Archive for January, 2009

That’s my thought about how long it’s taken me to come write another post. Jeebus, January is only a week away from being over. I really need to get on this.

I was telling a friend the other day that my favorite blogs are ones that are written as if they are talking to you about their every day life. But another thing my favorite blogs share is that they update regularly. At least once a week, preferably 2 or 3 times a week or even more. So I would like to make it a goal to write at least once a week here. I think it would be a little less overwhelming to think of a topic to write about if I write more often, because there won’t be so much to update on, and I can be more specific. So yah…I’m putting that out here so you all can help hold me accountable! Make sure to yell at me if I’m not holding to the once a week thing. Unless I’m having a bad day – then don’t yell. Tell me I look beautiful and that I should have some chocolate.

Everyone else on the internet talked about the inauguration (or at least it seems like it), and so I want to mention it too (I’m a total sheep). We DVR’d it, because Ryan and I both had to work and can’t really watch the streaming video while working. That worked out nicely because we could fast forward through the boring stuff at the beginning and get right to when Biden and Obama did their swearing in. I missed part of Obama’s speech because I had to go to the gym to have my free personal trainer session (poor planning on my part, I know!), but we still have it saved so I’ll probably watch it tonight while Ryan’s working or something. Does anyone else just love to listen to President (!) Obama speak? Because I do. He’s so eloquent, and doesn’t dumb down what he’s saying – and he isn’t afraid to say that things will be hard, and that we’ll all have to make some sacrifices. I would much rather hear that truth than someone saying “Oh, it will all be ok – just keep going like nothing’s changed.” ANYWAY, you don’t care what I think about public speakers, so I’ll stop there.

OH! Speaking of Obama and the inauguration – Ryan and I were heading to the bank Tuesday around 11 to go combine our checking accounts and such, and he got in the car and said “Obama is taking over the internet!” I laughed, but was totally confused. It turns out that because of all the people watching the video and listening to streaming audio on the web, it was putting a lot of pressure on the router that his company uses to direct all that traffic (did I mention he works for a tech company? he does). So they had to scale back how much some people were using, because otherwise it was taking up too much space or something. That had never happened before, so it was kind of a big deal to them.

That story totally sucks, mostly because I have NO IDEA about anything about computers or the internet (don’t tell my coworkers – they think I’m a COMPUTER GENIUS!). Oh well. Most of you are used to it anyway – I’m just not a good storyteller. I just thought it was funny that Obama was taking over the internet.

Moving on, did you know the White House now has an official blog? Because I think that’s awesome! Here’s the link: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/

Well, that’s about all I have to say for today. I should probably get some work done. My goal is to get my desk cleaned off today. It is a disaster currently, and is kind of stressing me out. As a side note – does anyone else find that if there is a mess somewhere, it makes it very hard to do other work, even if you know that work should be a priority over cleaning the mess? Because that is a constant problem with me. And yet, do I clean my mess of a desk? No. Because I would apparently rather be stressed out and thinking about it while trying to do my “real” job. My life is so difficult. I know.

Happy Thursday, everyone. It’s almost Friday, and that’s good enough for me!