I found out some sad news from the Donoghue household the other day (on one of the rare moments I was actually home during non-work hours) – We won’t have anyone home to hand out Halloween candy! This is the fist time this has happened in my 22 year memory. I’ll be out of town, my dad is working 2nd shift, my mom has class, my brother and sister have plans … We really are old now. This is a sobering realization.

Life is good right now … I’ve been keeping busy and I have some fun plans and travel coming up so I’m excited. The holidays are going to be here before I know it!

I’ve been continuing the project of printing out my pictures from the past 3 years … I just received prints getting me up to date as of August 2007. It is odd printing pictures of people I’m not even friends with anymore. But I guess no time or energy is wasted that gets you to be the person you are today surrounded by the friends that stick with you.

I’m seeing Dirty Dancing tonight with Johanna to celebrate our birthdays and tomorrow I am seeing Wicked! I’m very excited. Then I leave for Boston Saturday, there for work until Thursday, heading to NJ to visit Maria with a daytrip to NY to visit Amy and I come back just in time for my birthday week. One more week after my birthday and I’m off to DC for a week and I come back for Thanksgiving week.

Time. Is. Flying. By!


Honestly – I am loving this post-college life right now. I still miss certain people that for some reason did not move immediately to the Chicago-land area. (They'll come to their senses) I love my job – traveling occasionally, working at home 2-3 days/week, oh and I don’t mind the event-planning part either. I love that I come home from work at can spend my time doing what I want to – not writing a paper or working a part-time job. I don’t have to avoid any of my roommates or worry about explosions. I can use my weeknights and weekends to see Joe, get together with friends and do random projects that I want to do.

After visiting Peoria three times these past few months I can safely say that I am so much happier living here. Chicago beats Peoria hands down every time.

Okay this past post has been entirely too optimistic. I’m going to stop updating before God decides I am too happy and throw something awful my way …