Life, Lately...

To be honest, life lately has been a bit full.  I mean, April is always quite busy since there's Easter, and at least a half dozen birthdays and anniversaries sprinkled throughout the month.  But for some reason, this year is even busier than usual.  Because of that and being completely bored at work, I've been a lazy bum in the evenings when there's nothing happening.  

This means, that the usual scrapping, reading and general puttering I usually do isn't getting done.  But that doesn't mean it's gone completely out the window, there's still a little bit happening here and there.  I've finished one book already - all about Meredith Wilson writing the Music Man (a musical I'm not even all that crazy about) - still pretty great stuff! - and I'm working on another I purchased in England almost 3 years ago. See what I mean about a backlog?  

As for scrapbooking, the one big project I'd really like to finish is the album of my England pictures.  It's coming around slowly but surely.  In fact I just spent 3 hours on it this evening, but due to some stupid photo printing on my behalf, and my general flakiness with ideas, it's taking longer than anticipated.  I love it so far, but there's still ALOT of embellishing and journaling to do - you know, that pesky, difficult part of scrapbooking.  And I've got the NYC album in progress as well, which is coming along swimmingly.  Of course, I haven't had a trip there since last month, so that might explain why it's still up to date. 

In the other activities arena, April's been a bit mad.  I usually have no luck with interviews and job offers, but this month, I've had one interview already and another set up next week. There's even been a very bad but very tempting offer that I finally turned down after much hemming and hawing. I realized, that while I don't know what I want to do, that job wasn't it.  Also, I'm not terribly unhappy at my job right now, so I can afford to be picky.  I do admit though, that I'm loving getting the practice.  Maybe the next time I talk to someone out of state about a cool job I won't actually bomb as badly as I did the last time.  One could hope...

And in the fun area, there's been lots happening too.  I'm seeing The Secret Garden this weekend in Annapolis.  I have my very own solo trip to Manhattan coming up quite quickly. There's some sort of German Dinner coming up next weekend that I know next to nothing about, except that I'm going.  And to top it all off, Shakespeare's Birthday celebration is being broadcast here and tickets go on sale tomorrow. Between those tickets and the ones that I got for BroadwayCon, and the money that was spent at Supernatural's DCCon, you could say that along with April being a busy month, it was also an expensive month.  Of course, I'm choosing to live by my new philosophy - you only live once. (Note I'm spelling it out, because I'm definitely not young enough or cool enough to get away with the newfangled YOLO variation : )