Thursday, August 27, 2009

My Necklaces

Jeez, moving sucks. But we're almost done. Just a few more days.

I feel like the next couple of months are going to lick balls. Too much going on. Moving, Julius Casar, attempted house purchase, weddings, possible Quants reunion. Too much.

Tonight as we were packing up more shit, I found some necklaces that I used to wear in college, including one that I made at the Kirksville make-your-own-jewelry store, and one that has a little amulet for "protection" that Jeannie gave to me. Dudes wearing necklaces is very underrated. Except by Italians, in which case it is overrated. That being said, I did feel a little stupid when I met one of our new neighbors and I was wearing my necklaces. Oh well.

I'm really ready for all of this shit to be over with. I'm also ready for our goddamned wireless internet connection to stop being such a pussy.

Sorry for my potty mouth this evening.

Friday, August 21, 2009

Moving to the Country, Gonna Eat a Normal Amount of Peaches. Perhaps Slightly Less Than a Normal Amount.

I had forgotten how much moving sucks. We haven't really acquired that much more shit since the last time we moved 3 years ago, but it sure seems like we have, for some reason. Maybe Jeannie did most of the packing last time. Anyway, packing sucks.

Last night the Jeanners and I were going through old photos and letters and stuff like that. Always the best part of packing. Especially reading letters from 10 years ago (almost to the day) that talked about looking back in ten years at the events that were happening at the time and how we would feel about them.

It's strange how much this place we're leaving feels like home. It's kinda the first place that we've made our own a little bit. Neither of us has entirely wrapped our mind around the idea of leaving and moving into some unknown little crappy apartment. Feels strange. Wish we were moving right into a house, I think it would be much easier.

On that note, no news on the house front. We're waiting for a reply on our offer of last week. (the dude selling the house has been in Costa Rica. Or as our agent writes in her e-mails, "Costa Rico.")

Today I get a key to the new apartment and will begin moving our packed up shit over there. We don't officially move (with a moving truck and all) until August 29. Everyone is invited to come help.

Well, fuck a duck, what a boring post. I wish the Beej was still in town. I wish it wasn't so damned humid. Not necessarily in that order.

I'm gonna brush my teeth and go for a run.

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Not sure about the vocals, but I'm calling it done cause I just packed up all my music shit today.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

In-Law Suite

We are now on day 7 with no kitchen sink. I think we've had either 3 or 4 plumbers out. All of them seem to diagnose the problem, propose a solution, and then disappear. Then the next day there's a different plumber and he does the same thing.

My birthday was last Thursday. It was pretty low key. The J-Dog and I both worked, and she got me a copy of Gena's photography book, which is awesome, and it was a perfect gift because I had been planning on buying it anyway. She also got me a copy of Pillars of the Earth, which I have been wanting to read for awhile. In the the spirit of full disclosure, I will reveal that my mom owned that book when I was little and I used to read the dirty parts. There weren't that many, but they were hot stuff. At least to an 8-11 year old.

Jeannie's parents came into town on Friday and stayed with us until Sunday. It was a good time, but it would have been better if:
1. Our kitchen sink worked
2. We lived in a house.
3. The house that we lived in had air conditioning.
Nonetheless, it was good to see them, and we cooked a nice dinner last night and supplemented it with some market-bought crabcakes, and it was all real tasty. And I managed to change a headlight on our car under the watchful eye of Jeannie's dad (who is a tremendous [and I mean TREMENDOUS] car buff) and not make a fool out of myself. Changing a headlight is pretty easy, and I wasn't planning on making a fool of myself, but I can pretty much fuck up anything if somebody else is watching.

I used Jeannie's deodorant this morning because her parents were asleep in our room (where my deodorant is) when I left for work. It was not strong enough for a man.

We started watching season 1 of Mad Men last week. It's good.

The album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, by Phoenix, is my favorite album of the year so far.

I worked a 13 hour day today and it wasn't that bad.

This week: pack up the apartment and start work on Julius Caesar.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Offer #2

Let's work backwards:

- this morning I went for a run and then did our dishes in the bathtub. Tonight: hanging out with the Beej and the A-Train. Dinner somewhere fun. Games, perhaps?

- last night the Jeanners and I made an offer on the place we've been looking at. The offer was pretty low, so we'll see what happens.





- Sunday after work our kitchen sink was clogged up pretty bad, which sucks because we had a lot of dishes to do, so we called our apartment people to let them know about it. They must've called a plumbing company and told them it was an emergency, because they sent a plumber out at about 9pm and he was surly about having to come out at 9pm on a Sunday. Apparently the clog was over 25 feet away from our sink, so his snake wouldn't work and he was unable to fix the problem.

- Saturday Pat and Teresa had a party for the Beej with some CSC folks down at their house. Really good food, beers, fun folks, cute babies. A good time.

- On Friday the Beej and I headed down to P & T's for our sleepover and geek games. Had a good time playing geek games, although it felt strange being out of my entrenched routine, and I missed the Jeanners somethin' terrible. Had a vodka tonic for the first time in a very long time.

It sure has been good gettin' to see BJ. Hope that when he's done with his PhD in a few years he ends up close by.

Thursday, August 06, 2009

A Hot Date

A good today. Went for a run shortly after I woke up, did some dishes, did some laundry, and then got to meet up with the Beej! He got into town last night, and is staying down at P & T's, and he came up to Baltimore for a hot date this evening. So this afternoon he came over and then we went up to the Rec Room for some delicious cheap burgers and conversation. A good time. Hanging out with the Beej at the Rec Room is sriously one of my favorite things to do. He will be in town for awhile, and tomorrow there is going to be a boys' sleepover down at Pat's where we play lots of geek games and talk about hairy butts.

Last night the Jeanners and I went to a neighborhood meeting for the neighborhood that we are potentially moving to. We heard a lot about crime, which was a little scary (but not too scary), and met some interesting folks. We were attempting to perhaps meet some folks who could assist us in our quest for a zoning variance for our proposed driveway. And maybe we did. It was a pretty interesting night.

What else? Still reading and enjoying The Time Travelers Wife, although it feels like its getting to be too long. That, by the way, is what SHE said.

Feels good to be running regularly again. Must remember to try and stay in the habit instead of being sporadic.

Monday, August 03, 2009

Respect My Wishes...

Last night I said the sentence, "Respect my wishes, bitches, which is: no kisses." and it felt like I was break dancing with my mouth.

I think that walks at night are the best.

I also enjoy reading in small pools of light in otherwise dark rooms.

I had several whack-ass dreams last night about Jeannie's brother, Seth.

I got new sneakers. For the first time in a long time, my sneakers cost more than $15.

Only two more days of work this week.

The thought of having a hearing before a zoning committee and contacting our potential future city representative and getting a petition signed by our potential future neighbors puts a little ball of dread in my tummy, but knowing that I would be doing all those things with the Jeanners makes it not-so-bad.

I am getting hooked on Trader Joe's mini pizzas for lunch because they taste like grade school cafeteria pizza. The rectangular kind.

I am reading The Time Traveler's Wife. Yes, I do feel a little bit embarrassed about it, but dammit, I don't care. It's pretty good. I watched a trailer for the upcoming movie and it looks d r e a d f u l.

We put clean sheets on our bed last night and they stank.

I am enjoying CD's by Richard Hawley lately. He's definitely worth checking out. This is the first song I ever liked by him: