Wow, time really flies ( Read more... )

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( Nattering about failed relationships. Nothing to see here. )

I sometimes wonder if I didn't break somewhere along the way, in an undefinable fashion. Either that, or I've got the heart of a romantic with the brain of a pragmatist.

( This doesn't make sense, even to me. Feel free to skip. )

Either my skills at communicating with tact and sensitivity have taken an epic turn and are now composed of weapons-grade fail, or half of my friends/family/acquaintances are willfully misinterpreting things I say as slights/insults, or Mercury is retrograde. This has happened so many times over the last little while that it can no longer be ( Read more... )

Damn. We're already 1/3 into September ( Read more... )

In other news, the Nomenclature Fairy has been by with good news. It seems that, after some initial skittishness on the subject, I can now officially use the word "girlfriend."

WIN!

I had planned to be up around 7:00 this morning. I ended up sleeping through my alarm, however, after spending a very fun (but unplanned) two-plus hours on the phone last night with BorderCrossing (who has no LJ). I'm having dinner with her tonight, but it's not as though we've run out of things to talk about just yet ( Read more... )

The Five Year Plan is looking a little shaky tonight. I did some very inexpert number crunching, and the numbers are depressing. For the kind of mortgage I'm looking for I'd have to come up with a down payment of at least $30K. $20K is doable (at the rate I'm going it'll happen in five years), but the extra $10K (or even $20K if I want to have some ( Read more... )

We're getting new software to help with the job at work. The new software needs its own console and a live administrator, which means we're getting a new set of computers and setting up a new work station inside our already-cramped central. Today two of the supervisors spent the day moving furniture around: shifting cabinets, unscrewing and re- ( Read more... )