A long time ago…

So yeah, I get a new job, hit the ground running with it, then promptly fall off the blogging planet. Really, I do blame the job. Most of the time, when I get up in the morning, I’m still groggy and out of it, and have a very short time to get ready for work and out the door. When I get home, I’m immediately hitting the shower to get cleaned up, as most of my day involves me running up and down ladders or stairs, hauling mannequins or large artwork, usually with little air conditioning or hot lights overhead. After that, all I want to do is not move, while various body parts yell at me for taking the job. Then it’s an early bedtime and we start it all over again. /sigh

The job itself is somewhat physically demanding. It depends on what day it is and what needs to be done. Two weeks ago, not a whole heck of a lot other than putting up new pretty pictures in little frames. This past week? Lots of ladders, lots of hauling, lots of racing around with no where near enough time. When you add in the various office politics and personalities, things get… interesting. My stress levels kinda peaked out Friday and i had a complete meltdown at work. A couple of texts and a phone call to another store’s visual department manager later, and I was a lot calmer. I’d helped the other manager earlier in the week at their store, and he reassured me that I was not sucking, i was doing a good job, and to just do what I could do. It’s always nice when someone says “Damn, girl! I wish you were closer to our store, cos I’d steal you away in a heartbeat, cos you rock!”

Oh and three weeks ago, Jared tripped at work and broke his elbow. /facepalm He’d been hoping that the doc would tell him he could go back to work this past week, but alas, he’s still healing and must stay at home some more, since work can’t accommodate his one-armed self. At least he’s got workman’s comp. ^^;

In more pleasant news, our insanely crappy internet connection will soon be a thing of the past. I need to make a phone call tomorrow to set it up, but we’ll be having a proper high-speed connection soon. Looks like it’s going to be just in time for a couple of new games that I’ve been waiting on: Diablo 3 and Star Wars: The Old Republic. I loved, nay, adored Diablo 2. Still do. There’s just something satisfying about starting at one end of a map and working my way to the other side, leaving nothing alive in between. Everything that I see on D3 just makes me more and more excited for it.

And then there’s SWTOR. When they made the announcement for it, I looked at Jared, who is a massive Star Wars fan. He said we’d absolutely be playing it, and there was no contest: we’d be playing Sith. I sighed and started looking into what little bit of information they had and started preparing myself to play Sith (just know I’m going to be the world’s worst Sith). As more and more information starting coming to light, the more excited I started getting. At this point, I’m bouncing, eager to play, and looking forward to “seeing” friends online again. Hell, I even went and upgraded my pre-order to the Collector’s Edition. We’d started getting the old guild interested in playing, but just ended up merging those from the old guild with friends in a new guild. Everyone’s still in the “getting to know you” phase, but it looks like it’s going to work out well.

I’ve been plowing through as much information as I can, and pretty much have decided to start with a Sith Inquisitor as my first character. I’m most likely taking her through the healer tree, but the DPS caster version is also tempting. SPARKLEDEATH and all that. The second character I make will most likely be an Imperial Agent, so I can pewpew again.

At this point, I’m ready to just go to bed til SWTOR comes out. By that point, we should have a better internet connection as well and hopefully work won’t suck as hard anymore. Well, one can hope. ^^;