Work is going ok. We now have a technician to fill the gap until the other technician from Texas arrives. Since handing over my ordering duties I've been able to focus on getting some science done which has been fabulous. As always, there is more that needs to be done and I should be working more, but I think things are going well for now. The meetings every week with the big bosses are a little frightening. I am use to trying to please just one boss. Having never been very successful at that in the past 7 or so years, I now have the added anxiety of trying to please 4-5 people.
On the home front, the place is quite cleaned up and starting to look like we actually live here. I don't think I'll ever think of it as my home but it now has John and Dawn touches on it. I've been a little crafty lately so I think in my next post I'll show some of my craftiness. Nothing really that great but not putting in 10 hour days at work 7 days a week, makes me need something to do :)
My extra time has also giving me an opportunity to start reading again. I am currently obsessed with mystery novels. I'm not sure where this is coming from but I seem drawn to them especially the ones that are in a series so that I can follow the character through their unlikely lives as amateur sleuths. Right now I'm really enjoying the Goldy Culinary Mysteries by Diane Mott Davidson, The Coffeehouse Mysteries by Cleo Coyle, and Josie Marcus, Mystery Shopper by Elaine Viets. I've read most of the Hannah Swenson Mysteries by Joanne Fluke but their is a love triangle with the main character, Hannah, and the two men, Norman and Mike, that she seemingly has hanging on her every word. Now I realize that the idea that one woman could live in a town where there has been multiple murders in less than two years and apparently law enforcement is so bad that the local cookie shop owner is the only one able to figure out whodunit is pretty unrealistic, however, the idea that two men would propose and be "ok" with the fact that this woman is dating both of them and refuses to marry either one because she just can't choose is beyond impossible. I will probably finish the series because I'm a completist but I'll shake my head through the whole thing.
Also in our free time we've been all over the place it seems. I'll leave John to do the details of our recent voyages because he does a much better job with it than I do but I can give the reader's digest version. We went to Vegas to visit Sara again. This time we stayed on the Strip at Harrah's and had a great time. John was lucky and won back all the money I lost :) We also got a little outdoors scenery in as well with a visit to Red Rock's Canyon where it proceeded to hail as we went on a hike. It was definitely a memorable visit :)
Last weekend we went sea kayaking in La Jolla Shores. Now for those of you who might not know, I am a Southern Atlantic Ocean girl. The Pacific is not the Atlantic. It is cold. So sea kayaking involved wet suits. Which the deal I made with John and Rachelle was that noone was allowed to laugh or make fun of me in the wetsuit, but overall we all looked rather silly so we all ended up laughing at ourselves. Wetsuits don't do much for the overall physique but add on helmets and life jackets and let's just say the outfit is something to behold :) We had a great time with our quite cute guide checking out the famous 7 caves of La Jolla Shores.
For this weekend as you may know, I am not the hugest fan of Valentine's Day so John and I had our traditionally boycott of Valentine's Day by having Beer and Pizza with TV. This year with my joy of Weight Watchers we made our own pizza instead of Domino's but it was pretty darn good anyway. I've also gotten it into my head that I need to run a 5K and 10K before I turn 31 this September so I tortured John this weekend by going out running with me. The Wii Fit says that I can run 6 miles in 30 minutes. However, in the real world it takes me 20 minutes to run/walk 1.5 miles. So I've got some work to do. Also this weekend we went to the Birch Aquarium at Scripps. It is a nice aquarium but it is hard to not compare it to the GA Aquarium. We had a nice time though getting out and about. We're determined to explore San Diego as much as we can and I think we are making some major headway :)
Maybe if I blogged more often my posts wouldn't go on forever. Hmmm...have to think about that for awhile :)
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