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not much to say, but it’s really long anyway.

January 5th, 2006 @ 3:02 pm | Comments
Filed Under: business owner, life

I don’t really have anything to say, but I felt I should post. I don’t know why I ‘feel’ like I should post sometimes.. like it’s a job or an obligation or something. But, I do.

Sooo… what to talk about? I’ve had a bit of a break in my freelance projects because of the holidays, and Dan is done with school now. So things have been pretty low-key lately, and while it’s been nice, it’s been kind of strange. We’re not used to that anymore! After over a year of complete insanity between switching jobs and going to school and starting a business and all the other life stuff that happens along the way, having down time is very hard to get used to. But it’s a nice problem to have, of course.

So to fill the time, I’ve been doing all sorts of things. I started cleaning out our ‘messy room’ (ie- future baby room) We have so much STUFF in there, and even though we’re not planning to actually USE the room for a baby for at least a year or two, I just can’t stand it anymore. Half of the crap in there is/was garbage. On Monday, we were both home with nothing to do, so I started on the room. I only have a small path cleared at this point, but at least that’s something! And I’m starting piles of ’sell’, ‘give away’, ‘throw away’… kind of like on that show Clean Sweep. Except it’s just me, and I won’t be getting the room redone by a team of experts. :P

I’ve also been getting caught up on my computer organizing and backups. Our computer is almost 5 years old and while it’s still working great, Dan brought up the fact that hard drives tend to drop-off in reliability after about 5 years. So I copied stuff to the extra hard drive we have, backed up photos to CD, etc. I know, SUCH an exciting time!

Tuesday night, I read a book about Rome. Or more like ‘browsed’, but I did go through the whole thing. I ordered it from Amazon the day we booked our trip and it came within a few days. It’s an awesome book, and I think it will really help us narrow down the things we’d like to see in the few days we’re there! It made me even more excited (and a bit nervous, especially about the language thing)

And last night, I went shopping. Grocery shopping (not so exciting) and then to Pier 1 to spend my gift cards (way more exciting!) They were having awesome sales on candle stuff, so I got some cute things for our new bathroom and these new square shelves I got for the living room (which have been sitting in the ‘messy room’ for about a month, I still need to put those up!) Then after that, I went to get my haircut. Nothing drastic, just about a 1/2 inch off the ends and fixing up my layers (I hadn’t had a haircut since July, like 6 months!) Once I had my new hairdo, I headed home and watched some of the Rose Bowl with my husband.

As you can tell, life has been pretty boring and mundane. But I’m okay with that. We’re having some people over tomorrow night (my sister & brother-in-law, and my (pregnant!) cousin and her husband) and we’re going to start working on re-tiling our bathroom floor this weekend. Sunday is the big Steeler playoff game, so party at my sister’s apartment for that.

I am trying to live it up now, because probably by next week I’ll be pretty busy again with a few new jobs- which is always a good thing, due to the *ahem* trip I mentioned earlier in this post! So I need to enjoy this while I can.

That is all. I’m boring, I know.

comments

1. Melissa
   January 5th, 2006 @ 5:54 pm

   Enjoy your newly found free time! :)

   I wouldn’t worry about language problems on your Rome trip–you will find that most Europeans speak at least two languages, and many of them choose to learn English. I went to Hungary, which is smaller and less of a “tourist attraction” than Italy, and most people could speak and understand at least a little English. At restaurants, the waiters/waitresses were actually required to speak English as a second language. So I’m sure that (especially being part of a group tour) you will have no problems. Besides, half the fun of going to another country is to just sit and listen to everyone talking around you and having NO IDEA what they’re saying. ;)

2. Melissa
   January 5th, 2006 @ 5:59 pm

   Also, airport employees speak English if they work with a company that flies to/from America or has connecting flights, so no chance of trouble there. We were at airports in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, and Budapest, and everyone spoke to us in English when they saw our tickets and passports were from the US.

3. Jen
   January 6th, 2006 @ 8:43 am

   Well that’s definitely a relief :) I still would like to learn at least some vocabulary (I’m not even gonna try learning any grammar at this point!) That way I might be able to figure out what some people/signs are saying to me, just in case. Plus, I just think if I’m going to a foreign country for a visit, the least I can do is try to learn to communicate a little bit. Even if I do mess it up! haha