The snow is languidly swirling outside my new office window. Not cold enough to stick to the road, but softly layer This window, unlike the one I inhabited last week is down low. It is, as Dave says, a sitting window. It faces east out onto a side street and an old white building that I think the YWCA is using for something, though our company might still own it.



My office last week had a window, up high, also facing east, but so high that hardly any daylight would spill through, unless I got into the office around 7:00. It was a strange shape too, the wall with the door was a strange slanty wall.



This office is nice and square, wood floors, quiet, (due to the low population on my team), and a sitting window. There is another large window in my office, behind me, when I sit facing my keyboard. It looks into what has at times been a training room, but is now our meeting room. I put the big black bookshelf over half of it, and some sort of anime poster will likely end up over the other half.



Goodness, I was sick all last week, horridly so. I was out 2 days of work and was incredibly out of it when I was in, including the day we had to pack and move across the parking lot to these office. Crazy stuff. It was too bad too, between sick and moving, I didn’t get to say goodbye to all the other people who had been on my team, and moved to the other building and team several blocks away. I joined this division partially because of several of those people. Though, I do feel a lot more secure about what I’m doing, my place here in this company. I hope they still come by to include me in some hijinks though.



This weekend we went up north again, to have an early Thanksgiving with Carlo’s grandmother and aunts and uncles, and of course his mom and her husband. It was really nice, they are such warm people, good people. And they can really cook, we had a most excellent meal, and the leftovers I had for lunch were wonderful. (There is nothing like being able to have pumpkin pie with your turkey sandwich). They put up the artificial tree too, Carlo’s mother has awesome tree lighting skills, the lights seemed to glow all the way through the tree. (It did take her more time than my family usually spends on decorating the tree total though.) Mary Lou (grandmother) is so sweet, she bought all the kids Christmas ornaments, even I got one. It’s a cute little bear with candy canes. I wonder when we’ll get our tree.



The wedding machine has begun, all sorts of plans are flying around. I think I’m going to look at another reception hall tonight with Carlo. My Mother has been really great about calling places and getting ideas. Carlo has been running places down too, checking them out, looking at prices. Becky emails me ever other day to see how the plans are coming, she’s such a sweetie. I’m so excited, I have so many good people to help me.



I’m so glad all this moving stuff has settled down (both apartment and office), it’s nice to have some locational stability.

Have a great night, stay warm,

Stacie

Or just before Halloween, anyway.

(an aside, before we get started, I did wear my PVP Fez to work on Friday, everyone was amused, and Dave was jealous.)


We went to Ace and Jess’s Halloween Party, and I must add, her food was spookier than the stuff I served. We had a good time, Don brought his PS2, and we looked through about 5 games, and then most people decided to bring out Ace’s dreamcast and play it for the rest of the night. heh. Carlo sure schooled them all in some of the fighting games. Before we left he showed off Quake3DC with the mouse.

It suited the rest of us not playing games, as we watched some anime, and talked about Japan and manga and online comics. I had a good time there, got in some more fez time.


The Monday before Halloween, I got to see the Utena Movie woo!That was way cool, Though Ace, who hasn’t finished the series looked seriously bewildered.


Ok,ok. Halloween was a blast!


We watched Rocky Horror on VH1, handed out candy to a few kids that came to our door, and then hit the road for a night of insanity.


Carlo and Nancy(from work) and Doug and I went back down to the karaoke kid for Halloween. We went in our Renn. faire costumes, and Nancy, who actually met us there wore her’s too. We both bought our leather bodices from Pendragon Costumes though her’s has the Celtic knot frontpiece and mine is the roses. Paul was there too, basically dressed like Bon Jovi, with his hair teased way out and a shiny bandana on.


It’s usually pretty quiet on Tuesday nights at the KK, but Halloween was hoppin, there were angels and devils, and singing and drinking, and about 3 different groups of people looked at Nancy and I (or our collective cleavage) and decided we were German beer maidens or something. heh. (the best of those 3 groups were the 5 army guys in camo and face paint).


Carlo and Doug and Paul got a good number of songs in, though I couldn’t make a decision of what to sing before the books were taken away. I still got to sing along with all the songs.


But it was really crazy, 2 of the usual bartenders(women) were in costume, and drunk most of the night, dancing on the bar, dancing on chairs, pulling people into the tiny dancing area in front of the tiny stage. The japanese bartendress, Kyoko is small in stature, but really sweet, she was dancing all over, pulled me from my chair and was twirling me around with her small hands that were surprisingly strong. A fairy and her friend fell off the six foot stage after a good deal of swaying, and landed at our feet, and halfway under our table. I think a small fight broke out at the other end of the bar.


It was just wild. Well, wild for this place anyway. I’m so glad I got to go out in costume on Halloween, it’s really cool to be dressed up in strange clothing, and look around and see that it looks like the rest of the world has lost their minds too, or at the very least is visiting the place you like to stay in. Nuns and chef’s crossing the street in stoplights, fairy’s and demons drinking and singing together, people from that 70′s show and other in schoolgirl costumes. It’s just wonderful, it feels like everyone has ended up at the same party, and it’s happening everywhere all at once.


I’m not sure I could stay home.