Becca,

My game is also elsewhere this morning. Perhaps your game and my game went on a vacation to Waikiki Beach for the holidays. We have mean games. Anyway, so I have about a bagillion orientations. And by bagillion I mean 4 in the next 2 days. But I've already had 2 of them, so just 2 more tomorrow, back to back, level 2 (meaning I have to explain medical benefits), so not exciting and potentially difficult. Let me get back to not being on my game. After my second orientation, I got back to my desk and realized I accidentally took ALL HIS PAPERS that I was supposed to give him to take home. But alas it was too late as he had already left in a hurry to get back to his current job. So I hurridly threw them into an overnight envelope and dropped them at the UPS store so he'll get them tomorrow. It will cost UNICON (or UNICORN for the most fantasy-minded people) some money, but I hopefully adverted a crisis. I felt really bad about it.

But today and tomorrow are going to be really busy. I have a ton of side projects to do PLUS I'm going to have to process 4 new hires! FOUR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I hate processing new hires. It's so mind numbing.

Alissa is down in Florida right now. I'm jealous. But she has to come back tomorrow. HAH!

I'm glad you found a seminary. And Philadelphia has one of the highest crime rates in the nation so you should fit in well. I like Pittsburgh more myself. But I've never been to Philadelphia so I probably can't really say with certainty which P-city I like more.

Did you know there's an Indiana in Pennsylvania!?!? I found this hilarious.

Is it weird for me to pass out Luna points to people at the gym? It would only be to people I know of course. I must miss passing them out! I'm gonna start bringing them to my small group too. I just don't know how appropriate they'd be outside of college. Plus, I'm afraid people will think I'm SUPER crazy now that I'm in the "real world." I was going to start emphasizing that people get them when I see or find out they did something nice. Like if I see a guy open a door for a lady, I shall bless him with a Luna point.

I think I'm going to update the Luna Points rewards. Here's what I was thinking:

10 Luna Points: A Luna Hug
20 Luna Points: Facebook wall post
30 Luna Points: Handwritten note of encouragement
40 Luna Points: Target dollar isle gift
50 Luna Points: Rachel will write a song for you
60 Luna Points: Coffee on Rachel
70 Luna Points: Hand-made gift from Rachel
80 Luna Points: $15 iTunes gift card
90 Luna Points: Dinner on Rachel
100 Luna Points: $25 gift card to Amazon.com
1,000 Luna Points: Rachel will do your taxes for you.

What are your thoughts on Luna Points? Shall I continue them or let them fade into history as a beautiful memory? Also, what do you think of my new rewards?

I love giving gifts too. I didn't get that many this year. I feel kinda bad about that now. I guess it's too late to go out and get more. A lot of my gifts are quality time. That sounds lame, but I honestly think the people I'm giving it to will like it. I mean, I'll be paying for their dinner so that's SOMETHING.

Becca, it's so funny that you listed your favorite things because I JUST bought you a new Christmas present. I will tell you what it is now.

It's a red (though it changes colors every 13 days) turtle from London with a portrait of the Friends cast carved into it's shell that poops chili and does a WICKED Matt Damon impression with a british accent like Pride and Prejudice. His name is Isaiah of Spain.

I have not been enjoying work today, it's been stressful.

I have my first personal training session tonight at 6:30. It's one of my 2 free ones so it has to be with Matt. I'm slightly terrified that I'm going to die.

Because I'm so prideful and want praise and recognition for my talents, I will not post the lyrics to the song I wrote Saturday since you'll probably never be able to hear it.

Pedestal, by Rachel Fuhrman

Poor lost soul
searching for meaning in your meaningless life.
You're all alone
trying to find the sun in the night

So I can see why you'd latch on
to the first thing that smiles at you

You say I'm amazing
perfection at its best
You think that I'm beautiful
the exception from the rest.
You tell me I've turned an evil man good
But if you think I can live up to that you're a fool.
It's not that I couldn't help you if I could.
But I can't reach you from up on the pedestal.

Poor scared man
afraid you'll find out your life's not what it should be.
I understand
you wanna be better than the reflection you see.
So now I know why you're holding on
to the thing you receive kindness from

You say I'm amazing
perfection at its best
You think that I'm beautiful
the exception from the rest.
You tell me I've turned an evil man good
But if you think I can live up to that you're a fool.
It's not that I couldn't help you if I could.
But I can't reach you from up on the pedestal.

And I wish you'd see the higher I am off the ground
Means there's no where for me to fall but down

so baby bring me down
bring me down
I wanna be next to you
Bring me down
Bring me down
I wanna be next to you

You say I'm amazing
perfection at its best
You think that I'm beautiful
the exception from the rest.
You tell me I've turned an evil man good
But if you think I can live up to that you're a fool.
It's not that I couldn't help you if I could.
But I can't reach you from up on the pedestal.


SHAZAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rachel