The Official Polly Thread

[Polrena]

Since *someone* suggested it. ;D

My life the past year: work, gym, home, eat, knit, clean, sleep, rinse & repeat.

There has to have been a couple things that have spiced stuff up. Let me think.

When was my last update? I think I mentioned I work in foreclosures, and the market is getting ridiculous. I'm working 6 days a week now, so I don't get out much.

I did have a few dates with a nice guy who ditched me for his bi-polar, alcoholic ex on Christmas Eve. (Didn't tell me until the 27th, though. He said he didn't want to ruin my Christmas. How thoughtful.) One date with a graduate student specializing in aquatic weeds (and let us never speak of it again.) Nothing else and no one of note- yet made it through the Feb 14 and March 14th holidays with relative ease and very little cynicism.

I think I mentioned I joined Soldier's Angels, so my so-called "social life" consists of writing letters and sending packages to troops overseas. (And I read the DoD casualty report every morning, praying I don't see the names of "my" guys. Which makes me feel bad that I can can find any sort of relief at all while reading the names of those who gave all.)

I'm hoping to go camping and do some bellydancing once "tournament" season starts with the SCA. The bellydancing classes are going pretty good. I'm not much better at it, but at least I know more steps, and have more costume pieces.

I got Lasik vision correction for my eyes- no more contacts or glasses! Whee! That and the increased gym activity have made me feel much better about myself.

Um... car's dying, taxes are due, clothes don't fit anymore...have a mead and a date wine perking in their carboys... oh, and I'm taking online classes so I can get a real estate sales license, so I can be a property manager once the foreclosures slow down.

Whew. I think that's about as thorough an update as I can give, and, sadly, pretty much includes everything that's happened to me in the past six months or so.

What about YOU guys? Cough up the info, people!

[Celera]

Hey Pol, good to hear how you are doing.

Aquatic weeds, eh?

March 14 is a holiday? I mean, I know it's Einstein's birthday, and some other people's -- but that's a holiday now?

What a great time to be working in the foreclosure business! Assuming you get paid for overtime. That and I think I heard that Walmart is doing really well right now. I hope the rest of the economy sorts itself out soon, although I fear we haven't seen the worst of it yet.

Things are fine with me. I've been in a sort of wow-addict mode the last couple of weeks, so not much is going on right now at our house. But, then, at my age, too much excitement isn't good.

[Kielon]

March 14th is the male version of Valentine's Day. It is the present we get for going all out on V-Day. It is called ... ahem... Steak & ... umm... fellatio day. Trying to keep it adult-ish, or at least any 16-year-olds on here will have to run off to Google to figure that one out.

At least, that is what I assume that is what Polly is referring to. Honestly, I just found out about it this year.

[Windfoot]

Wow, I didn't find out about it until just now! That should be a stat! AND I should find a girlfriend...

Anyway, glad to hear from you Pol, and it sounds like (unattached notwithstanding) your life is going well! My life remains simple: work, then WoW (which is kind of like work, without the suing people), walking the dog, and coping with a 17-year-old daughter. OMG, and I thought guilds had drama!

Later!

[Vangelis]

My life is much the same as it has been, though my WoW addiction went through an acute phase in Jan-Feb as I leveled a new character to 70 - during AGM season at my three congregations and into the beginning of Lent!

The acute WoW phase is at least partly symptomatic of a lack of motivation around church life right now. As far as I can figure, this is a combination of having been in roughly the same place for 15 years, having been understaffed and overstressed for the last four years in my present parish, and being quite depressed about the current politics in my denomination. Not a great time for me at the church, sadly.

Home life has ups and downs for me - my wife and kids are constantly getting viruses which has added the complication of chasing after teachers for homework, not to mention leaning on the kids to get it done, to the usual list of family issues. On the bright side, my wife and I have been ballroom dancing for the last year (which is better than therapy for the relationship), my son is getting really good on his drums and my daughter continues to be a lovely little person... even if she is just hitting puberty (urg).