The roller coaster has gotten to a high point again, or perhaps is climbing at the moment. Either way, things are up. Maybe no more low points 'till boot camp?

We've been getting a whole stinkin' lot of rain here the past four days, and I'm starting to have dreams about the sun actually come out, and then waking up to the constant grey skies that remind me I couldn't live in MN year-round, because I'd be too impacted by the winters there. However, yesterday and today I've been in a very springey mood internally, perhaps for no apparent reason. So I've been wearing spring clothes and my headpieces and other jewelry that I made or that has butterflies and other springeyness to it. And I've been eating really well for the past couple of weeks, including getting some whey protein and psyllium husk to add to my diet (the first to build lean protein to help my working out attempts, the second to add fiber).

My job is going well, and I've got full-time hours when I can and all the time off that I needed for the special events, concerts, babysitting jobs, etc that I already had scheduled before starting there. Of course, I haven't yet told them I'm shipping out in June, but I'll be putting in plenty of notice for that and won't be trained any higher (they're not expecting to train the next group 'till the end of May or sometime in June anyway) before I leave, so that really they're just getting more output for their original training investment (since I didn't need to be retrained 'cept they did give me the one-hour refresher course as it were), and not investing any more money into me. There is a certain amount of irony, in the whole concept of how I applied there last September with the idea that I'd be trained and then leave for NC soon, and it'd be fine because their turnover was high enough that it didn't really matter, and now I'm going to be leaving afterall and am currently working there.

So, that's the brief update. I'm gonna be seeing Rosie Thomas and Denison Witmer near DC this weekend, and there's a Celtic Festival on April 24th that I'm gonna be The Stage Manager for, which is terribly exciting. And there's lots of other exciting stuff coming up between now and shipping out.

And I'm getting myself all mentally prepared to write a lot of letters to bootcamp, since that'll be my only communication with the outside world.