more people need to blog. i'm restless at work and there are no fun new little stories on anyone's site for me to read. how disappointing.

so i've been back from the philippines for almost a week now and i'm surprisingly not jet lagged. this friday i'm off on another trip, this time to puerto vallarta. sister, elaine, dale and i on a fun girly getaway. i look forward to it.

we finally have a CEO at work; he started yesterday. its still too early to tell how things will be changing, but it can't get much worse than its been. ever since i began working here, its been complaint after complaint... a bunch of increasingly disgruntled, underpaid, overworked people. my first week i was already looking for a way out, but decided to stick it out. i gave myself 1 year.

its been about 9 months now and i'm remaining positive. its really hard to be positive when i swear i'm surrounded by so many negative people. they just fuel one another. i really hope things improve quickly... for everyone's sake.

for my sake, i hope i can finally gain some footing in this place. i hope roles are finally defined and i actually feel like i have some importance around here. i hope i learn some skills that i can apply elsewhere. i hope i can finally use my brain sometimes. i swear i feel stupider on a daily basis. (is that possible?) i hope for a raise, but i hear it will be so miniscule that it won't count for much. i hope i can keep positive and stop letting all this negativity infiltrate me.

ugh.