i think i'm really awful at this whole blogging thing. i stay updated for a short stretch of time, and then i go for months without writing anything. just call me erratic...
so, lots of things going on at the moment. not necessarily just with me, but with friends, too. a few months back, laura and dave were looking for a new job for him (he had been working at best buy full-time, but even that doesn't make much of a dent when you owe loan companies). so he talked to a friend of his who eventually got him an interview at the company he works for, and dave got the job! definitely good news. but then he moved up to new hampshire for the job and laura had to move back home for the time being. now? she's still there and has been looking for a job in nh since dave left. she's had a couple of interviews, but no luck yet. they see each other only on weekends most of the time. must be tough on a married couple. we talk about it a lot, and i try to make sure that she's in a good place with the situation, but it's hard to know that there really isn't much else i can do. i'm proud of her, though. she's been doing an amazing job at trying to keep her head up all these months. another interview coming up next week for her. keeping my fingers crossed that it works out...
on another note, i'm still plugging along with the never-ending car search. a few weeks back, my mom had talked to her co-worker who deals in cars, and he had found a 2005 nissan altima that i really liked. the deal with these cars, though, is that most of them have been in accidents, so they're being auctioned off. once the bidding is done, the new owner is responsible for getting it repaired and then registering it. needless to say, i had about $6k at the time, so we figured $3500 would be a reasonable limit considering that i would need to pay about $1600 in repairs and a few hundred for registration. well, the car sold to someone else for $4200 instead. so, i'm back to square one again. :sigh: i'm tired of only being able to drive within a 10-15 mile radius that doesn't include the highway, and i feel horrible that people always have to come to me when we make plans. hopefully i'll be able to make it up to them soon.
after the whole car ordeal? i think i really need a vacation! my co-worker has gone on vacation twice between the end of february and the middle of april. once to south carolina and once to florida. don't get me wrong, she deserves to relax and get away from everything just as much as anyone else, but she's used up all of her sick/personal/vacation time in a matter of 4.5 months! that's 3 weeks of time off! and me? i've used 3 days, 1 hour, and 45 minutes. but anyway, i need to figure out where i'd want to go... out west somewhere, i think. that would be a lovely change of scenery!
i've also been working on writing my own story. haven't had much time to spend on it lately, and i suppose i could be doing that now instead of writing this, but i've neglected the blogging arena much more so than my story. and i did work on it a bit last night, so i'm letting myself off the hook for now. it would be pretty fantastic if i got to publish something one day. maybe not my work in progress, but we'll see where the road takes me. words are a great escape for me, and something that i've never seen as actual work (unless i was writing a paper in school), so it might not be as hard as i think it will.
oh, and last friday was really cool. remember that hour and 45 minutes that i included in my time taken off from work? well, that time was from friday when i figured i'd let myself out early to get ready for a visit from two super people! we went frisbee-ing, checked out a local pizza place, did some bowling, and played a wild game of bananagrams!
felt like i was really home again for the first time in a while. i liked it. a lot. sometimes i wonder if i'll ever stop missing how easy things were at college. i know i can't have it back, but i guess i'm just a nostalgic person or something. :sigh: don't ever let anyone tell you that nostalgia is a good thing in large doses! it's only good in small ones. ;-)
all for tonight... xo
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