Catching Up

Mommy and Daddy have made it to Boston! Congrats and good luck with the crazy snow storm. Apparently their temp place is on the 8th floor of a building and my dog is confused by the elevator. haha! I miss that dog. *sad face.*

On other news, John Kay is getting married in May! wtf! All my friends are making me feel old! (But congrats Johnny and I love you!) I wish I could go but ??? who knows if I'll have a job yet. Likewise I'm missing the birth of Tina's baby girl. Sigh. Sure chose a great time to move away, didn't I? To be honest I figured I'd be working by now. I mean at a job that actually pays me money as opposed to Indigo who pays me enough to not die of starvation but that's about it, and no medical plan included until you've been there for a year. I could waitress, make a crap-ton of quick cash, but then I'd be unhappy and the hours are awful. Still I need to figure something out because I need a grown-up job that gets me experience and stuff to make my resume look good so that eventually I can work my way up the food chain and be some high up and people will pay me tons and tons of money because isn't that everyone's goal in life?

Otherwise I've been super happy lately and aside from being mostly stuck indoors with the last of the winter rains (I CRAVE the mountains I can't wait to be able to go hiking again it's just too wet now, and kayaking again too) and looking forward to being able to go out exploring and camping and such.

Kyle is coming to visit in a few weeks which I'm totally psyched for as well. Should be just in time for the spring blossoms. Booked time off work for the visit but not sure how much time I'll actually get. I'm sure they'll give me a few days, though, so we can go exploring a lot.

Bought myself a red Le Creuset tea kettle with my xmas money. It's beautiful. It's also made in Taiwan. I was pretty pissed about that. If you're going to charge me that much money for a freakin' tea kettle at least make it in France like I expected. But I still love it anyway and aside from writing them a letter (expressing my disappointment that they would charge such exorbitant amounts of money for something that cost them very little to make in a factory where the working conditions, hours, and wages don't meet human rights standards and the environmental implications are horrendous we all know how factories pollute over there dumping waste into fresh water and burning dirty coal...and it's horrible to outsource anyway when your own economy isn't up to par) I still love it and it looks very nice in my kitchen.

My house is nearly clean. By the end of the month it should no longer have such a greyish hue. Of course I ran out of bleach cleaner on Sunday night so I have to go buy more. Otherwise I'm looking forward to not lugging buckets of black water around from the dirt and dust everywhere. I apologize for my hiatus on here, but you really don't understand how dirty this house was/still half is. But it's getting there!

Anyway I gotta get back to it, off to the laundromat, and to mail T's baby shower gift (that I keep forgetting to do) and buy bleach things! I love and miss you all so much! For those of you near the snow I hope your power's still working! xoxo