Resuming Course

I was doing well with the posting for awhile. What happened?

My typical sinking-back-into-bad-habits happened. I'm pretty sick of resolving to do things and failing to follow through. You think that would be enough to motivate me to, you know, STOP FAILING. But it doesn't. Sigh.

At any rate, here I am now, more than a month since my last post.

Feel like I've finally settled into my job. Nice feeling. Though I still worry about working for what is, essentially, a paper company. Nobody buys paper anymore; it's definitely a dying industry. All I have to do is look around Holyoke to see what kind of destruction dying industries wreak on people's lives. (Let alone my experiences in Worcester.) But I've adopted a wait and see approach to this job. I'm trying to give it a few months to really get a feel of whether this is going to be successful for me long-term or not.

LESS THAN A MONTH FROM CLOSING ON THE HOUSE. Yes, that deserved the caps-lock frenzy.

Oh! And I get to see my parents and also Dylan's new niece (I think of her as nearly-my-niece) next week. That's incredibly exciting for the following reasons:

1. I haven't been home in a stupid long time. 
2. I love babies.  Especially other people's babies.  
3. The Fourth of July is the best holiday ever and the only part of summer I really look forward to. (I know, I'm weird.)

So there's all of that. Oh right. And I decided last minute to attempt to write 50,000 words of a chick lit/mainstream novel that I have only the bare bones of a plot for in the 31 days of July. While I vacation and move and all that. Yaaay...

Yup.