times are a changin'

I have to admit that I often struggle to keep up with a blog.  This is probably the third blog that I have started in my lifetime.  I suppose that my struggle stems not so much from not having anything to say, but more from wondering if anyone really cares what I have to say.  I imagine I should not worry about such things, but alas I do.  I also feel a bit of pressure to be "entertaining," whatever that means.  Maybe I'm a humorous person, but I'm not so sure about that.

This past week has been a real adventure for me as many different things seemed to take place this past week.  First thing to happen was I had to go and "shadow" a doctor for the company I am about to work for.  I'm not sure what the purpose of this event was as I've been practicing my profession for 17 years and I'm sure I know what I'm doing.  I had to shadow this guy for two days.  Super nice guy, and I enjoyed the people in the office, but it took boredom to a new level (and not in a good way.) 

Next to appear on the calendar was Lent.  For those of you that are not well informed about Lent, welcome to my part of the world.  Many people seem to believe that Lent is simply observed by devout Catholics, however that is inaccurate as many people of the Christian belief systems observe this period on the calendar.  Lent is basically the time between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday.  To observe this time period a person is supposed to give up something that is common to their everyday life.  I believe that the intent is to take your focus off of earthly distractions and return our focus onto Jesus Christ and the sacrifice he made for all of us.  Do not quote me on this as I am no theologian.  Honestly, I have never really observed the time, nor given up anything for it either.  I used to joke that I was going to give up heroin for Lent, but few really found the humor in that. (not that I do heroin, thus the joke.)  This year I gave up my facebook account for Lent.  I spent way too much time on facebook, and could never really explain exactly what i was getting from it.  I was a bit concerned that I would really be miserable, but the reality is that I have not missed it too much.  You are allowed to take a break from you observation on Sundays, so today I have logged back onto facebook and was a bit surprised to find that out of the over 100 notifications I had, maybe 2 of them interested me.  that is in no way a comment on anything other than the fact that decreasing my time on facebook is a good decision.

The third event for this week was Valentine's Day.  this is an exceptional day for those of us who are single. Lucky for me I did not have to go to work or anything like that, so I was not surrounded by all of the reminders of being single.  I spent the day at home for the most part, went to a matinee movie where I was the only one in the theater, then treated myself to a beautiful Valentine's dinner at What-A-Burger, which is apparently the antithesis of valentine's dining as I was also pretty much the only person here as well.  I did send some flowers to a friend of mine, and I believe that those made her day as she said she had never received flowers at work before. I found this to be quite tragic as she should receive flowers more often. I like to believe that they made her day, so that made Valentine's day slightly better for me than usual.

All in all not a bad week, other than I have apparently been magically transported from my apartment to live in a kennel as i am surrounded by the incessant barking of dogs.  a bit maddening if I must say so.  This coming week I begin a new job, i'm sure it will be as exciting as it can be for my profession. (which is not all that exciting.)
sorry for the neglect, and for the rambling thanks for listening.  I have seen several new movies recently, and hope to pass on my much anticipated review for each of these.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uabb3istM3g

I like this version of this song because it is such a shift to see Ritchie Blackmore play this type of music rather than all of the Deep Purple/ Rainbow stuff he did way back when