I know it's been a long time since I have blogged.  I knew that would happen after L&P ended.  I just never feel that I have enough to write about.  I was sick for a while too with a pretty fierce sinus infection, lasted almost 5 weeks, and not sure I am still over it, even after 2 rounds of antibiotics.  

I think I have GERD now, so I need to see the doctor to see what we can do.  I have constant acid reflux now and chest pains from it.  UGH!

I am determined to lose some weight this year and do some exercising.  I hope that once the weather warms up we can take weekend trips to parks to walk/hike.  I also plan to get a treadmill if we get to a point where we stop having things break or sick pets.  Let's see, since September we've had to put $600 into one of the cars, $450 for a new water heater that burst, $600 down for unexpected bathroom repair/remodel, $400 for vet bill, and now we think our oven is dying.  Blah,  I hope it can be fixed, oven part won't ignite right away, takes about 3 tries to turn it on for it to ignite, range part works fine.  

Work is busy but good,  I am enjoying the new job.  Not that I didn't feel I was part of the management team at my other location, but I feel much more involved in the new management team.  There are only 3 of us over a staff of 40 some people, where there was 5 of us over 26 people at my other location.  Also being the lead of a department (ILL) is fun, but a little scary too.  It's cool to be working on a pilot project with OCLC and I was just charged with writing up a return on investment for the pilot to see if it's something we want can continue in our current financial situation.  We believe it's a cost saver, especially with increased ILLs due to lower book budgets and increased usage, because we continually get more and more ILL requests each month.  We process about 600-700 incoming requests a month, and send out about 350 requests a month, I believe that's up signficantly over last year.  I did some stats but I can't remember, something like 30% increase in requests over the same period last year.

Enough about work.  We bought a new camera as an xmas gift to us, I am disappointed with indoor shots, but it's got so many advanced features I am not used to that I am sure much of the problem is from user error. :)  I can't wait to use it outdoors in sunny weather.

I just bought a new online game, Lord of the Rings Online.  I've been playing a trial for the past week or so and have been enjoying it.  I got the game at Best Buy for half off so I feel like I got a deal, especially if I don't end up playing it too long.  I won't feel as if I wasted my money, but got my money's worth instead.

Chris is going to a funeral today of a co-worker, so I am just going to laze around today as usual on the weekend. LOL.  I really can't wait to get some exercising and weight loss in so I get the energy back.  Although it's cold out there today, so a nice day to stay in and do nothing (but gaming of course). :)

I hope it won't be another 5 weeks before I post again.  You can always catch me on twitter (swillard).  

Until next time.