November 4, 2015
I never update. I just don't. I very rarely use my laptop anymore (my iPad has usurped the title of Favorite Tech Gadget). I never have an extended period of time to myself. So I just never update. I promise I'll try to be better once I do have the time and privacy.
But I have a few minutes so I'll try to do a quick update....
Job:
Bleh. All the bleh. I do nothing. No one uses me for anything. I mostly just sit around looking busy. I have no idea what my boss thinks I do all day. I truly don't.
Once I move, I'll start applying for other jobs. Closer to where I'll be living.
The Bay Area:
I don't know what the fuck happened in the past few months but traffic has EXPLODED. On the freeways and on the city streets. It's unbearable. Absolutely unbearable. I can't deal with it here. But I don't have a choice.
Family:
My grandpa passed away a year ago, as of today, I believe. My grandma passed away August 30th. I have no grandparents left. It's hard to deal with. They sold my grandparent's house not long after my grandma passed away (it was already in the process of being listed). That was a hard loss. I grew up partially in that house. It's all I know. My mom and aunt and uncle grew up there. It was such a symbol of our big strong family. And now some other family owns it. We made sure it went to a family. They wrote us a letter and sent a picture. It was very nice. They have 2 kids. They love the house. I hope they love it as much as we did. It was hard saying goodbye. I took a lot of pictures.
The house sold for $1,875,000. Yeah. Almost two million dollars. It was a huge house on a huge lot in the primest city in the Bay Area, basically. Google, Facebook, every single tech company is either in this city or within easy driving distance. My mom got a third of that, plus whatever was left in the estate. It's a lot of money. Though not really for our area. I probably won't see a cent of it, until my inheritance some day far in the future. I hope there's plenty left. It'd be really nice to be left a decent inheritance like that. I do hope my mom will help me some day with a wedding, maybe a house downpayment. But I sort of doubt it.
Boyfriend:
All is well. He was unemployed for a few months, which really sucked. It wore on his confidence. A lot of rejection, or just not hearing back. Which seems to be the norm in the area. But he just started a yearlong contract with Cisco as an test automation engineer. The pay is good, even though contracts suck since you have to pay your own taxes and insurance and all that baloney. But it's a fair amount that will keep us well set up.
We'll get engaged withhin the next 4 or 5 months. Ring is picked out (though there's still a little kerfuffle over that, but that's a long story).
I move in December 1st. His current [fucking terrible person of a] roommate will move out, and I'll move in. It's a nice 2bed/2bath apartment in a nice complex in a convenient location. I really like it. I've never had an adult apartment like this. When I had money to furnish it properly and build a home. And he's never had a place that felt like home. So we're both excited to build that together.
I'm just so tired of being apart. We've been together over a year now. And I have to drive back and forth every weekend, and every Tuesday night for trivia. It's exhausting as shit. I hate it. Only a month left. Then we can schedule cleaners to clean the apartment, and order a brand new couch and bed to be delivered, I can buy all the miscellaneous furniture like side tables and lamps. Then we work on moving all my stuff in, and my cat. Then we figure out how the fuck to make all our stuff fit together and sort the overlapping items like kitchen stuff we both have.
And then we have to live together. Neither of us have any doubts that living together will be great. We both need the support and love. We're better together. We're each others best friends. It's really great.
Hrm... that's it for now.
If you have any questions, totally ask.
I always read my friends list and try to comment as much as I can.
<3
But I have a few minutes so I'll try to do a quick update....
Job:
Bleh. All the bleh. I do nothing. No one uses me for anything. I mostly just sit around looking busy. I have no idea what my boss thinks I do all day. I truly don't.
Once I move, I'll start applying for other jobs. Closer to where I'll be living.
The Bay Area:
I don't know what the fuck happened in the past few months but traffic has EXPLODED. On the freeways and on the city streets. It's unbearable. Absolutely unbearable. I can't deal with it here. But I don't have a choice.
Family:
My grandpa passed away a year ago, as of today, I believe. My grandma passed away August 30th. I have no grandparents left. It's hard to deal with. They sold my grandparent's house not long after my grandma passed away (it was already in the process of being listed). That was a hard loss. I grew up partially in that house. It's all I know. My mom and aunt and uncle grew up there. It was such a symbol of our big strong family. And now some other family owns it. We made sure it went to a family. They wrote us a letter and sent a picture. It was very nice. They have 2 kids. They love the house. I hope they love it as much as we did. It was hard saying goodbye. I took a lot of pictures.
The house sold for $1,875,000. Yeah. Almost two million dollars. It was a huge house on a huge lot in the primest city in the Bay Area, basically. Google, Facebook, every single tech company is either in this city or within easy driving distance. My mom got a third of that, plus whatever was left in the estate. It's a lot of money. Though not really for our area. I probably won't see a cent of it, until my inheritance some day far in the future. I hope there's plenty left. It'd be really nice to be left a decent inheritance like that. I do hope my mom will help me some day with a wedding, maybe a house downpayment. But I sort of doubt it.
Boyfriend:
All is well. He was unemployed for a few months, which really sucked. It wore on his confidence. A lot of rejection, or just not hearing back. Which seems to be the norm in the area. But he just started a yearlong contract with Cisco as an test automation engineer. The pay is good, even though contracts suck since you have to pay your own taxes and insurance and all that baloney. But it's a fair amount that will keep us well set up.
We'll get engaged withhin the next 4 or 5 months. Ring is picked out (though there's still a little kerfuffle over that, but that's a long story).
I move in December 1st. His current [fucking terrible person of a] roommate will move out, and I'll move in. It's a nice 2bed/2bath apartment in a nice complex in a convenient location. I really like it. I've never had an adult apartment like this. When I had money to furnish it properly and build a home. And he's never had a place that felt like home. So we're both excited to build that together.
I'm just so tired of being apart. We've been together over a year now. And I have to drive back and forth every weekend, and every Tuesday night for trivia. It's exhausting as shit. I hate it. Only a month left. Then we can schedule cleaners to clean the apartment, and order a brand new couch and bed to be delivered, I can buy all the miscellaneous furniture like side tables and lamps. Then we work on moving all my stuff in, and my cat. Then we figure out how the fuck to make all our stuff fit together and sort the overlapping items like kitchen stuff we both have.
And then we have to live together. Neither of us have any doubts that living together will be great. We both need the support and love. We're better together. We're each others best friends. It's really great.
Hrm... that's it for now.
If you have any questions, totally ask.
I always read my friends list and try to comment as much as I can.
<3