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Sunday, November 25th, 2007

My laptop is slowly dying on me.¬† The battery has been a bit faulty and for the last three days I’ve been unable to get the Wireless to work.¬† It worked fine at the hotel, Sean was using it the whole time he was there with the dogs.¬† It just doesn’t seem to want to work in the house.¬† And I’m not sure what button I pushed, or how hard I smacked this thing but the Wireless is now back up and running so I’ve been getting some holiday shopping taken care of.¬† I’m known for going overboard on Christmas but this year I’m keeping it simple.¬† Gift certificates for everyone!¬† My sister, mother, step-father, aunt and whoever else happens to pop into my head before I check-out should be taken care of with a quick $50-$100 and that covers that.

I wanted to do some real shopping this weekend but weekend shopping in a town overloaded with lord knows how many outlet stores, just isn’t possible.¬† So being as most students are back to school on Monday we’re going to head up to Dover for the day and get some physical shopping done.¬† I did just place a few orders for Sean, he already knows I’m getting him a video game but that’s because I already know that he got me a necklace from Zales, and he’s basically giving me a Christmas.¬† From the tree to the decorations, this house is going to be all spiffed up for the holidays.¬† Now,¬† I know a $70 game doesn’t even remotely compete with the $400 necklace but at the same time that’s just the only gift he’s aware of :heh:¬† We’re going to separate in the mall, I’m sure I’ll run up the bill but I know that I’m supposed to stay under $400 because I trumped him last year, I was also making more money at the time.¬† Now we’re pretty much equal but I do still have to be fair and just take my diamonds and shut up.

Thanksgiving went pretty smoothly,¬† we both enjoyed our quiet evening at home with a turkey and some fixings.¬† He wound up going into a Turkey Coma and slept from about 7pm to 2am but then he was wide awake for a while and back to bed at about 6am.¬† His schedule is a little screwy lately, he hasn’t been sleeping very much.¬† Even now he’s been knocked out for the last 2 hours, it’s pushing midnight.¬† I do know the cause for today’s early rise though.¬† The lady next door is moving out and unfortunately her family doesn’t understand the concept of time and insist that screaming next to someone’s window at 9am is perfectly fine.¬† If I wasn’t so tired I would have gone out there and said something but with no cigarette OR coffee in my system – that’s just the violent bitch end of things that couldn’t have turned out very well at all.¬† So I stuck my head under a pillow and dealt with it.¬† Now I’m exhausted and tempted to fall asleep myself but there’s still quite a bit of cleaning up to do around the house before I can truly relax to the point of falling asleep.

Anyhow – Sean and I went down to Rehoboth Ave. last night to see the tree lighting.¬† Standing in the crowds just wasn’t worth it to us so we walked around a few of the little shops down there and picked up a few things.¬† I found a few interesting things for Karen and my father, I also picked up a puzzle for Sean and I to accomplish for some artwork in the room.¬† He has a picture of Yoda in the office that from far away looks fairly plain but when you get closer to the image you’ll see all of the clips from the movie arranged in a way that make the center image (Yoda) completely possible.¬† I found one just like it but it’s a 1,000 piece puzzle.¬† I’m sure I could knock that out in a weekend but it’s really more of a relaxation thing.¬† It’s just a wonder of where I’ll be able to put it so it doesn’t get destroyed by a clumsy human or a pet who can’t keep their mouth off things.¬† So that should be fun.

I’m disappointed at my new town.¬† Not to sound stereotypical but with all of the gay men in this town you’d thing things would look better on the avenue.¬† There are numerous shops that are done up very well and even the streets are nicely decorated, each pole being wrapped with garland and lights with a sweet bow to top things off.¬† Then you get to the tree, what’s supposed to be the staple of all of these decorations, and they don’t even bother to wrap the lights around the tree, they drop them down from the top and just kind of let them hang there.¬† It’s certainly disappointing.¬† I don’t feel bad at all that I completely forgot to take my camera with me last night, that’s for sure.

I have some more e-shopping to do, maybe I can get some more family members knocked out without even having to leave the couch.¬† The joy of shopping online in your PJ’s.

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Clearing up confusion…

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

There seemed to be a little bit of confusion with my last entry.¬† There are three dogs in this house, only one of them go outside but all of them are protected from fleas, ticks and all the other goodies that can latch onto them if they step out the door.¬† While animals typically can carry these glorious little fuckers into the house, that doesn’t mean that humans can’t do it either.¬† Delaware has it’s downfalls, like many other states across the US a lot of homes are built onto acres that once housed many tall trees and even more little critters.¬† Humans can track fleas into a house, even if you don’t have pets you’re still at risk for an infestation.¬† Just something to clear up.

