It was the sled!!

So I think it's time to just post a plain old update. Here 'tis: I am now working 7 days a week in order to mend my current situation of having to pay my rent in increments. At least I have two different jobs, which breaks things up and fends off monotony--although my life is anything but monotonous at the moment. A good heavy dose of personal tribulations, being at some job or other every single day, finishing up my fundraiser, keeping up with my dance troupe, trying not to ignore my friends and attend about a zillion impending holiday festivities is proving to be quite a full plate. Yow. And then there is my cat, ricocheting off of the back of the couch and scooting butter boxes around on the floor with her nose. I suppose things could be worse.

I definitely need to follow up on my PCD Spooky Walk. For those of you who participated, I can't thank you enough! It was a huge success; much more than I imagined it would be. I had begun to get very discouraged about two weeks prior to the walk itself--I was missing work and spending every moment of my conscious life planning for it, but truly didn't think we were going to get much response. Well, people came through in spades. I am so humbly grateful for everyone's help and their dedication to the cause. For those who didn't get my email with the latest total, here's the scoop: with more money on its way, we currently have $4,199 in funds raised from the walk!!! I get so overwhelmed with joy thinking about this you would think the money was all for me! I suppose that in a way it is. My brother and I, as well as a thousand other patients nationwide, will all benefit from the PCD Foundation being able to operate for yet another year, promoting awareness and research for this truly bizarre medical phenomenon we have to contend with.

In other news, I am working weekends at Stone Brewing Company, and boy howdy is it getting fun! The restaurant is open, and it is a wonder to behold. Truly. It is a surreal landscape filled with warm wood tones, polished granite, stands of bamboo, concrete, towering asymmetrical rock walls, fountains, trees, a rock spouting leaping flames over a pool of glassy water...it is magical at night! And of course, there is fine beer, wine, and munchables. I'm not advertising, I'm just telling you that it's dang cool. The only thing I have to complain about is that it is much too much fun to hang out there and I tend to spend many hours after work lounging in the sybaritic atmosphere. Quite a few of my fellow employees are having the same trouble as me--we just can't leave!

I also want to draw your attention to my newly updated profile. Just so's you know, I find it rather tedious and un-entertaining to leave my occupation the same week after week. So I change it. Telling the truth is really boring, too. So if you need an extra four seconds of amusement in your life, make sure to check my profile out periodically. I try to update my occupation and my question/response thingy about once a week. Yes, I am that out of touch with what my priorities ought to be! And that easily amused.

I will have to further this update later because I am just now noticing that it is nearly 1 a.m. What in the world am I thinking? Remind me to tell you about my new gas mask next time...