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Bad grammar aside, I'm doing pretty well lately.  Today is the last day at the temp gig, but they have requested me back for three days next week to cover a different desk.  I also have three interviews set up for Monday and Tuesday of next week, and I am trying to set up a fourth, but it seems like the fourth one may fall through.  I'm crossing my fingers, that position seems like a better fit than some of the others.  Although one of the others is at an event company, so that would go hand in hand with trying to launch my own event planning business.

This weekend I'll be up at my parents' house. A bunch of my dad's cousins will be coming for a visit and my sister-in-law is bringing the kids to visit also, so it will be a house filled with mayhem.  I'm hoping that at some point in the next couple of days I have enough time and energy to clean my bathroom, because it's pretty nasty in there at the moment.  If I do it tonight after work, I can take my bathroom rugs to my parents' house and wash them (I've been abusing laundry privileges since losing my job; bring my own detergent and stuff the same as I would for the laundry room, but don't have to pay $3.).

So, anyway, that's where we're at.  At the moment I'm still feeling good mentally, but a little meh physically.  Probably because I've been driving to the train instead of walking, and I canceled my gym membership.  Can't wait to get a new job, so I don't have to think anymore about ways to cut corners.

I haven't posted anything about my new digs, it occurs to me.  Pics later, for now just the dirt.

I'm almost done purchasing furniture, thank goodness.  I have a little cabinet in the kitchen to use as a pantry, the couch is on order, I have a bed and nightstands, and all of the shelves are up, including a very nice hanging shelf my Dad dropped by to help me hang 2 weeks ago.  Most of them are full, too, which is pretty satisfying.  

I can has my books again!  My books, oh how I missed them.  It's been two years without seeing some of my old friends.  I'm thinking of reading them all over again, which would also include all the stuff I've acquired and intended to read, but never gotten around to.

I've started putting up pictures, which makes the place feel more homey.  I think I'm going to fill the wall over the couch (or, where the couch will be when it is delivered in a few weeks) with black and white photos.  Fortunately, I think that between family photos and art pictures, I have enough to do a good job of it.  My maternal grandmother's wedding photo is very pretty, and I found an old picture of Paris in a thrift store not long after I got back.  There are a couple of others.  We'll see what develops.

I'm doing the floor coverings (which I am unfortunately required to have, I'd much rather leave the hardwood naked) in mismatched area rugs.  So far I have a tapestry mat under my desk chair, and a black and tan rug in a circular pattern for the living room area, which matches the round tan mat the cat uses to clean off her feet as she leaves the litter box.  In the bedroom I'm putting a faux-sheepskin rug that's being delivered tomorrow.  I'm excited to see if it lives up to the photo on the website.

I haven't really decided what to do with my great-aunt's painting.  She became a semi-professional oil painter with a strong local following in Florida after she retired from nursing, and she gave me a painting when I moved into my first apartment in college.  I've had it in the dining room everywhere I've lived, and now I don't have a dining room, so I'm at a loss.  The kitchen seems like a bad place for it, and it's kind of bright, so I'm not sure I want it in the bedroom. 

The closet in the living room, which I am using for storage, is packed full of I-have-no-idea-what.  Once I've got everything else in place, and I'm looking for something to do with all the free time, the first order of business is going to be ripping that apart and putting it back together in some manner that at least vaguely references logic.

Still left to purchase: an end table for the living room (I'm specifically looking for something to put over the litter box, so that it is less glaring that there is a catbox in my living room.  If the bathroom were larger than a narrow hallway, the box would be in there).  I am also in need of some type of dresser or vanity for my bedroom, to contain all of the things currently hanging out on the floor for lack of another surface to inhabit.  A dresser would be sensible, as there are still clothes to be contained, but then I could box things up seasonally again; I have an unused shelf in my clothes closet I could employ.  A full-length mirror is also a high priority; I walked out wearing about 5 different shades of blue the other day.  I think it worked, but I'm still not entirely sure.  Need a mirror.

I think I've re-mastered cooking on the gas stove.  I haven't used one since college, so it was a bit awkward at first.  And I could've kicked myself for not realizing what would happen when I put the oven on that day ti was 90 degrees; I almost melted.  Fire and heat equal more heat.  Should've figured that out sooner.

When I get around to posting pictures, I have one I took of the first meal I cooked.  Not just heated things up, but at least one component made entirely from scratch.  Or two, in this case.  I got very excited and took a picture, so that's floating around somewhere.

Okay, time to sleep, I've been awake for 18 hours at this point and I have a delivery coming tomorrow. And I'd like to make it to the farmer's market at some point.  I slept through it last Saturday.

Seriously.  And I am wearing a tweed skirt and a wool sweater!  True, it was supposed to be 65 F outside today, but I think it is colder than that in here!

I switched over my closet to cooler-weather clothes yesterday.  It took about six hours to complete the transition, and the pile of clothes to give away to charity, offer to friends, and throw away covered my entire bed!  I had a serious power nap before dinner.

