waiting for a boring day so i can buy an orchid...

wow- life is crazy lately.

cRaZy!!!

seriously- every aspect of my life is very busy or stressful right now. especially work, though i knew it was coming- we're in our busy season...

work has me on my toes. i woke up at 5:30 this morning (that's my body's new thing- wake up too early- about an hour to an hour and a half before the alarm is set to go off- so that by the time its 10 am i'm ready for a nap, only i can't have one and i'm not drinking coffee anymore so i have to prop my eyelids open with toothpicks- not a becoming look at work, but i finally got over two weeks of those caffeine withdrawal headaches and i don't want to start the dependence ie total addiction again...) and the first thing on my mind was how i was going to run a data analysis in a slightly faster manner than i was planning on doing it at work the next day when i went to bed. i think my brain must have been tossing various analyses all night.

geesshhh. i'm even having boring dreams!

uggg...

so we have a co-op board interview on the 20th!!! keep your fingers crossed that i don't say something stupid, that the subway train ride has no delays so i'm early, and that they really really like redheads who knit and write and sew and read! we're hoping to close by the 30th and if so, if everything goes deliciously well, i could be moving in a few weeks to the apartment of my dreams!!!!!(well at least my very realistic dreams...)

other than that i'm enjoying the small moments where i have a few free moments. i've taken to drinking blueberry tea instead of coffee at work. its so sweet that i don't even need honey! i've also been juicing ( this evening i made green apple and beet juice- don't look at me that way its amazingly delicious! i swear!) and collecting copious amounts of home decoration inspiration pics- like this one. we'll have a shelf in the kitchen that i think would be lovely to use like this one... we'll see if its too high. it may just have to be for holding some of my philodendrons.

I've also been reading two books i picked up at a used bookstore on sunday. One is about virtual reality and the other is about orchids. I'm thinking that since i'm not going to be able to get a puppy and have the dog i've always wanted i might as well have the flowers i've always wanted. so instead of buying cut flowers in the next few months i think i'll pick up a few orchids and try my hand at keeping them alive. honestly, I've only ever been able to keep philodendrons alive. EVERYTHING, and i mean everything else has died. or been killed. lay your blame where you will. i've had tulips, 6 kinds of cacti, hyacinths, wheat grass, spider plants, wildflower seedlings, all die while under my care. i think some of them were suicides ( the cacti had and angry streak to them), but most are still cold cases. but in my defense i've never actually read a book on how to care for them, and now i'm doing that with orchids so who knows? maybe just maybe i could get this right...

we'll see...