the doll thing may be getting slightly out of hand. i now also have the voodoo guy, the patchwork girl, the scarecrow boy, the mini doctor and nurse, and the glowing ghost girl is on her way. i need people to play dollies with. :(

work is worky. gonna be taking a vacation to Costa Rica soon but there are various issues needing addressing. i don't know if my vacation will be paid (probably not, come to find out, but i need to talk to my boss). the Mad Hatter Tea Party is on the first weekend in February and i already made plans with Melissa to go to it again this year, but if i get a tattoo then i'll have to keep it completely covered in Costa Rica because of the sun and salt water. we also don't even know when we're going exactly, if we can push it back to March somehow then i should be able to get my tat (probably the penguin armband) and have more chance of accumulating vacation time, even though i don't have any idea how the vacation system works. also, my paychecks are going biweekly at some point in the next couple months and the pay period is changing to start on Sunday instead of Thursday, so my paychecks will be mega fucked up at some point, so i have to try and save just in case (not to mention the ungodly amount i'd have to save to cover an unpaid week's vacation). so in short, things aren't going badly, but i'm getting stressed around the edges. :P plus i haven't seen my friends at all lately outside of friends i work with, and i'm really starting to miss certain people. i started City of Heroes up again not too long ago but i never really want to play and know there are better things i could be doing, namely art stuff. winter does that though. why aren't i just a little more passionate about the things i enjoy? i know i'm more productive in the summer, i think i really do need to get to a warmer climate, or at least somewhere with more opportunities, but before i can do that i'd have to save a lot, and thats hard to do on my pay. i'm not unhappy, just unmotivated. i like my job lots but its not something i want to do forever. i need to start buying lottery tickets. :P

its 1 in the morning, Zack's been sleeping next to me for like an hour or so. that means i should get my butt to bed. ugh, its a little hard to breathe in here cuz of the neighbors' cigarettes. ewwy. it should be easier to breathe in the bedroom, so i'm going there.