The Count Down is on!

It is now December and the count down is on for my trip back home and I can't wait.  As always, I am EXTREMELY grateful for my job and my boss and going to a studio lot everyday...but I'm very much looking forward to down time, and family time, and only working on my own projects time, and sleeping in time, and goofing off time (ok, I do that one everyday, but you get what I'm saying.)

I am trying to finish a few projects of my own, so that when I go home, I can start developing some new ideas.  I have some more books I'd like to finish reading (but I have plenty of time to do that at work usually) and I want to clean out my closet.  All of this rambling does have a point...

The point is, I guess, is that as the last month of the year has arrived and the year winds down, I think about all the things I could have done more of, or better, or more consistently.  But thinking about the past (as the Borg would say--yes, that is a Star Trek character) is Futile.  Nothing will change my present or future by thinking about all the things I wish I had done in the past.  So, as this year winds up, I'm going to do my best to trust in God and accomplish all the things/projects I set for myself in this last quarter of the year.  (I can't really remember past that.)

Now...this week was pretty quiet.  Most of the days, me Delaware and the other assistant (we'll call him MD) were busy making copies of the Oscar screeners for everyone in the office.  Yep, this is the time of year that begins the Oscar campaigns (much like Presidential campaigns) and the studios and production companies send out 'screeners' of their movie to voting members of The Academy, and many of the guilds (director's, producer's, writer's, actor's) for their consideration.  THESE ARE NOT PIRATED MOVIES!!!!

I'll say it again, THESE ARE NOT PIRATED MOVIES...so I feel OK about making copies.  Thing is though, I've seen about 75% of them, because well...I'm not married or have kids or have a really demanding job...so I can go to the movies all the time.  In any event, I'll have LOTS of movies to watch over my vacation...and the ones I like, I'll actually buy.

Yesterday, Delaware and I went to the outlets (which by the way, was a bust mostly.  I didn't find ANY purses I wanted at Coach, and while I did find some at Michael Kors, and Cole Haan, and Kate Spade, and Tory Birch...they were ALL a bit out of my budget...sigh.  No new purse for me.)
Anyways, I was telling her about how at church, the Pastor again spoke on the verse that talks about two people being better than one, because one can help the other up.  I used to love that verse, but I don't now...just reminds me of always being a pair, and now I'm not...it's not the first time this subject and this verse has come up in our conversations.

At dinner, I really can't remember how we got to the subject again, but she was making jokes and saying she could be my pea in a pod, and then said...I can be your "Left"...and I started crying.  (Because Erika was the left portion of our pair, as she was left handed and I am right handed.)  Now, I wasn't boo-hooing or anything, just some quiet tears.  But it was short lived, and she made a joke, then I made a joke, then the conversation was back on the rise.

Perhaps that is something me and the Lord can work on for the remainder of this year and next...for me to realize....well I'm not exactly sure what it is I'm supposed to realize, but it's got to have something to do with the very name of this blog:  Pressing On...so I will do just that.

PS-One time for the MAGIC beating the Lakers...take that, Dwight.

Days Till I'm Out!:  17