a day of "rest"

well abbey had the sick this morning, so a trip to the doctor's office and several hours later, we're just chillin' like villains.
why do i say that? i'm neither chillin', nor am i a villain.
anyhow, abbey is feeling a little bit better, my eyes have healed up a bit and i'm wearing the contacts, and it's the weekend. hurrah!
and the plan for ze veekend?
well, my friend reed is in the White Iron Band, and they have a CD release party lined up at the cabooze tomorrow night. and on sunday i'll spend a good portion of the day regretting all the second hand smoke i'll take in from the cabooze, without actually taking in any first-hand smoke.
tomorrow will be 31 days without smoking. one month. i'm half way to my shuffle.
oh! i was offered a job from the good folks at white bear press -- and i've accepted it, especially since it's only 10 freakin' miles from my house. JOY! no more horrendous commmute! i'll miss the nice folks i work with currently, but this commute is slowly sucking my life away. i don't like that a bit. so i'll be doing two weekly papers a week, and the other three days a week i'll be working on ads. nice! the pay is less but the driving is WAY LESS, so that is high on my list right now. i begin on the 23rd of february.
and there's always a huge amount of stress involved with a new job, b/c i'm horrible at meeting people, i'm horrible at "fitting in" the way employers like, and i'm just generally self-conscious.
but i'm fast at layout, and isn't that more important that being liked? kinda.