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A week's worth of stuff and stuff
Sep. 11th, 2004 10:17 amWow. It's been over a week. Uh... yeah, bad howard. No cookie.
So.. what's up with me?
Well, let's see. Kristen is moving out. The two of us keep bouncing back and forth about who needs to remind the other that this is the best thing for the both of us. None of you who have questioned me or Kristen as to whether or not this is the right thing, to which I am grateful. To those who have questions, I'll just answer them by saying that this is what Kristen and I have decided together and we believe, together, this is the right thing for both of us. I need some time living on my own and both of us need time to make our own lives in this city. In a year from now, we'll probably both be ready to move in together, for good.
That's a bit of an odd and wonderful thought. That we can now seriouisly consider an actual date for when the two of us are going to move in together and take that next big step.
See, we have a plan. It started with us meeting, then us living in the same city, then us living together, then in a few months assuming we feel like things are going fairly smoothly without an inordinate amount of fights, I'll probably propose to her.
Of course, that's about a year and a half down the line and we'll have been together for over 2 1/2 years, so...
It's funny. Despite the fights and the issues we've had with her having to bunker down here for a few weeks, we've gotten used to living with each other and it's.. odd.. contemplating life not living with each other 24/7. We need to keep reminding each other that this is the right thing to do. I guess that's how I feel. Part of me is really glad to see her go, because it means I get to live on my own. Areas that have been disaster areas forever since Kristen never had the room to put her stuff are getting clean and I really like that.
I'm just so used to having her around, though.
Ah well. It'll be good. And the timing for things is good. It'll be easy to ignore the emptiness of the apartment when I can come home from work and play Sims 2 or Evil Genius or Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 or Zoo Tycoon 2, all coming out before Christmas 2004. So.. yeah.
Speaking of getting used to things, it's weird not having to work 50 hours a day anymore. I suddenly have an extra hour and a half in the evening to get things done. It's good! But for those first couple days, I had no idea what to do with that time and was still of the frame of reference that we didn't have that time. By Wednesday, though, I had started putting some lists together. I'll talk about them below.
Reenrolled in school. I need to finish my thesis. I don't necessarily want to do the work, but getting it done *IS* important to me, so I need to buck up and find the time to finish the thesis so it's done.
It's been a bad week in another way, partly due to some of the hoops I had to jump and partly because of the music exchange and partly because of a million other small things, I realized.. I'm a major flake. And I don't like that. So... as dumb as this sounds, I got together a couple of lists.. lists of when bills are due, list of certain activities that need to be done.
Stuff like... the third round music exchange CD. My word was "Secret" and my idea was to come up with a CD filled with "Secret" bands.. bands few people, if any, have heard of. Mostly stuff I picked up from mp3.com before it's untimely demise, though a few other random bands as well, including two bands I picked up when I was a DJ at WITR. It's a pretty good mix of stuff, a little of this, a little of that. Sadly, some of this stuff did make it to the Music Xchange CD from last year, but... some of it hasn't. Hopefully the lucky person who gets the CD likes it.
It's 9/11 today. I have nothing to say about that. Part of me is amused... the first year, I was appalled at the terrorists. The second year, I was appalled at Bush, the third year I was appalled at everyone. This year... I just beg everyone to vote Kerry.
I am really upset by Cheney's latest comment that a vote for Kerry is a guarantee that terrorists will attack us. What a shitty thing to say. Asshole.
I read that new polling puts Bush in the lead. That's unsurprising immediately after the RNC. My hope is that that changes soon, though. I do NOT want four more years of that idiot.
I can't think of anything else to say at this moment. I'll try to post more than once a week. It's just been really busy, between Kristen moving and work and stuff.
So.. what's up with me?
Well, let's see. Kristen is moving out. The two of us keep bouncing back and forth about who needs to remind the other that this is the best thing for the both of us. None of you who have questioned me or Kristen as to whether or not this is the right thing, to which I am grateful. To those who have questions, I'll just answer them by saying that this is what Kristen and I have decided together and we believe, together, this is the right thing for both of us. I need some time living on my own and both of us need time to make our own lives in this city. In a year from now, we'll probably both be ready to move in together, for good.
That's a bit of an odd and wonderful thought. That we can now seriouisly consider an actual date for when the two of us are going to move in together and take that next big step.
See, we have a plan. It started with us meeting, then us living in the same city, then us living together, then in a few months assuming we feel like things are going fairly smoothly without an inordinate amount of fights, I'll probably propose to her.
Of course, that's about a year and a half down the line and we'll have been together for over 2 1/2 years, so...
It's funny. Despite the fights and the issues we've had with her having to bunker down here for a few weeks, we've gotten used to living with each other and it's.. odd.. contemplating life not living with each other 24/7. We need to keep reminding each other that this is the right thing to do. I guess that's how I feel. Part of me is really glad to see her go, because it means I get to live on my own. Areas that have been disaster areas forever since Kristen never had the room to put her stuff are getting clean and I really like that.
I'm just so used to having her around, though.
Ah well. It'll be good. And the timing for things is good. It'll be easy to ignore the emptiness of the apartment when I can come home from work and play Sims 2 or Evil Genius or Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 or Zoo Tycoon 2, all coming out before Christmas 2004. So.. yeah.
Speaking of getting used to things, it's weird not having to work 50 hours a day anymore. I suddenly have an extra hour and a half in the evening to get things done. It's good! But for those first couple days, I had no idea what to do with that time and was still of the frame of reference that we didn't have that time. By Wednesday, though, I had started putting some lists together. I'll talk about them below.
Reenrolled in school. I need to finish my thesis. I don't necessarily want to do the work, but getting it done *IS* important to me, so I need to buck up and find the time to finish the thesis so it's done.
It's been a bad week in another way, partly due to some of the hoops I had to jump and partly because of the music exchange and partly because of a million other small things, I realized.. I'm a major flake. And I don't like that. So... as dumb as this sounds, I got together a couple of lists.. lists of when bills are due, list of certain activities that need to be done.
Stuff like... the third round music exchange CD. My word was "Secret" and my idea was to come up with a CD filled with "Secret" bands.. bands few people, if any, have heard of. Mostly stuff I picked up from mp3.com before it's untimely demise, though a few other random bands as well, including two bands I picked up when I was a DJ at WITR. It's a pretty good mix of stuff, a little of this, a little of that. Sadly, some of this stuff did make it to the Music Xchange CD from last year, but... some of it hasn't. Hopefully the lucky person who gets the CD likes it.
It's 9/11 today. I have nothing to say about that. Part of me is amused... the first year, I was appalled at the terrorists. The second year, I was appalled at Bush, the third year I was appalled at everyone. This year... I just beg everyone to vote Kerry.
I am really upset by Cheney's latest comment that a vote for Kerry is a guarantee that terrorists will attack us. What a shitty thing to say. Asshole.
I read that new polling puts Bush in the lead. That's unsurprising immediately after the RNC. My hope is that that changes soon, though. I do NOT want four more years of that idiot.
I can't think of anything else to say at this moment. I'll try to post more than once a week. It's just been really busy, between Kristen moving and work and stuff.
