- i probably did in fact leave some conditioner in my hair that morning, because i was using this new conditioner because i colored my hair and it's supposed to make the color stay longer (p.s. i DO look good as a redhead, fyi) and i probably just didn't rinse well enough. it's tough to tell with that stuff because it makes my hair really slick in the shower. however, i think also that b has been using my hairbrush when he puts gel in his hair because even after i changed to a different shampoo and conditioner, i was still having issues with my hair being greasy until i changed brushes then voila, no more greasy hair.

- i went to the WAKA Founders Cup national tournament in las vegas oct 10th. it was a blast. bryan couldn't attend with me, which was really weird. every time i've been to nationals before it was to support him so to be there without him at all was crazy but because it was in las vegas, it meant that i got to hang out with emily who i haven't seen since she was in our wedding, more than three years ago. it was great to have a girls' weekend with one of my very bestest friends. we need to hang out more. crazy to think that we only marched together for one year, back in '97, and yet we've been friends ever since. coming up on 13 years. wow.

- anyway, we had a great time and i'm glad i went, even if it was without bryan, but on the way back, i managed to catch something and i came home with a sore throat. the next morning i woke up stuffed up and coughing. i got back on wednesday the 14th, worked the 15th & 16th, and now it's saturday the 17th and i feel like total crap. i need to get better fast because all of next week, oct 19 - 23, i'm supposed to be in SharePoint training for work. it's the third time it's been rescheduled so i can't miss it.

- meanwhile, we're going through some crazy changes at work that i couldn't really talk about at first but now it's out in the open. my team got moved from one department to another. the web site now fully resides in IT, instead of half in IT (applications development) and half in Public Communications (where my team was). it's been a really big political move because before, in pub comm, we were not really able to have the financial or technical backing to do what we really wanted to do, and were kindof treated like a redheaded stepchild that was just there to serve the needs of the tv studio, which was the department head's real focus. now we've got everybody in the city looking at us going "well, what are you waiting for? wow us! right now!"

- of course, along with that comes learning new technology. we now have to coordinate getting all of our work run through the helpdesk software, plus learning new timesheet procedures, and just learning in general how a whole new department functions. but we also are in the process of converting all of our internal functions over to Microsoft SharePoint which is... ugh. it's a huge deal and a ton of work and ultimately probably going to be pretty cool but in the mean time it's going to really make my brain hurt and probably going to make many of us want to scream and gouge our eyes out.

- also, they took away my room with a door and put me in a big grey cell with 4 other people in cubicles, each less than half the size of the space i had before. however, being that they stuck the whole web team in this grey cell with cubicles, we're all standing there going "this has got to go." we're making plans for roller skating rinks, basketball hoops, painting the walls, beanbag chairs, our own kitchenette... we gonna do this up right, y'all!

- yes, i just said "y'all". shut it.

- i haven't been to the gym in months and i feel awful about it but life interferes. i've been carrying around my gym bag in my car week after week with the intentions of going but then things come up and i just haven't gone. i'm trying to at least get my diet back under control but i have to be careful with that because i know how easy it can be to become like totally obsessed with that, and then suddenly i have an eating disorder and that's no good either. i need to find time to get up from my desk and just go walk around the building or something.

- i haven't been doing much sewing but i need to get back to it. it makes me happy to have something tangible and finished that i can hold in my hands. i made a couple t-shirts a couple weeks ago. one worked, one didn't. i should post pics. maybe i did already? i don't remember. anyway, today i've picked back up a pencil skirt i started working on in the spring but tossed on the "this sucks and i will probably never finish it" pile. the pattern was totally wrong for my body and had i done a muslin, i would have known that, but i didn't, so i didn't. the waist hit me at the hips and had to be taken in about 4" to make it sit at my waist, then the hip curve was all wrong and it didn't taper enough plus it was like a foot too long (though once i made it sit at my waist it was only about 6" too long) plus at the time i was much skinnier so it was just plain too big but now that i've gotten fat again it fits really well. lol silver lining to being fat?

so i think we're mostly caught up now...