Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Things and places I miss in Ohio

A random compilation:

• Being able to walk everywhere in Athens
• Friends, particularly seeing them and talking to them on a much more frequent basis.
• Salaam
• Joseph-Beth
• Sadie and the animals
• Having two license plates (Seriously, Michigan doesn't give you two license plates... how off is that?)
• MY Borders (Yes, it's mine, and yes, I miss it... even if I do work there now).
• The brick roads
• Alden
• Film Fest
• Graeter's
• Marching 110
• The old Front Room, where getting free tea was one of the highlight of spring '06.
• Going to the movies in Kentucky (OK, so not in Ohio -- even so).
• Cross Court and Mountain Laurel
• The Athena and the sticky floors
• GAS PRICES -- they are ridiculous here
• Knowing my way around and actually understanding the politics
• I WILL miss the weather. I already know this because the winters here already terrify me.
• Athens in general; it's so beautiful there, even if it is in the middle of nowhere. I miss the space and am sick of the suburbia that is AA already.
• The Diner
• Skyline. Desperately miss Skyline. Must remember to bring cans back with me when I go back to Cincy again. Yes.
• Newport and the Hoffbrau Haus
• Star and the barn
• The river
• The mound... going there on sunny days was one of my favorite things.


....To be continued.

Sunday, August 19, 2007

Conflicted and mostly biased

So, that sums up how I'm feeling right now, but I will update you on what's going on on the surface, at any rate.

I have one more week left working in the stores before heading back to the home office. I have met some awesome people and have really ended up enjoying it much more than I expected to. It has been great experience and I still love basically everything about the company, despite it's many problems. Do I sound lovesick or what? :-P

And Steven and I got a puppy. His name is Chewbacca and he is awesome. He is currently learning how to walk on a leash and is doing pretty well for a ten-week old baby.Enough said. Anyway, my computer is freezing horribly for reasons I don't understand, so I am going to cut this one short. A photo for you, of the new baby:



Until then.

Conflicted and mostly biased

So, that sums up how I'm feeling right now, but I will update you on what's going on on the surface, at any rate.

I have one more week left working in the stores before heading back to the home office. I have met some awesome people and have really ended up enjoying it much more than I expected to. It has been great experience and I still love basically everything about the company, despite it's many problems. Do I sound lovesick or what? :-P

And Steven and I got a puppy. His name is Chewbacca and he is awesome. Enough said.

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

So I might be ADD, but what else is new?

And that's OK. I... have LOTS to update on, but I would rather do so with photos than a quick post at the end of a very long day. I started doing in-store training this week, and will do so until August 26th. It is taking any energy reserves I may have had to learn all of that new stuff... Sometimes in a good way, though. Sorry my last post was so depressing. It's the truth; it's hard being in a new state without any familiars. So yeah. But I've said and so on; enough is enough. This past weekend was great and I really do need to write all about it. And then write about this week. With any luck, I will do it before next week. (*Wink*).

More later.

Until then, Always.