Unexplained Absences
I just don't know where to start. There are so many things I haven't written about here that have happened. When I start to think of one thing to write it reminds me of another thing I haven't. And another. And another. And another. Until I have to sit down from the motion sickness. Because I type everything standing up. If you really knew me, you'd know that.
Well the big reason there isn't more on the blog is because I'm real busy with my new awesome job. Oh wait... I didn't tell you about my new awesome job? Well, I didn't even tell you I was looking for a job in the first place because I was so paranoid afraid that they'd find out at my old job and fire me before I could quit.
My job got really really bad over the summer. Almost everyone who was cool I worked with left or got fired (or both). When I read my last blog entries I can feel the bitterness and depression underneath my words. And I can tell it's not just because renovating your own house is a huge pain in the ass. I went on 12 interviews in 4 months just to find a new job. It was really difficult to switch gears from working on the house to looking for a job and back again over and over. They both take up a lot of space in your brain.
So at some point, I had to stop all work on the house so I could focus on the job hunt full-time. It was worth it tho! My new job is better than I could have hoped for. And I have a commute that is the envy of all my friends and co-workers (a two-minute walk across the street). So buying the fixer upper in the neighborhood I wanted instead of the nicer house much farther away is finally paying off!
But there's so much left undocumented. I've got thousand photos I posted to Flickr that I haven't even titled yet. I didn't write anything about the whole pain in the ass adventure of putting in the back door, let along the consuming task of finally putting up the cedar siding during the hottest part of the year. I mean that was like all I did in June and July. Oh wait, I never even wrote about finally tearing down the old rotting "porch" thing. My god, that was so liberating. Oh, and then after that Jason came over to help be work on it while he was getting sick. What a trooper! Then Vicki made him some matzoh ball soup the next day.
Anyway... Maybe I'll write about that later. If I can even remember it. But I'm pretty much going to try to focus on the task at hand and make it though the holidays. Wish me luck!