Onions

I couldn’t think of anything better. I have come to the realization that I love onions and I have been eating them a lot lately. *shrugs*

July 4th marked the beginning of our vacation! July 4th-July 14th 🙂

So the fourth of July was amazing! We went to D’s mom’s house for a little family BBQ and set off some small fireworks. (More then) Half in the bag, D, his mom, uncle, and myself piled into the exploder and went back to our house to reup with some of the bigger fireworks. We then went to our buddy Sally’s house. D, Jap, Andy, Mark (Sally’s father), and myself kept taking armfuls (3-5) of fireworks and going across the street and setting them off on the basketball quart. Watching fireworks is fun… but setting off fireworks is so much better. If I can get my low quality phone videos on here, I’ll show you guys.

So now we’re all pretty lit up and D and I are supposed to go to this kid Chris’s house. I didn’t want to go. All these whores that I don’t particularly care for were going to be there and I figured I would get ignored. I’m not really good friends with D’s friends… just cause I haven’t been around long enough. But I convinced Jap and Sarah (his 5 month preggers gf) and Joyce (Sally’s sister) to go with us.

We went back to the house, grabbed our HUGE 9 tube firework ($150+) and went to Chris’s. The set up was nice, he lives by a lake and has a nice sized piece of land behind his house and a tiki bar set up. There was a lot of people there… we basically stayed for 20 minutes and left because everyone was hammered and none of us wanted to be there.
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July 5th. UFC. Me and D met up with Dido and Dave down at Zenner’s shithole. Good fight. Drunk again!
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We basically just hung around most of the week. We went grocery shopping and to the mall… I made pasta salad.

Thursday morning I had to be at the JATC in Springfield for 8:30 (I have to start leaving earlier when I need to go out there, I keep just barely making it in time.) This was just to meet the other (19) people in the class. I was happy to see two other females… and then I found something out that blew me out of the water: This school two nights a week comes hand in hand with a 40 hour work week. I knew we would be apprenticing, but I guess I didn’t know what I was thinking. I thought I was going to be able to stay at my current job… So I became a little upset.

My sadness only lasted a little while as I soon found out that I would be getting $5.00 more an hour then my current job and I would more then likely be on board to work for contractors in Berkshire County (as opposed to Hamden and Franklin counties… all those towns are at least an hour commute… some more like 2 hours). Any contractor I go to won’t take any more then 40 minutes to drive too.

So now I had a decision to make. Did I want to leave the friends I made? The job I had earned seniority and respect in? My easy, albeit stressful, comfy desk job?

                                                                                    …. You bet your ass I did.

Yesterday I called the guy running the program to make sure that it was okay that I knew nothing. I mean NOTHING about the trade. He again assured me that it was fine and that I wasn’t the only one. That was enough for me.

The other thing thats kinda neat is they gave us a tool list of the tools (everyone gets the same tools so one apprentice is not favored over others). It would only cost like $250 for the tools (we get a deal because the IBEW goes through the same store in Springfield every year)… but i get my tools for free!!!   Why? Because my father is Mr. Fit-It and has been working on his tool collection for nearly 40 years. He has every tool under the sun plus pleanty of extras for me 🙂 the only thing I’ll probably have to actually buy it a tool bet (because I want a nifty one).
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So after I got back from Springfield, D and I went to Lake George (Thursday night until Saturday afternoon). We had an awesome time! We pretty much just walked around, went into the touristy stores, ate, and drank a whole hell of a lot.

He paid for nearly everything on the trip… He has done a complete turn around. He’s been hugging me, kissing me, being sweet in general, going places with me… and we’ve been having more sex then you could shake a stick at! ;O

We’ll see how long it lasts for!

I hope all of you are doing well… Note me up!

…miss you most…