Life Updates, 02.16.2008
I decided that the ability to breathe is really important, and ended up giving Sable back to the DFW Pug Rescue. Few weeks back. Created a giant hole in my life, but it also cleared up some space in my lungs, so I suppose it'll be a fair trade eventually...
The transmission on my car died - in the middle of Preston over I-635. Almeda valiantly steered as I got out and pushed the car across two lanes of rush-hour, through the Preston/635 actual intersection, and into a parking lot to have it towed somewhere. The SUV behind us was sort of edging over to stop traffic to make a path for us... As we rolled into the actual parking lot, the driver rolled down her passenger's side window and hollered out "You GO, girl!" It was awesome, though the determination that I had $1400 in repairs to consider was less so. Still, Almeda has been awesome in driving us to work for the last week and a half and helping out with other transportation concerns. (-:
It also looks like I'm going to be secretary to help organize a furry con here in Dallas! I'm really excited about the chance - both to delve further into fandom and the sheer resume possibilities of helping incorporate and handle the accounting for a non-profit organization. Also, I fit 13 people into my apartment for our first meeting. With only a few of them being uncomfortable. How awesome is that? :-D
I spent an hour or so talking to Aaron on Valentine's Day. It wasn't as yummy as I had been hoping, and the pasta salad and cheesecake I had hopes of sharing went unused, but sick is sick. Ah, well, at least I had someone to talk to that evening. Sable was my original fallback - I set her birthday to February 14 so that I would always have *something* to celebrate. The timing on giving her up was a little particularly saddening. *lesigh*
My company finally announced and completed its acquisition of another company, which has created some HR and accounting work that I've been taking the opportunity to work overtime on, and I have vague hopes of a more permanent position if I show myself truly useful. At the very least, last paycheck I worked 20 hours of overtime with accounting.
The D&D game is getting interesting. We seem to be dealing with some sort of mind-controlling time travelers or illusions six months ahead of reality or illusions being used by forces with the ability to alter memories. We also managed to challenge the GM by not staying in the town we were supposed to and prompting him to develop a new part of the story for the town we actually went to. I'm also apparently doing at least okay with the role-playing side of things, or at least not offending the actual RPers in the group, so yay...
Today I went to Southwest Kia and picked up a new car. Well, first I sold Sylphie for cash toward a down-payment, and yay for Craigslist on that! I ended up with a 2006 Kia Rio, about 37,000 miles on it. Ended up with $235 car payments, but a spiffy car that my friends can actually fit in. Even in the back seat. The inside is extremely... beige, but I'm thinking seats covers will help with that in a couple of months. I'm having trouble settling on a name because all of the names I think of seem to involve the word "Beige." I had the notion of Skye, because it's this awesome gray that looks blue in the right light, and it matched the sky nearly perfectly while I was driving home from the car lot. Pretty well settled on the idea that it's a female car, though Skye could in theory also be a name for a male car. We'll see - I'm taking a road trip up to Denton tomorrow with Pat and Almeda for ice cream and to get a better feel for her.
Also, tonight Aaron and I settled out that we're not dating any longer. )-: I can handle the multi-person-dating thing, but he can't handle that it would take the relationship out of the long-term column for me, and I can't handle a multi-person relationship in the long-run. So, ah well. We never got too far beyond the friends stage, so shouldn't be too hard to settle back into it. Makes me sad, though. It was nice to have a snugglebunny, especially one I care about this much. Still, it's nice to know that I can click with someone else like that - haven't had it happen since Guy. So, good to be reassured of - it was one of the things I really worried about in watching things fall apart back then.
I had the thought that the timing is just about right to make it to Fourth Friday, but the D&D game is on Friday nights. So I'll have to hunt down when the DFWBound group meets. I think it's the third Wednesday, or something like that. Ah, well, I'll figure it out before too long, once I sort out the car and school thing.
