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Well friends here is how things are going now. The house is still being renovated, however alot is finished and not much more remains. The back bedroom is done the new 2nd floor bathroom is 95% finished, sink is in, walls are painted, linen closet is completed, shower stall is in, both are plumbed, but the hard wood floors in both rooms will not be sanded till sometime in the comming week. The new kitchen is all but completed, in fact its done enough that I have been washing and stacking all the dis and bakeware today, which I am nearly done doing. The first floor ceiling is completed and save for a few touchups is completed. the new wiring is 90% done and functioning (Yahhhhhh lights!, the new heating system is in and working. The sunroom is washed down of the chalk dust, and am moved back into it and sealed it off from the remainder of the house, the same can be said for the 1st floor bathroom, all cleaned and ready and sealed, while the new stairwell is done except for the sanding sealer and two coats of varnish. The air quality is steadily improving. The remaining big job is having all the hardwood floors professionally sanded and coated. The I will be doing the final clean and moving back in, which I hope will be in two weeks.
My friendship with the still missing Eleanor H. remains in limbo. I have heard nothing from her since November. I finely broke down and called her live in boyfriend/fiancee who I was on good terms with because I simply had to know what her status was. I am told she is doing fine now and that the episode of last November has been corrected, however this does not explain why Eleanor has seen fit to remain aloof and not let me know that she was doing better. I am angered that she let me worry all these months about the state of her health while she, having recovered went merrily along doing her own thing and left me out here basically abandoned! I mean am I being an ass or something? If your best friend told you in a phone conversation that she was in trouble, then told you to wait for her all clear phone call when things got better, but never called would you not be as pissed as me?
Brandy M. H. and I are doing well as far as pen pals can do. We seem to have many of the same interests and hobbies. She lives presently out in Las Vegas, Nevada. I get about one handwritten letter from her a week and I send anywhere from one to five letter a week back. I love having penpals, it makes going out to the mailbox so much more pleasant.
In part due to my driving companion and best friend being "missing in action" and because work is on very shaky legs and our pay has been cut, I am not going to be attending FGC this year. It will be the first year in 8 that I am not going. Another part of this decision was that the social sub-group that I have been a part of since my first time at FGC namely "Adult Young Friends" and I have come to a parting of the ways. I grew too old and had to as gracefully as I could bow out of this group before it became an issue and I was asked to leave. So this would have been the first FGC without being imersed in the social aspects of AYF and I would have found it hard to not be in and I wouldn't have known what to do with myself without them.
There is a fledgling "Fogies" group struggling to rise out of the ashes with a half dozen or so AYF members who like me are now too old to partisipate in that program, but it is still very disorganized and has no houseing cluster or any real identity so far. To go and try to asimulate into this group is, at least this year an iffy thing and I simply was not emotionally ready to not have a group to hang with. So being financially strapped, being freshly gone from AYF and having my best friend also gone, I simply could not get myself motivated to attend.
Another disturbing occurance has been the silence of the first two people I made friends with online in Lj back at the start, namely Erin and Whitney. Erin has posted her journal as friends only and has not responded in two weeks to my request to be added to that list so I have been aced out of it. I dont know what I did or said to deserve being frozen out but I am. Whitney I have posted comments to several times and called out to any number of times recently and been completely ignored, same reaction from me, I dont know why she no longer responds, but well there you have it.
Well my life is otherwise chugging along ok. I have several other posple from Lj that i read daily and try to stay in touch with, I am back to playing PC videogames with some friends I lost track of, their latest game craze is "Serious Sam" I am reading more books again, even with the stressfull work environment and the 7 day work week at my house. I have a pen pal I like and yes I am always looking for more! I hope Julian gets back in touch with me before FGC happens this year as we dont talk enough and the last few times he was here we missed each other completely. I am still trying unsuccessfully to reach Cat Burke, Julian said he would pass onto her my wish to make contact but I have heard nothing from her since. All comments are welcome.
My friendship with the still missing Eleanor H. remains in limbo. I have heard nothing from her since November. I finely broke down and called her live in boyfriend/fiancee who I was on good terms with because I simply had to know what her status was. I am told she is doing fine now and that the episode of last November has been corrected, however this does not explain why Eleanor has seen fit to remain aloof and not let me know that she was doing better. I am angered that she let me worry all these months about the state of her health while she, having recovered went merrily along doing her own thing and left me out here basically abandoned! I mean am I being an ass or something? If your best friend told you in a phone conversation that she was in trouble, then told you to wait for her all clear phone call when things got better, but never called would you not be as pissed as me?
Brandy M. H. and I are doing well as far as pen pals can do. We seem to have many of the same interests and hobbies. She lives presently out in Las Vegas, Nevada. I get about one handwritten letter from her a week and I send anywhere from one to five letter a week back. I love having penpals, it makes going out to the mailbox so much more pleasant.
In part due to my driving companion and best friend being "missing in action" and because work is on very shaky legs and our pay has been cut, I am not going to be attending FGC this year. It will be the first year in 8 that I am not going. Another part of this decision was that the social sub-group that I have been a part of since my first time at FGC namely "Adult Young Friends" and I have come to a parting of the ways. I grew too old and had to as gracefully as I could bow out of this group before it became an issue and I was asked to leave. So this would have been the first FGC without being imersed in the social aspects of AYF and I would have found it hard to not be in and I wouldn't have known what to do with myself without them.
There is a fledgling "Fogies" group struggling to rise out of the ashes with a half dozen or so AYF members who like me are now too old to partisipate in that program, but it is still very disorganized and has no houseing cluster or any real identity so far. To go and try to asimulate into this group is, at least this year an iffy thing and I simply was not emotionally ready to not have a group to hang with. So being financially strapped, being freshly gone from AYF and having my best friend also gone, I simply could not get myself motivated to attend.
Another disturbing occurance has been the silence of the first two people I made friends with online in Lj back at the start, namely Erin and Whitney. Erin has posted her journal as friends only and has not responded in two weeks to my request to be added to that list so I have been aced out of it. I dont know what I did or said to deserve being frozen out but I am. Whitney I have posted comments to several times and called out to any number of times recently and been completely ignored, same reaction from me, I dont know why she no longer responds, but well there you have it.
Well my life is otherwise chugging along ok. I have several other posple from Lj that i read daily and try to stay in touch with, I am back to playing PC videogames with some friends I lost track of, their latest game craze is "Serious Sam" I am reading more books again, even with the stressfull work environment and the 7 day work week at my house. I have a pen pal I like and yes I am always looking for more! I hope Julian gets back in touch with me before FGC happens this year as we dont talk enough and the last few times he was here we missed each other completely. I am still trying unsuccessfully to reach Cat Burke, Julian said he would pass onto her my wish to make contact but I have heard nothing from her since. All comments are welcome.