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Today, I was forced (forced!) by my coworkers to eat at Culvers for lunch. I was terrorized by butter burgers and big ol’ fries and maybe an onion ring or two snagged from a coworker’s tray. I think I’m going to regret this meal in about 15 minutes, when I try to convince my body to jog for 3.5 miles on a fatty fuel of butter, beef, custard, and cheese.

The only reason we went to Culvers in the first place was to support wassername that had that nasty car accident with the fire engine a week or two ago… all Des Moines area Culvers were donating 100% of their profits to the family yesterday and today. The best, most awfulest comment this elicited from a coworker: “Man, too bad she didn’t work at Fudruckers.” This is the real reason I eat out with these people. :)

Work life remains busy as ever. We’ve hired someone new, but he won’t be starting for another two months or so, meaning I don’t get a reprieve any time soon. Before Thanksgiving, I was in email promo hell… I was sending out an average of two email promotions per day, all of which had to be designed, tested, approved, and set up in our database for tracking and analysis. Oh, and I was developing the tracking/analysis stuff at the same time. This week, I’ve been working on a website that has to go live in (checks calendar) three minutes. It was a bigger, slower project than it should have been, especially considering the site is simply acting as a proof-of-concept, but at least it’s done and should be pretty enough to be showed off tomorrow.

Work on the website was also slowed by the fact that I had a cold during the first half of the week. It was the first time I was sick in working memory. Of course, those of you who know me well know that my memory doesn’t work all that far back, but still, I’m pretty sure this is my first ailment in a good half-decade or so. I think it resulted in me being extra whiny about this one, too. I’m guessing Justin and Amanda were pretty sick and tired of hearing how my nose, throat, and eyes were doing at any given moment in the day.

Social life is also still really busy, but you won’t hear me complaining about that one as much. I keep busy nearly every night o’ the week these days. This evening, after working out, Amanda is coming over, and we’re going to make dinner, drink eggnog (note to self: buy eggnog), and put up my Christmas tree. Should be a good time. I don’t yet have plans for tomorrow night, but I’m participating in my first ever Pub Crawl on Saturday evening. It’s Christmas themed, and costumes are encouraged. I’m hoping to find something useful in the boxes of decorations I’ll be sifting through tonight.

If I had tourette’s, “Fudruckers!” would be my thing.

Okay, okay, so it’s been a while. Over three weeks, in fact. At first, I wasn’t updating because I didn’t really have anything new and cheerful to update about, and I was raised to believe that if you don’t have nothin’ nice to say, don’t say nothin’ at all (I believe that came from Bambi’s Guide to Parenting). Then, I finally had nice and fun things to say again, and work suddenly got intensely busy. It has remained intensely busy every since. Combine that with the fact that I still don’t have internet access at home (pick your jaws up off the floor, all… I haven’t vacuumed there in a while), and Robby has had very little free time online to do much. In fact, today is the first time I’ve even ~visited~ my own website in weeks. As such, I’ll say now: thank you all for the kind and supportive comments. Oh, and to Wampler: That’s really ironic, because your grandmother smells like the old mayo in my fridge. :D

So yeah. Obviously work has been busy. My weekends have been pretty busy, too, but moreso on the social side of things. It turns out I have a pretty fantastic set of friends. In the last three weeks, I’ve gotten to hang out with Quinn, Scott, Eric, Kate, Lisa, Justin, Megan, Amanda, Anne, Sarah, Carlos, Kelsey, Lindsay, and everyone in this photo. Dana and I even hung out one night last week, trying out our new roles as friends. We had Thai food and talked for a couple of hours. It went fairly well. :)

For various reasons (probably mostly the social ones listed above), work has stalled a little bit on the house. I still have things in boxes, I still need to replace the wall sockets in the basement, and I still need to do something about the walls in the upstairs living room. Oh, and I’ve decided I really need a new desk for my office. All of the desks and desk-like options I have at the moment are far too large for the room. I loved my big desks while I was working on my thesis (at one point, I had ~two~ huge desks set up in an L-shape to hold all my stuff), but now the space is mostly going to waste, and I would feel a lot better if that space were being used for, say, walking.

Okay, my work has been ignored for long enough this afternoon. People have started to respond to my emails, so I can move forward on projects again. I have a ton more that I could say (I’ve been writing updates in my head for weeks now), so I’ll try very hard to update again later this week.