I really need this blog right now.  You wouldn’t think so with the lack of updates, but maybe one day I can treat this as a daily (heck, even weekly) form of therapy.

Work has me completely swamped, I keep waiting (and waiting and waiting and …) on my freelance guy to get back with me (even though I consistently e-mail him, but have other projects to keep me very busy) and I have taken a brief three-week hiatus from my ALGB events.  I’ve promised so many things to so many other people that I can’t remember them from one day to the next (I’m especially thinking of you, Stephen.  I’ll get to your site soon!).

You throw all that together, and the fact I might be looking for a part-time job after work every day, and I don’t know if I’m coming or going.  I forget how therapeutic sitting down and typing all this out can be.

Some really cool things have happened the last couple of weeks at work.  Did you hear all the commotion about Taylor Swift coming to Auburn to hug a couple of guys?  Yeah, I was there and knew she was coming before most everyone in town.  That was last week, and this past Monday Rudy Giuliani came to campus, too.  I got to meet him and listen to him speak.  Very, very awesome man and very funny.  I’ll post the photos I got with him when I get them.  Next week also promises to be cool because at graduation, Apple COO Tim Cook will be the commencement speaker.  He’s an AU grad, and he’s Steve Jobs’ right-hand man.  I’ll get to hang out a little with him, too.  I do love my job.

While all those good things have happened at work, my personal life has been spiraling out of control on occasion.  I’m certainly not getting into a lot of details here for many reasons, but I’ve got to take some time away from all this other stuff for my family.  Amy and I really need to get away alone for a few days, but therein lies the problem of actually being able to afford a trip.

I really want to open up here and just vent all my frustrations about the last few months, but I won’t because I’ve got to maintain some privacy here on the Internet.  I might make a private post where I put all my thoughts down.  That way I don’t rock the boat with anyone in particular.  I don’t know.

I guess I can say I’m aggravated with life in general right now.  The money’s not there, the calm at home isn’t there, my freelance work isn’t there, I can’t finish my voice production site the way I’d like, etc.  I’m more prone to biting someone’s head off right now because of all this.  I even took two or three days at work last week where I didn’t say anything to anyone.  I even avoided lunch with my coworkers.  There are so many days I don’t feel social at all, and I hate that.  I love my friends and family, and I don’t like wanting to avoid them all the time.

I don’t want it to seem like I’m complaining all the time on here, either.  I’m sorry if I’m coming off that way.  I just have so much stuff on my chest, and I know it’s not important to you or many other people in worse situations.  However, it’s major to me, and this is my avenue of release despite me not saying too much here right now.

I’d better hop off and get in the bed.  I don’t want to chance saying something someone might take out of context.   Plus, I’d be surprised if you’re still here by now.  Maybe I can sit down with my “Life by the numbers” series again soon.  I always enjoy thinking of old times.  Then again, that could be where a lot of my problems start bubbling … missing my past too much.

We at Alabama Ghostbusters are working on a major project that will greatly benefit our charity appearances, but we need your help. If you are willing to donate money, time or services to achieve this goal, please send me an e-mail.

I can’t go public with it yet, but I can give you the details if you are willing to help us out.

I finally have a few minutes of free time to write some thoughts down.  This year has been one of the most hectic I can remember in awhile, and it’s only April.

My guys and gals in khaki are busy, busy and busy.  That about sums it up.  We have been to one convention in Tuscaloosa, had a workshop, a school clean-up in Auburn, the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Birmingham, a walk for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society in Montgomery and we have another Walk MS coming up in Huntsville.  So, yeah.  We’re a highly active group right now.

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WordPress finally released an app on Blackberry! Guess where this post is being written?

I just wanted to test it. Very nice!