Went Christmas shopping on Saturday, and got some cute things for my niece, and a purse for my sister-in-law, but didn't find anything else for anyone else.  I also went to look at an apartment, which I wasn't that impressed by.  I'm going to look at another one Wednesday after work, so we'll see what that is like.

Not much going on at the office today, so I am goofing off a bit.

Between one thing and another, August has been a big freakin' boat-load of misery and angst around here, and I am happy as a pig in slop to see the tail end of it.

Oh, and this abnormally cool weather, which has made everyone sun-deprived and crabby?  It can kiss my ass.

If you have $4,000 in outstanding invoices from the fourth quarter of the year, still unpaid at the end of the first quarter of the following year, and you just noticed, your business deserves to go under.

That is all.

There is not a whole heck of a lot going on in my RL right now, other than drone-work, and yet somehow I haven't been able to get myself together to post.  Go figure.

As near as I can tell, I owe LJ-land in general:

a chapter of Fade Away Again
cruise pictures
a 'books I've read in 2009' update
a chapter of What If: Book 1

I've also been considering requesting prompts, since I am fairly well stalled in my WIP's.  I managed to get a few pages done on that Sparla fic which I refuse to start posting until I've completed the older fics, but that's about it for new work.  Because I suck, evidently.

So, who knows.  I may have more to say later; then again, perhaps not.

Back to job-work now.

Still archiving.  Very sick of the issues my hands have after I've shuffled carbon paper for a few hours.  I'll be glad when the 5-year-old work orders portion of this project is over.  Then I get to go back to the rent bills!  Woo!  Maybe later this week I can finally be done with this part, and move along to the three years of temp-service bills.

Moving was completed at around 10:00 Friday night; I ended up having to stay in the city Thursday night, and was at work until around 11:00; this was kind of cool, because the hotel had wi-fi, but...At work until 11:00.  Blech.

There's another move in the works, for sometime in the next 2 or 3 weeks.  I'm gonna be SO ready for vacation when it rolls around.

Merae and her Mom are both wicked sick (my Mom spoke to them on the phone last night, she says my sister in law sounds like a bullfrog).  I'm not feeling too well, but it's pretty similar to how I felt during the hay fever incident so I'd had it all chalked up to that; and then I remembered the voter registering, nose piercing, Soy Crisp sharing, girl from PG County at the gas station meeting fun of last Saturday.  So, I may have a real cold this time.  Grr.  I've disinfected my bosslady's office twice this week, because she will fake-murder me if she gets sick; she already has to take time off next week for medical stuff.

Should I do NaNoWriMo?  I'd basically be working on the exact same novel I was working on last year; in a separate document to verify the word count.  This book, it's never gonna be done.  I think I was 19 when I started it...And to be fair, I lost a draft in the great computer crash of '05, but I remembered all of what was in that draft, and it was pretty easy to rewrite.  Everything after that point has been a smidge more difficult, because I realized that as I matured, the focus of the book and the purpose each character served had changed.  And I wasn't so much about the revision as I was thinking about the word count, so I had some serious work to do after November was over last year.  Most of which I never did, since in December I had a complete meltdown, and in January I moved.  The rest, you can probably intuit from the decreasing amount of LJ entries in 2008.

I seem to have developed the complete inability to process all the mail my bosses and I receive in one day.  I need to figure out how to fix that.  I'm almost wishing EVIL INTERN was back, so I could dump stuff on her.

Stuff has been going on, but much of it has been rather mild on the 'noteworthy' scale.  We had a watermain break on the street in front of my building; Monday the street was flooded, and there was only a 1-foot area near a drain where you could hop across the rushing puddle/stream of water onto the sidewalk.  They shut down the sidewalk not long after I got through.  The next day, they dug the entire street up, and were only cleaning up when I came in today.

I got very pretty flowers from bosslady yesterday (I haven't had the heart to tell her I'm allergic to them, it was so sweet of her), and bossman let me keep some promotional toys he was sent (no cost to him, yet I was pleased - he's a practical gift giver).  That was cool.  They also let me leave at 4:30 so I could have dinner with my folks, which was cooler.

And other than that...Well, not a heck of a lot.  I've read 'American Gods' by Neil Gaiman and 'The No-Asshole Rule' by a guy whose name I can't remember at the moment.  Robert something I think; it's on Amazon.  The second was a very interesting quick read about management in business organizations and 'building a civilized workplace'.  Highly recommended.  Started a book called 'The Turning' by Jennifer Armentrout this morning, it seems alright so far; I laughed out loud while reading it, which is usually a good sign.

Oh, and I'm going to be back in DC for a visit over Memorial Day weekend.  Hopefully, it will be relaxing and drama-free for me.  I need that at the moment. 

EDIT:  I'M GOING TO SEE GEORGE MICHAEL WITH HAPPYNONOPLACE IN JULY!!!!!!