Chugging Along

Alright, let's get to some non-work news/info.

I finally dyed my hair redder. It's not quite as red as I would usually have it, but it's red enough that I'm quite happy and still a good enough color to get away with at work I believe.

The dog is still with us, and it's official, my dad has named him Shorty. I refuse call him this, hence I still refer to him as Tesla. Tomorrow is Nikola Tesla Day and his birthday by the way. Awesome!
Here's a couple photos of Tesla/Shorty.

Just after getting neutered. Looking like an awesome space dog.

He very much reminds me of Batty Coda from Fern Gully.

I'm leaving for Las Vegas next weekend with 3 other friends. We are going for 3 days and 2 nights. I'm thoroughly excited for several reasons. I'm going with my best friend, her husband, and their friend. We've all vacationed together before to San Diego last year and that was a blast. This is the first time I'll be in Vegas since I've been of age and also the first time without parents around. It's gonna be The Hangover Part 3 for sure.

I also have a Pinterest account that I've forgotten to share. I spend quite more of my time on Pinterest rather than blogging and even Tweeting lately, so there's a lot of stuff that I tend to link to there that I find of interest. It's a very fun site. Check it out!

Another thing to mention, that's rather obvious to my friends who read the Petri Dish post, that I recently broke up with my boyfriend. That post explains a lot of it. But we're much better as friends and I'm doing okay. After we broke up, I decided to reboot my dating site account. I started that account December 2010 and deactivated it sometime early last year. I met a couple people and decided I wasn't ready for a relationship at that time. I've been wanting to reactivate it because I liked what I wrote on my profile and so did a lot of other people. I wanted to go back and see what I wrote, but I would have to have my account activated for at least 10 days before I could deactivate it again and I just didn't want to do that. Now, I rebooted it because I don't have the guilt since I'm single, but it doesn't mean I'm looking for something. I'm not ready and I really don't feel like working on getting to know someone new and get into a relationship just yet. I want to be alone for awhile. In fact, I'm getting annoyed by the site again and may deactivate it again soon. We'll see.

Due to my recent singlehood I've been spending a lot of time catching up with friends I don't get to see too much. It's been really nice. It makes me realize how busy I am with full time work and how hard it is to manage having so many friends and a relationship on top of it. I need to work on this in the future. But how?
I've also been spending less time at the bar, which is quite liberating too. My ex and I spent most of our time together there and I've just come to despise it. So it's nice to get away from that.

Oh! Other fantastic news is my car finally passed emissions!!!!!! I've been having troubles since the beginning of this year that has been stressing me out to the max. Not to long ago my check engine light randomly went off and I wanted to take advantage of the situation and take it to emissions. Unfortunately it was a day that the emission centers were closed so I had to wait another day, by then the light came back on. A couple weeks after my light went off again and I decided to jump to action as soon as humanly possible. And it passed! I purchased my registration and am awaiting for the tags to come into the mail. This has been a horrible burden and it is finally lifted. Unfortunately it is not totally lifted because there is still something wrong with my car that I will have to take care of eventually. But for now I can finally enjoy driving legally again. With that in mind, I promised myself a solo roadtrip to Arcosanti once my tags were up to date. That's something I will probably do once the regular school season starts in August. I've been looking forward to this for a year!