Ooops, I forgot about LJ.
Dude, it's been a long time since I posted. I missed LJ for a little while, then just forgot about it. And now after going back and reading through my Friends page, I'm glad to be back.
Life has been insane, but mostly in a pleasant way. Moving, getting settled into our house, the constant struggle to keep our house filled, etc, etc, is fun. But I like our house and I like where we're living much better now. I can walk to most places I'd want to go, so that's exciting. It's odd and wonderful and that most of my life is within a 2 mile radius. I kind of love it.
Also, I've gotten really sucked into the kickball scene. Kickball is odd, as it's mostly composed of 20-somethings with real jobs who play kickball once a week and engage in college-like debauchery after the games every week. For a while, my attitude was more like "well, this is kind of fun. But I'm definitely not playing past this season." And then I got sucked in. It's something that's fun to do when you're not friends with everyone, but once you become friends with everyone, it's addicting. The only downside is that I find myself getting fairly intoxicated on Thursday nights when I (sometimes) have to work on Friday mornings. I've already went in super-late to work a couple of times...
As a result of some poor choices on my part (hooking up with a guy at kickball who later turned out to suck at life), I decided to finally dip a toe into online dating. Because I'm not willing to totally give up on fate, chance, etc, I signed up for CrazyBlindDate.com. Which just sets you up with people, then you do the rest. It's not based on compatibility, just based on whether you are available to meet in a given place at a given time. And then you rate each other on different things, and then you get set up with more highly "rated" people if you're highly rated. I went on my first date with CBD last night--I thought it was going to be awful, but it really wasn't bad at all. It went pretty well, actually. He was nice, fairly interesting (he brews his own beer and makes his own wine), although possibly sort of safe (he works for the Patent Office and went all the way to Italy to play Ultimate, then didn't do anything touristy because he "doesn't like to travel alone"). Fairly attractive too. So we exchanged numbers, and he sent me his email through CBD today. And me, being the internet stalker that I am, FB-searched his email. What I came up with was a profile for a stuffed monkey named Plepleus. Kinda weird. I'm probably going to try to have a drink with him again, and will probably just bring up the stuffed monkey in a funny sort of way. I like weird people, so depending on his response about the stuffed monkey it might still work out. We'll see.
So, that's most of my life these days. We're planning on a trip up to Annapolis this weekend, which should be fun. Will be nice to get away, chill out and eat some good seafood. Other things that are on the horizon-- my sister is in possibly her last month in DC (but that changes about every day) and Kim is leaving for Uzbekistan (SP?) in a couple of weeks where she'll be working for the State Department. Definitely going to miss them both.
Life has been insane, but mostly in a pleasant way. Moving, getting settled into our house, the constant struggle to keep our house filled, etc, etc, is fun. But I like our house and I like where we're living much better now. I can walk to most places I'd want to go, so that's exciting. It's odd and wonderful and that most of my life is within a 2 mile radius. I kind of love it.
Also, I've gotten really sucked into the kickball scene. Kickball is odd, as it's mostly composed of 20-somethings with real jobs who play kickball once a week and engage in college-like debauchery after the games every week. For a while, my attitude was more like "well, this is kind of fun. But I'm definitely not playing past this season." And then I got sucked in. It's something that's fun to do when you're not friends with everyone, but once you become friends with everyone, it's addicting. The only downside is that I find myself getting fairly intoxicated on Thursday nights when I (sometimes) have to work on Friday mornings. I've already went in super-late to work a couple of times...
As a result of some poor choices on my part (hooking up with a guy at kickball who later turned out to suck at life), I decided to finally dip a toe into online dating. Because I'm not willing to totally give up on fate, chance, etc, I signed up for CrazyBlindDate.com. Which just sets you up with people, then you do the rest. It's not based on compatibility, just based on whether you are available to meet in a given place at a given time. And then you rate each other on different things, and then you get set up with more highly "rated" people if you're highly rated. I went on my first date with CBD last night--I thought it was going to be awful, but it really wasn't bad at all. It went pretty well, actually. He was nice, fairly interesting (he brews his own beer and makes his own wine), although possibly sort of safe (he works for the Patent Office and went all the way to Italy to play Ultimate, then didn't do anything touristy because he "doesn't like to travel alone"). Fairly attractive too. So we exchanged numbers, and he sent me his email through CBD today. And me, being the internet stalker that I am, FB-searched his email. What I came up with was a profile for a stuffed monkey named Plepleus. Kinda weird. I'm probably going to try to have a drink with him again, and will probably just bring up the stuffed monkey in a funny sort of way. I like weird people, so depending on his response about the stuffed monkey it might still work out. We'll see.
So, that's most of my life these days. We're planning on a trip up to Annapolis this weekend, which should be fun. Will be nice to get away, chill out and eat some good seafood. Other things that are on the horizon-- my sister is in possibly her last month in DC (but that changes about every day) and Kim is leaving for Uzbekistan (SP?) in a couple of weeks where she'll be working for the State Department. Definitely going to miss them both.