Ooooppps

I haven't been very good about blogging lately! Work has taken over my ENTIRE LIFE. LITERALLY. Last week was the worst of it - I was working til 8:30/9pm and wasn't getting home til after 10 and having enough time to quickly eat and shower and go to bed and repeat the next day. It's 2007 budget season right now - and holy fuck it's a lot of work. Nothing like it was a Georgetown, everything I do at BSC goes directly to the senior staff - the SVPs, CFO, and CEO. Everything has to be perfect. So I guess that means it's good experience - but it's totally draining!

So, I got my new license about a week ago - I was without license for almost a whole month. And that whole suspension thing wa such a mess, if I didn't have my mom to help I would have stabbed my eye out. It's SO NICE to drive again! Now I can actually leave the city and go hiking in the North Bay without having to rely on someone to want to go with me! And I'm also going to LA this month - I haven't been since April, so I'm dying to go visit my friends there.

I'm sure I had more I wanted to write here, but now that I actually have time I can't remember what I wanted to say!

OH yeah - I wanted to write about how lame I am and things such as my fish tank bring me great satisfaction lately! So, I've had fish tanks for like 8 years or more and I've never had big problems with them. I went to CT in July and came back to find my fish tank completely GREEN and cloudy! I had asked one of my roomates to feed my fish while I was gone and turn the light on for 8 hours a day.... I think she over-fed them and she never turned the light on (bad!). So, I tried to medicate the tank, but nothing worked so I had to do a complete overhaul and clean the ENTIRE tank out, even the gravel. The fish took it fine though, luckily (unlike when Dan and G changed the tank they have now with my old fish and they MURDERED THEM! KILLERS!!!). So, it was all clean and crystal clear again. A few weeks go by - and all of a sudden its green and cloudy again! I couldn't see anything in the tank, had to search to make sure my fishies were ok. So, I decided to try some different chemicals and change the food since I had read reviews that this food clouds tanks (I don't think I ever used it before I moved to CA). And guess what! I treated the tank with the new, more expensive, better chemicals and I woke up yesterday and it was almost clear!! I can't say how much that excites me and how LAME I am for being that excited about my fish tank! It just saves me sooo much trouble cleaning the entire tank again and hopefully by changing the food I have solved the problem - only time will tell.

Yes, this is the most exciting development in my life in the last few weeks. I'm a total loser.

Also, I booked my flight to CT for xmas - I'll be arriving on Dec 22nd and leaving on Jan 2. I'm excited to have such along time to spend, I'm not sure if I will be making a trip to DC or not. I'd like to, but mom is pressuring me to stay and "spend time" with them. Suuuuurrrreeee. At the very least there will be a side trip to Boston or NY, I have to see Kara bc its been over 2 years since I've seen her and that is damn unacceptable!

I must go to bed, I'm so glad Friday is tomorrow. I can't wait to get acupuncture after work and then do my weekly organic grocery shopping (omg, I'm sooooo San Francisco!) and then relax. I can go hiking this weekend too! It's also Fleet Week in SF, so Saturday might involve some sort of festivities. Speaking of SF festivities..... I went to the Folsom Street Fair a few weekends ago with Vlad, Vica, and Lenny.... it's an S&M fair.... holy interesting. I got some crazy pics of naked men dressed as piggies, women dancing in cages on cranes, and people being flogged. Shit you'd never see on the streets (legally) on the east coast. I'll have to upload some of the crazy pics at some point. This city is SO interesting!