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Quick summary:

- Mom passed away on Feb. 24th around 1pm. I know she’s in a better place and no longer in pain, but it’s still hard. Thank goodness for friends, family, and Bruce.

- My boss got fired and somehow I’m running the store, at least in the short term. I swear I was in a similiar position about a year ago. Why does this keep happening? Honestly, even if I get an actual promotion to Store Manager, I’ll probably quit soon after as I just can’t hang with our new District Manager. He’s just… ugh.

- Bruce is coming into his own as a puppy. Which is both very good and very bad. He’s been on a hyper streak the past few days. Now that it’s warming up and he’s not chicken to walk down the front steps on his own I’m going to start taking him on longer and longer walks to get that energy out. I need to take more pics of him, now that I think of it…

I think that sums things up. Life has sucked, been crazy, been good, been depressing, been fun, been whatever.

The next two days really need to hurry up and fly by. The drive (8 hours there and then 8 hours back) is going to be hell, but I want my dog already, damnit. Hopefully I don’t go flying off of a mountain because of the snow or something…

I’ve wanted a Boston Terrier for over 2 years now, but something has always prevented me from getting one (lack of money at the time, unable to find a local breeder, none available at local shelters, etc.). While I was over at a friend’s for a Super Bowl party tonight, I played with his Boston named Roxy and it made me want one even more. What makes it worse is the fact that Roxy almost became my dog as my friend’s wife was going to make him get rid of her for nipping one of their kids on the hand, but they decided they just couldn’t give her up (and I see why - she rocks).

I did my usual web search for Bostons that I do every 1-2 months in the hope of finding one in a shelter or at a decently priced local breeder (the one local breeder I can find is in Suffolk and she wants $1500 for her dogs - no thanks!). Lo and behold, I actually found something this time. I shot off an e-mail to the lady, so here’s to hoping this will work out and I’ll finally have my dog in a month or so.

Oh, and woot for Peyton and his boys!

I really wish I could kill some brain cells right now and get some stuff out of my head… Here’s to hoping some sleep will fix this.

A new year. A new blog. We’ll see where this one goes…

Despite the fact that the year has started out on the absolute worst possible note (Mom has been in the hospital since New Year’s Eve and won’t be coming home - yes, that means what you think it does), I have so many plans for ‘07.

• Get my financial status back in shape.
  • Build an actual emergency fund (I’m opening a high yield savings account at Emigrant Direct or HSBC Direct with my tax refund)
  • Get off my ass and get the hell away from Game Crazy (I stuck around there out of convenience, laziness, comfort, and the fact that I had a flexible schedule so I could help take care of Mom - though I guess that last part is a bit moot now)
  • Stop wasting money on so much pointless shit (this includes games and eating out)

• Finish what I started over two years ago with my weight loss. I’m 1/2 of the way there, and even backtracked a little with all of the stress of the past few months. I’m working on sucking it up and whittling away that last chunk of flab. I want to be down to 140-150 by summer’s end. That’s supposedly my “healthy” weight range.

• Read at least one new book a month. So far so good:
  
  • World War Z - finished while in Rochester, NY for New Year’s
  • The Millionaire Next Door - working on this one right now

• Crank out a new website design every 1 to 1.5 months for Logikai as per Malfoy’s plan. My first design is due in a week or two - we’ll see if I can pull myself out of my design slump of the past 1-2 years.

• Actually maintaining a blog for longer than a month…

• Other random crap I can’t even think of right now

We’ll see how much of this goes according to plan…