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[17 Nov 2009|06:42pm] |
whoooaaa
man i keep putting this off and everything off and i've become really good at avoiding all the STUFF.
mark finally has a bathroom with a sink, a toilet(he's been without water entirely since AUGUST) a LIGHT, a very expensive medicine cabinet but no door. its the 'safe' room in the house. good god it was difficult. at least three entire days have been spent trying to install a shower door!! extremely humbling. the next project will hopefully be the living room (that doesn't have a ceiling right now.) there are some areas with 150 years of paint that we would both really really like to sink our scrapers into.
on the work front, i've been promoted. and placed the the safety committee. i'm definitely feeling that itch to move on. nothing is ever ever ever what it seems. lately i've just been trying to enjoy the small stuff like special assignments to york PA architectural salvage yards to pick up some glass lamp shades. and being helped out by a complete stranger in the parking lot at home depot (he helped me load an entire truck full of 2x4x16's.)
looking forward to:
thanksgiving- mark and i are going to marietta on tuesday night. staying for a while.
teaching myself how to knit. yeah
going to NJ for xmas. maybe going ice fishing if its cold enough.
going to florida on new years day.
getting rid of a lot of clothes. little by little.
maybe maybe maybe moving in with mark. this goes back and forth everyday. oh we could get a dog!
cooking more. im forcing myself to cook 3 nights a week. this is a huge deal for me. i know its pathetic.
moving on entirely with my little career/going back to school/both.
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[23 Jul 2009|10:33pm] |
best birthday ever!
work buds took me to the only bar in town and met up with the only other (3)drinkers in the entire forest. shared pitchers of budweiser and talked shop. karaoke unexpectedly showed up and we were instantly serenaded by old locals. they were singing old and new cowboy songs(and happy birthday to me!) the special of the night was $2 jello shots. the best part was.... the beer was only 3.2% so we drank all night and didnt get drunk.
last weekend i drove up through BEAUTIFUL northern utah and southern idaho to meet up with a friend i met in hawaii. it was 106 in boise that day. we camped at the gorgeous bruneau dunes state park. swam in a slimy lake. had the best camp fire ever sweating the bugs away and feeling the oven desert air turn two logs into an absolute blaze.
im enjoying being an outsider here. the sobriety is peaceful. i vow to return to the west yearly! i must make my move before i am 30! six more years for the east to beat me down.
AMERICA!!!!
and my camera busted.
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[08 Apr 2009|08:05pm] |
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so i learned how to operate a bulldozer today. almost every week i have a complete "how did i get here?" moment but this was absolutely surreal. my eyes glazed over. its like playing a video game. a really expensive, dangerous, loud video game.
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[03 Jan 2009|12:35pm] |
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i'm alive!
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[02 Jan 2008|11:45am] |
i contracted a nasty stomach flu that showed up at just about 11:30pm new years eve. so fucking gross. i wasnt missing anything because i went to bed around 10.
i called off work today because i wasnt feeling well this morning. im sure ill be fine tomorrow.
oh yeah ive lived here for a whole year and my apartment still looks like i just moved in. boxes in the corner, stereo on the floor. so im going to work on that in the next few weeks. maybe ive been saying that for the last year. i might as well because i know im going to be here for a while. YEARS, even. so thats exciting.
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[06 Dec 2007|11:46am] |
it snowed about 3 inches yesterday and we were released from work early. i am sick as a little dog. i deserve it.
i took today off only to discover that i dont have adequately hot water and my roof is leaking right over my bed. i just told my landlord a few weeks ago that id like to stay in my apartment another year, but now im thinking otherwise. only if i can find a better deal...
im heading to ohio. is anyone going to be in columbus the friday before xmas? i need to stop by some weird place to pick up a copy of my birth certificate. also, id just like to go there.
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[06 Aug 2007|08:04pm] |
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i just spent the last 13 hours tears scaffolding down and loading trucks then unloading them, then loading them again. i feel like a wooden nickel.
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