FRIENDS! Beautiful, faithful FRIENDS! Ah...How I have missed you. It has been too long has it not? Where have I been? Well...long story short I accomplished a vast majority on my "to-do list for the summer. SMOKED the Mt. Timp hike (I went with the Immies and the rangers were impressed how fast we made it up the trail), worked in the home garden, ran the 24th of July 5k in 42 minutes-woot woot!, welcomed my sister home from her mission AND saw her get married to a truly WONDERFUL guy, will NOT be going to grad school in Fall of 2011 because I...GOT A JOB THAT RELATES TO MY ENGLISH MAJOR! (Which means I'll need to re-vamp my blog title. Dang it!)
So...even though I haven't written in FOREVER (8 months) I did you a favor. See, the GOOD thing about me not writing is that YOU, dear readers, did not have to listen to me whine and moan and complain about being jobless and living at home in the basement. (I did enough of that in my REAL journal. After re-reading it the other day I am seriously contemplating burning it. It's kind of a downer the past few months. Not good at all.)
SO...My job. I actually have two. I am employed for a publishing firm and I actually get to edit NOVELS!!!!!!! It is GREAT!!! I am doing what I love. I do that whenever they call me in and for my 2nd full time job I am an SEO content writer for Overstock.com and no, I do not work from home. I get a desk and I work with fabulous people and I LOVE this job. As an SEO writer I write articles about the products we sell for the website, how-to articles and occasionally, blog entries for Overstock. Here's the link to my latest O Blog. The best thing about this job is that I got it on my own. I had SO many people offer to talk to someone they knew, or pushed me in crazy directions while I was looking. I know they were just trying to be helpful, but I really wanted to do it on my own and I did. I found the job posting, applied, interviewed and got this job all on my own without any inside help whatsoever. (The help I got from above is an entirely different matter.)
Anyway, so that's the big news of the day/week/year. :) I can't wait to get back into this full time and write! Believe me, I have PLENTY to talk about.
Anyway, love to all of you! I'm just so happy to be back...oh, and the fact that it is CHRISTMAS TIME once again! Do you have all your holiday shopping done? Are you waiting for the last minute because you don't know what to get yet or for the thrill of it? Can't wait to hear from you!
EM
P.S. Because you're here I want to give you a gift. Here you are. A clip to brighten your day:
You're China!