It's been a long time!  Yet again, my blog is neglected.   Life has been busy. Good, but still busy.  It's hard finding time to sit down and focus on one thing, especially something as trivial as a blog.

I'm still a manager!  They have yet to decide that I'm a pain in the ass and to can me.  Things have been going relatively well in the way of work- I'm happy where I am now, and I don't stress out as much as I did when I first started.  It's been about 3 months, the store's business is growing, we're set to hit goal for the month, and the store looks cleaner than I've EVER seen it.  My apartment is a complete disaster, but it doesn't matter. I don't actually live there.  ;)

Employee evaluations are due at the end of the month.  I've been working on them, but it's hard to really eloquently write the things they need to improve on.  I have an amazingly solid assistant manager on my side- I'm sooo lucky to have her.  It's almost as if I have to make up negative things to really balance out the evaluations! 

Maggie (my family's beagle) died yesterday... It hit me pretty hard last night, but I realize that we were so lucky to have her for the time that we did.  The last 12 years have been fun, and I'll miss the little girl.  I'm thinking about donating some money to an animal shelter in her honor. I went home on Saturday and gave her a kiss on her head and a pat on the back... I can't believe she's gone, it was so sudden.  I still have her hair on my fleece... Poor girl. :(

I'm halfway contemplating running down to California soon with my sweetie.  It'd be nice to see his family and to bask in the sun.  We're talking about adopting a dog in one of the shelters down there- In fact, we might just do a recon mission and gather up several puppies to bring up and find homes for in Seattle.  Los Angeles has an extremely high kill rate, and it'd be nice to know that we saved someone's life.  Anyway, more on that when I actually get some paid vacation. :)

I've also signed up to be a volunteer conversational English tutor.  I will get to study some Chinese in exchange.  I'd love to start from scratch and to work on my tones.  We'll see how it goes.