Stuperbowl Sunday

Blech, I hate football. Even so, I still tune in to the Stuperbowl to watch the commercials. And because The BF wanted to watch it (I was hoping for the day-long Law & Order SVU/CI marathon but oh well).

It's been a long time since I blogged. Gave it up because the original one became too much of a burden and the new job I was taking on required a lot of my attention. Okay, so did World of Warcraft, I won't lie. That was my outlet at night...killing random Bloodmaul Goons and Daggermaw Lashtails helped relieve some stress. Then I finally took some time off at Christmas, time I wasn't spending working-while-I-was-trying-to-use-up-all-my-vacation-days or taking care of an ill loved one, and I burned myself out. (Shh! Don't tell the BF! I get Kara-keyed and now I stop playing? Sacrilege!)

So I'm trying to balance that obsession with reading, redecorating the house, playing with the dogs and (ahem) blogging again.

For those of you who care (and even if you don't), here's what has been going on in the life and times of some Chicken since I've been gone:

• My snarky girl got diagnosed with liver disease the morning I was leaving the country for a week - I cried halfway to London
• I got to go to Europe and see two new countries! Also had to go to NYC and had a nice long weekend in Florida!
  
• I KICKED ASS at work - took my market from a loss to a very nice profit and was named the manager who did the most for the company overall in 2007 (something I never dreamed would happen, any of it!)
• I had to deal with someone close to me being very sick, but am happy to report they are much better now!
• I started smoking again, although recently I've made it a no-no to smoke inside my house, so I'm not smoking as much
• I gained (ick) 10 pounds stress eating the past three months
• I started on home renovations I've wanted to do for years
• I will finally be roommateless (we're both happy) for the first time in years
• Hit 70 (finally!) on my warrior and met a few really cool people on WoW
• I realized that drama has no place in my life, and I took steps to make sure I didn't invite it in, and asked it to leave if it invited itself
• I came to grips (sorta) with turning 40 (it helps if you still look young enough to get carded for cigarettes!)

So you can see I've been busy and distracted and kind of moved away from the person I was when I wrote that "other blog" so long ago. I sort of wish I'd archived it on my hard drive through the very end, and not just through May 2006, but deleting it in a drunken state was so very me back then.

I'm not promising anything interesting, but I will try to post regularly. Sigh, I know I seem boring now, but I'm sure that old bitch will rear her cute blonde head every now and then and surprise you.

Damn the Patriots. I was hoping for a NE win.