My poor, poor neglected blog

Yep, it is truly a neglected blog and for that I am sorry.  I think the hard part is having so much going on in my life, but so little that I can publicly share in a worldwide forum such as this one.  So, I choose not to talk at all.  If it makes you feel better, I actually do the same things to my friends (how sad that I shut them out when I can't share things). 

Unfortunately I don't have adoption news to share.  Most of what I am dealing with is work related stress and given my current job and the tech people I work with, I realize it is not wise to unload those things here.  I guess I am actually getting wiser the older I get.  A few weeks ago a colleague asking my opinion on something and as I opened my mouth to speak (realizing at that moment that my opinion would likely not be in the majority and therefore it was open to attack) I shut it and said "never mind".  That actually speaks just as loudly, but now I don't leave a verbal trail that might hang me later. 

There is some good news in adoption land though, the CCAA is finally matching families and children in February 2006.  Whoo hoo!  Right now I'm a year and 3 days behind where they currently are.  That feels better than where I was sitting six months ago! 

The birthday did suck a bit, but I'm a big girl, I can handle it.  My friends made up for the other shortcomings and I couldn't believe some of the awesome gifts I got.  Plus, my sister bought me the last two books of the Twilight series and I am dying to dig into them (did you get the joke on that one?)!  I'm actually re-reading the first one right now and I'm going to take book 3 with me tomorrow as I head out to Georgia for training.  Please say a prayer that I don't have too many problems from the hurricanes.