So Karen and I did quite a bit of work this weekend.¬† On Saturday we booked a two rooms at a hotel in the area that accepts pets, Sean stayed there with the dogs while Karen and I were bombing the house.¬† He has horrible allergies and enough trouble breathing with basic dust in the area, let alone a chemical bomb.¬† We didn’t go to Walmart and buy some crappy $7 bomb that doesn’t kill anything without having to be used four times a year.¬† Karen purchased a powder called “Flea Busters” that you work into the rug with a broom and then let it sit for 24-48 hours while it works its magic.¬† You then leave the house until the dust settles and begin the daunting task of vacuuming.¬† The problem is the dust takes a lot longer to settle than is listed on the box and with the allergies that all of us are dealing with, the only real option was a two-night stay at the hotel.

We came back after 24 hours to do some vacuuming, while I went around the house with the vacuum Karen got started on the laundry because that room filled up a lot quicker than we thought it would.¬† The dust basically got everywhere and for the sake of killing off any eggs or even the adults, plus the dust from the bomb on the articles themselves – washing everything was the only option.¬†¬† We returned to the hotel a little after midnight, went to our rooms and completely crashed.¬† Two days of moving heavy furniture, breathing in horrible chemicals and just being exhausted in general took it’s toll on us.

Karen checked out of her room at about 8am because she needed to get the dogs back here and then head off to work.¬† Sean and I left our room about 10am, stopped to pick up some breakfast and headed back to the house.¬† There was still some dust in the air and I told Sean to take it easy when we walked in but even that didn’t help.¬† He had a pretty horrible reaction to it and needed to be taken to the hospital.¬† It was a bad asthma attack that seemed to have come out of no where.¬† I noticed he was having some issues when he smelled the dust, I wasn’t expecting it to get as far as it did.¬† He’s doing OK now, he’s got a prescription to work with for his nasal issues, plus he’s got an inhaler.

I’m still rotating laundry, this is the first time I’ve been able to get online in the last four days and that was only to check the time on a few things going on this weekend.¬† I went grocery shopping tonight to pick up some odds and ends for Thanksgiving.¬† Sean and I are going to be here by ourselves, Karen is going up to New York to be with her sister.¬† My father is going to be working and there’s a lot of drama going on with the family (mom’s side) at the moment so I’d rather just not be there – staying here is the more comfortable option for us.¬† So I’m still in the process of cleaning up the house so I have some counter space to work with.¬† There is also a lot of crap on the dining room table but that’s because there’s still some more vacuuming to do.¬† It just requires a lot of heavy lifting so I’m going to have Sean help me out with it tomorrow.

We’re heading back out to do some small shopping tomorrow but that’s only to pick up detergent because there are at least 30 loads of laundry to do and I’m running low.¬† I also need to head to Home Depot to pick up a Lampholder Adapter so I can start decorating outside.¬† I didn’t like having to go outside and plug everything in when we had the lights setup last year, I’d rather just get the converter and work off of the light switch in the house.¬† It’s easier and doesn’t require flipping a switch on the circuit breaker, there’s seriously something wrong with the plug out there.¬† It’s not that we’re overloading it, it’s just been faulty for quite some time now.

Time to rotate some more laundry.

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Can’t kick the funk…

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

I’m not sure if it’s the family health issues, the lack of a new home or just life in general but I’m in a funk that I just can’t seem to kick.¬† I’ve literally done nothing over the course of the last few days and it’s been bothering the living hell out of me.¬† I still haven’t heard from my father, I was trying to call all week to find out how his colonoscopy went but no one seems to want to answer the phone.¬† I assume that if it were really bad news, I would have heard something from either my sister or my aunt telling me to get back to New York as soon as possible.

Moving down here took a lot of adjusting for me, not only was I starting my life with someone but I was also moving away from everything I’ve ever known, especially just the security of family.¬† Now with my grandfather going through radiation and battling his own cancer, and finding out that my father is 50/50 with colon cancer as well – it’s really striking a nerve.¬† I have cancer on both sides of my family, this is nothing new.¬† My grandfather (father’s dad) passed from leukemia, my grandmother (fathers mom) passed from breast cancer that kind of spread to everywhere else.¬† Now my mothers father is going through it, my mothers sister had thyroid cancer, ovarian cancer and lord knows what else.¬† It has me paranoid to even step foot into a doctors office to see where I rank with this terrible disease.¬† I’m taking the ignorance is bliss route at this point, but that doesn’t mean I don’t want to know what’s going on with my father as soon as humanly possible.¬† I’m going to try calling again tomorrow afternoon when he’s home from work, maybe I’ll actually get an answer this time.

Sean’s “brother” showed up last night for a few hours with his wife, daughter and their new puppy.¬† It was a pretty nerve wracking visit but that’s based on the fact that I’ve never met them before and I know that he’s a big part of Sean’s life.¬† They aren’t literally “brothers” biologically but when you grow up together, and are practically joined at the hip for lord knows how many years, putting them under the title of “brother” just seems to fit, hopefully that clears up any confusion – I know there were a few questions.

But anyway, they hung out here for a few hours and we thought they were going to get a hotel room up the block and then get on the road early the following morning.¬† He decided that he wanted to get down to Florida as soon as possible so they all left (on no sleep) to take the drive.¬† Sean didn’t call him today but I assume that he made it there with out any major issues.¬† I’m sure Sean will call after a few days once they’ve settled in.¬† His brother has already stated that we’ll be going to Florida sooner than we think, I’m just not sure of that 13 hour drive, but it should be interesting.¬† Maybe after the holidays we’ll look into a mini-vacation but who knows what will happen.¬† We may be down there a lot sooner depending on how his father is doing – I just don’t like to think like that.¬† Especially considering he’s battling leukemia as well.

Since I wasn’t really up to cooking tonight Sean and I went to Applebee’s for dinner.¬† We haven’t been there in a while and he’s unhappy with a few things at the moment himself so we took a “date night” just to get out of the house and clear our heads.¬† We enjoyed our dinner then did a little shopping afterwards.

Moving along…I’ve got a lot to do tomorrow.¬† UPS should be here with my duvet cover and lamps, that’ll complete the bedroom for now.¬† I bought new curtains tonight because the ones hanging up in there were so caked in dust that even machine washing them shows no hope for them being saved.¬† They also don’t match the new color scheme of the room.¬† I settled on gray/black because that’s Sean’s thing.¬† I personally can’t stand it so I’ve done some bright updating and settled on a white theme that’s turning out pretty nicely.¬† The walls are still a pale gray but it’s really just a backdrop for everything else going on.

So I’m going to hang up the new curtains, vacuum, straighten up some shelves, switch out my summer gear with my winter clothes and then vacuum pack all of the summer stuff so I can store that away.¬† Then it’s off to the market so I can pick up some food for the week and get a few more things for Thanksgiving next week.¬† At this point the only thing we really need for next Thursday is the Turkey and Potatoes, after that I’m covered for dinner.¬† The stuff I’d be loading up on tomorrow is our weekly food plus some dessert based items.¬† I didn’t have enough time to make Pumpkin Pie last year, I also couldn’t find any decent pumpkins and refused to pick up the puree.¬† Yes, I do make it completely from scratch.¬† I’m hoping that changes this year.

Guess I should get ready for bed, it’s pushing 5:30 and I don’t wanna be awake for when Princess starts waddling around looking for food.¬† I typically put on special booties over my foot lotion and Princess smells the mint so she’ll go after my toes.¬† I’m surprised I’ve got all 10 at this point, based on my little history with her.¬† She’s a good dog but OUCH MAN!

Night all (well, morning to the normal sleepers)

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Staying put…:sigh:

Sunday, November 11th, 2007

Last Saturday we finally heard from Sean’s “brother”, while we were happy knowing that he was OK we were unhappy to hear that he’s moving to Florida to be closer to his family. His father isn’t doing too well and he’s moving down there to help out with things. With this move we were still considering moving to the house we’ve been looking into in Ohio until we found out that the complex is currently between owners and who knows how long it’s even going to be there. Most of the homes in the complex are older manufactured homes that the new owner isn’t interested in. So the price tag that was looking pretty good to us is now, more than likely, going to guadrupal in price and then be replaced with a newer home. Granted, if it were a Ritz Craft “Manhattan” model, I’d pounce on it. But as of right now we’re back to the drawing board.

I’ve been pretty bad with the money so far, I’ll admit to it. But that’s because I thought we were moving and started loading up on a few things here and there, mainly bedroom items so we had something to move with. I didn’t go crazy and invest in furniture but new linens, some shelving and other odds and ends just to get us by. We’ve decided to stay where we are for a little while and then kind of work on things from there. At this point we’re even looking into homes in the Delmarva area that meet our price range so that we can stay down here. A mortgage isn’t that hard to come by when you’ve got a good credit score, file your taxes on time and just have enough money in the bank to make the down payment. The problem is the economy right now, that mixed with the forclosure rates thanks to the monkey in D.C. – it’s only a matter of time before everyone just switches over to apartment living.

I’m not interested in that though, I want land – pretty simple request, no?

In any event, we got a phone call tonight from Sean’s “brother” and he’s going to stop in tomorrow on his way down to Florida. Supposedly he sold everything and the house they’re looking to buy comes partially/fully furnished in Florida so he’s only going with a few suitcases and moving along from there. He’s leaving at 8am which is 2 hours from now, by the time he gets here it’ll be around 4pm (I think), hopefully I’m awake depending on when I actually fall asleep this morning. I’ve been straightening up the house, Sean even surprised me and cleaned up the office quite a bit which is why I’m finally able to get over to my desktop. I’m having some issues with my laptop at the moment, I think the battery is beginning to crap out on me or something. At this point I have no idea, nor do I really care very much either.

In any event, I guess I can put in some more cleaning time before I crash for the night. The toilet hasn’t been cleaned in about three days and that’s enough to make me nauseous (yep, OCD).

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Take me to the Beach…

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

For the past month or so I’ve noticed that I’m in somewhat of a funk.¬† Life is good right now so it’s not really an emotional funk, I’m just having trouble brainstorming ideas for new clients, as well as current personal projects.¬† Up until the launch of the summer season down here, Sean and I spent quite a bit of time at the beach.¬† I’m not sure what it is but there’s something about the way the waves hit the shore that spark my inspiration to astronomical levels.¬† Now, going almost every evening did have a wonderful effect on me but when you don’t go for three months you’ve lost your ability to regain that inspiration you once bottled up inside for the rainy day.¬† Right now I’m to the point of being completely drained.¬† I can literally stare at Photoshop for three hours and not come up with a damn thing.¬† I can’t even find anything online anymore because everyone has the same thing going on with their blogs.¬† Businesses are no better considering they all find a template on templatemonster or another site like that so they basically all look the same.¬† I want to come across something unique, I’ve even reverted to looking through scrapbooks to see templates that I’ve done with paper in the past in hopes to recreate them in Photoshop, but even that isn’t working out very well for me.

The remnants of tropical storm Noel are heading this way, by 2am there are going to be gusts of wind reaching the 60 MPH range and that just makes me wonder what kind of an effect that will have on the shore.¬† I quietly asked Sean if we could head down to the beach tonight so we can get back into the swing of things but he’s so bogged down with work that he has no idea if that’s even going to happen.¬† His boss sent him a major “To Do” list and he has to complete it tonight, I’m unsure of how in-depth this list is, it could just be quick corrections and he’ll have them done within the hour.

Either way it’d be nice to get out of here just to relax on the cold benches down at the shore right now.¬† I know it’s cold and extremely windy but I can fight through that with a hot cup of coffee or hot chocolate from 7-11 and just sit back and listen for a while.¬† And there’s something about the beach that strengthens our relationship as well.¬† Sure, we talk all day long but there’s always a boost of energy when we’re down at the beach that surprises us to this day.¬† We can get through all of our problems, talk things out and the only outside influence is nature.¬† It’s strange, but I don’t think we’d have it any other way.

With the upcoming move to Ohio there is a lot of unsettled emotions between the two of us.¬† It’s not anything in particular but we’ve equally been on edge about things.¬† The frustration of just wanting to get up and go, on top of not knowing if the person we’re trying to get a hold of is even OK at this point in time, let alone HOME for that matter.¬† I’m sure we’ll work through it all eventually, but things were moving along very nicely for quite some time and now they’re at a standstill, so much so that I can’t even get any work done because my concentration levels are non existent.

This sucks.

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Doot Doot Doot…

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

We still haven’t heard from his brother, at this point we’re more concerned than anything.¬† He’s either in Florida or his phone is off in Ohio, we’ve sent him a letter and left it at that.¬† Sean says he’s the kind of guy who would probably go swimming with the phone in his pocket.¬† It’s not that he’s “careless” he just doesn’t remember sometimes.¬† This should be interesting.

