To say that things have been busy at the Lloyd house would be an understatement. Life’s been tough.  Never have I been so short on time. Seriously. I do not have enough time to do everything that needs to be done. Pretty sure this is the first time I’ve ever felt this way.  My first priority has been my new job. I’m learning so many new things, which definitely makes it easier, but things are always changing. The people I’m working with (via email and text) have helped out TONS… I’m grateful to them.  The job has been challenging.  Challenging is good though. I’ll take challenging over boredom any day!

I’ve been saying I need a hobby recently but really that’s just me saying that I need to do something other than work. Which I’ve been doing for a month straight. No, seriously, I eat, sleep and poo in my office. I have a bathroom in there… you’re sick! The things I normally do to keep myself happy haven’t been done for so long. I have over 2,600 unread blog posts in my RSS reader. I’m still working through a book that would normally take me a few hours to finish. My house isn’t completely unpacked (not that I unpack to stay happy, but having full use of the house generally keeps a person slightly less irritated). I keep talking about planting a garden but I’m afraid that I won’t be able to devote the time necessary to keep it alive. For now I have the few flowers my friend left behind (thanks Mel!) and three red bell pepper plants. I’m trying my darndest to keep them alive. It’s probably a good thing that I have them since they force me to leave my computer for a few moments each day to go outside and water them.

I don’t mean to sound negative. I’m actually quite happy. The smoke from the fires cleared a couple of weeks ago and we were left with beautiful weather and clean air. We’ve been to the beach every weekend since we came (except last weekend when we stuck around our ‘hood to explore and go to a church party [hehe, church party]). I love the ocean. Every time we get over there, I nearly melt. I literally want to sit there and just breath the whole time. Oh yes, and get a milk shake from Ruby’s… they are the best! And then there is IN-N-OUT. We’ve been there quite a bit since it’s the closest place to our house to get food.  Like I said, life here is tough.