by Monique on January 7, 2009
I have spent the past 3 days upgrading my website.
Talk about torture.
I first had to upgrade wordpress because apparently I hadn’t done that since 2.4 or whatever… And then my theme needed upgrading as well. Of course, somewhere in all of that things shifted so I had to figure how to get everything back in the right place.
Now it seems it is all working, and less laggy so I can officially resume blogging.
So what has everyone been up to? How were your holidays? Did you make a New Year’s resolution? If so, what was it?
My holidays were booooring. My birthday was semi-interesting, which I will share soon, and for New Year’s I did nothing. I sat at home playing World of Warcraft. I didn’t even tune into any of the countdown shows. I didn’t make any resolutions… but I did set goals. I will get into those later.
by Monique on January 3, 2009
Hi everyone.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
Talk about being AFK for way longer than I ever expected.
I started this blog early January 2008 while I was enjoying some peace and quiet from the chaos of working through the holidays. I clearly blocked all memories of those disastrous few works or else I would have known to not intend to write anything for the month of December. I would have put a “closed for the holidays” sign up so you would have known that I would be completely unavailable as well.
After dealing with insane people who again want to pay nothing but have their package arrive at its destination in pristine condition before Christmas, by the time I came home I wanted to do nothing more than take off my clothes, watch a little TV, kill something on WoW and go to bed. This was how the entire month of December worked for me. Anything I could do that required very little thinking was my top priority.
In fact, this year I was so consumed by the mess of the working through the holidays that I didn’t send my usual holiday cheer - although most of you are indeed still receiving something albeit weeks late - nor did I check my email AT all for the entire month. How sad is that?
But now things have returned to a dull hum and I am eager to once again write and share, as well as read and learn about you all. I miss my friends so much! Most of my days are spent wondering how everyone is doing… making mental notes to go home and check your blogs or drop you an email, but like I said, by the time I would get home my brain had become some nasty kind of jelly that made it impossible for me to do anything other than go into auto-pilot mode.
All of us at the P.O. have made resolutions to not be working there for Christmas of 2009. I’m crossing my fingers this is true because losing a month of your life sucks.
So now, we shall resume our normally scheduled programming… And boy, do I have a lot to share. I hope everyone’s holidays were amazing… mine was not. And I hope you all can find it somewhere within to forgive me in my month long absence.
Until tomorrow. 
by Monique on December 3, 2008
With Thanksgiving behind me (and I must say I was very disappointed that I didn’t find some gold ring lodged in the middle of my overly priced ham) I am preparing for Christmas.
I am not a big Christmas person… in fact, we usually don’t even do anything on Christmas day. There is no big exchange of gifts or anything like that mainly because I put all my focus into Thanksgiving. Since this year Thanksgiving was a bust, I have decided to have a holly jolly Christmas. I am new to this, so I don’t even know where to start.
One thing that I definitely do each year is send out way too many Christmas cards. I have a list, and I cross reference it with the list from previous years so I know how many rude people didn’t send me cards back. I always vow to stop sending those people cards, but never do.
I had been hoping to send my cards out the day after Thanksgiving but I haven’t even picked them out yet! Talk about running behind. Hopefully I will have this project out of this way by the weekend.
By the end of this year, I will be a year older. The birthday gets all wrapped up in the holidays so it’s pointless. In fact, I don’t even get birthday gifts… I get Birthmas presents. Like seriously, what the hell is that. And it would be one thing if the present was something bigger or better, but its the same present everyone else would get if their birthday didn’t fall around Christmas. I wonder how people would react if this year I gave them their X-mas present with a birthday card and announced that it was for both and to not expect anything else from me for the rest of the year.
All of that aside, all I ever really expect each year is a birthday cake and some candles. As a child I didn’t usually get one because my parents worked a lot, so my DH makes sure to get me one each year. Even though I know it’s coming, seeing it makes me smile more than anything.
I am happy to say I am feeling 70x better than I had been these past few weeks… I’m back to my usual cranky, outspoken self which seems to be a big relief to those around me. I am sure somewhere they are secretly wishing I’d go back to moping though.
I must say bye for now, I have much to do and I am hungry. Sadly, I am on a diet so my choices are limited.
PS - I will return to dropping Entrecards next week. Sorry for being such a slacker.
