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Hello Delaware!!

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

It’s been a long time coming but I’m finally back in Delaware for a few weeks. It’s been three years since I moved back to NY and I can’t tell you how much I missed it down here. The second we rolled in my eyes lit up to the point I swear they were glowing. We’re staying with Sean’s mom, it’s weird being back in the house but at the same time it feels as though I never left.

Sean’s birthday is tomorrow, I need to get myself out of the house long enough to get up to the store to pick up a few things for him. He already knows he’s getting two video games, “Gears of War 3” and “Dead Island”, I know there’s a third gift in there but I’m going to need to find it first. He knows, in the back of his mind, what it is – but has yet to figure it out so that’s good enough for me, at least there will be some kind of a surprise factor, heh.

So far we’ve hit-up the usual spots where we could be found… “The Roadhouse” in Lewes, “Casapulla’s South” in Rehoboth, and of course we trucked ourselves to the beach because neither of us has really seen one in years. I know that I live on Long ISLAND, but the beaches up there suck major, major ass. It’s not the same when you live on the North Shore. You don’t get the ISLAND feel, you get the “Oh look, there’s Connecticut and somethings floating in the LI Sound again”. So, needless to say, being able to look out and all I see is endless ocean, I’m one happy chick. I fully intend to go back a few more times before we leave.

On top of this being a change in scenery for a few weeks, there’s still some work involved.  Sean and I are both swamped with work, I’m getting mine done a bit more quickly than him, but that’s going to reverse pending a few responses from a client that’s giving us a pretty solid workflow at the moment.  I’ve got a few more sites to add to my portfolio, which is also on the agenda while I’m down here because the change in altitude and the addition of the beach has given me a whole new burst of energy and inspiration.  I’m starting to wish I never left, but circumstances back in New York made that pretty difficult for me.

I’m on the war path though, I’m looking on both Long Island and in Delaware for places to live.  My heart will always be in NY, but for some reason my soul is happier in DE.  Financially speaking, of course, DE would be the way to go but the few prospects that I’ve found don’t really thrill me too much.  One lady down the road (same complex as Sean’s mom) is offering a rental on her house for $750 a month (which is 100% doable, and a pretty good deal), but then when I showed a little interest she noted she’s actually looking to sell as soon as possible because of all of the problems with the house that her husband has been feverishly working to correct. I took a few minutes to take a walk down to the house to see if it would actually be worth it for me or Sean.  It’s a relatively decent deal but I could see exactly what she was talking about the second I walked up onto the property.  It does need a lot of work, and based on the fact that a mortgage would even be required, I’d prefer to take on a much newer model home without as many issues.  I’ll weigh the options for a little while, going back and forth between NY and DE, but for now – until we can pay the bills down quite a bit – I’m going to stay put until the opportunity to make the choice, with the financial stability, comes to the surface.

Based on how much I missed it down here, however, I do see myself coming back to visit a bit more. Yes, it will continue to be a ‘workation’ being as we do need to work in order to continue living, but having the luxury of working for yourself means you can pretty much work anywhere with a laptop and a wifi signal.  We already know that we’re coming back down in November for Punkin Chunkin but that’s something we saw advertised quite a bit while we were down here but never took advantage and actually went to enjoy it in person. It’s a three day event, I don’t see myself going all three days. But even going up to just enjoy the festivities for one day would make me pretty happy.

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Yea, that resolution didn’t stick…

Saturday, March 26th, 2011

Ok, so while I told myself at the beginning of the year that I need to add this back into my regular routine, as you can clearly see that’s just not happening. The renewal for this domain is up in a few months and I’m really questioning as to whether or not the $30 would even be worth it at this point in time. I have no drive to do anything, I’d love to bring in some extra cash but I’m so out of the loop on things that it would be a learning curve to start from scratch again. I blame work, honestly. I learn so many new things throughout the day and as anyone would know – when you learn something new, you forget something old. The thing that kills me is that with two laptops, plus the Droid well equipped with the WordPress app, I still have no ability to physically sit down and do something. Hell, right now it’s about 12:30 and I know for a fact I should just be in bed.

