Think I wanna die if you don't stay...
Latest song love..., just can't stop playing it way too many times. Fun group, I need to check them out more.

Won the WPGU Espresso Royale giveaway on Friday, and am now the proud owner of my own Espresso mug, a free drink card and someday, a bag of coffee beans. I say someday because sadly, the DJ working while I stopped by could not find me a bag of coffee beans *pout* so they're going to call me so I can stop by. I felt bad for the guy and thought about telling him not to worry about it... but I won it and it's exciting so if it isn't too much trouble for them, I'll just go back and get it at some point.

Another plug- check out Zyggy'z if you haven't already. It's in the old Basil Thai place (don't panic, they're still in Urbana) and this place is AMAZING. Absolutely loved the food and the service, and the prices are great. Go go go, particularly if you like spicy food.

Meanwhile, we all found a place to live next year. It will be me and four other wonderful people living in this home, provided all goes well and we figure out a time to get the leases signed and deposits paid :) I'm really looking forward to it, particularly having an animal around again, even if I'm not used to living with a dog.

Game is going well, and it's fun having a big covenant again. Nick is doing a great job and everyone seems to be having fun. I keep *hearing* that Greg is playing... but I still do not believe it... I mean, what could be more important than making game? :p My main current problem is that I need to use a new email address, because I'm tired of all the email notifications I'm getting on my new phone from the listserv and whatnot. Oh well.

Sushi club went very well last month, which was fantastic. I'm trying to figure out an event for my girls' club that I started, but it's hard to figure out something that everyone will like... and I don't want people to think I'm spamming them with invites to Irish music or whatnot on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, which are my normal free evenings.

I'm also really looking forward to Chuck's party at the end of this month... as well as having parties in my home again, when we move to the new place. It's not possible where I'm currently living, due to space issues and the fact that I wouldn't want to bug my roomies with it and I don't think they'd really enjoy it. But next year, next year will be fun :)

Yesterday was a very odd day. I slept in as much as I could, went to breakfast at OPH with Chuck, then drove to Bloomington for a "new managers' intro lunch" type of thing, where all the new hires for management staff for the past year had lunch at the Biaggi's. It counted as a half day, so after that, it was more work at Monical's. It was cool, just weird having the long drive followed by lunch followed by long drive followed by work... then I went to the White Horse for LARP wings and hung out with a bunch of folks, which was nice.

Already today I had lunch with Sarah and discussed her new job, which she seems very excited about (yay) and hung out with an employee for a bit, which was cool albeit weird.

Tonight looks like it will involve Torchwood and Dr. Who with friends, which should be a lot of fun, and tomorrow is going to be AMAZING, followed by awesome with more friends, the BSG boardgame and Watchmen movie at 12:01 AM. I wish that I didn't work at 9 AM Friday morning, but that's how these things go sometimes.

I'm in this weird mix of social/anti-social, where I'm nonstop out with people, but I've been going more with people who seem inviting and not so much with people that perhaps I should be trying harder to keep up with.

I dunno... I think I just feel I've tried enough with a few people, and if they don't want to stay friends, I'm not going to beat a dead horse. It's always been hard for me to let people go and not try to have everyone like me.

Gotta remember that to be strong, you don't have to be flame retardant.

(Please don't let this start off feelings if insecurity if we haven't hung out in a while, that's not what this is about.)

On the bright side, while I feel I've lost track of a few friends, I've been hanging out more with new ones, which is very fun.

Jenna made me awesomely good Mexican food on Sunday evening, after I was completely emotionally blah and down, and that was really great. I talked a lot to her and Zack and then Chuck came over and we all watched Step Up 2: The Streets... Man, I love that movie so much.

I've had people call me out on skipping events or staying too little at some events that it seems rude, but I dunno, that's what I've always done. I'd rather stop by to a party and say hey to friends than just skip it completely, though sometimes I just give in and skip it. Maybe it's just me, but I love people stopping in to say hi at my parties, even if they have other plans. It's good to see friends, yeah?

I hate that my work schedule leaves me with such a scheduled schedule (yeah yeah), but it's not like I don't have an obvious pattern. I'm free Tuesdays and Wednesday for the most part, I'm free Sunday evenings, I'm busy weekends. Tis how it goes. Sucks but *shrug* I hope I still see people sometimes. And I hate hate hate watching invites stop just because I can't make most of them... I post my weekly schedule here, it's not like I'm not trying my hardest to be available.

Oh well, them's the breaks.

My dad is trying really hard to have me go back home for teaching certification from Trinity Christian still. I'm still ignoring him. I do need to look up programs at ISU and Eastern, though. Just haven't gotten to it... mainly because I'm worried about having to depend more on my parents for money, and that's what it would involve.

Gotta keep trucking, I suppose.

In other news, I've been asked by a few people about when I go to the gym, because a few other people are also members to the Fitness Center. Short answer- extremely sporadically. I'm starting to try to make it twice a week... gotta continue this effort, because I want April to be three times a week.

This week= Thursday and Saturday. If people see times on my schedule that they feel they would be interested in making a gym time, please tell me, because company= really the only way that I go. I wanted to go yesterday, but I felt too ill. Shouldn't happen again for another month though ;) so hopefully gym trips will not be interfered with.

In completely unrelated and a bit more unhealthy news... I'm very intrigued to try this recipe....

And one more plug... I recently got to know a very talented artist (how do I know so many cool artists? I'm so lucky) who works with jewelry. I've been lusting after her necklaces for a while now, unable to figure out which one I want to get, but I think I might finally have decided. Check out her store if you're into local jewelry at all, I think she has a lot of beautiful stuff.