Time out :)

So, I'm getting a nice little break from work for now up until the end of next week. Well, I still have to work a closing shift on Thursday, but with two days off for now, and then seven days off starting on Friday, that really seems like nothing when you look at it that way :) so today and tomorrow I can have a lazy day, lots of time for reading and playing pc games, doing whatever I want, or even going out if I choose to. The weather is cold, gray and wet today though, so I'm not sure if I'll feel like going out, even for a grocery run that I'll have to do at some point this week, but we'll see. That's the beauty of having all this time to myself, I can play it by ear and see what I feel like doing and when.

Then as of Saturday, Adam is going to have five days off as well, which is awesome since sometimes we struggle to even have one day off together in any given week. Often we'll go for even a few weeks without a day off together, so it'll be wonderful to have five lazy days to spend together. Well, Sunday I'll be off to a pantomime (my first one ever :) ) with his family while he stays home, but other than that, no plans have been made. Sunday night we can watch the Superbowl together, if he feels like staying up that late with me.

It's a really good feeling, having all this time ahead of me, with so many possibilities :)

NFC Champions!

I actually stayed up until 3:30 am last night watching the Giants play the 49ers for the NFC Championship. Thankfully I don't work today, so it doesn't matter that I'm tired and may need a nap at some point, because I wouldn't have missed that game for the world. Both teams really gave it their all, and it could've gone either way. Hats off to the 49ers for giving us one hell of a fight, I must say. Neither defense was budging an inch, to the point that it came down to overtime, and it took that botched kick return and our recovery of the ball with good field position for us to finally get the opportunity we needed to break the tie. Talk about nerve-wracking, LOL

The Giants have really had one of their typical seasons, looking great at times and then going through a slump, picking back up and just scraping by into the playoffs, then playing their hearts out and beating every opponent they meet, until it comes down to just two teams left. It seems every time they get this far, this is how it happened, and strangely enough, I'm actually more proud of them for it than if they'd had a perfect season all along. They never gave up when it counted, and even when there was just one last hope left, they came through, and are left standing now when all the other teams who had better records are going to be watching the Superbowl at home while the Giants go to Indianapolis to face New England.

It's such a wonderful day to be a Giants fan! And for anyone who doubted them, I knew all along they could do it! :) Superbowl, here comes Big Blue! :D

What's new?

In answer to that, not very much. It's been a really quiet time this month, I suppose everyone is in winding-down mode. It's gotten really cold out this past week, sunny the past few days but still not much warmer than a few degrees over freezing. It's had that look like it was going to snow at times, although it hasn't. Ironically, it looks like after today it'll start to warm up a bit, and that's when it'll start raining. If we had the rain now, it would be snow. Maybe today we could still see some. I do think it'd be fun to have just one snowfall this winter. Then I'm so ready for spring.

Work has been quiet and boring these past couple of weeks. I guess at least it's not stressful like it was at times during the Christmas season, but it's hard to get through 8 or 9 hours when time goes by so much slower. Some days we get to leave a bit early though, which is a nice treat. Sometime before the end of next month, I'll have a week off to use my paid time off before it expires. I think it'll be nice to have a week off to be lazy and get paid for it, certainly it's a novelty since I've never had that before.

And my free time is still taken up by all the new things we got at Christmas... plenty of new books to read, Heroes episodes to watch, games to play. Seems like my days off go by so fast, and there's never as much time as I'd like to do everything, haha. If only my workdays could go by that fast. But I guess that's why they say time always flies when you're having fun.

So yeah, not much new going on, just thought I'd write about it just to update though. But hey, one exciting thing is that the Giants are blazing a fire through the playoffs, and are in the NFC championship game this weekend! Could this be like the 2007 season all over again... *fingers crossed*

Skyrim adventures

So, here my cat mage is wandering through the mountains on Skyrim last night, minding my own business, looking for some special object that I was asked to find, when I come upon a giant. Normally, my cat-woman is a very peaceful creature and doesn't like violence, but this giant was big and scary and didn't look like he wanted to be friends, so I tried throwing fire at it. Well, that didn't go very well as the giant just gave me a good pounding and killed me in two seconds flat. Epic fail on that one.

So, my next go around the mountain, I avoid the giants but then get attacked by wolves. Luckily I'm getting a bit better with my fire-throwing abilities, and manage to fight off the wolves, and steal their pelts as well. Then back up the mountain I go, where I get to the top where I have to search, and run into bandits, who shoot arrows at me. Again, I have to throw more fire, kill them and steal all their stuff. Then I realize just how dangerous this quest will be when I'm attacked by more bandits, evil furry creatures, a giant spider (whom I wasn't able to kill, at this point I had to get Adam to get me through the rest) and an army of some creatures who looked like the walking undead and didn't seem very phased by my fire-throwing. By now I wish I'd never set foot on this mountain. Now that I have the relic I need, I'm giving it back to the guy who asked me to find it, selling all the stuff I pinched from the bandits, buying a horse and whatever else seems useful to me, and going back to a quiet life picking flowers, fishing, and pinching stuff. No more dangerous missions for this kitty.

lazy start to the new year

So, it's been quiet here after the holidays. Last night we took our tree down, so it really feels like a return to "normal" life now. And while everyone else has been back at work this week after having time off at Christmas, I'm just now getting an easy week this week with quite a few days off. After having New Years day off, I just had to work on Monday and then had the past two days off, and after working today I'll have tomorrow off, work Saturday, and then have Sunday off. Sometimes the schedule gets "weird" like that since they operate on a Friday-Thursday workweek instead of a Monday-Sunday one. But anyways, it's given me time to be lazy and play with my new stuff a bit. I've gotten to spend some time playing the Sims, reading my new Kindle books I bought with my gift vouchers, watching a few Heroes episodes, and last night I discovered Skyrim, the game that I got Adam for Christmas. He showed me how to make a character and what to do, and I can definitely see how it can get addictive. It's an adventure game, where you have missions but you can do as much freeplay as you like as well, if you prefer to ignore or delay your missions. And my character is a cat person called Tabby Rawrr, how cool is that? LOL :)

So yeah, it's funny how sometimes the more time off I've had, the lazier I feel and the harder it is to get moving on the days that you have to work again. At least today isn't like next week when I've got all early shifts. Uggh, right now I feel like that's gonna kill me, LOL :) Anyways, I suppose I should start getting ready to go soon. The sooner I get today over with, the sooner I can go back to being lazy for another day tomorrow ;)