(Written and unsuccessfully published on Friday 12/15/06)

It seems as though all my recent posts (past 6 months or so) have begun with me giving excuses for not blogging, not updating my site, or being very busy. Well, once again I will begin by saying that I've been a slacker. I've been very busy.

Hmm... So lets see. What has been going on in my world?

Well, first of all, we just moved into our brand new home! We closed on the 7th and we moved last Sunday. What a pain in the ass! (At least we won't be doing that again for a long time.)

Move in day was a 15 hour ordeal. We started at like 9am and finally got all our stuff moved in around midnight (thanks to Lily & David!) Additionally, we made a trip down to their house to pick up our new television! It is soooo freakin cool! It's so nice to watch tv and have everything the color it's supposed to be and to be able to use the on screen program guide without having to squint! I can't wait to hook up the stereo and dvd player to it.

So now that we're about 35 miles away from work, we've both been shifting our schedules so that we come in later and stay later. This also means that I don't leave work until about 7pm, but it's worth it! We miss all the traffic in the morning and evening. It only takes about
40 minutes to get to and from work. The roads have been pretty good at that hour, but we shall see what happens when traffic accidents occur.

By the time I get home from work and get some food it's already pretty late. So needless to say, we've been pretty slow in unpacking all our stuff. As of right now, most of our boxes are still packed but in their respective rooms. I got the television setup and I got our desk and
computer/internets set up. I think the rest of the stuff will wait until this weekend. Hopefully we can get everything else unpacked this weekend. I really don't want to have to look at any boxes next week.

We get our refrigerator tomorrow - yay! All week we have been living out of a cooler. It's been fine, cause we've just been picking food up on the way home, but the fridge will be good. Next will be a washer and dryer and blinds. We've got the temporary blinds up there now, but
they're slowly starting to become unstuck to the windows.

So beside the house what is new? Well, I finished my coursework for school. I just need to get cracking on my thesis. Maybe I'll get a chance to really start thinking about my thesis over the holidays. I start my self-study "course" with my advisor in February so then I will have 3 months from then to complete my thesis. So I should be done by the Spring... Yay! After that, I'm not sure what I'm going to do. I've got a few ideas, but nothing concrete yet. I'd love to take some more courses in things that I enjoy. Who knows? Maybe I'll take some photography or graphic design courses. That would be fun! Or better yet, maybe I'll go back for another degree! You would think that I'd have enough of this whole school thing!?!? posted by jame1030 at 12:08 AM |