As far as life is concerned, things are going really well. I bought a new car during my weekend Valentines day getaway with Sean (05 Chevy Equinox that I’m absolutely in love with), I’ve taken on another region at work that has pretty much doubled my daily inventory and now gave me about 42 people to manage, or micro manage as the company would prefer. It takes its toll on my brain, especially when there are so many different insurance companies involved and cycle times for both the files and the appraisers are through the roof. Needless to say, if you ever work for an appraisal company – make sure they hire someone who’s capable of actually completing a file within 2 days or don’t even bother giving them a second glance. My daily job is to babysit grown men, and while that sounds a little odd, it’s really what the case is. Needless to say, it’s an interesting position.

The alternate job search has had some good leads, but I think I’m so comfortable with where I am (considering I’m knocking on three years), I really don’t know what else I could do with myself. If it weren’t for my lack of ability to be able to focus on learning the estimates I’d get myself an adjusters license. For someone living in NY if I were to work for just about any insurance company I could bring in anywhere from $40 to $65 an hour. The work involved, however, would more than likely kill me so lets keep that on the back burner. For now, however, I’ll stick with what I know and what I’m comfortable with.

I had a relatively busy day, I woke up early (as usual) and got some shopping done. I bought a new dresser for the bedroom, I picked up two new rugs for outside so that my gazebo can come to life again. I’m overloaded on seeds and pots, I just need to pick up a couple of 50lb bags of soil and I should be good to go. I went out to dinner with Sean and my sister – I’ve been craving Bertucci’s for about three weeks and was finally able to get into it so I could enjoy it’s delicious culinary offerings. When all of that was said and done I sat down and booked my hotel room for April 8th-April 10th as Sean and I are going away on a mini-vacation down to Jersey to visit family. It’s good to get away every once and a while, plus having a working vehicle helps out alot too. Sean still has his Baretta, I downright refuse to be in it, let alone drive it. My personal opinion is it would pay good for scrap metal, his personal opinion is “but that’s my car yo, wtf?”, we obviously have a difference in opinion here haha.

So in a nutshell, that’s been my life for the past few months. Working like a dog, have a new toy to drive around, taking a mini-vacation one weekend per month just to get away and working so I can spend the bulk of my summer outside. I’m going to cut out vacations for two months or so after this only because there’s a very dreamy table/chairs set from Home Depot that I’m itching to pick up but my expensive tastes have me looking to spend about $700. Sean needs a new laptop so skimping and saving after we get back is first priority.

Maybe I will need to get back into the sponsored posts afterall. Before things went all bonkers with the google page rank stuff I was able to bring in about $3500 a month, that’d solve a lot of problems right now.

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Still Searching

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Trusted ToursI’m still kind of set on getting myself out of the house for a real vacation. Yes, going up to New Jersey at the end of the month doesn’t look like a possibility right now but I do hope to be able to get up there the following month depending on what’s going on with work and what not. I have been surfing around one of my numerous bookmarks, mainly Trusted Tours because you can find everything you need from them. You can basically get information on just about any major city/town of interest. I have it bookmarked as Things to do in Boston for when I actually get the chance to get up there again but my main focus is finding things to do in Orlando. I know that there are major attractions down there but I can only take so much if Disney World and Universal Studios before I get bored. It’s a goal of mine to get to know every aspect of Orlando and I think a great place to go for that info is Trusted Tours. They can even give you a few tips on basic sightseeing tours as well. They have a newsletter too.

I’m to a point now where I’m just itching to get out of here, honestly. I know that there is a lot of work to do but my stress levels are through the roof right now. I need a change of scenery, and I also have this urge to visit family. I think if I’m unable to get up to Jersey at the end of the month I may try and persuade Sean into going up to New York for a couple of days. I’ll have to base it on how my work schedule is though, I know his is filling up quite a bit as well now that he’s working for three people instead of the original one he’s been with for the last couple of years now. Jackie took him on board as a programmer, and a larger site that created a social networking script has taken him on for plugins and upgrades. Everything is working out pretty well for him right now, it’s just a shame that I’m only getting started on things. It’ll all work out in the end, I just think I’m going to have to spend a little more time down at the beach to clear my head. Right now they’re swamped because it’s a pretty warm day and since it’s a weekend all of the tourists are coming back to open up their houses and relax on the beach. I’m going to make a trip up north in hopes to find another beach that the DE residents in Sussex are sent to because of the lack of ability to get anywhere near the beaches we live by year round. It sucks having to go up to Kent county but if traveling is the only way to get an ounce of privacy while still being able to enjoy the beach then I guess it’s worth it.

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Taking a Break

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Orlando, FL I’ve been working on saving up some money so Sean and I can go away at the end of the month. The hotel is complimentary, as is a lot of the amenities, it’s just the cost of gas and tolls to get up there, plus some minor spending on a slot machine or two if I actually choose to gamble. I can only do this if I can bring in another $800 in the next 10 days. Since I doubt (as of right now) that it’s actually going to happen I’ll just bank on the reservation until the end of next month and hopefully figure something out then.

It would be great if I could actually afford to look into Orlando Hotels. I’d love to get down to Florida. When you compare the weather to what we’ve been dealing with on the East Coast for the past week – it’d be nice to enjoy the warmth and sunshine for a few days – you know? Another section I’ve been looking into is Lake Buena Vista Hotels, at least it’s in Florida. It really doesn’t matter where I actually wind up going. I think it would just be nice to go on an official vacation sometime soon. Maybe one day we’ll be able to do it, for now it’s more like wishful thinking.

Orlando is the host of the 2008 American Urological Association Annual Meeting and staying at any of their gorgeous hotels will put you in the best location to attend this event. I’m sure anyone in the medical field could find it interesting. I’m not too sure if I’d go but who knows what the future holds. The Orlando Vista Hotel is located close to the entrance to the Downtown Disney Resort Area, it’s also just a half mile from Pleasure Island, and minutes to the Convention Center, SeaWorld, Universal Studios and the Florida Mall.

I’d love to go to SeaWorld, that’s a big trip for me. I’m really into anything Marine so I think that would be a great vacation spot for me. I’m a Dolphin fanatic, I’d love to swim with them one day. I just have to get rid of that severe Fish allergy of mine, even coming in contact with the water with a very small instance of Fish is enough to put me in the hospital. That wouldn’t make for such a great vacation.

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OOh! It works!

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

I’m finally back in the office, my back is feeling up to sitting in this god awful chair. I’m playing around with Leopard, and Parallels Desktop because Sean was lucky enough to figure out what was going wrong with the routes we were taking. It required a lot of Linux editing and that’s not really in my field of expertise. He figured it out, the whole computer acted up for a little while and then he figured out how to fix that. Now everything seems to be running pretty smoothly. The major draw-back was my lack of ability to access my external hard drive. It turns on and the red light informs me that it’s “running” but then when it changes back to blue it doesn’t show the drive on either Leopard or XP and then if it does begin to view it on XP it says that I don’t have the proper permissions to get into the drive. With a major thanks to Jackie (my Mac guru) I was able to fix everything and now everything is up and running just fine.

On another bright note, Sean and I are going on vacation at the end of the month. We set a few financial goals for ourselves and if we can accomplish them by the 23rd then we’re going to keep our reservations for Harrah’s at the end of the month. If we’re unable to reach the goal then we’ll cancel the reservation and hang on until next month. The actual drive up there is the only thing that’s really going to cost us any money, it’s the cost of gas and a few tolls to pay. It’s still cheaper than taking the Ferry because even with the $37 Ferry ride we’re going to have to drive North for about an hour or so. It’s easier just to put gas in the car and get the hell out of here. The room itself is complimentary, and we’re lucky enough to have the new luxury suite available for two nights – absolutely free. Brand new hardwood floors, jacuzzi tubs and plasma TV’s – it’ll be a nice little get-away. After that there’s the pool to hang out in, no children permitted (they have to go to the teen pool) so I figure since we’re going mid-week there’s really going to be no one there so it’ll be possible to lay down and relax without dealing with screaming children or unruly drunks for that matter. I also have about $300 in cash that I can print out at the Kiosk and then of course there’s the food comps so we’re really not spending any of our personal money at all. Of course we’re going to want to Gamble but with all of the amenities that are available – I doubt I’ll be on the Casino floor very often. We need to get away to clear our heads, no dogs, no parents, just us. It’ll be pretty nice.

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