Brief Update

Well it' s been more than a month again. And I can't say I haven't visited this site during that time; I have been catching up on your blogs! I keep checking the website and reading other blogs and thinking "wow I'm boring". But you know what? I've never been happier. I recently got out of a bad relationship. It's like a breath of fresh air. I spent almost 2 years being miserable, but now only have to think about ME finally. I recently moved into my "own place". Granted, my parents own it, but now (again), it's finally all about ME and what I want. (On a side note, I went out and bought a combo modem/router So, as I promised over a month ago, I will update you all on the remaining "topics" I had listed:

• Recently, the lady who runs our employee events and employee newsletters (things going on at work, weddings, babies, etc.) moved to another department in the hotel. So her role was open. It was filled briefly by someone else at the hotel, but she then decided to go back to her original department, so it was open again. Basically, I was handed all of the newsletters and any kind of graphic design stuff that the position used to do! Another lady I work with got the party planning stuff (which is fine with me) and now I get to be much more creative. It's GREAT!


• At the time I wrote my last entry, a Hungarian named Luca was living with my parents. She came to the US a year ago to work at the hotel, and my parents became her "host family" - basically, when they come work in America for a year, they're away from all their friends and family, and my parents would have her over for dinner, and to do laundry and basically be there for her. It was like having a roomate! She's my same age, and we talked about boys and family and life. She went back to Hungary, but it was nice having her around!


• My New Year's resolutions (Yea, they're pretty much all broken by now). Not much else to add. But again - I'm just happy.


• Don't remember about my reading list - but I haven't touched a book in a month. I should really start reading again!


• Phone Saga - I switched to a Samsung Instinct back in October. I hated it. Other than the phone calls and texting, it didn't do a single thing I wanted. So I switched back to a Blackberry over a month ago. Again, another breath of fresh air. I LOVE it!!! And I have 2 sparkling rhinestone-type cases. HEAVEN.


• Necklaces - for about a month back in Feb/March, I was making beaded necklaces like nobody's business. Well, that has slowed down a bit, but it was creative and sparkly and it felt good.

Whew. Well, that was my list. Hopefully another month won't go by before I blog again.

Memories almost lost...

I was going to Homecoming my senior year in high school, and my mom thought that I needed a necklace to complete the outfit. She lent me her James Avery “I Love You” necklace, which worked perfectly with the dress. You can even see where the silver is wearing off on it:

No one, at least that I’m aware of, in my family is deaf, but my mom had a special place in her heart for a nice deaf family that went to our church. They taught her the sign for “I Love You”, and I don’t know how it got started, but it became a daily staple in my family. Anytime we traveled anywhere, or were in a place where we couldn’t talk, we’d just wave “I Love You” to each other.

I never gave it back. I never wore necklaces before then, but I really loved that necklace. I still wear it every day, and I have since that dance in high school. If I don’t wear it, it’s almost like I feel “naked” without it. I actually bought a new one from James Avery a year or two ago, but I kept the old one and gave the new one to my mom, so I have the original sentimental “version”.

Flash forward to last night. I was getting ready for bed, and taking off all of my jewelry. I reach to take the necklace off, and IT’S NOT THERE. Now, I know I did not take it off myself, but I am absent-minded occasionally, so I thought that maybe I did but didn’t remember doing it, or where I put it.

It was not on any kind of surface in my apartment. Anywhere. So I panicked. Why did I panic?

Because I had just taken Bailey to run around the grassy area behind my building before bed, and I realized that the necklace could have fallen off at any point in the apartment, on the way to the field, or on the way back, and it was gone forever. I still didn’t want to think that I’d lost it, so I started to scan the floor of the apartment by the front door.

And there it was. Right in the middle of the living room. I just happened to look down and see the charm; I couldn’t see the chain. In recent months, the necklace has been coming apart a lot, with the hook just coming undone, and the necklace sliding down my shirt. So I was worried that had happened again, and it slipped right off without me noticing. I was just glad that the charm was on the chain when I found it, b/c if it had separated, who knows if I would have found either one.

So, I need to get a new chain, because I don’t want lose the necklace; for real or even if I just imagine I have. I will also probably have to get the silver cleaned at some point, to get rid of the icky black areas.