Celebrating the new year... three days late...
It is going to be difficult to refer to 2003 as 'last year' now. I guess I will have to get use to it (again - since this happens every year and I guess every year, every man and his dog mentions it will be difficult to refer to last year as last year).
I went ice skating for the very first time and I loved it. Admittedly I would of enjoyed it more if the skates where not one size two big (they didn't have size 11, only size 12 - actually I am a size 10, but they don't have half sizes and once you compensate for my wide feet and the thin skates, I am a 11). Plus I didn't have my kene braces, so I was properly a little to overly-cautious. Saying that I hope to do it again soon!
Well the fireworks on New Years Eve where pretty pathetic, so I guess at least in Utah, the only two big firework days are Independence Day on the 4th of July and Pioneer Day on the 24th of July. New Years Eve mustn't be anything special.
Then again I was up at Jill's house in the Upper Avenues overlooking the valley. It was fun to watch the fireworks go off, even if they where bad and the few crackers to go off in and around the neighbourhood (even though it is completely illegal to do it on the hillside in case of fires). But what was the cool thing was that Jill's house being high up on the hill overlooks the valley, right down to the mountains at the very end at 12000 South in Draper. And thus I could see lots of fireworks go off all over the Valley, I saw some go off in Sugarhouse, Murray, South Salt Lake and some places over on the westside. Heck I even saw little blobs of light on the edge of vision which must of been right down at the very end of the Valley around Sandy and Draper.
I think I offended Jill though since I refused to crash on her couch even though it would of been more logical for me to do so then go home. But ever since I met her son David and he... well didn't like me... I find it hard to just crash. The thing is Jill is just a good friend who I met through work. Yeah she is 53 with a kid (David) my age, but she acts like she is in her 20s. She is the coolest. Plus I sort of still owe her from when she took care of me during the summer when I had that dreadful case of food poisoning at the Jazz Festival (oh the bad memories of that night... first of all, even without the food poisoning which hit me during the Evening Jazz Concert, the fact was the music was BAD, not real jazz at all, but that world music crap).
I brought myself a new organiser which I have to say is seriously adult and mature. I love it. I needed a new one since my old one (not that I ever used it - it still had 1996/1997 inserts in it - I don't know what my Aunt and Uncle thought when they gave it to me when I was 16) was useless. As nice as the old orgainser was, its ring binder and holes where totally a different spacing that no inserts catered for.
The Organiser is brown leather (don't ask me why, but I totally dug the Brown - maybe I was a UPS driver in a past life) and totally cool in every way. I am still a little miffed that I had to fork over so much money for stupid insert refills (none of the orgainisers came with the day-a-page inserts, only week-a-page at best. To pay $20-$30 a refill is highway robbery!!!
I know I should really invest in a palm pilot and leave the Organiser to go the way of the dinosaurs, but while I wouldn't mind a palm pilot, I have to say there is something I just love about the smell of paper and leather and actually physically imprinting the tasks from pen to paper. I swear I can remember the event better if I actually handwrite it instead of typing it into some computer/palm pilot.
But I need an orgainser with the new work I have, my old brain couldn't keep up with my tasks anymore. I am really getting old... ode for the days of my lost youth...
But I am glad to be back at work. I am loving it. I am working on Event Planning and I am suprisingly really good at it. I never really done it before. I mean I may of helped out here and there for the odd event on the evening in question, but know producing an event from the very beginning and getting all the right people place and making sure it all goes right... it is so great!
And whats more this is the perfect stepping stone into what I really want to go into.
Well today was a lazy Saturday at home all things considered. I should of really down some jogging on the treadmill, but I really was not in the mood for it at all. Today and yesterday have been really robin's egg blue sky. It has been absolutely beautiful (even if it is still as cold as a nun's... errr.... refridgerator). Veiwing Antelope Island from my house of great. Seeing the white snow covered hills of Antelope island against the sky and the lake - no that there is much water in the lake, but hopefully the recent influx of snow can compensate for it). Snow is an amazing thing, making everything look so beautiful, even a ordinary ugly dirt hill like Antelope Island.
