Checking-In

Its been about a week or so since I last wrote. Obviously I’ve been around… just haven’t had much to speak of on my end of the friendship. That mirrors in-person interaction; I’m mostly quiet and just rather listen to you.

– Worked on the yard during the weekend. We made a lot of progress with the addition of reciprocating saws to our arsenal. I look at all these wooded areas and see blackberries and I am angered to a degree. I’d love to be paid to cut all that stuff down throughout the area and not just in our yard.

– I love driving the Saturn, which we’ve dubbed the "Black Widow." This is largely based on my 95 Camaro being called "The Mistress in Red." That was a play off "The lady in the red dress." I enjoy driving small cars. They’re quick, efficient, and easy to maneuver. I feel safer being able to respond quickly than being encased in a couple, few tons of steel. I’ve taken to calling the Subaru "the Tank" because it drives a lot heavier than the Saturn.

– Twin locked down a new job that’s within 2 miles of the house, so now I’m commuting to Seattle on my own after Labor Day weekend. I’m not thrilled about that, but I will manage. I have to negotiate for some keys into the building, and try to push for access into the parking garage. I hope that after I finish this project, they’ll let me go and that being the reason why they haven’t given me keys in the 6 months I’ve been here. I have applied to a couple of jobs. Twin is a little more marketable than me, so she had no problem in finding work.

– Also because of that, schooling is still consuming a large part of my thoughts. The best route would be to just talk to an advisor or counsellor regarding my interests. I could juse a non-biased person to bounce thoughts off of and help inform me of different pathways or just offer up a different perspective. That may be something I can’t help myself with because my lofty and aloof intellect.

– We are moving all of our stuff this Saturday. The contractors will be done then. BGem, BSco, and CapChef have followed through on their offer to help. Although we are starting early, Twin said that people could join in at any time. In the morning it will be doughnuts, and in the evening it will be pizza and beer. Twin seems to think it will take hours to load and then unload the moving truck; I don’t think it will. I hope everyone does stop by and helps a little bit at some point in time; it’d be good to catch up. If not, the party should be in a couple of weeks.

– We are also getting new kitchen stuff from the money we financed to help with rennovations. IKEA had their 20% off kitchen sale, which included appliances… so we came out of that with only having to pay $300 or so out of pocket instead of $5,200 or so.