Starting Over - Again

My roommate moved out, but she brought my new roommate in and introduced her to me. I cleaned the room and rearranged things a little bit. But I still didn't have any space. I thought I'd have to do a real thorough cleaning of all my belongings and scatter a lot of items to the wind. I figured I would either give or throw them away, depending on usefulness and condition. I hold on to everything in my life. I can't let go. Hmmm... is that what "shrinks" call baggage? NAH!!

Anyway, my new roommate is very cool. I don't think we will have any problems, we seem to get along quite well. Her second day here, she put in a request for larger wall lockers and about an hour later we got the bigger wooden lockers like I had in my last room! I was shocked! It just never occurred to me to even ask! We have them down the middle of the room as a divider so we both have our little private areas. It's kind of nice. Kudos to her for thinking of asking about them. I was able to find storage space for almost everything now, so I can put off the cleaning out of my junk for now.

I'm very excited, I was able to get a professional PinUp artist to do a rendering of me! I'll be adding her banner to my blog when she sends it to me. Her website is www.karinadale.com. I love how she depicted me in a semi sexy outfit with the OIF (Operation Iraqi Freedom) insignia on the pocket of my dress, and me wearing combat boots and socks, and you can tell it's a palace as the background... well, I can tell... because I work there and know what it looks like! Yes of course you can see it!


I have had a few people say it looks like me (guys I know) and some say it doesn't (females). I figure maybe they don't quite understand what Pin-Up Art is. It is basic caricature. Anyway. I'm happy! So there! :)

I've been making plans to go to some classes around the September or October time frame. I want to get certificates for several things. I think they will look good after my name, kind of like degrees... titles... good stuff to have for job hunting after my contract here is up. And, speaking of which, I'm close to 6 months into the one year I signed up for, and even closer to having been with the company for four years! Time has flown by so quickly! My grandson is 7 weeks old already, and he has gotten so big! I get pictures all the time of the boys. They have all grown. I miss them very much. But before I know it, I'll be holding them all in my arms!

Well, I guess that's the updates for now. I need to get motivated to start writing my books again. I don't think writers block is supposed to last this long! Writing here in my blog helps me think about how my stories will go, but then after I hit "publish now" and check to see how the new entry looks... I forget the books! Ah well... I feel that good things will happen for me. Soon. Very soon.