Full Speed Ahead

I probably should have posted on the 1st when the template went up but I honestly just wasn’t in the mood. It’s been a pretty busy couple of weeks. The boyfriend and I painted the kitchen as well as his bathroom, eventually we’ll be working on his moms bathroom as well. We’re currently talking about my officially moving in with him so I’m sure I’ll have an update on that sometime in the near future. It requires me to move away from everything I’ve ever known and that’s a big step for me but I also know that I’m moving to a place where I feel the most comfortable. Although I will always be a New Yorker at heart, Long Island just isn’t the place for me to be anymore.

Over the course of the next couple of days I’m going to be working on getting some clients knocked out, as well as picking some of them up. I figure I need around $1,000 in order to move so I’m going to have to get my ass in gear on things. I’ll be getting a job down here after I’ve gotten some of my things here. I figure the only important items to come with me are my TV, computer, Bella and my clothes. The rest are things that I truly don’t need so I’ll be home for a few weeks doing some cleaning out. It’s my goal to pack three boxes (total). If I load up on space bags I’m sure that will be completely possible.

Love
I believe for Valentines Day the boyfriend and I are going to be in Ocean City, MD. There isn’t much to do down there in the winter but we also know exactly how to go about having heaps of fun without spending a lot of money. We’ll most likely be going to an arcade, then dinner, and then probably a walk on the beach because the way the bay and the ocean meet up is nothing short of gorgeous in the moon light.

Pain
My abscess has come back. I wasn’t expecting this to happen considering I’ve had a root canal done on the tooth but I guess I can’t win ’em all. I do have antibiotics and pain killers so I’ll hopefully be able to fix this without a hospital visit this time. My back has really been acting up pretty bad lately, I’m convinced that the bed I’ve been sleeping on is out to kill me. I just think all of my nerves are out of wack because of the abscess. Someone told me that your mouth acting up can effect like every part of your body. Considering an abscess is a clear-cut sign of an infection, I think I’ve got that floating around. I’m also on my period so I’m feeling like crap on all ends of me, it sucks.

Work
I’m going to have to update my portfolio again (image wise) because I really need to get my recent work in there. The screen shots listed on acidgloss.net now are so out-of-date it’s unreal. Maybe if I update those I’ll have some more clients coming in. I need to get some money together for advertising too, I used to just depend on word-of-mouth but at this point that just isn’t enough anymore. If things don’t pick up I’ll cut back my hours and then pick up on a full-time job out of the house and just leave the internet stuff to part-time. It would make life a little easier, honestly. I get nice sized paychecks here and there for design work, don’t get me wrong. But I’m doing small $500 template work here and there. I’d rather just be making $500 a week. I’ve got to surf around monster.com and see if there are any secretarial jobs around here. There’s so many real estate companies here I’m sure there’s someone hiring somewhere, you know?

Lights Out!
In any event, it’s a little after 6am and I’m exhausted. The penicillin is kicking in and making me very, very sleepy. The hydrocodone doesn’t help much either…heh.

PS:
Arwen – I did get your email, I’ll respond to you as soon as I can. I promise.