The hallway outside of my apartment right now smells like sour milk, latex, hospital cleaner, and puke.

.......I have the feeling I missed one helluva party last night.

I got my lease renewal contract today. It kind of surprised me because my lease isn't up until May 31st, but I suppose I have to give them 30 days notice and they were also warning me of my rent increasing...but only 10 bucks. Nothing big.

I hadn't really even thought about it, though. Do I want to move? Am I satisified with Minneapolis? Do I want to move out of state? If I sign the lease for another year, it'll cost about $1,300 to leave early. However, if I only sign a 6 month lease it'll cost the new rate, plus another $25 a month, and if I sign it for month-to-month, it'll cost the new rate plus another $50 a month. That's an extra $300 - $600 in the off chance I decide to move away from Minneapolis, which I guess I don't quite see happening this year.

When I was in Breckinridge for some Christmas skiing with the brothers and wives, one of them had us go around and say where we think we'll be next year at that time. I guess I'll be still living in Minneapolis. For a long, long, long time I wasn't happy with my job and I think there's still a lot of up and down, but lately it's been a lot better. For more than half of my time there, it was pretty much only my boss and I carrying the company...which mostly means him, because I was/am mainly a support role. Since then we've hired a senior-to-mid-level PM, a senior-to-mid-level BA, a senior software architect, and also have had a software developer contractor working hardcore for us. What that translates out to is a lot more work for me, and a lot more stable of a work environment. Long story short, I'm starting to see me stay on at this job for a while longer. In fact, I haven't even thought about looking for a different position for some time, although part of that is because there pretty much aren't any jobs in Minneapolis right now. It's rough.

Anyway....I guess it was a bit of a trip to think it's nearly been a year since I moved out. Oh how my life has changed since last year at this time. I remember being at Jess's boyfriend's St. Patty's day party and sending the 2YG a late night text message (She is Irish Catholic), and her getting all pissed at me the next day 'cause I woke her up, which then turned into a larger fight, which then turned into her telling me she didn't think I should go see her in Spain, while I thought *F* that, I already bought the frickin non-refundable $900 ticket and if you break-up with me right now, I'm still going to Spain without knowing any Spanish, and I'll fend for myself. Yeah. Much better off now, I'm finally ready to say. Much better off now.

Anywho, I'm going to finish listening to one of the greatest Live Albums ever recorded (Nirvana, MTV Unplugged in New York), finish off my beer, and then go to bed.

Peace.