End of First Quarter

Why does time speed up the older you get? Jeez. I can't believe April is on Wednesday and I am fast approaching my one year anniversary of being laid off. Never in a million years did I think that our economy would be this bad or that I would still not have a permanent job. I am just grateful for the contract work that I have been able to get. Funny, this project was only supposed to last 6 weeks and now we're going on 8 months. Of course, all good things have to come to an end, and we are apparently done with all the first tier review of documents. Luckily, the client has begrudgingly allowed two of us to remain on second tier review and I have been selected to continue on. So, hopefully I will have several more weeks of gainful employment.

It was an odd week and weekend last week. I had food poisoning on Tuesday and was basically out of commission for two days. Plus, in addition to being sick it rained for four days straight. I don't think we saw the sun until late Sunday afternoon. We are grateful for the rain because last year we hardly had any, but four days straight can be very depressing. Apparently Lake Lanier, which is the source of most of Atlanta's water, is almost back up to normal levels. We can only hope that this continues. We get tired of the constant water restrictions and brown lawns.

I am continuing to date a new guy. It has been awhile since I have dated someone where the interest/attraction is pretty much equal. I can't begin to describe how nice it is not to have to do all the work in a relationship. Unfortunately, after our date on Friday night, he ended up getting food poisoning as well. We seem to think it was the salad he ate. Anyway, it has really put him out of commission, even worse so than me. I feel so bad for him. I have tried to be there for him, but I think he is, like me, a patient who likes to be left alone. So I am trying to give him some more space. I can only hope he gets to feeling better. He dislikes doctors and taking medicine, so he is basically just riding it out. I can't say I enjoy doctors or medicine too much, so I understand how he feels.

This weekend our friend Charlotte, nee Michael, was in from the fair city of Charlotte with his Aunt Net from Maine. I had heard a lot about Aunt Net and what a blast she is, so I was really looking forward to meeting her. She came to Starbucks with Charlotte and Chrissie and then joined us later on for lunch at Roasters. A group of us including Dan and Ghetto, our other friend Michael, joined those three for dinner at Horseradish Grill. I had never been and was pleased to say it was very good. Our table got very lively with all the cocktails and wine flowing. There was another table of gay men sitting right behind us who were so boring, we think that we caught one of the table members motioning for us to invite him over. We denied him.

It definitely felt like a transition weekend. Sickness into health, cold/rainy into warm/sunny, winter into spring, cold and flu into allergies. I've always been rather apathetic about spring. I dislike waking up in the morning being cold and then dressing for it only to be burning up by the end of the day. And yes, I know you should dress in layers, but it is such a bother. Also, I realize that it is pretty with all the flowers blooming and everything turning green, but does it have to come with all the pollen? I can barely breathe around here and my car, and everything else is now covered in that lovely green dust.

Ok, that is my update from the weekend. Nothing too exciting I know. Just got the new Peter Bjorn and John cd to review so I am sure everyone will be waiting for that.