Dad actually helped me out. Sent me an industrial directory for South Carolina. Granted, it's 16 years old, but so far most of the print companies I've found are still in existence, and between the directory and Google, I've begun building a list of current company info I can specifically focus on. Come Monday, I am going to hit strategic ( Read more... )

I was stepping out to run errands, and this extremely loud MEW! assaulted me. It took a moment to locate him, as he was teenies, and hidden in the bushes. His face was a mess, too. He was heartbreakingly small and pitiful, and LOUD. Good lord, this guy was loud. It was, of course, because he was hungries. Very hungries. We were forced to ( Read more... )

Went to see him today, and spent several hours in chairs designed by the government to be uncomfortable, listening to him tell completely bullshit stories (going to Pamplona and somehow walking right into the Running of the Bulls by accident, finding that the prison had ordered 4 pallets of bad beef with intent to serve it to the inmates, other ( Read more... )

Making arrangements to see my dad on the 21st doesn't seem to be enough. He's been calling 6, 7, 8 times a day. Maybe it's because I haven't been dilligently calling all my family members and making pretty-nice with them like he suggests (demands discreetly)... Since my days are generally turned around right now, he's either been calling me at ( Read more... )

Since the last angst-ridden post:
( The following things happened that you will have to click this link to read about. )

I suppose I'd managed to put it off for long enough, but it's time I reworked how I do things again. I'll be bringing back some old stuff (like the exercise, and parts of my old dieting habits), and some new stuff (managing finances, maintaining home, and my social profile at work), and, as usual, a bit of soul searching.

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My grandmother passed away on the 23rd. I'll miss her, though I had not seen her in years. The last of my grandparents has gone, a generation now fading from mind from this point on. I read a recent article about how nobody will know you in three generations, that all anyone will ever have is letters, films, pictures, recordings, stories... ' ( Read more... )

My grandmother fell and broke her hip last week and went in for surgery. She's almost 95 years old. The injury isn't life-threatening, but her age is the major factor. I do worry, and I'll be calling her tomorrow morning. The thing that makes me feel bad is that I've been spending so much time at Danielle's place, I have not checked my mail for ( Read more... )

Danielle arrived Friday, (and we were both tired from a long week of work stress etc, and crashed after a quick eat. News stealthily arrived to me that it is quite possible that the promotion thing could go down before Christmas this year. "FREEDOM... so long an unremembered dream... was now HIS."

( Yesterday went by soooo fast! )

Had a kind of hectic weekend. Wanted to spend it getting my crap together for another bout of job hunting and self-organizing, but mom calls Friday night, "Your brother's in Macon! We're driving up there tomorrow and staying the night!" So that kinda ate up a lot of my plans. Still, it was the first time I got to see my brother in something like ( Read more... )