This is the first week in two months that I’ll have had to work 5 WHOLE DAYS. And OMG… I’m exhausted!!! And it’s only Wednesday (it is Wednesday right???). How did I do this before? (Oh.. stop with the “poor you” boo hooing.. really…. I get it)

Anyway.. because I’ve been to lazy busy to get some Christmas pictures loaded onto Flickr, you’ll have to settle for a Wednesday ramblings, a la bullets! Woot!!

• My skin has been unbelievably dry for the past month. Like “chemistry distilling apparatus that you accidental let boil so bone dry it exploded and the university forced you to pay $40 to replace it” dry (Not that I ever did that….once). My neck and face are taking the biggest beating. I promise you.. I’ve gone thru a gallon of this and this since October.
• The Hubs and I got gym memberships for the New Year. I went yesterday and I swear I feel better. My arms will hate me tomorrow.. but I do feel better.
• I was finally able to go to Trader Joes in Nashville last week. Quite frankly, I don’t see what all the fuss is about.
• Week 5 and our sofa is still not here. Boo….
• I’ve decided, once again, to grow my hair out. I don’t know why because in about 12 weeks I’ll hate it and chop it all off.. then I’ll be sad I have super short hair again. It’s really a vicious cycle I put myself through every.single.year
• I have a birthday coming up soon. I’m going to be O.L.D. Le sigh….
• Yesterday, Knoxville got the same amount of rain (in one day) that we typically get in the whole month of January. Yeah… like.. that much. It’s rained at least 2 or 3 days a week for the past month. I’m over it. STOP.FUCKING.RAINING.ALREADY.
• I may possibly need to increase my dose of Vitamin D (re: previous bullet). I wonder how long the tanning bed place is open……?
• My sister broke her self last weekend in the dessert (Hellooooo Shagomatic! I hope you are reading this from the comforts of a drug induced state!). She had to have serious back surgery on Sunday. She’s doing well (as far as I know.. we’re still playing phone tag…) but could use the extra thoughts and prayers if you’ve got any to spare.
• The Husband, myself, and our two (married to each other) friends D&E went to Dollywood on the First. We froze our kajuggas off riding roller coasters but had a good time.
• Our trip to Dollywood was a much better time than the night before where we (again: Hubs, me, D&E) stood in the cold, at an alcohol-free event (yes people.. .ALCOHOL FREE.. on NEW YEARS EVE) counting down 2008 with a gajillion people (who should have also been sober but were NOT) while freezing our kajuggas off. The husband was in a cranky mood and we were SOBER. NOT FUN. In hindsight.. we didn’t plan very well. You see.. we usually host a party but this year I just wasn’t feeling being a hostess. So we decided to go OUT for New Year’s. We were suppose to see a movie at 7 pm, then hit up the local brewery/grill from then on and ring in the new year toasty and toasted. However.. when we got done with the movie, the brewery had a 3 hour wait. THREE.DAMN.HOURS… which meant we wouldn’t be seated until mid-night. Well.. that plan was shot. We were at a loss and with no other plans, and found ourselves at Knoxville’s “First Night” celebration. Which.. was LAME-O. Couple that with the cold weather, cranky husband, and booze-less-ness and well.. you have yourself a Craptastick time. Yip-effing-iee
• The Engineer and I will be resuming our annual themed New Year’s party in 2009. So now I need a theme. Pajama party and 80’s prom are out, as we’ve done those before, but if you have a theme idea.. please send it my direction.
• I had that dream again. You know the one: Where I’m taking a class but I can’t remember the last time I went to it (or if I’ve ever gone to it) and I’m trying to decide if I can still try to pass the class or if I should drop it. This time it was a Dictionary Lexicon class. WTF right?? And I was skipping class the whole week because of my birthday, which also happened to fall during football homecoming (which.. in real life, is not even possible) and I couldn’t even remember the last time I had gone to the class… because it was at 7:30 on Friday mornings. I woke up just as I was trying to figure out how to drop the class and still maintain full-time student status. It took a good minute to remember that I’m no longer a student. Ugh… I hate that dream!
• I had my 6th dental crown put in last week. I’m very happy with the work my dentist does and while the process is old hat to me by now (1 root canal and 5 crowns later), this was the worst one by far. We kept having problems getting the bite on the temporary right (we never did get the bite right) so I went around for a month with the worst headache in the world. I’m very happy to have a permanent crown with a proper bite in place now.
• The weather people are calling for snow tomorrow. I’m guessing it will likely be rain and they are just telling us ’snow’ to keep us all from killing each other.
• I’ve taken down 90% of the Christmas decorations in our house, but have failed to put back the normal decorations, so our house looks a little empty. However, the Christmas boxes are still laying about everywhere 1/2 full of Christmas stuff…so it really just looks like we’re moving into/out of our house. I sense the husband is getting a little irriated with the current limbo of our decore so my goal for this week is to get things back to normal.

And finally

• I went to a 2nd round interview yesterday and got my first ever “We really love you but you’re over-qualified”

You know it’s bad when you contemplate if you’d rather be over-qualified and underpaid than overpaid and under-utilized.