| So... It's been a really long time. No excuses, though. I'm trying to get stuff moved into my new room in my house (my housemate and very good friend of 5.5 years just moved to Texas. Being that I have a lot more stuff than my little closet of a room can handle, I'm moving into Laura's old room.), and that is an interesting process. It's really helping me to organize as I go...which is good because it will prepare me for future moves. It's been a process, though. Like, so far I have my dresser, my bookshelf, and a closet full of clothes, bedding, towels, and a few things for storage, and that's it. I still need to get my bed, my other bookshelf, the wire-rack/shelving unit thing, and the random things...boxes of things which had no home since my current room didn't have room for the appropriate storage. Oh, yeah, and I have Heather's "self portrait" on the wall. I say that in quotes because it doesn't actually look like her. It's more of a conceptual self-portrait, and I really like it a lot. She let me hang on to it while she was in Africa, and I'm thinking if I bribe my dear monkey friend with enough bananas maybe she'll let me keep it for good. I don't think she likes it nearly as much as I do. This week I'm heading to Georgia for 5 days. That should be really amazing and exciting. It will be my first vacation since I started working again at the end of March. I'm looking forward to it a great deal   Working has been amazing. I'm temping, because I don't want to get locked into a long-term job around here, and also because it's helping me to get familiar with work in a variety of office types. I'm really enjoying the change from retail, though. People keep asking me if I miss the discount, but you know...I moved down several boxes of skin-care and perfume products from my room already...it's insane how much Body Shop product fills my room. Literally insane. I'm pretty sure I could be committed for this. Forget the quantities of everything, let's just examine the breadth of product-types I have. Body Butters (a really intensive moisturizer based in shea butter and cocoa butter, hence the name) in the full size and the minis, shampoo, both hemp and olive, conditioner (honey...only kind I use), facewash, toner, moisturizers, night-treatments (also face care), scrubs, tea tree mask, tea tree nose pore mask, perfume, perfume oil, body lotion, shower gel, body scrubs...I'm not done yet but I can't do this anymore. If there is anything that I discovered while typing this list, it's that the combination of employee-samples of new products combined with products as contest prizes, a 40% discount, and mega huge major semi-annual sales do much more harm than good, haha. But I smell good (and that's what counts, right?). I don't miss the discount. I don't even know if I'll have the opportunity to for some years. In any case, I have to stop this "break" before I lose any more motivation. I'll try not to slack too much in my updating. |
