Last weekend of freedom

Only a few more days until I start my job. My real grown up like legit job.

I'm bouncing between a mix of emotions: excitement, nervousness, and a little bit of ugh back to a job that you have to be there every day at 8 am sleeping in is so nice though.

I know it's good because I'm starting to loose my mind with nothing to do for so long. Basically my life is watching HGTV and Food Network and laying on the couch.

And after binging all of iZombie (the new Veronica Mars, which is excellent btw and it's finally on netflix) I'm basically like

Doing all of this nothing has made me really lazy. And I think about going back to work and it sounds nice but also like, well, work and how irritating is having to work lols.

There is also the whole new person in the office thing which is basically this:

Luckily I know both of the other recent hires in the office from law school so I'll know someone at least. And I'll have someone to take my dumb questions to so I've got that going for me.

But I'm also excited because I'm dying of boredom and it's a job in my field and also I'll be getting paid and working with what I've been told many times is a great office. So basically I've got 3 days left of doing nothing and then it's back into busy all the time land.

I've hit that wall again

I've hit that wall again, where I feel like I'm going crazy from not having anything to do.

It's weird, I haven't had this much free time in a row where I truly have nothing I'm supposed to be doing in years. Last time this happened (about a month ago) I cleaned basically the entire apartment. But I'm not going to be doing a cleaning spree like that again for a while thank you very much.

I should probably try and doing something productive, like learn a new skill or network or something.

Sir Isaac Newton was way more productive than me.

Butttt I'm probably just going to keep crafting. And blogging. In fact, I volunteered to help my friend write the show notes to her knitting podcast. Because she is someone with actual things going on in her life (full time student in a masters program, podcasting, etc) and I have nothing but time. So if you're bored like me you should definitely go check out her podcast, Stitched in Sweden, shownotes/blog here.

Making new friends

It's weird being an "adult" and trying to make new friends. Or maybe the weird thing is how you just sort of stop making new friends once you're out of school, where you're no longest forced to be with the same people all the time whether you like it or not.

Anyway, I think I may have started to make a new friend completely unrelated to a school thing the other day. I was coming home from the gym and in the parking lot of our complex I saw a girl in her 30s loading an Ashford traditional spinning wheel into her car. I went up and started a conversation with her ("I'm glad to see another spinner here etc"). We chatted a little bit and agreed it was pretty  cool to meet another spinner in person in our age range. And she works at a yarn store I like part time too so that's awesome.

I friended her on facebook and hopefully we can meet up and do a spinning night sometimes. It'd be so cool to have someone near by who spins. She's a beginner like me too so hopefully we can learn from each other. Yay for new friends! Hopefully she's as weird as me and we can bring her into the fold of weird awesome people.

P.S. we went out last night to celebrate passing the bar. This is the first time I've been out on a weekend night to the bars in like forever. I'd forgot there would be other people there and they might try and talk to me. This is how I felt: