Hello Peoples!
It has been suggested that I update more frequently.
And I am nothing if not for the peoples. ;-)
Unfortunately I have absolutely nothing to report. Nada. Zip. Zilch. I lead an extremely boring life these days.
I saw Coraline in 3D and it was spectaculARRRR...and I saw Inkheart just now, and that was also very good, better than the book, I thought - I like the idea, just didn't enjoy the author's prose very much. Brendan Fraser AND Paul Bettany? SPANK MOVIE! Sorry, TMI? Deal, yo. I got needs.
I feel like inch by inch, with excruciating hard work, we are reclaiming this house. There is still just so much CRAP that we hang on to. I'm getting so frustrated with it - I just want it to be GONE. I don't care about Garage Saling it or Ebaying it, I just want it to disappear. I'm so tempted to just throw it out, but we should at least try to make a little money on it first. :Sigh: I just hate it clogging up the house's arteries like that.
Had mondo water in the basement when a pipe froze and burst. that SUCKED. We've had to wash dishes in the bath tub, catalogue everything that was damaged for the insurance company, had plumbers in, basement restoration people...strangers tromping through the house, taking pictures. God, the laundry...we've done an incalculable amount of laundry.
My advice? Don't get water in your basement.
PSEG has randomly decided that we used $1500 worth of their product each of the past two months...which is creative of them. We reported our meter reading over the phone, and it turns out we owe much less, but of course, we're now two months behind, so they need to space out the back payments over the next several payments, so higher PSEG bills for the next few months. Thanks, assholes. I think they should just say, "OOps! Guess we really fucked up and overcharged you, so this one's on us! Our bad!" But then they wouldn't be PSEG, they'd be some kind of nice, friendly energy people, staffed with people who give a damn, and put people over protocol. :Sigh:
This is kind of what I've been up to. I go to work, I get paid, I pay bills, sleep, repeat. There are frequent pleasant distractions thrown in...date night, new books to read, TV, etc.
I'm trying to get my "Career" off the ground. The capital c and quotation marks ought to be heavily and sarcastically emphasized. I've been having coachings, etc. I just sound fucking awful. Well, I had NINE masses this past weekend - the four regular ones, and the 5 funerals, not including rehearsals, so of course I sound like shit. But this is kinda what a year without really practicing will do to you. Funny how practicing and auditioning does absolutely jack shit to pay the bills.
So this has been cheerful. Sorry. Kind of why I don't update anymore. I'd say "I'm in a bad place," but the truth is, I'm in my livingroom in Fair Lawn, and there's no shelling, raping, or pillaging...I've got a job. Car. Spouse. Quit bitching, right?
I think I smell thirty coming, and I just thought I'd be somewhere else by now. This is as honest as I've been in an long time, so be nice. When you were 18, where did you think you'd be at 30? Are you there? What do you love and hate about where you are right now? what happened in the dozen years in between that kept you on track, or steered you off the path? And what do you think will happen in the crucial decade to come?
On the horizon, I'm almost finished with the song cycle I'm composing for Megan and I to sing...so that's going well. And I've blown the dust off that silly novel I was writing, and I think I might chip away at it some more in my spare time.
Or I might fart around on LJ and Facebook some more...arrange my Lil Green Patch. Or see if there's a new Heroes, or Top Chef, or NCIS waiting in our DVR. Kill another chapter in the new Stephanie Meyers book. These things are just about as productive-and-income-producing as the others.
As the Lolcats would put it:
ON WII - I HAS IT.
The one thing I'm ridiculously, deliriously, crazily excited about is the awesome Weddingpalooza coming up. ^_^ I'm so happy and grateful to be involved in so many bridal parties...it just reminds me how much I love my friends, and how happy it makes me to help / delight them.
Next mission - still fit into the dress I bought before the holidays. Hmm....
Stay tuned for more edge-of-your seat thrills from:
EVAN'S - Evan's - evan's...
