The Sick Girl Speaks

After a very long couple of days, I have finally made my way back to the land of the living! Despite the unpleasantness of being sick, it did make me realize several things.
1. My cats are really nice to me when I'm sick.
2. My husband will make soup for me if I cough a couple of times, make the "it's hard to talk because my throat hurts" gesture and give him sad eyes.
3. Lindsay Lohan was really cute before she went skanky.

As of Wednesday, I'm off the couch and back in business. Good timing too, as this is a busy time of year for Purple Pony Communications. Last week I made a few investments in the business. I registered a domain name (www.purpleponycommunications.com). It's not a very informative web site yet, but this does allow me to have an official business email, which I'm pretty stoked about. And having committed to an email address, I also committed to new business cards. I have had several opportunities to network in the last few weeks, which is also very exciting. There seems to be quite a demand for what I do. For those of you who don't know what it is I do, I'm a freelance writer, focusing on marketing and public relations writing. Some of the conversations I've had recently involve work in the education field, which I'd be all for, seeing as though I have a Master's in that field and all!

Speaking of my Master's, it just occurred to me a few days ago that I needed special attire to make the trip across the stage! Apparently the whole point of being hooded is having a hood with which to be hooded. Oops. Fortunately, I called the bookstore yesterday and after a very confusing conversation (I asked the sales girl if gowns were on sale -- she thought I was trying to get one cheap, but I really just wanted the option of bringing one home), I learned that my slacker ways had not in fact managed to get me out of graduation. This morning I headed over to campus, paid to park, then paid $70 for my graduation finery. Yowza. Now, I think I need new shoes to go with my fancy new gown, and probably a new dress to match the new shoes.

You're probably wondering what it is that I'm going to do with my new shiny Master's degree. Well, in addition to hanging it on the wall and throwing darts at and adding it to my resume to make me look cooler, I am now a professional pet sitter with Fetch! (The exclamation point is part of their title. The grammar nazi in me wants you to know that I know the proper use of exclamation points.) I got my first client this week -- a little pug that I'll be taking on walks three times a week starting in January. The transition has been a bit rocky, but I think I'm settling in to my new role as an entrepreneur and housewife. There are days when I think I would feel more significant if I left the house to go to work and could give a more concise answer when people ask what I do. But I know me, and I know I'd be bored to tears with the same old routine everyday. Plus this way I get to take off on Monday mornings to do yoga. All in all, I'd have to say my current lot in life is not bad.

Fun things on tap for the next few days: two Christmas parties, church in the new Durham facility, and after many failed attempts, a screening of High School Musical 3! Stay tuned!

Now with 100% less pictures and 400% more germs!

So Court's been sick for the past three days, which is a real bummer. I kind of sat around and poked her occasionally, if for no other reason than to make sure she still mumbled something incoherent after the pokes. Good times. The good news is, she's feeling much better, which means I can go back to being a lazy slug. Or not.

I have to train people this weekend. Me! Training! Granted, they're high school students, so that has to count for something, I guess. I'm teaching these guys a little bit about programming. It's pretty awesome, it's for the robotics group I mentor. You can learn more about the program at www.usfirst.org, or hang around me for about 10 minutes and mention the word "robotics." It's a pretty awesome gig, and I'm happy to be doing it, but what it really boils down to is the time I'm sitting here typing this entry, I should probably be making pretty slides. For that matter, the hours I just spent on my weekly game session should probably be spent on making slides. Really, when you get down to it, I should be making slides. But I'm obviously not at the moment, so what's that say about me? Oh yeah, that I'm a slacker.

Random shout-out time! So my best friend got engaged tonight, which is pretty spiffy... Being married for all of 3 months, I think I can attest to how awesome it is... Naturally, I can't really swear it'll always be awesome, but since Court has since walked into the room and is watching me type this, I'll do my best. Ahem: It'll always be awesome. (I actually believe that) ^_^

The only other exciting news that actually directly pertains to me that I can think of is our new tv! Well, new to us, anyway. A friend of mine needed some help doing manual labor, and at the same time, he was looking to get rid of his old tv. Being as how I love his old tv, I promptly agreed to do so, and now our poor tiny living room is dominated by a mammoth floor model rear projection tv. And I'm the happiest girl at the dance. ^_^

I think that's about all of the news that's fit to electronically publish, so I'm going to scamper off to do something pseudo-productive. Like floss my nightstand. If anyone needs me, I'll be doing that. Exactly that.

--Ak out