I went ice skating for the very first time and I loved it. Admittedly I would of enjoyed it more if the skates where not one size two big (they didn't have size 11, only size 12 - actually I am a size 10, but they don't have half sizes and once you compensate for my wide feet and the thin skates, I am a 11). Plus I didn't have my kene braces, so I was properly a little to overly-cautious. Saying that I hope to do it again soon!
Well the fireworks on New Years Eve where pretty pathetic, so I guess at least in Utah, the only two big firework days are Independence Day on the 4th of July and Pioneer Day on the 24th of July. New Years Eve mustn't be anything special.
Then again I was up at Jill's house in the Upper Avenues overlooking the valley. It was fun to watch the fireworks go off, even if they where bad and the few crackers to go off in and around the neighbourhood (even though it is completely illegal to do it on the hillside in case of fires). But what was the cool thing was that Jill's house being high up on the hill overlooks the valley, right down to the mountains at the very end at 12000 South in Draper. And thus I could see lots of fireworks go off all over the Valley, I saw some go off in Sugarhouse, Murray, South Salt Lake and some places over on the westside. Heck I even saw little blobs of light on the edge of vision which must of been right down at the very end of the Valley around Sandy and Draper.
I think I offended Jill though since I refused to crash on her couch even though it would of been more logical for me to do so then go home. But ever since I met her son David and he... well didn't like me... I find it hard to just crash. The thing is Jill is just a good friend who I met through work. Yeah she is 53 with a kid (David) my age, but she acts like she is in her 20s. She is the coolest. Plus I sort of still owe her from when she took care of me during the summer when I had that dreadful case of food poisoning at the Jazz Festival (oh the bad memories of that night... first of all, even without the food poisoning which hit me during the Evening Jazz Concert, the fact was the music was BAD, not real jazz at all, but that world music crap).
I brought myself a new organiser which I have to say is seriously adult and mature. I love it. I needed a new one since my old one (not that I ever used it - it still had 1996/1997 inserts in it - I don't know what my Aunt and Uncle thought when they gave it to me when I was 16) was useless. As nice as the old orgainser was, its ring binder and holes where totally a different spacing that no inserts catered for.
The Organiser is brown leather (don't ask me why, but I totally dug the Brown - maybe I was a UPS driver in a past life) and totally cool in every way. I am still a little miffed that I had to fork over so much money for stupid insert refills (none of the orgainisers came with the day-a-page inserts, only week-a-page at best. To pay $20-$30 a refill is highway robbery!!!
I know I should really invest in a palm pilot and leave the Organiser to go the way of the dinosaurs, but while I wouldn't mind a palm pilot, I have to say there is something I just love about the smell of paper and leather and actually physically imprinting the tasks from pen to paper. I swear I can remember the event better if I actually handwrite it instead of typing it into some computer/palm pilot.
But I need an orgainser with the new work I have, my old brain couldn't keep up with my tasks anymore. I am really getting old... ode for the days of my lost youth...
But I am glad to be back at work. I am loving it. I am working on Event Planning and I am suprisingly really good at it. I never really done it before. I mean I may of helped out here and there for the odd event on the evening in question, but know producing an event from the very beginning and getting all the right people place and making sure it all goes right... it is so great!
And whats more this is the perfect stepping stone into what I really want to go into.
Well today was a lazy Saturday at home all things considered. I should of really down some jogging on the treadmill, but I really was not in the mood for it at all. Today and yesterday have been really robin's egg blue sky. It has been absolutely beautiful (even if it is still as cold as a nun's... errr.... refridgerator). Veiwing Antelope Island from my house of great. Seeing the white snow covered hills of Antelope island against the sky and the lake - no that there is much water in the lake, but hopefully the recent influx of snow can compensate for it). Snow is an amazing thing, making everything look so beautiful, even a ordinary ugly dirt hill like Antelope Island.
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