more stuff
Mom did come up...I got most stuff done that I wanted to do before she came up. Had borrowed discs for the weekend and got my workout in before she arrived. Did have to take a shower once she was here though:) Friday we went to various malls and such. She spent about $7 on lunch for us and I dropped about $10 on shirts at Kohl's. We looked at thousands of pictures. Saturday morning we went garage saling and found a few things. She left after lunch and Pat and I did some exercise. We met up with some folks from church at Pal Joey's for supper. Ah amazing...totally anti-healthy but yummy. Sunday Pat wasn't feeling well so I went to church alone. He was feeling better later so we exercised again and I baked some bread to take with to small group. Small group was awesome as usual.
Monday I had an interview as a recruiter for fund-raising at MDA (Muscular Dystrophy Association) It is a temp position but could go long term as they are perpetually doing fundraising so if after this particular drive is over we think it's a good fit I'd stay on for the next one. It's only 30 hrs a week but 30 hours is a lot better than the 8-16 I've been getting. It was a group interview and training was supposed to start the next day...but I was the ONLY one to pass the initial interview and they didn't want to do training for just one person so we're waiting a couple weeks for them to get more candidates and then we're go. Works better because then I can have the car and Pat can take the bus the couple days a week. The bus that's been fun this week. I walked the almost mile up to Yorktown mall from the interview to catch the bus the rest of the way home. There was a closer bus stop but I'd have had to stand in the sun for an hour when it took me significantly less than that to walk to the mall...and then I got to hang out in AC for awhile. no real fun stories about it then but buses the last 2 days have been fun.
Tuesday night had some folks from our small group over and played Catan. Once we changed dice and started actually rolling 5 and 6s so I actually got resources it was fun but my first 6 turns I'd gotten a total of 5 resources 3 being my initial hand so yeah not so fun since it was a 5 player game.
Wednesday work was hard as I'd had very little sleep. We'd gotten into an awesome conversation so people didn't leave until after 11 and then my mind was racing and I had a hard time falling asleep and then getting up at 4. First taking the bus home I'd forgotten I needed a transfer and only had $1.75 in change not the $2 I needed. I managed to get to Jewel and buy a pack of tictacs to get the extra change I needed and just caught the bus. I was struggling to stay awake but succeeded. Got off at Yorktown to await my transfer. Creepy guy started talking to me. Saw a 715 bus and hopped on to get away. had a hard time getting the transfer ticket to work...few minutes later realized I was on a southbound bus when I needed the Northbound one. Sigh. Got to south end of line and it was the drivers lunchtime so I got to sit around for half an hour. my 15 minute tops bus ride from Yorktown took an hour and a half. exhausting. Did some more p90x with Kris that night.
Worked Thursday too have even better bus stories here. The drive in we noticed what we believed was a much closer bus stop. So I walked there after work. I got within a block just close enough to see yup that is indeed the bus stop I neede yay and there goes the bus flying past. Sigh well this bus stop is in the sun and the next bus isn't for half an hour the walk to the shady bus stop is less than that I'll walk to the other bus stop. So I get about a block from it and zoom bus goes by 10 minutes early. ARGH! So I got to sit and wait another half hour. This time I got the transfer stuff right though. did some more p90x with Kris.
Today the UPS guy came and brought all the components so soon we will have a NAS(Network access storage). Pat's been wanting to do this for awhile: get the pictures and videos off the desktop that we're liable to break and need to reinstall often and onto something that consumes less power than our monster of a desktop so we don't need it on when we're watching the media center.
Today some exercise discs alone probably as I doubt Kris will be up for p90x at like 10pm tonight...but I could be wrong and that would be cool. Also need to get a few groceries which I was originally planning to do on my bike but recently realized some stuff is glass so I bike ride would be a bad call. I think tonight we might take out recycling. Tomorrow oil change, planning and exercise with Kris, borrowing equipment as she will be gone until Thursday, doing car flop stuff with her and then gaming should be good.
Monday I had an interview as a recruiter for fund-raising at MDA (Muscular Dystrophy Association) It is a temp position but could go long term as they are perpetually doing fundraising so if after this particular drive is over we think it's a good fit I'd stay on for the next one. It's only 30 hrs a week but 30 hours is a lot better than the 8-16 I've been getting. It was a group interview and training was supposed to start the next day...but I was the ONLY one to pass the initial interview and they didn't want to do training for just one person so we're waiting a couple weeks for them to get more candidates and then we're go. Works better because then I can have the car and Pat can take the bus the couple days a week. The bus that's been fun this week. I walked the almost mile up to Yorktown mall from the interview to catch the bus the rest of the way home. There was a closer bus stop but I'd have had to stand in the sun for an hour when it took me significantly less than that to walk to the mall...and then I got to hang out in AC for awhile. no real fun stories about it then but buses the last 2 days have been fun.
Tuesday night had some folks from our small group over and played Catan. Once we changed dice and started actually rolling 5 and 6s so I actually got resources it was fun but my first 6 turns I'd gotten a total of 5 resources 3 being my initial hand so yeah not so fun since it was a 5 player game.
Wednesday work was hard as I'd had very little sleep. We'd gotten into an awesome conversation so people didn't leave until after 11 and then my mind was racing and I had a hard time falling asleep and then getting up at 4. First taking the bus home I'd forgotten I needed a transfer and only had $1.75 in change not the $2 I needed. I managed to get to Jewel and buy a pack of tictacs to get the extra change I needed and just caught the bus. I was struggling to stay awake but succeeded. Got off at Yorktown to await my transfer. Creepy guy started talking to me. Saw a 715 bus and hopped on to get away. had a hard time getting the transfer ticket to work...few minutes later realized I was on a southbound bus when I needed the Northbound one. Sigh. Got to south end of line and it was the drivers lunchtime so I got to sit around for half an hour. my 15 minute tops bus ride from Yorktown took an hour and a half. exhausting. Did some more p90x with Kris that night.
Worked Thursday too have even better bus stories here. The drive in we noticed what we believed was a much closer bus stop. So I walked there after work. I got within a block just close enough to see yup that is indeed the bus stop I neede yay and there goes the bus flying past. Sigh well this bus stop is in the sun and the next bus isn't for half an hour the walk to the shady bus stop is less than that I'll walk to the other bus stop. So I get about a block from it and zoom bus goes by 10 minutes early. ARGH! So I got to sit and wait another half hour. This time I got the transfer stuff right though. did some more p90x with Kris.
Today the UPS guy came and brought all the components so soon we will have a NAS(Network access storage). Pat's been wanting to do this for awhile: get the pictures and videos off the desktop that we're liable to break and need to reinstall often and onto something that consumes less power than our monster of a desktop so we don't need it on when we're watching the media center.
Today some exercise discs alone probably as I doubt Kris will be up for p90x at like 10pm tonight...but I could be wrong and that would be cool. Also need to get a few groceries which I was originally planning to do on my bike but recently realized some stuff is glass so I bike ride would be a bad call. I think tonight we might take out recycling. Tomorrow oil change, planning and exercise with Kris, borrowing equipment as she will be gone until Thursday, doing car flop stuff with her and then gaming should be good.