The wheel in the sky keeps on turning.

Oh, I don’t know where I’ll be tomorrow.

The winds of change blow ever so softly through my mind quite frequently. Circumstances have required me to change jobs or houses or friend sets every year or every other year or so. I am now nearly two years into my job with The Man, which is fine, but I find myself getting restless. Nearly two years ago, in February of 2006, Mr. Burks was promoted by his company, the Evil Empire. In two months’ time, we had to find a new house, I had to find a new job, and we had to move to Georgia from Alabama. Barely six months before that, we had just bought our first home together. Since February of 2006, our lives have been in a constant state of turmoil, to varying degrees. Now that our house in Alabama has been sold and we will FINALLY be able to live a normal existence for the first time in nearly three years, I have been feeling restless. I feel like something needs to be upheaved.

We’ll see what happens.

Good News

Vaccines for ovarian and breast cancer in early trials.

Let’s hope they work. Wouldn’t that be wonderful?

To find out why this is important to me and many other people I know, visit Brittany Waldrep’s site.

This too shall pass.

My family is healthy, I am healthy, I have healthy animals, food on the table, and a roof over my head.

This too shall pass.

I have a great job with great people and great benefits and a great salary.

This too shall pass.

I have a very nice house and very nice things.

This too shall pass.

So what if my potential buyer for our house in Trussville is on the verge of backing out. I hope he doesn’t, but it will not be the end of the world if he does.

This too shall pass.

There are more important things going on in the world than whether or not that house sells.

Life is going to keep on going, same as it ever was.

This too shall pass.

A new year, a new desk calendar.

I love getting a new desk calendar at work. I love ripping off the plastic wrap and clearing the space on my desk for the brand new year. It’s fresh and clean. No stray pen marks, no appointments, no doodles made out of boredom during long hold times. Just like the new year, it’s a fresh new start.

It’s the little things, people.

In other news, we went to the Chick-Fil-A Bowl a.k.a. Peach Bowl on Monday evening to watch Auburn whoop up on Clemson. Well, not so much whoop up on as narrowly defeat in overtime. That was fun.

Mr. Burks is away on business until Friday. That means I get that lovely 42″ television all to myself. Think I’ll try to make it through the Arbiter’s Grounds in Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Maybe I’ll watch my new Harry Potter movie. The possibilities are endless. Endless, I say.

I really hate it when Mr. Burks goes out of town. Unfortch, he’ll be gone every week in January for at least two days, culminating in a week-long trip to Home Office at the end of the month. I hate it because I get so bored (let’s face it, he’s quite an amusing fellow). I end up watching TV until bedtime every night. Not only that, but I have to take both dogs out three times a day. Our dogs weigh over 60 pounds each, and I don’t like to take them out separately, so I have to deal with 120 pounds of dog pulling me in two directions at once. Hopefully the rest of the week will pass quickly.

It’s a short week at work. I just can’t seem to get back into the swing of things today. I don’t really have much in the way of work going on today, so I’m left trying to busy myself with mundane (read: boring) tasks. None of my usual blogs are updating very frequently, and I’m tired of reading about the Iowa caucus. I need some new websites to check.

In other other news, and quite possibly TMI, I have been off my birth control for about six weeks now. I still have not gotten my monthly. I have taken two pregnancy tests, both of which were negative. What gives? I either want a positive test or a visit from Auntie. One way or the other, something needs to happen. My upper back has been killing me since last night, and I have a splitting headache. My warranty must be up.

The Quote of the Day is not very thought-provoking, so I shall not bore you with it.

Have a wonderful first week of 2008.