Sean did some cleaning up today, he got a lot of the crap out of the middle of the room in the office so I can actually get near my desk now.¬† I haven’t been feeling well for a few days thanks to aunt flo so I haven’t gotten much done.¬† However, with my laptop being in the corner of the room that’s hard to get to thanks to the placement of the bed, instead of climbing over a king sized bed I just decided to sit down in the office.¬† It’s strange working on a full sized keyboard again, it took me a while to get used to the laptop keys, now it’s switching all over again – kind of annoying but that’s what the backspace button is for.

He’s watching Smallville so I’ve got all kinds of noise going on in the background.¬† I’m looking around for my iPod chord but am unable to locate it at the moment.¬† I really do need to charge it and load some songs onto it before we take that 8 hour drive but something tells me I’m going to have at least an extra week anyway so there’s no point in rushing anything.¬† I just need to plug in my headphones and work off the shared drive at the moment – kind of hard to concentrate on anything right now.

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Ehh…screw it

Monday, October 29th, 2007

The last time we needed to get the attention of Sean’s brother, we wound up sending him a funny letter with our phone number.¬† Why?¬† Because his brother has the habit of getting his phone turned off based on the fact that he must love having to memorize new phone numbers every few months.¬† His in-laws don’t have a phone and were using his line to get the “important calls” and then it got to the point of just being bill collectors so naturally changing the phone number was the only way to get rid of them.¬† I don’t blame him, and I’d be very annoyed with my in-laws if they did that to me – but it won’t so I’m not concerned about it.

Anyway, we still haven’t heard from him – even with an in-law going over to the house for us to relay the message.¬† So we’re to a point now where we’re going to send another letter.¬† I figure tomorrow we’ll just ship one out and hopefully hear from him before the weekend and then take the drive up almost two weeks after we originally scheduled.¬† It’s annoying but I guess we have no choice in the matter.

I headed across the street to Kmart today.¬† I picked up a few needed items for the house, as well as some things that are coming with me to Ohio (if we ever hear from his brother).¬† Right now there are King Down Alternative Comforters on sale for $39.¬† I didn’t want it in white but as long as there’s some bleach in the house I’m not too concerned about that.¬† I almost picked up a new sheet set but there really is no point when I already have a good set on the bed at the moment.¬† I also didn’t feel like spending $80 on the King sheet set that I really wanted considering it only came with two pillow cases.¬† We have four pillows on the bed and this particular set doesn’t have alternate pieces that could be added to it.¬† I don’t like mixing and matching.

I picked up what I thought was a Razr, but it’s actually a KRAZR.¬† Close enough, $40 prepaid – I don’t need a plan right now there’s no point.¬† I only use a cell phone for emergencies anyway.¬† I don’t know how anyone could be on the phone for more than 10 minutes but that may be based on the fact that I’m not exactly a chatterbox either.

I picked up a cheapy lava-lamp but that’s because I thought it would be larger than it actually is.¬† It’s been “warming up” for a while and now it’s finally moving the way that they’re supposed to.¬† I’ve always wanted a large floor lava lamp but spending $200 on something that unimportant would just be reckless spending on my part.

The clock in the living room decided to change itself a week early, so it’s only 12:30 in there, but every other clock in the house is telling me 1:30, probably should have checked on that before I sat down for the night.¬† I’m too tired to really accomplish anything and now that I know that I’m an hour behind on just about everything that just adds to my “ehh screw it” mood.

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Little Bump

Friday, October 26th, 2007

As of 2am last night, the money was cleared to the bank account.¬† Our problem for the last few days is getting in touch with Sean’s brother though.¬† He’s got the key to get into the house and for some reason his cell just isn’t working.¬† There’s no house line but there was really no point in having one when both his brother and the wife have cellphones anyway.

So Sean’s been doing some poking around on Myspace in search for at least ONE of his brothers wifes 11 siblings.¬† Yes, she’s one of 12 – I don’t know how her mother managed to handle all of that, but more power to her.¬† So we found one sister but she hasn’t really been around to respond to anything, today we found another sister who said that she was on her way in that direction anyway so she’d swing by the house and let his wife know what’s going on.

We know that his cell is still active, but he’s the ONLY cell user that I know who doesn’t have voice mail.¬† But at the same time, we know that he was in Florida last week when all of the horrible storms ripped through Northern Florida (where his father now lives) so we’re unsure if they’ve even made it back to Ohio for one reason or another.¬† It could either be the storm or the deteriorating condition of his father at the moment.¬† We both hope that it isn’t the case and he’s back safe and sound in Ohio with his phone off.¬† I guess we’ll find out within the next few hours.