LIVEJOURNAL! - Ournal - ournal...
And I am nothing if not for the peoples. ;-)
Unfortunately I have absolutely nothing to report. Nada. Zip. Zilch. I lead an extremely boring life these days.
I saw Coraline in 3D and it was spectaculARRRR...and I saw Inkheart just now, and that was also very good, better than the book, I thought - I like the idea, just didn't enjoy the author's prose very much. Brendan Fraser AND Paul Bettany? SPANK MOVIE! Sorry, TMI? Deal, yo. I got needs.
I feel like inch by inch, with excruciating hard work, we are reclaiming this house. There is still just so much CRAP that we hang on to. I'm getting so frustrated with it - I just want it to be GONE. I don't care about Garage Saling it or Ebaying it, I just want it to disappear. I'm so tempted to just throw it out, but we should at least try to make a little money on it first. :Sigh: I just hate it clogging up the house's arteries like that.
Had mondo water in the basement when a pipe froze and burst. that SUCKED. We've had to wash dishes in the bath tub, catalogue everything that was damaged for the insurance company, had plumbers in, basement restoration people...strangers tromping through the house, taking pictures. God, the laundry...we've done an incalculable amount of laundry.
My advice? Don't get water in your basement.
PSEG has randomly decided that we used $1500 worth of their product each of the past two months...which is creative of them. We reported our meter reading over the phone, and it turns out we owe much less, but of course, we're now two months behind, so they need to space out the back payments over the next several payments, so higher PSEG bills for the next few months. Thanks, assholes. I think they should just say, "OOps! Guess we really fucked up and overcharged you, so this one's on us! Our bad!" But then they wouldn't be PSEG, they'd be some kind of nice, friendly energy people, staffed with people who give a damn, and put people over protocol. :Sigh:
This is kind of what I've been up to. I go to work, I get paid, I pay bills, sleep, repeat. There are frequent pleasant distractions thrown in...date night, new books to read, TV, etc.
I'm trying to get my "Career" off the ground. The capital c and quotation marks ought to be heavily and sarcastically emphasized. I've been having coachings, etc. I just sound fucking awful. Well, I had NINE masses this past weekend - the four regular ones, and the 5 funerals, not including rehearsals, so of course I sound like shit. But this is kinda what a year without really practicing will do to you. Funny how practicing and auditioning does absolutely jack shit to pay the bills.
So this has been cheerful. Sorry. Kind of why I don't update anymore. I'd say "I'm in a bad place," but the truth is, I'm in my livingroom in Fair Lawn, and there's no shelling, raping, or pillaging...I've got a job. Car. Spouse. Quit bitching, right?
I think I smell thirty coming, and I just thought I'd be somewhere else by now. This is as honest as I've been in an long time, so be nice. When you were 18, where did you think you'd be at 30? Are you there? What do you love and hate about where you are right now? what happened in the dozen years in between that kept you on track, or steered you off the path? And what do you think will happen in the crucial decade to come?
On the horizon, I'm almost finished with the song cycle I'm composing for Megan and I to sing...so that's going well. And I've blown the dust off that silly novel I was writing, and I think I might chip away at it some more in my spare time.
Or I might fart around on LJ and Facebook some more...arrange my Lil Green Patch. Or see if there's a new Heroes, or Top Chef, or NCIS waiting in our DVR. Kill another chapter in the new Stephanie Meyers book. These things are just about as productive-and-income-producing as the others.
As the Lolcats would put it:
ON WII - I HAS IT.
The one thing I'm ridiculously, deliriously, crazily excited about is the awesome Weddingpalooza coming up. ^_^ I'm so happy and grateful to be involved in so many bridal parties...it just reminds me how much I love my friends, and how happy it makes me to help / delight them.
Next mission - still fit into the dress I bought before the holidays. Hmm....
Stay tuned for more edge-of-your seat thrills from:
EVAN'S - Evan's - evan's...
LIVEJOURNAL! - Ournal - ournal...