What I've Been Up To

I am happy to announce that yours truly found another job. I will be starting in about a week. My soon to be former job was fine, for a while, but I needed to be somewhere where I had more interest in the company AND I would be getting a bigger paycheck. At this new job, I have more responsibility and more freedom to manage myself. I also move into a higher tax bracket (lucky me). It is an upgrade by all accounts.

In other news, I have finalized my plans for New Year's Eve. What will you be doing? It will be my second New Year's Eve away from my family (if my mother doesn't chain me to my bed to prevent me from going). I will not be "partying" my way into 2010. But, I will watch the ball drop in Times Square on the flatscreen in the "luxury resort hotel" room where I will be spending that weekend. If the website for this hotel is to be believed, I am in for an awesome time. Mimosas at check-in? Count me in!

As part of my goal to be fiscally responsible now that I have money to be fiscally responsible with, I have invested in a copy of Quicken accounting software. It is actually very useful, and if you are always wondering where your money goes, then you should get a copy. Or I can send you one--for a fee. Apparently I am big on shopping (newsflash) and I eat out a lot. I didn't know how much all this was affecting my account balance until I saw the information in a pie-chart. I need to cut back--or maybe with this new job I won't have to. Lol.

I am STILL working on writing stories for the short stories section. I know I said they would be "coming soon" but it is taking me a bit longer than I thought to get into the fiction writing "groove". It has been a while since I wrote an actual story so please bear with me.

Finally, I wrote a new Op-Ed. Check it out and tell me what you think. I know I haven't written one in almost two months, but life has been interfering! This whole blog updating thing is much harder than I thought!