We think that some “outside forces” have something to do with this though.¬† There’s a big sale going on at Kmart this weekend that doesn’t start until Sunday.¬† We were planning on leaving here on Sunday so we obviously need to be around for it.¬† The phone I’ve wanted for 3+ years now is on sale for like $40, and the alternative down comforter that I was going to pick up in Target for $60 is $40 in Kmart.

So we’re going to hope that we hear something soon and we’ll be making the trip out there on Monday.¬† I just hope we can leave early enough so that we can get to the hotel in time for check in.¬† Supposedly you need to check in by 2 at the “Quality Inn” but I’m sure a phone call stating that it’s an 8 hour drive between here and the hotel out there makes it impossible for us to show up at 2 unless we happen to leave at 530am – this just isn’t happening.

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Back, but not quite home.

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

We left NY at about 9:30 last night and by 2:30am we were back here.¬† I did wind up falling asleep in the car for the last hour of the trip but that’s out of character for me, so it caught me off guard.¬† I don’t typically fall asleep in cars but I guess with Bella all cozy on my lap so she could look out the window, plus the both of us being wrapped up in my jacket just to get warm – it was bound to happen at some point.

The trip up was OK, we walked into an uncomfortable situation between my father and sister that I’d rather not get into.¬† Sunday was a “down” day, I headed over to my aunts to spend some time with her and on Monday my father and I headed to the bank so I could collect the loan.¬† Seeing a check with that many zero’s was definitely a nice birthday gift.¬† With the interest rate I’m going to pay back about $4,000 on top of the loan itself but since the course of the loan is 60 months, that really won’t matter too much.

So once that was taken care of we headed back to the house and relaxed until about 7 when my aunt called us and we all headed out to dinner at Bertucci’s for my birthday, Sean treated everyone to dinner which looked like a big selling point to my father, so I have to say that worked out nicely.¬† I didn’t “clean up” the way I have in the past but more than enough money to get us back home and me to purchase a few things from the salon my grandmother owns.¬† I also picked up a new purse, Gucci has that kind of a hold on me.¬† And the Dolce & Gabbana sun glasses to replace my now defunct Chanels make me more than content.

We came back here to find house guests, and since it’s raining we’ve still got our suitcases in the car.¬† Sean should be getting in touch with his brother soon about this upcoming weekend.¬† Hopefully once things calm down a bit they’ll be easier to deal with when we’re settled into our new place.¬† I really don’t care much about anything anymore, so being in this funk my only real concern is moving out and just starting a new life.¬† Work means crap to me, people have always meant shit to me, and getting out of a very uncomfortable living situation is a big goal for me right now.

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Packing up, heading out.

Saturday, October 20th, 2007

I’m waiting on my clothes to finish drying so I can start packing.¬† Sean and I are leaving tomorrow afternoon and it’s already about 2am as is so who knows how much longer I’ll be awake.¬† I’m kind of antsy, I get to see a lot of family members over the course of the weekend.¬† Monday is my birthday so we’re all going out to dinner, Bertucci’s YUM.¬† My aunt is coming with us, it’ll be nice to see her as well.¬† On Tuesday I’m getting my hair done, then that afternoon we’re heading back down here to start the moving process.¬† We may start packing up a few things and bring them out with us just so we’re prepared, but for the most part we’re just concerned with getting out there and buying the property anyway.¬† Lets just hope this goes smoothly.

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Starting off…bad.

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

It’s been a pretty bad day so far.¬† Now, nothing has really personally effected me but there’s a lot going on around the world that has me concerned, annoyed, and heart-broken for someone else.

A Tornado has touched down in Florida, thousands of people are without power at the moment.¬† My reason for being concerned is not only are there homes a wreck, Sean’s brother is currently in the area but Sean (with his fabulous memory) has no idea where exactly his brother is at the moment.¬† So the logical thing to do would be to CALL his brothers cell but I guess that’s because I actually think about things, unlike my significant other at the moment.¬† I’m also a worry wort about things like this.

I received an email this morning from an old high school friend informing me that a mutual acquaintance of ours has passed away due to a drug overdose.¬† Now, I didn’t know this person very well, we only passed paths in the hallway or randomly at lunch depending on whether this person was sober or not to even realize where she was.¬† It’s unfortunate to hear that she’s passed away but based on how heavily she was into drugs in high school, it really was only a matter of time after school let out that someone would hear of this news.¬† My heart goes out to her family, I know how hard it was for her mother.¬† There are just some people in the world that you really can’t get through to.¬† No amount of therapy or detox did any good for this girl, and trust me – she was in a lot of it.

