Maritzia’s Thoughts

The Parade magazine has a poll up.  Let’s go see if the fatties can make a difference.  At the moment it’s 70/30 for charging fat people extra.

Yep…that’s right…it’s the anniversary of my birth.  46 today.

I’m celebrating by announcing my latest on-line venture:

Administrative Arts

Okay…so it’s only interesting if you’re a secretary…but I’m still rather proud of it.

I don’t usually get too political on this blog, but today I am.

The Senate has passed the bill providing an extension to the warrantless wiretapping and providing immunity to the telecommunications companies that provided information to the government illegally!

Write to your Congressman and make clear that you do not want the House passing the same bill. Then write to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and make clear the same things.

I made clear in my statements that I was totally against compromising the freedoms we enjoy as Americans. Actually, I was quite eloquent. Too bad I can’t remember now what I wrote then *laughs*.

Anyway, get your pens out, boys and girls (or your keyboards as the case may be). This is democracy in action. Stand up for your rights and freedoms!

Have you ever had someone who just drives you nuts from A-Z?  I just spent some time with one who may be a nice enough person, but everything she says tends to just scrape my nerves raw.   Luckily, I don’t think I’m going to have to work with her too much, because if I had to spend any length of time with her, I’d be running out of the room ripping my hair out.

*sighs*

There, I’m better now.  I don’t want to turn this into a whining journal.  I just needed to say that.

It’s been that kind of week.  I’ve got my sleep patterns all messed up because of a couple of late meetings this week.  I didn’t get home until 9 and was too wound up to go to sleep immediately, so was up until 11 or 12.  So, I’m seriously sleep deprived.

However, the campaign work is going very well.  I’ve been made the Secretary of the local campaign, Whatcom for Obama.  They seemed hesitant to ask me, because lets face it, not many people like to do administrative work.  But it’s something I’m good at and I like to do it (I ought to since it’s what I do for a living), so they were thrilled to have me agree to it.  That also means I’ll be working with the steering committee for the local campaign as well.

Good news is Barack Obama is coming to Seattle on June 1st!  Anyone in the area that wants to go, tickets can be purchased at https://donate.barackobama.com/page/contribute/seattlekickoff.  A bunch of us from Whatcom County are carpooling up there.  If you’re a deep pockets kind of person, there’s a more intimate gathering later in the evening.  I believe the minimum price for that is $500 (I’m going from memory, don’t quote me on that).

In other news, my sister just got a new job.  She was really struggling with which direction to go and was watching for the Divine to make things clear.  Well, he did.  The second job that she really wanted decided to put hiring on hold indefinitely, so she’s taking the first offer.  It’s a great job, too, but requires her to move to a small town in Nevada from Texas.  Well, at least she’s already used to the heat *laughs* and the town is close enough to Las Vegas that visiting will be much cheaper.

And now I must dash back off to work.  Much to do….much to do.

My sister-in-law is just an amazing individual.  She’s one of those people with so much energy, you get tired just being in the same room with her!  But she puts all of that fabulous energy to good use.  She does management consulting in the video games industry, which, as we all know, is not exactly the bastion of feminism.  She does a huge amount of charity work (she was President of the Board of Directors for Room to Read Canada), and she is extremely active in the sport of Ultimate.  She has been on several championship teams, and last year in Finland, her team (the Canadian National Team) won the gold medal at the World Ultimate Championships.  And this was at the age of 41!

Anja has been working in England for the last year or so, and while there she has been active, of course, in the Ultimate scene there.  Well, I just heard that Anja has been asked to coach the British National team!  Hooray for Anja!

Ladies, if you want a female role model for your children, Anja is you gal.  She’s smart, funny, caring, energetic, fit, and never gives up.  She works in a male dominated industry and gets ahead not by being catty and petty, but just by being really fabulous at her job.  Anja, this one’s for you, hon!

Yay….two updates in a months time.  Am I awesome or what *laughs uproariously*

I’m back on the study meds (milnacipran for those interested) and back up to the full dose, so I’m once again feeling well.  Well enough, as a matter of fact, to make a 3.5 mile hike on Saturday!  Of course, I was done in for the rest of the day, but that’s okay.  Besides, it gave me a good excuse for losing miserably at Canasta that night!  I do love playing Canasta, and luckily Mark’s mom and sister don’t mind that I’m such an incredribly poor loser.

We had a quiet New Years.  Mark’s aforementioned mom and sister came up on Thursday and stayed until Sunday morning.  We had a great time with them here.  Mark made a nice roast and a huge pot of potato soup, which we just finished off last night.  Anja, the sister, brought some wine, which we all enjoyed, and a nice bottle of Bailey’s, which we haven’t opened yet.  We like to have the Baileys in a nice cup of hot chocolate, but it hasn’t really been cold enough for that yet.  We walked, we talked, we laughed and played with the dogs.  All in all, it was a great visit.  We were sorry to see them leave.

New Year’s Eve was quiet except for a brief sprut of fireworks.  Luckily though, it was wet out, so we didn’t get the sustained racket that we’ve had in years past.  Mark played EQ most of the weekend and I watched several Law and Order marathons.  I actually saw a few episodes I haven’t seen before.

I’m now working on some research for the rewrite of the book.  Wiebke and Anja have read it, and I know Wiebke plans on letting some friends read it, but I’m going to limit it there until I do the rewrite, because I know I can make it better.  I’ll still have to take a bit of license with the history of the West Coast Trail, where part of it is set, but that’s okay.  I doubt most people will even notice it.  And it’s not like more than a handful of people will ever read it.  I just want to make it as good as I can.  In addition, next years NaNoWriMo is already percolating in my head.  It feels good to be really creative again.  I’m really enjoying the process of writing.  I’m really glad I came across NaNoWriMo.  It helped me with the discipline I needed to actually write something.

Work is good, but just a bit stressful at the moment.  We had to let two people go, so we’re very short handed.  But I’m still loving the job and a little hard work never killed anyone *grins*.  At least I don’t think it has.  You never know.  It’s a good thing I enjoy the work, though.

That’s about all that’s fit to print.  I know, I know…I live a very boring life.  But at least it’s a life I enjoy *laughs*.

I saw this article linked over at JeanC’s.

http://www.spokesmanreview.com/breaking/story.asp?ID=8223

Now *that* is what the spirit of Christmas is all about!  No fan faire, she didn’t seek publicity and hardly gave people a chance to even see who she was.  Talk about angels.

It’s at a big plant down in Ferndale.  It’s the only job I’ve applied to that would be in the same salary range I had at Western.  So, keep your fingers crossed, say prayers, send positive energy…whatever it is you do.

Thanks much!

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