interview and training, and wonder if they used any mind-control techniques on me. I'm reminded of a book I read, a sci-fi medical drama: During a med school application and testing process, this one medical school used subliminal messages on their applicants. If they responded positively, they were accepted, and subsiquently manipulated to have certain view points on world healthcare and research. These things included performing medical research on the homeless in the name of science.

Anyways, I did have a point in there somewhere. I'm not implying that I've been brainwashed, but I am more gung-ho about working at REI than I imagined. Well, there was that moment during my interview with Alyson and Joseph where I broke down crying and told them that if they didn't hire me I would die.... Well, I haven't agreed to drink any Flavor-Aid (to be historically accurate) so I think I'm doing ok.

I believe in the company's environmental practices, and I love that most of my fellow co-workers live these practices in their daily lives outside of REI. I love the outdoors, I guess I'm making up for spending my childhood indoors. I love the smell of being in the mountains- the trees, the grass. All the green, the open space, away from this city I live in. Beautiful majestic rocks, pleasantly reminding me of how tiny I am in God's universe. I love the vastness of the ocean, me sitting on the shore watching the waves come rolling in, the sound of the water smashing against the rocks. I love that I can't see to the other side. Just water to the horizon. It's just so much bigger than me. You would think that feeling so small would be a scary thing, but for me it's not. It's comforting knowing that there is something so huge out there, made in love.

And that's what I want to take care of, and protect.

~Vet
"I am ready. The sky is not the limit."