As for the annoyed, there’s just a series of things going on that are getting to me.¬† It’s nothing overly important, mainly work related, but the stress doesn’t help my stomach right now.¬† There aren’t enough tums in the world to calm it down.¬† I swear there’s an ulcer coming on.

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Vacations, Model Homes, Mortgages OH MY!

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

The ManhattanKaren is going away on Friday night to head up to Pennsylvania with her sister. Her sister is in the process of moving down here and she’s already chosen the chunk of land that she’s interested in but now she needs to pick out a model home to put on it. She’s going through Ritz-Craft, I’ve heard some mixed reviews on them though. I personally find Palm Harbor homes to be the most appealing. However, Ritz-Craft has a model called “Manhattan” that’s 3547 square feet and absolutely GORGEOUS.¬† I uploaded it because it’s worth sharing.¬† This is the computer generated version, after getting in touch with Ritz-Craft I found out that this model is in the $150,000 range.¬† Which isn’t bad, but you’re better off owning you’re own land in order to purchase it so now we’re looking at another estimated $20,000.¬† I would personally put the house up in Ohio considering I’ve found some decent land out there, but who knows if I could get a mortgage on it.¬† Wishful thinking, that’s for sure.

So she’s leaving on Friday, we’ll be graced with Princess for about 13 hours or so and then we’re heading up to New York on Saturday.¬† So I’ll throw down some extra wee-wee pads and a big bowl of food, keep the fan on with the TV and the rest is cake.¬† She’s fine being left alone over night, Karen should be back within 24 hours of us leaving anyway so it’s not like the dog is going to starve to death.¬† She never plays with toys, she tends to sleep all day so she’ll probably have no idea as to what’s going on anyway.¬† In many ways, Princess is like having a cat.¬† Put the food down and leave her alone until she’s showing some kind of signs towards wanting affection.

I’m bringing Bella up to NY with me.¬† I figure that since we’ll be in Ohio for five days or so without her, leaving her two weekends in a row really isn’t a great idea.¬† Besides, knowing that Karen is going away the same weekend I don’t want her to be in the house alone either.¬† So on Friday, Sean and I are going to make a quick Walmart run and I’ll load up on food and what not for her to get through the weekend.¬† Then next week we’ll make another trip before we leave to load up on some things for while we’re gone.

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Halloween Costumes

Monday, October 15th, 2007

PPPWith the holidays fast approaching, many people forget that there is an important one that’s just as important to adults and children alike, before Christmas is even considered. Sean and I have been floating around the stores looking into halloween costumes because we haven’t really dressed up for the holiday in a few years now. I’ve been looking into some funky clown kind of outfits, Sean has been looking into the more dark and sinister Vampire kind of outfits. His reason behind it is based on the fact that his mother calls him a Vampire because he seems to be more creative at night than he is during the day. There’s nothing wrong with that though; many people are the same way. I know that I am.

I’m anticipating Halloween, I even found a costume for it. I went poking through HalloweenExpress.com, and I found an I Love Lucy Polka Dot Dress Costume. I’ve been a huge fan of hers for years so dressing up like her for Halloween seems like a cool idea for me. It’s only like $40, which is a great deal on a costume. I saw a few other ones on the site that seemed pretty interesting, I poked around the animal section quite a bit. Unfortunately I couldn’t find the one that I saw in Petco for Bella. There was the choice between a pumpkin, which was one of the cutest ones I’ve seen, and a little devil which was equally as adorable.

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Now things are rolling…

Monday, October 15th, 2007

The loan information still hasn’t gotten here but at least I now have a reason as to why.¬† The paperwork wasn’t even printed out until the 11th, and being as it’s the 15th I should expect to see it sometime over the course of the next few days.¬† Sean and I are heading up to NY this weekend so I can head to the branch up there with my father on Monday and by Tuesday the money will be available in my bank account.

After being redirected four times talking to Corporate, I was directed to a man who told me that I don’t even have to wait for the letter, I could have gone to the bank the second I was given the approval.¬† Knowing that I’ve waited two weeks to see some kind of silver lining, this was a bitter sweet moment for me.¬† So I called my father and let him know that we’ll be up there this weekend and I know that Sean, My Father and I are going out to dinner for my birthday on Monday evening.¬† My sister may tag along but we’re going to The Outback so who knows if she’ll find something on the menu there.¬† The certified check that I’m getting from HSBC will travel with me to WAMU, I’ll deposit the money and then by Tuesday I’ll be rolling in it.

