Hi everyone! Didja miss me?

Man, it's been a long time! I miss you all. I suppose I could come out of my funk for a little while and let you in on my life.

The visit with the in-laws was great. (Granted it was almost a month ago...) It was nice to have family here and spend time with them. Gerald's mom and I went to the Farmer's Market, and I found some yum honey and I rekindled my love for fresh pineapple. I'll never eat the canned junk again! We ate at a Brasilian Steakhouse where they cart around meat-on-a-stick and let you stuff your gills with a carnivore's delight. Lamb is my new favorite fancy-meat! We may attempt to grill some for Monday. We'll see...

Hmm, what else? My cousin's coming in town next week. She's going through training w/ Glaxo in RTP to be a drug rep. She'll be here for almost a month. It'll be great seeing her, even if she's going to be super busy when she's here.

We've got a new director at work now. That brings our count up to 3 DE's with a kid-count of about 160. I'm in charge of switching our Study Skills students over to the updated program, and I've done a little of it so far; just hafta do the rest on Monday (maybe tomorrow afternoon?). I'll be the one to train new teachers on the program, etc. I'm excited for it. We've all been looking forward to this program since the early part of last year.

I've started pilates classes! The exercises look alot easier to execute than they really are. I suppose if I were smaller (less mass; take up less space) it would be much easier to move my body through space. I'll get there eventually. So far I've had 2 classes; one tower and one mat, and both of them KICKED MY BUTT. Well, my abs and back really. I'm enjoying the work and I know I'm doing something good for my body. EVERYONE should do pilates!

I've been really blue lately. Today marked yet another day I stayed inside my house watching Trading Spaces. I don't know why, but I'm VERY reluctant to reach out to anyone in our neighborhood. There are plenty of people to meet and make friends with. I really don't think I've been this shy before. I know when we first moved to NYC I was petrified of going out of the apartment because it felt like people were looking at me thinking "She doesn't belong here. She's new to this." I guess I don't want to feel that way in my own neighborhood. I tried making friends with our next-door neighbor (the one we bought the house from), and I like her. It's difficult to connect with her though because she's a single mom who's super-duper busy! Then there's the young almost-married couple across the street. Gerald chatted with him one day and we've both spoken to the girl; it's rumored that they give great parties in the summer, so I'm hoping for an invite there.

I guess I just hafta get off my tushie and do some work to this house, then invite people over. But what are we going to say, "Hi, I don't know you, but please come to our house and be our friends..." I don't think that works, really. I don't know.

*sigh*

So if I can't have my back-home friends (and that includes NYC), I can always count on my Friends, right? Chandler just got new glasses, even though nobody noticed, and Phoebe and Monica are trying to figure out Phoebe's grandmother's recipe for chocolate chip cookies. (It's an old FRENCH recipe.... tee hee!) I haven't seen Rachel or Joey recently. They must be out on Joey's Mr. Beaumont.

I'm a sick person.