All I want for Christmas...

So, everyone had their "wonderful, sappy, thought-provoking" list of what they were thankful for over Thanksgiving. I did not have one such list. Not because I'm a heartless shell of a woman, more because I was stupid busy trying to finish up Fall quarter.

I'm still not done. More grumbling on that soon...

So instead of whatever I'm thankful for, and believe me, it's a lot, I'm making a list of what I want to find under my tree, next to my Menorah, in my wooden clog, or whatever for Christmas. Here we go!:

1) A divorce. I know how jaded this sounds but seriously, Mike and I are separated, we're not getting back together, the only thing keeping us married is $300 and the state of Washington thinking we need three months to "cool off". I think that was pretty much the problem in the first place. So if any of you have an extra $300 lying around that you just don't want...I could put it to good use.

2) A passing grade on my theory paper. Seriously guys, this is a paper for BRIEF therapy, how much expansion do you want?!?! Ugh, I will be so happy when this thing has released me from it's hellish 12 point Times New Roman font APA format 6th edition grip.

GET THEE BEHIND ME SOLUTION-FOCUSED BRIEF THERAPY!!!

3) A potty trained hedgehog. Ok ok ok, I know I can have this if I just put the effort in, but there is a lot of effort involved, and as I've said before, I'm really lazy. Really. Lazy. Squeak managed to pee all over me causing me to nearly drop him, then pee AND POOP on the loveseat causing me to proclaim loud disappointment in my small helpless hedgehog. It was a little traumatizing.

4) Post-it notes. In all sorts of fun colors. Friends, I have become so Type-A that I recently discovered that I go through about 20 post-it notes in any given week. That's a lot of post-it. I have tried to deny and reverse my growing anal-rententiveness, but it's useless. I've learned to let go and love the post-it.

I suppose I should include a picture or two on here eh?

All Squeak wants for Christmas is to not get eaten...

Big Gaps and Mental Breakdowns

It's been awhile since I posted.

Sorry.

This has been the most difficult quarter of school I have ever been lucky to survive. It's like I woke up three weeks ago and said to myself, "Hey, Stephanie, remember that whole grad school thing? Yeah, so that didn't stop while you were sulking for the last two months."

Don't get me wrong, I know my sulking was more than warranted, it was just not as productive to completing a successful quarter as, you know, paying attention.

I've been thinking about Bilbo Baggins a lot lately. Not just because he's a total badass and he looks a tiny bit like Squeak Scolari, but he said something in The Fellowship of the Ring that has been sticking in my head lately. At one point Bilbo talks about feeling like butter spread over too much bread.

I hear ya, hobbit.

Between classes, homework, facebooking, internship, hedgehog maintenance, actually spending time with the people I love, work, sleeping, eating poorly, and Simpsons quoting I find little time to simply breathe.

Or clean my house.

Seriously, it's like a tiny pine tree exploded in here.

Anyway I came to the conclusion that something had to drop. Since I've kinda gotten attached to Squeak (Even though he can be a little bitch...), and I'm clearly not going to stop obsessively facebook stalking people, so out of the legit chunks of my life occupying my time (school, work, internship) work is the only one I can cut out.

I don't like this option for several reasons. I like having money, I have a little and I'd like more of it. I LOVE 95% of my customers (especially the ones who read this blog!) and I love my coworkers even more...It's just absolutely the only thing I can drop. I could financially handle quitting altogether but I'm not ready to do that yet, I just need a break. I want to love coming to work and I'm starting to lose that.

And I'm starting to lose my sanity. As entertaining as it is to break down into a smoldering pile of emotional vomit, I think I'll retain what semblance of mental stability. Soooo you'll see me donning a green apron around March.

How apropos. :)

Anyway! Today was a day filled with absolutely nothing...well, it was filled with reading, Glee, ordering books and this:

 It should be noted that this was at 10AM

There was a lot of Arrested Development too, I was supposed to spend the day doing these things on a boat, but apparently the boat was not up to snuff for a classy lady such as me. Oh well, hopefully I'll have my laztboatventure soon.

Oh, this happened today too. Turns out Squeak really likes rolling my DVD remote around on the floorton. He did this for a solid 20 minutes...

I thought I was done fighting for the remote...

He quickly got distracted by some dried bananas...

Hey look, fruit!!