Insane Random Ramblings

I wouldn’t mind traveling during the holidays this year, especially since I’m not traveling anywhere this summer. I have a few dollars for travel expenses tucked away and I’m trying to decide when the right time to use them is. I could go somewhere and celebrate Boxing Day over the holidays. Or I could wait until next year and go to an island in late spring.

My birthday is in late summer (next week actually ;>) ) and I wanted to go away during this time of the year. It doesn’t matter if it was this year or next, it’s just the time I really want to go. Unfortunately this is smack dab in the middle of hurricane season and if I’m not on a cruise which I’m sure will divert, I’m not traveling.

As long as I don’t spend the money on something silly, I can always just save it and go away next year.

I have to be honest and say no. I haven’t worked on my birthday in over 11 years. To me, it’s my own little personal holiday. Today is my coworkers birthday and she’s here at work. She said that she doesn’t have anything planned so she might as well save the vacation day.

I am of a totally different mindset. I don’t care if I was out getting my hair done, going on a mileage run or shopping for ATV Parts or brake shoes, I most certainly wouldn’t be here.  Not today of all days.

I know you shouldn’t expect other people to make a big deal about your birthday, but shouldn’t you at least treat yourself?

I generally take it easy on the weekends. I may hit up 1 or 2 stores and then I’m done, but not this weekend. I received a ton of birthday and wedding invitations that all fall before the end of the month. They’re also before my 3 month pay in July so I don’t have a lot of “extra” money to buy gifts.

I plan on buying mostly gift cards and calling it a day. The last thing I want to do is stand in the store and try to buy a bunch of different gifts. With my luck, I would wrap up the wrong gift for the wrong person. I’m sure that would go over really well too. The birthday girl receiving a bridal gift and a bride receiving a bunch of movies or dvds.

Actually it might be pretty funny but I won’t push my luck.

I think one of my friends figured out that I have a “thing” for one of my other friends. I won’t act on it because I think it’s just a passing fancy and he is way too good of a friend for me to mess it up. It’s weird because I never thought of him like that. Well, actually I did but I never acted on it and that was over 5 years ago. It’s just strange that it’s manifesting itself right now.

I don’t even know what made that song pop into my head either. It’s funny because I was sitting at my desk and I just broke out singing the song karaoke style. Then I realized that I was singing out loud and I just sat here and started giggling. I used to love that song too so that made it even more amusing.

Now I just have to figure out how to transfer those feelings and not act on them.

I’ve been poking around Facebook for a month or so now. I still only have 3 friends and that’s because I recently added my cousin to my friends list. I still have 12 people in my queue to confirm and I don’t know 3 of them. The race to see how many friends you can amass is something that I still haven’t figured out yet. I don’t know if it makes people feel good to have extra friends or what.

I’m still trying to edit my profile though. My current city field doesn’t quite say what I want it to. I’ll keep tweaking it until I finally get it right. In the mean time, I need to weed through those friend requests.

One of my coworkers invites me to go on vacation every year. Each year there is either something going on in my life (like school) or I just don’t have the money. The trip for next year is to the Dominican Republic. That’s one of the places on my wish list so I really want to go.

My coworker has been at the gym like crazy trying to get “D.R. ready” as she calls it. I do work out but the weight is coming of super slow since I haven’t changed my eating habits. If I do decide to go I’m getting lipo 6 hers to drop the pounds quick. That way I can lose a good 10 pounds fast. I’ll still continue to work out but I won’t be dropping any weight.

Now I just have to find a way to come up with the money to go.

Generally I only have about 3 people to buy gifts for during the holiday season. This year I have my niece and her daughter to add to the list. I also have to add one of my good friends from college to the list. Now she’ll be easy. We’re going on vacation next year and she wants a rfid blocking wallet to take with us. Basically no one can steal the frequency from your credit cards or passport as long as they’re in this wallet. Luckily I know just where to find this so I’ve already got her scratched off of the list.

My niece on the other hand wants a bunch of electronics. She wants a phone, a I-pod or mp3 player, cash and some other stuff. That doesn’t even include the clothes and toys that I’ll buy for her daughter. I also want to get the baby a savings bond or two. I already know that the rest of the family won’t think of them because they don’t think too heavily about the future.

All I know is this is gonna be one expensive Christmas.

My birthday was back in August but I was on vacation and my friend wasn’t able to take me to dinner. We use our birthday dinners as a way to catch up on what each other has been up to for the past few months. 

I finally graduated from college last year while she is working on her accredited online degree in Business Administration. She is very close to having her Master’s then she is going to go for a certification in one of her fields of study. She’s trying to convince me to go back to school as well, but at this point I don’t know if I’m ready for it. I’m sure I’ll get “the talk” this weekend when we get together.

I haven’t actually seen her in several months so it will be good to see her face to face and finally catch up. Even if I have to duck and dodge the school question.

She’s retiring at the end of November and she can’t wait. I think it’s great that she gets to retire a little earlier than normal and spend time travelling with her husband. He was able to retire a few years ago so she’s just been biding her time waiting for her turn and it’s finally here.

A group of us invited her out to lunch the first week of November to celebrate. We’ll take her to a nice restaurant that’s close to where we work. We’re also looking into personalized gifts that she can take with her when she leaves. I don’t want anything too work-related. I want it to be something that will make her smile whenever she looks at it.

We still have a few weeks to put our plans in motion and make everything just right. After all, you only get to retire once so we want it to be perfect.

But I am so not ready to really sign up yet. I have had to make a account to poke around the site but I’m not ready to add friends or create a full profile just yet. I did notice that quite a few of my family members are on there. My cousin who has one of those great healthcare it jobs is on there. He gets to update his page from work since he’s in IT. I mean who better to get around a firewall than the IT guy?

Anyway, I’ll probably spend a little time on the site this weekend seeing who’s who and what’s what. Who knows, maybe I’ll actually start posting myself.