Rooftop thoughts and high brow tomfoolery.

So Sarah and Kiah are in Chicago for a few weeks, and I've got some time on my hands. And it won't wash off.

I cleaned a disgusting window in our upstairs bedroom/apartmentish room which has a small roof below it. So now, my super clean window allows me access to the roof, on which I have placed a folding chair, and I now have a lovely place to sit in the evening and look out over the fields. It's really quite relaxing, and I enjoy my little fortress of solitude. Well, it's not particularly solitary, as Ezra realized he can throw tennis balls at me while I sit, but when he's not harassing me, it's very "solitudary."

I watched the Lady in the Water the other day, and couldn't have been more impressed. I'm an M. Night fan (except for Signs which was a total piece of crap) but I had heard that the Lady in the Water was supposed to be a flop.

It was touching, funny, suspenseful and refreshing... everything I had hoped, and nothing I disliked. Totally ownable.

I met with my HR manager this week to discuss my recent issues at work, and I think things are really going to improve. He and I have a great repoire, and I enjoy talking with him a great deal. They've decided to add to my title here, and give me responsibility over the public areas of the hotel in addition to the rooms. I've already been assuming responsibility over them for awhile now, but they finally decided to make it official, and back me. Up till now, I've just had my housekeepers clean whatever I saw was dirty, and other people "didn't have time for."

I hope to have another location or two added to our department shortly, and a pay raise for the added responsibilities is in the works. I hope it's big. We'll see.

For my birthday, I got the money for a Nintendo DS, which I have found to be highly enjoyable. Being such a flitabout person, I find portable gaming systems to be so much more enjoyable than a TV bound one. Although, the Nintendo Wii is a fantastic idea, and Sarah and I hope to have one someday.

I purchased a game called Trauma Center: Under the Knife, where you operate on people who have been infected by a Bio-terrorism virus that adapts and changes. The DS has two screens, and the bottom one is a touch screen that uses a stylus. In Trauma Center, you use your stylus to scalpel, stitch and suction your way to greatness. It's a blast!

I also got Professor Layton and the Curious Village, which is a fantastically well designed, well drawn mystery puzzle game. It's deep and engrossing, challenging but fun. The in game videos are beautiful and keep the game interesting, and the music is repetative but pleasant. I beat it in a week, but you can save your favorite puzzles to do again, and new puzzles are available for download weekly.

Well, that's it for now. I'll keep you posted on new developments. I'm creating a Cayman t-shirt tonight for a friend of Kristen's! My first adult design for sale! Very exciting.

Adios!