Catching Up, Part Deux: Monday to Present
Monday was Corey's birthday. After working out I watched the pilot episode of Twin Peaks with him and Anna, and then snuck away to join a group of people waiting to ambush him at Cascade Pizza. Fun times. Everybody went downtown to drink, but I was bushed from my busy Sunday and went home. I was actually went to sleep around 10:30pm, which must be the first time I have slept before midnight in over a year.
Tuesday Brett left. I took a long coffee break to meet him at the Drop and walk around in the sun for a bit. I am going to go visit him in Austin, hopefully in March, and if not then, this summer. I am gonna miss him a whole bunch. I totally did not cry.
That night after work we had an iDiOM meeting to quickly go over the 2009-2010 budget and a few other things before meeting at the attorney's office to adopt the by-laws and adopt a banking resolution. I am now officially on the Board of Directors of iDiOM Theater, in the position of Treasurer. Neat.
After that I went home and kicked the kitchen's ass. A pretty big mess had accumulated over the weekend, and I was feeling domestic. I washed about a hundred thousand sinkfuls of dishes, cleaned the stove and cleared out some of the cupboards. It felt really good. TJ was all moved in when I got home. He is going to be a great roommate. I went to bed around 11pm, hoping to repeat Monday's early sleep, but instead I stayed up another hour writing in Livejournal. This is okay. It is a good habit, even these shopping-list type entries that probably no-one reads.
Today I went to get business cards printed towards the end of the day and nearly fell asleep at Kinko's. (I would like to say here that Kinko's is one of the few places I am glad to have an ex working... or I guess that should really be that I'm glad that the ex who works at Kinko's and I still get along well...) Then when I was leaving my office Star showed up. She tried to pull the big pretty eyes routine and asked if I wanted to talk. No, not really. I was polite but walked away. That felt good, I'm not gonna lie to ya... If she tries again in a few more days or a week I will hear her out, but for now I am finding that maintaining no contact is helping me do the rest of the getting-over-it that I should have done a long time ago, and I want to let that run its course; I know that if I talk to her I will get mad and have to start all over again.
I came home, worked out, and showered. About halfway through writing this entry, Corey called me downstairs; a process server was at the door with a lawsuit for me. Those damn emergency room bills from last summer. The ones for which I requested the Bridge program assistance forms several times without receiving them, after which I moved twice and did not receive invoices for a long time. This is fine. I have 20 days to draft a Notice of Appearance and serve it on the attorney, stating my defense. I do not expect to get out of the bills; I will delay and perhaps get them reduced, but I got a large tax rebate this year and already earmarked some of the money to pay these bills.
Now Jeffrey and I are going to eat, drink, and watch a Western. This is a good activity for a Wednesday evening.
Tuesday Brett left. I took a long coffee break to meet him at the Drop and walk around in the sun for a bit. I am going to go visit him in Austin, hopefully in March, and if not then, this summer. I am gonna miss him a whole bunch. I totally did not cry.
That night after work we had an iDiOM meeting to quickly go over the 2009-2010 budget and a few other things before meeting at the attorney's office to adopt the by-laws and adopt a banking resolution. I am now officially on the Board of Directors of iDiOM Theater, in the position of Treasurer. Neat.
After that I went home and kicked the kitchen's ass. A pretty big mess had accumulated over the weekend, and I was feeling domestic. I washed about a hundred thousand sinkfuls of dishes, cleaned the stove and cleared out some of the cupboards. It felt really good. TJ was all moved in when I got home. He is going to be a great roommate. I went to bed around 11pm, hoping to repeat Monday's early sleep, but instead I stayed up another hour writing in Livejournal. This is okay. It is a good habit, even these shopping-list type entries that probably no-one reads.
Today I went to get business cards printed towards the end of the day and nearly fell asleep at Kinko's. (I would like to say here that Kinko's is one of the few places I am glad to have an ex working... or I guess that should really be that I'm glad that the ex who works at Kinko's and I still get along well...) Then when I was leaving my office Star showed up. She tried to pull the big pretty eyes routine and asked if I wanted to talk. No, not really. I was polite but walked away. That felt good, I'm not gonna lie to ya... If she tries again in a few more days or a week I will hear her out, but for now I am finding that maintaining no contact is helping me do the rest of the getting-over-it that I should have done a long time ago, and I want to let that run its course; I know that if I talk to her I will get mad and have to start all over again.
I came home, worked out, and showered. About halfway through writing this entry, Corey called me downstairs; a process server was at the door with a lawsuit for me. Those damn emergency room bills from last summer. The ones for which I requested the Bridge program assistance forms several times without receiving them, after which I moved twice and did not receive invoices for a long time. This is fine. I have 20 days to draft a Notice of Appearance and serve it on the attorney, stating my defense. I do not expect to get out of the bills; I will delay and perhaps get them reduced, but I got a large tax rebate this year and already earmarked some of the money to pay these bills.
Now Jeffrey and I are going to eat, drink, and watch a Western. This is a good activity for a Wednesday evening.