Life has been busy and good. My brain is generally scattered and I can't seem to remember anything in any kind of particular order. Maybe I'l do bullets?
-As many of you saw, Mike and I are now Facebook official. :-P It's silly, but it makes me incredibly happy. I think I may finally have something normal (you know, disregarding that whole ex-fiance's best friend thing).
-He continues to treat me like gold. He cooks for me, snuggles me all night, and pays to fill my gas tank. He tells me I'm beautiful and isn't afraid to get goofy with me when I'm feeling wild. He is the world's best kisser (and, as a kissing slut, I would know). The way he kisses me goodbye in the morning and hello after a long day apart makes my stomach do back flips. We've been sucking face for five months and it never gets old.
-I've been trying to maintain some form of social life. Last week we had a bonfire at The Farm and Tor and I went on an impromptu paddle boating adventure on Schaefer's Skeezy Swamp of Slime (aka the pond). Yesterday Mike, Erin, and I took Herbie walking in Collier's Mills between rain showers. There have been dinners and lunches and ice cream trips. There is a long list of people I want to go visit once October is over.
-We stopped by at Jannine's last weekend because she was having a get together and I missed her. She made me 'pumpkin pie', which is Sam Adams Pumpkin Ale with a shot of vanilla vodka in it. I managed to get drunk in the middle of the afternoon and Mike had to drive us to work. Don't worry, I sobered up before it was time for make up.
-Two nights ago we did dinner with Elisa, who I hadn't seen since her wedding a year and a half ago. She and her husband are moving to North Carolina next year and she wanted to break the news to us in person. The good news is that plane tickets down there are only like $80 and we were planning on vacationing down there next summer anyway. It was good to catch up on life and news. Elisa approved of Mike (everybody does) and the conversation was full of great quotes including, "We know. You're coming," and, "She's what you'd call a MILF now."
-I got unemployment so I was able to pay my rent and continue having a place to live. I look at my options sometimes because it would be good to have a back up plan, but I don't think I'm going anywhere any time soon. Last night I was reading back over the Juliette entry and remembering that it could be worse. (If you're really bored and want to email me for THOSE stories, feel free.)
-Bryce's new girlfriend is really cool. I'm sure it was pretty awkward for her to meet us the first time, but she seems to have settled right in. Bryce made the mistake of leaving her home alone with me while he ran out for creamer, and I immediately cleared the air. She and I have a lot in common and spent four and a half hours hanging out while he was at work the other day. She's in an accelerated nursing program and lives an hour away so we don't see much of her, but I'm hoping that'll change once she graduates.
-The job search is... going. I have definitely gotten much pickier about what I am willing to do for a job. I'm still pretty open minded about what I actually want to be DOING, but my list of criteria has gotten stricter. For example- I'm not looking to commute more than half an hour, I need fixed hours and weekends free, I want a salary and health insurance, and I'm really really not willing to do anything commission based. I have been following up on some leads that have been sent to me (and appreciate everyone on here who has thought of me and sent job postings). I sent my resume to a head hunter for a Princeton company. He's a friend of a friend and will hopefully be able to help me out. I also stopped at SRF to pee after hours yesterday and chatted with Jenn for a while. I let her know that I'm taking on horse training clients. We'll see if that goes anywhere.
-Since people are asking, Ozzy is doing well. I have honestly not been spending much time with him at all, but he's happy and sound and I'm waiting for the weather to clear so we can get some adventuring in before winter is upon us.
-The Haunted gig is also going well. I only got hit once on Sunday night and I've been having a laugh riot with some of the people I'm working with. My partner in crime and I have our part of the carnival down to an art and have been getting some really good scares. We had one little kid separated from his family and running in a panic back and forth up the hallway. Every time he'd hit a new clown, he'd turn around and run the other way. He must have been going for a good ten minutes. There was another little kid who I scared pretty badly. His mom LEFT HIM and kept going. Minutes later, his cries for help reached her and she went all Mama Bear on me, jumping on my back and pulling me off the kid. Listen here, Mother of the Year, you're the one who LEFT HIM IN THE DARK WITH A SCARY CLOWN. Sheesh! Weekends have definitely been exhausting, especially for Mike who has been doing landscaping during the week and has to physically chase people for hours every weekend night. We have been sleeping for half the weekends because we need it. He could barely walk by the time Monday rolled around.
-The other night, on our way home from Haunted, Mike suddenly stopped the truck and asked, "Did I just see what I think I saw?" He turned his high beams on and backed up the road, revealing a cow plastered against the fence closest to the street. He rolled his window down and mooed a moo that would have had me mooing back if I was a cow. When I asked if we could pet the cows, Mike didn't even bat an eye before throwing the car in park and hopping out into the chilly October night. And so we found ourselves sitting in the grass outside a cow pasture in the dead of night with his truck in the middle of a back road and a lone curious sheep staring at us from behind his herd of cattle. Now I laugh every time I drive down that road.
I think that's the gist of if. If you have any questions or feel like you missed something, feel free to let me know.