What with the car dying and needing to work as much as possible to be able to pay bills and work toward a new one, I'm taking a few weeks off from school to be able to do so. The downside to it is that I'm going to have to come up with money for courses due to financial aid limits, which are going to be a pain to pay. But I just didn't have the energy (or time) to put into getting passing grades, so it had to happen. And now I have a spiffy new car! And a ton of debt, but a way to keep working and keep the greatest love in my life - driving. (-:
Finally, Porco Rosso is awesome. I so very much want some of whatever Studio Ghibli is on. This is kick ass, and I totally want to be Theo. Or Kaylee, or any mix of the two. *g*
The transmission on my car died - in the middle of Preston over I-635. Almeda valiantly steered as I got out and pushed the car across two lanes of rush-hour, through the Preston/635 actual intersection, and into a parking lot to have it towed somewhere. The SUV behind us was sort of edging over to stop traffic to make a path for us... As we rolled into the actual parking lot, the driver rolled down her passenger's side window and hollered out "You GO, girl!" It was awesome, though the determination that I had $1400 in repairs to consider was less so. Still, Almeda has been awesome in driving us to work for the last week and a half and helping out with other transportation concerns. (-:
It also looks like I'm going to be secretary to help organize a furry con here in Dallas! I'm really excited about the chance - both to delve further into fandom and the sheer resume possibilities of helping incorporate and handle the accounting for a non-profit organization. Also, I fit 13 people into my apartment for our first meeting. With only a few of them being uncomfortable. How awesome is that? :-D
I spent an hour or so talking to Aaron on Valentine's Day. It wasn't as yummy as I had been hoping, and the pasta salad and cheesecake I had hopes of sharing went unused, but sick is sick. Ah, well, at least I had someone to talk to that evening. Sable was my original fallback - I set her birthday to February 14 so that I would always have *something* to celebrate. The timing on giving her up was a little particularly saddening. *lesigh*
My company finally announced and completed its acquisition of another company, which has created some HR and accounting work that I've been taking the opportunity to work overtime on, and I have vague hopes of a more permanent position if I show myself truly useful. At the very least, last paycheck I worked 20 hours of overtime with accounting.
The D&D game is getting interesting. We seem to be dealing with some sort of mind-controlling time travelers or illusions six months ahead of reality or illusions being used by forces with the ability to alter memories. We also managed to challenge the GM by not staying in the town we were supposed to and prompting him to develop a new part of the story for the town we actually went to. I'm also apparently doing at least okay with the role-playing side of things, or at least not offending the actual RPers in the group, so yay...
Today I went to Southwest Kia and picked up a new car. Well, first I sold Sylphie for cash toward a down-payment, and yay for Craigslist on that! I ended up with a 2006 Kia Rio, about 37,000 miles on it. Ended up with $235 car payments, but a spiffy car that my friends can actually fit in. Even in the back seat. The inside is extremely... beige, but I'm thinking seats covers will help with that in a couple of months. I'm having trouble settling on a name because all of the names I think of seem to involve the word "Beige." I had the notion of Skye, because it's this awesome gray that looks blue in the right light, and it matched the sky nearly perfectly while I was driving home from the car lot. Pretty well settled on the idea that it's a female car, though Skye could in theory also be a name for a male car. We'll see - I'm taking a road trip up to Denton tomorrow with Pat and Almeda for ice cream and to get a better feel for her.
Also, tonight Aaron and I settled out that we're not dating any longer. )-: I can handle the multi-person-dating thing, but he can't handle that it would take the relationship out of the long-term column for me, and I can't handle a multi-person relationship in the long-run. So, ah well. We never got too far beyond the friends stage, so shouldn't be too hard to settle back into it. Makes me sad, though. It was nice to have a snugglebunny, especially one I care about this much. Still, it's nice to know that I can click with someone else like that - haven't had it happen since Guy. So, good to be reassured of - it was one of the things I really worried about in watching things fall apart back then.
I had the thought that the timing is just about right to make it to Fourth Friday, but the D&D game is on Friday nights. So I'll have to hunt down when the DFWBound group meets. I think it's the third Wednesday, or something like that. Ah, well, I'll figure it out before too long, once I sort out the car and school thing.
What with the car dying and needing to work as much as possible to be able to pay bills and work toward a new one, I'm taking a few weeks off from school to be able to do so. The downside to it is that I'm going to have to come up with money for courses due to financial aid limits, which are going to be a pain to pay. But I just didn't have the energy (or time) to put into getting passing grades, so it had to happen. And now I have a spiffy new car! And a ton of debt, but a way to keep working and keep the greatest love in my life - driving. (-:
Finally, Porco Rosso is awesome. I so very much want some of whatever Studio Ghibli is on. This is kick ass, and I totally want to be Theo. Or Kaylee, or any mix of the two. *g*