Sean and I will then book a room in Ohio for possibly a one to two night stay until we can have the deed signed over to us and then we’ll stay there until the major modifications have been completed.¬† We’ll probably do some minor shopping so we can begin furnishing the place, I know from the get go that a few kitchen based items are important to us.¬† I’d like to at least have some pots and pans in the house, as well as plates so that we’re not eating out every night until we have the rest of our things out there.¬† We’ll get the cable reactivated, get the electric and everything else switched over into our name and then go from there.

It’s going to be a rough couple of weeks but that’s OK by us, we know that once all of the chaos has ended, we’ll be home owners and damn happy about it.¬† The loan is only going to be about $150 a month as far as paying it back is concerned.¬† I figure if we can spare about $300 we’ll be able to pay it back quicker.¬† It’s approved for 15.9%, which is unfortunate but HSBC is known for higher rates and that’s just fine for me.

While we wanted to get out there before Halloween, moving in around the date is just as good for us.¬† Sean wants to go to some haunted house so I figure while we’re out there we can do that.¬† We’ll bring a few extra things with us when we go out there the first time, this way we’ll have some things to move in with that don’t need to be loaded on to the truck that his brother is driving down here for us.¬† Maybe the place will start looking like a home a lot sooner than we’d originally thought – who knows.

In any event, I guess I should get my ass in gear on some work, lord knows when I’ll have this kind of downtime over the course of the next few weeks.

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Winding Down

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

It’s getting pretty cold outside. According to my little Weather dude it’s a cool 57°F outside.. It’s supposed to get down to the upper 40’s tonight and I just can’t wait for it. I have my green tea and my blanket all ready to go for when I curl up and watch a movie later on with Sean. We’re not sure what we’re going to watch yet but he’s got a few hundred to choose from so I’m sure we’ll be able to figure something out.

Right now he’s watching “The Office”, I personally can’t stand the show but he seems to get a kick out of it so that’s just great for him. I’ve been doing some poking around on Amazon so I can start updating my Wishlist before we move. There are alot of things that we’re interested in purchasing and in some instances, it’s cheaper to get it on Amazon – even with the shipping. But knowing that we’re spending over $50, the shipping is free anyway so that mixed with the no sales tax, it’s like we took the drive up to Dover to do the real shopping anyway – heh.

I have some emails to go through. Guess I should get my butt in gear.

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Random Chatter

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

It’s a little after 4am and there’s a storm rolling in.¬† It’s the second one in the last 24 hours but I’m unsure of whether or not this one is going to bring in any rain with it.¬† There’s a lot of booming going on out the window, and there’s also a nice cool breeze coming along with it so I’m certainly not complaining.¬† If Bella could speak, however, I’m sure she’d be crying about it.¬† With the ear infection she’s already a little on the clingy side, when you add thunder on top of that it can only mean that it’s going to amplify over time.

Sean is waiting on some money to clear in his bank account so he can bring his car in to the mechanic.¬† Once his compressor is taken care of, we’ll continue the patient wait for my paperwork to get here so we can take the trip up to New York.¬† I’m hoping to be able to accomplish this trip over this following weekend but I’m not going to hold my breath.¬† There’s obviously some kind of a reason as to why nothing has showed up for me, I just hope that it doesn’t delay itself for too much longer because we’re itching to get out of here and get into our own place.¬† While we do have the money to get out there and at least put a down payment on the place, the bulk of the loan money was going to cover moving costs.¬† What’s the point of owning the place if there’s no way of affording to get our shit out there, you know?

I sent Sean on a download spree yesterday.¬† I’m now overloaded with games to keep me entertained during the drive up to NY.¬† I already tested my battery out and without a network connection I’m good on about 4 hours of battery life while playing the games.¬† After we have the loan in my bank account I’m going to have him send his car back into the mechanic so that we can get the cigarette lighter fixed, this way there’s some extra power in the car for when his iPod and my laptop begin to die during the 8 hour drive out to Ohio.

There’s a lot of heat coming off my computer at the moment so I think it’s time to shut things down for the night.¬† I also don’t like being on direct AC power with a lightening storm hanging over head.¬† I don’t have a surge protector out here and there’s no way in hell I’m losing my laptop because of a few electrical shorts.

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