good things

Didn't I say it would only get better from here on out? :)

All these little (and big) good things are just adding up to make me feel so much better about life in general.

First, I just feel like this week is going really fast. I mean, tomorrow is Friday! I don't feel like that could be possible! This week has just flown by! Crazy.

Next, I found the chairs!!!

We reformatted the morning news show that I produce, but part of the deal was this -- we wanted new chairs for the interview set. Right now we have these ugly little brown things that look like something the Jetsons put in a garage sale. We want to use the interview set for more than just interviews in the morning; we want to have segments where the anchors can actually just sit in the chairs for more of an informal "chat" setting. But we're not doing that till we get new chairs. And the guy who does our promotional stuff for the station said he'd spring for new chairs within a given price range as long as we got them before the end of the year. So naturally, time is running out.

BUT...today I did some more looking around and found The Chair. It's the right size, shape, and PRICE, and it comes in lots of different colors...and not crazy patterns or ugly upholstery. I was soooo excited; I got a quote and a photocopy of a picture of the chair and immediately dropped it off at the station for Mr. Promotions Guy to take a look at. Thank you, Jesus.

So given that the chair gets approved, that task is done. Check.

Another good thing - I now have unlimited texting for my phone. "Wait a minute, you mean you didn't have a texting plan until NOW?!" Yup, that's right. "So all those times I texted you, I was costing you money?" Yup. "That would explain why you never texted me back and I always had to listen to your stupid voice mails instead." Yup, that would explain that. But no worries! I am now totally textable! If that wasn't a word before, it is now. I haven't actually texted anyone yet. It takes so looooong lol. I'm sure once I have more practice typing on my little phone keys, I will get faster at it. But I feel like it takes like five minutes just to put someone's name in my contact list. Practice, practice!

Here's the funny thing. I'm still on my family's phone plan (hence the no texting thing), because there's really no point in my having my own plan since I'm dead to the world most of the normal daytime anyway, so how many minutes can I honestly use? And my dad was finally tired of my little sis using up all our minutes, so he finally listened to her arguement that if she had unlimited texting, she wouldn't have to waste minutes on out-of-network calls during peak hours. The condition was that my sis and I cough up the, I dunno, fifteen bucks a piece or something like that, to get unlimited texting each month, because my dad "would have no use for texting; this won't benefit me or your mom at all." OK, fair enough, we said! Because I'm tired of feeling bad everytime someone texts me. And seriously, let's get with the times already. Well, since getting the texting plan, the ONLY two texts I've gotten have been from...my dad. Yup! Via email, of course. Because he's Mr. Technology, so once he figured out he could email us on our phones, it was cool lol. I love my dad! That kind of stuff is just what makes him the guy he is! :)

Anyway, here's something else that is just making me happy...just one of those little things in life. I updated my AIM, and now I have this little AOL Radio player on my buddy list (again, I am probably way behind everyone!) and they have all these great little stations...like, pretty much anything you could ever want to listen to -- Broadway showtunes, movie soundtracks, salsa, comedy, and (earmuffs, Kelsey...) alllllll kinds of Christmas music! Christmas classics, Christmas pop, Latin Christmas (Feliz Navidad, anyone?), Christmas jazz, Christmas around the world...and I've been just kinda checking out the "classics" one, and there is actually a lot of really great contemporary Christian stuff on there, like Casting Crowns and Jars of Clay, mixed right in there with Bing Crosby, Johnny Mathis, the Muppets, and of course the wonderful HCJ! Which I think is really cool...I feel like Christmas is the one genre where music people don't feel like they have to section it off as "secular" or "Christian." Because Christmas is for everyone, right?

(OK, Kelsey, you can take the earmuffs off now.)

Lastly, I am officially done with all extra-cirricular activities...for now. Until December (which I realize is not far off) when I'm planning on auditioning for another Civic show. But it's just nice to not have to go anywhere or do anything...I can stay up if I want to stay up, or sleep as long as I want to if I feel like it! I like to be busy, but it's nice to have a couple weeks of doing nothing every once in awhile. By the time December rolls around, I will be bored and ready to fill my schedule up again, but for now it's just great to not have a schedule. And here's the single greatest thing about having a job and being done with school -- no homework. It's the best. Seriously. That alone is worth getting a degree.

Alright, I think that is it. Life is good. I have a lot to be thankful for, and I'm excited about celebrating that just a week from now!!! And eating turkey and cranberries, and then taking home turkey and cranberry leftovers. Mmmmm!!!

Until later!