I know, I've been horrible about posting stuff (as always).  People were expecting me to blog something for my birthday last week and I let you down.  Sorry.

So, birthday.  Yeah.  I turned 42 and it came and went with no pageantry.  I went out to lunch with Sam, which was really nice.  Then I went home and did a load of laundry and that was it.  My dad called and sang to my voicemail, which I get a kick out of every year.  I got an email from a sorority sister of mine (shut up, yes I was in a sorority) that I hadn't heard from in a couple of years.  She's working here in downtown, so we're going to try to get together for lunch.

My best friend came out the day after my birthday and we went to dinner at the tavern around the corner from my place and then she took me (as a surprise) to see the musical "Fellowship" (based on "Fellowship of the Ring").  It was playing over at the old Steve Allen Theatre.  It was really funny.  I really needed some laughs and it provided a ton of them.  If you have the chance to see it, please do!  The whole cast is hilarious, even the understudy who played Aragorn was awesome.  As a "celebrity" bonus, Cedric Yarbrough from Reno 911 plays Gandalf and Galadriel.

I have an update on the work front, I interviewed for a new position here at the office.  I probably won't get the new job, but I felt like it would be stupid if I didn't even bother to interview for it.  Talk about weird!  I haven't really interviewed anywhere for 12 years.  I was very rusty and it was really scary.  You guys know about my self confidence issues, it's kinda hard to convince someone that they should hire you when you don't have any confidence in yourself.  It was good to do though.  I really like and respect the people I met with.  The new job would be really hard and more along the lines of what I did before my current position, but for more people.  My hours would probably be different (no more getting up at ungodly hours or taking the train to work in the dark) and the pay would be better.  Anyway, I don't want to jinx it.  Keep your fingers-crossed for me though.

What else is going on?  Not much.  I've been keeping a really low profile as usual.  Been broke, so keeping close to home every day.  I've been working on a few paintings, not really happy with any of them.  I'm going to add some gold leaf to one this weekend.  The gold acrylic paint I've been using doesn't "pop" enough.  I've never used gold leaf before, so it should be an interesting experiment.

What's up for the weekend?  Sam has been kind enough to lend me Bugsy Malone, so I'm probably going to watch that tonight while I'm doing laundry.  I saw it in the movie theatre when I was a kid, I hope it's as good as I remember.  Other than that and working on the paintings, I need to clean the apt and color my roots.  In other words, not a whole heck of a lot is going on at Casa Robin.  I might add grocery shopping to the mix, just to keep it interesting.

Have good weekend you guys.