Okay. Going to have to change the name soon...still no proper suggestions (no offense). Maybe Fummer Trying to Find Herself. Or Fummer who is about to take a blogging hiaitus. Did I spell that right? So, yes...Moving Day is fast approaching and will commence on Feb 3 weather permitting. I think I may have ironed out most of the wrinkles in the moving plan but it will all remain to be seen, huh?

But I am officially unemployed at the moment. I was given the boot yesterday after lunch. No more data entry and no more auditing. I remember when I thought I would never be done and then suddenly, it was finished. Now I can properly deal with the anxiety that accompanies the start of a new job. Yikes! Promise to blog again before starting hiaitus.

You know, I never REQUESTED that I get email solicitations for p*nis enlargement. WTF?!? Really. And since I'm on the subject of p*nises (is there a plural form, I wonder), this morning on my favorite morning show in Chicago (I can listen to it on the web) they had a guy on from "P*ppetry of the P*nis who can make his p*nis into different shapes. Now, how does one discover that he can make his p*nis into the shape of a turtle, hamburger, or Loch Ness monster? And I guess that the show is so popular that they are holding casting calls for men to be in the show in Chicago. I think he said that the shows have pretty much sold out world wide. He also says it doesn't hurt to perform p*nile manipulation. Not sure what I think about this. But since I'll be in that area in the next 2 weeks, maybe I should get some tix and see for myself...

I finally went. I saw it in real life. It was...beautiful. I saw the butter sculpture at the Farm Show. Hee! Actually, it was really cool and I had a good time with H. We had a baked potato and the best milkshake I've ever had. We saw lots of cows and horses and rabbits and of course, the butter sculpture. It was a cow this year and I got a picture of myself posing with it. We saw tractors and combines and horse pulling contests. Clydesdales are the biggest animals that I have ever seen in real life (not counting the elephant I saw at the Philly zoo when I was 12). It was so cool. I wish I had time to go back for "Sheep to Shawl" but I just couldn't make it.

And here I am in the Land of Data Entry with a stack of pledge forms 3.5 inches high...sigh...I think I'm only here for another week or so. I still haven't started packing or anything. I have so much crap to sort and put in boxes or throw away. I don't really like moving b/c it just involves so much packing and unpacking and it forces you to own up to your pack-rat tendencies. I guess it's a good thing in that respect. I should hear this afternoon if I'm approved for this apartment that I want. Keep your fingers crossed:> Yay! Big girl apartment for me! The imaginary apartment will finally be reality. Except for the decent furniture part but that will come in time. Besides, I'd just have to move it again in 11 months when I get relocated for a permanent placement. And next time, I'm hiring movers, dammit!

So much to do and too little time to do it all. Bleah. I'm still looking online for apartments and out of all the ones I've searched, only 3 are within 10 miles of my office. And I meant to start a little packing this weekend but I didn't get that far. By packing I mean dumping the papers out of my vegetable bin (soon to be a sock and underwear bin) and taking the bin to my dad's house along with the dog food and books and knickknacks, etc. Packing won't be so bad since I don't have all that much stuff here in Lanky and almost all the stuff at my mom's house is already packed in a box and taped shut. So I am leaving this week to go look at some places and hopefully sign lease by Friday pm so that I can head back to PA on Saturday. A big thank you to BANG! for the great pet resume for Shana:> Which reminds me that I have to call the vet. Gotta go!

Perhaps I should resolve to be better at blogging this year...I would like to note that I have successfully kept a resolution from last year and have continued into 2003. Brace yourself for this one: I floss regularly b/c of a resolution I made for 2002. I also made it in 2000 and 2001 but it didn't seem to stick. I am oh so proud of myself:> I'm still working on resolutions for this year, one of which will be to take more time for reflection which I am sucking at already...So, I guess I'll have to change my blog title now that I'm moving again. Any ideas, G? "Fummer in Cincinnati"? That's lacking some...punch, perhaps. It could be called "If Ya Smell What the Fummer is Cooking." Hee hee hee. I am so funny:> Well, back to work...

I.Finally.Got.A.Job. Wheeee!!!! Yay me! I am so very excited about getting a job and no longer being *second choice* for everything I interview for. La la la la la. And now that the waiting is over and I know that I am going to *Cincinnati* (yes, WKRP and all that) the panic has set in as I think about all that I have to do within one month's time. But I have health and dental insurance!!! So much to think about...And to think that I have to relocate within a year to a new organization is something that I cannot even begin to entertain. One thing at a time. Must find a new vet, bank, doctor, residence...whew...But first I must get back to work as there is trouble in the Land of Data Entry.