the Internet woes, the new year...so far....

I just realized that before the internet, i had a steady stream of letters coming to me in the mail...and i do not mean bills alone...real letters from my friends. now i am lucky if i can even get a forward out of them. it seems as if everyone's life is busy...including mine. well at least i had the time to check! and it's almost 1:30 am. Tomorrow i work from maybe 2 until 9 in the evening. and then thursday i am back there again at 7 am until the boss sees that the books are not that busy anymore. then friday morning i am there at 6am. I am not sure how i am going to do it but i know I will definitely be banking my sleep. I guess that is what i will be spending sunday doing.
The new year just started and i am exercising. I am hoping that i can keep this up. Being an Indian is a hard thing sometimes when it comes to weight. Indian girls are really anorexic looking skinny. Well most of the ones I know are. And the thing is, I am at my normal weight for my height. Being around them makes me look fat so i try not to be in places where i would see them. that may not be healthy for me. I know i gained some weight but I am not excessively fat. I think I just need to walk a little. I am trying but Vin made this really really cool pasta late tonight and i had to have it. the cheese on it was just telling me, "eat me.." so i did. had to walk for 1 hour before i was able to tell myself that my arteries would not get clogged. but Vin can really cook well. He knows that i am a big fan of his mac and cheese. the cheese he uses is not the powdered one though...
so back to the internet woes. I used to have my journal on HI5 but now i am not interested in putting my journal there. I guess i got bored faster than i thought i would. I found a lot of my friends i never heard from since trinidad but now, i wonder if it was such a good idea to do that. people grow up and they get their own lives and many of these people are people who i will never speak with again....far less for now...i hardly ever send them a message and there are only two people i really communicate with there anyway. I guess it is not for me. in fact, the one girl who was my friend, still emails me regularly (when she is not busy, that is) and the other guy, he calls me once in a blue moon because he said i was sending him too many forwards. I will not send him any emails now, not even a real email because i do not know if my one little email might be too much for him. i figured that his other new acquaintances will be sending him messages so he would want to keep his mailbox open for that. everyone wants a prospective date. except my friend is gay. i have no problem with that but i do not think i am the one who is spoiling this friendship. to call him in NY will cost me nothing and i can call anytime but i refuse to do that too. maybe it's me but i read all my forwards and i thought that my friend would not mind but i guess he drifted too....
by the way...i've now set up my bills online so i receive email reminders of when i should pay...so much for getting an email!
Otherwise, the new year is moving along. Pretty soon, it will be the old year. It's a bit busy at work but this is how it always is in the book business. The best part is when it is not busy, i read some of the books....so there is always something to learn if i am willing to look at it that way...and not let the boss get to me. my friend is doing okay. she brought me venezuelan cheese today. before i saw the cheese, she was telling me that the cheese tastes good when it is fried...and i was thinking in my head, "what kind of wierdo eats fried cheese...," then i saw the cheese. yep, it's fryable. and it is really different too. to me, it tasted bad at first because i was not used to the flavor but after two bites, i liked it. We took down the christmas decorations today. it took ten minutes to take them down and 2 hours to put them up. Go figure! but the store looks bare now. I liked the decorations better. Actually, no one waited for the epiphany...the boss was getting tired of the decorations and he wanted them down. so when he called, my friend and i practically pulled them all down. we didnt do much damage though. Actually, i caused more damage trying to put them up. i only ripped one tinsel. when i was putting them up, i broke a collectable corona mirror. an old lady once told me that those mirrors were worth a lot of money...and old people usually know about antique things...no pun intended!