Its OVER! (Finally...)

After months of working like a dog, and the last couple of weeks of SHEER HELL...its finally over. I found out today, that we are officially done and I couldn't be more happier. Though, technically, I was done by 3:30pm on Saturday, it wasn't official til today when I came in to work this morning...

But I knew it was over from the moment I woke up this moring, because normally I would be very stressed out and tired in the morning, fighting just to get up and get to work on time. But not this morning....I actually woked up VERY EARLY...like 7am, not one bit tired...very relaxed...cooked myself breakfast and took my time to work. But it was at that point I knew, it was over, and I no longer had this horrible weight on my back...

Upon hearing the final official word, the whole team gave out a huge sigh of relief followed by a really boring day. No one wanted to do anywork today. Everyone was just exhausted. Granted, a lot of the team members actually didn't have anything to do yet (have not been assigned what they will be doing next), a few of us actually still needed to work on the Japanese and European version for the next 2 months (though it shouldn't be hard) like me. But me, even though I tried to get something started, I just couldn't. I was pooped. I ended up leaving work at an early 6pm and I had absolutely no idea what to do getting off so early. Ended up walking around the mall and then going home to catch up on my Tivo, which was pretty much catched up since I spent a nice portion of my first weekend off watching TV (and watching a movie and driving around and doing errands and helping one person set up a bed, while taking another person bed apart).

You know, I should talk about the last week cuz there was time it was just insane. Working late and rushing a new ROM to testing. 11pm conference calls to Japan and last minute confirmation that we had to stay late (we stayed late everyday last week even though we shouldn't have). Not only that, I had a birthday party to go to where, even though I was up working the night before really late, still went to work early the next day...went to that birthday dinner...went back to work at 9pm...worked til 1am (while the bday girl and friends partied hard) and then I met some of them at 1:30am for a late nite meal...stayed up talking til 3am...went to bed at 4am...only to wake up at 8am to go back work...work til 3pm only to tell us we had to work til 7pm...i was really dead...

Btw, (few) pictures of that birthday dinner here:

http://public.fotki.com/namofni/captured_moments_in_time/

And not just that...but last week, I had some pretty incredible news given to me, like Jon and Thea and their new kid. That was a totally unexpected surprise for me cuz I thought they were dued in April. But a nice surprise nevertheless.

I also found out that one of my friend is getting married. Congrads to ennay!!

And then I found out from my sister that I am going to be an uncle (again). My younger sister is pregnant. I was SOOOOOO EXCITED and HAPPY about this...but I was also a little sad. Turns out that the baby isn't due til September which means my sister knew about this for awhile. Now, I am not sad cuz she kept it a secret from me but I think she kept it from me cuz she really wanted to tell me in person, when I was supposed to come home to Toronto in March. I now go home in late May / early June but I think I should make another trip in September...

Anyways, I am soooo glad this is all over. Though I still have work to do, I can now start my life again here. I think there is going to be a few interesting things coming up in the next year. Stay tuned...