All the lego without the mystique... or maybe its the other way around...

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

I'm feeling inspired...

The worst thing you can ever do for yourself is get a 9-5 job and then go on two weeks vacation.

Its been quite a ride since I first started "blogging":

When I first ventured into this realm of cyber ponders and techno babble, I had just entered university, a bright-eyed eager first year student. I spent my days eating carbs and drinking coffee, complaining about professors and bad weather, and judging everyone and everything.

Now I am a grownup:
-I wake up at 6:30am every day to get to work for 8:30am.
-I brew my own coffee in my super cool coffee maker with timer.
-I pay bills and buy things like swiffer refills and kitchen sponges.
-I have not eaten a poutine in almost a year.
-I wake up sometimes in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, thinking of all the things at work I forgot to do.

I have to say that I have adapted quite well to this adult lifestyle. For someone who used to throw blind fits when woken up before noon, I function surprisingly well before the sun rises. Fattening "college" food has become a thing of the past, and I have traded them in for calorie reduced salad dressings and lean meats. And though I spend a lot of time avoiding any real responsibility at work, I have somehow managed to convince people of my work status credibility.

But-
All this progress was thrown out the window last week.
And how, you ask?

I went on two weeks vacation.

I felt my first taste of freedom a little over a week ago and spent the next five days on a euphoric high, running on pure adrenaline. It became night after night of bar hopping and french frie eating. I was suddenly invincible and my life became a place where I could down vodka and red bulls until 4am, where I could meet boys and regret them the next day, where I could tell my roomate what a douchebag hagface she was and wonder why she wasn't talking to me the next day, and where I could play video games until sunrise without feeling any shame.

Now this is all good except-
When you are used to waking up at 6:30am every morning, your body becomes incapable of sleeping in past certain hours. Five days in a row I would crash at around 5-5:30am and wake up no later than 8:30am. But thank god for second winds right? and third winds and fourth winds and fifth...

Needless to say, I crashed around day six and am still recovering three days later.

I never want to go back to work again.
I am becoming a full-time vacationer.

and Oh ya...
Merry Christmas and stuff.
I still don't understand why people buy so many fricken presents.
Don't they all just become obsolete and meaningless after you open the tenth present or so?