It's about time...

I am going to make a resolution (not a New Year's one-after all, February is almost over) to try and be better about updating this thing...so life update and then some thoughts is what this post will entail.

My roommate got a job at the Art Institute here in Chicago. I'm super excited for her (and for the free perks that I will benefit from!!). We also took a Latin dance class. It was super great and our teacher seemed to think we did an "awesome job," which is fun for us. We learned the salsa and the cha cha, both of which are great and fairly simple. We also learned the merengue, rhumba, and the tango. It was a lot of fun and I am looking forward to taking a couple more classes at the end of March. As far as my job goes, I'm still working at the same place for now, nothing new to report there really. In other news: I am the newest member in the Oakton Community College Jazz Ensemble. They needed a pianist and so I applied and got in, hooray. It's been okay so far, they've all been playing together for an entire semester already, so I feel sort of behind, but I'm hoping that will pass. It will be alright, we've only rehearsed together 4 times...I'm still trying to get the feel of the group, but hopefully that will come soon. That's the most recent stuff, how about some other things that have occured over the past couple of months...

I went home for 5 days during the Christmas holidays! My flight was sort of a nightmare, but I ended up making it home and spending some good quality time with my family, even though it was too short. Alex came to visit me in Chicago during the holidays, the longest span of time we've spent in person together. It was a good visit and it was nice to have him around for so long.

On to other news! The kittens: are growing so fast! :-( They are still adorable, but they are no longer little anymore. Manny is probably up to about 7 1/2 pounds, and Raja weighs around 6. They are almost 5 months old and have managed to learn to love people. Raja in particular loves attention and chirps constantly when you are ignoring her. Manny enjoys his space but he still likes having people around. Strangers are still terrifying for them and they don't like our intercom, but for some reason they both have this weird obsession with the bathtubs and water. We haven't really figured it out other than assuming they are freaks, but it's okay, cats have weird quirks.

My best friend is getting married in 2 1/2 months, I'm the maid-of-honor so I've been helping (sort of) with wedding stuff. She lives out in the burbs, but I've seen her quite a bit over the past month which has been great. Her getting married makes me ponder things in my own life...but I will probably leave that for another post.

That's about it really...so the thoughts didn't come in this post, the life update was long enough. I'll just keep you all in suspense until next time...