to tide you over, maybe?

… i guess.

anyway, i’m writing real quick to let you all know about things that are going to happen soon, and before i can actually get the pictures posted of the last trip my lady made out here.

bullet style?

nah… numbers.

1. i guess i should tell you all that as flooding goes in the Northwest, i am well.  several of my lady’s colleagues (who know i live here in the NW) came up to her at lunch the other day and asked, "is he okay?"  the funniest part was when she called me and told me that story, i was like…"what flooding?"  cue me looking at the news and going, "HOLY SH*T".
2. i’m leaving for Spokane soon.  i’ve had a little bit of a snafu happen.  apparently the competition i won a few weeks ago requires at each level that you stay for the entire competition, so my idea that i thought i had worked out with the competition organizers of singing and leaving to go back to Spokane (cause the competition is in Seattle, 5 hour drive or 1 hour flight) is taboo.  so now Spokane Opera is graciously trying to reschedule things (and let me tell you, rescheduling an entire orchestra is very difficult) so i can compete in hopes of moving on to go to NYC.  we’ll see how that goes.  i should know in the next couple days.  *sigh*
3. i love my lady more and more with every day.  she is so beautiful that she melts my heart and she’s all i can think about.  we’ve had some rough spots (as my previous entry stated), mostly caused by me ceasing taking my meds.  stupid me… (i have to admit, when i realized this morning that was the issue, i actually laughed out loud.   its like you always hear about the bipolar people who stop taking their meds because they thought they were cured and dive bombed back to their old ways.  well, apparently that’s what i just did, except replace the ‘thought they were cured’ with ‘didn’t have money for meds’.  i’ll have it tomorrow.  i’m not looking forward to going through the beginning side effects, but i know it will smooth things out, which i need.)
4. what else… i thought i had a bunch to talk about.  OH YEAH!  Home Depot laid me off… well.. sort of.  maybe saying they are about to fire me is better.  remember how i asked them for the Leave of Absence back in NOVEMBER?!  well… apparently the store manager misunderstood my reasons for the length of my absence and decided he could approve it.  but then a week and a half ago he pulled me into his office to say, "i was wrong."  grr….  i told them that it needed to be approved by the district manager, i told them it needed to get done right then.  but noooooo…….  so basically the district manager wasn’t contacted until last wednesday (yes the 7th… yes 2 weeks before my leave was supposed to start… *headdesk*) and surprisingly!!!!  it was rejected.  however, i think you already guessed that from the way this number started.  to make matters worse, there was another miscommunication in the fact that the scheduler-person thought my leave started on Jan 1st, so i’ve had a total of 18 hours this month.  sure, Spokane is going to pay me well… but not until Jan 28th.  god my life sucks.  why can’t i just find a job that will love me enough (as Home Depot say they do) to let me galavant around only to come back to them?!
5. um… i think that was it.  oh, i want to mention this because its funny as much as it is tragic.  in talking to my doctor a new study just came out a few months ago (i think) where they found that the old idea of, "use it or lose it" might actually have some merit.  so… her and i are kinda wondering how much (damage is a scary word) i have caused by not "using" it.  like i said, tragic, but funny (almost as funny as my her prescribing masturbation).
6. that’s pretty much it.  not sure why i felt this needed a number, but i’ll leave it for nostalgic reasons beyond me.  i’m in a random mood because i just watched 3 hours of Zero Punctuation (a video game reviewer out of Australia that is absolutely hilarious!) who writes without punctuation… course now he does videos so… punctuation is a little arbitrary at this point.

that is all. 🙂

– noah