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What a wet-lookin’ day!!!

It was kinda neat watching the thunderstorms come in from the view at work, as you could literally watch the rain move across the land, enveloping one suburb before leaving behind sunshine and moving along to the next – very cool.

It was less than neat, however, trying to come home when I soon discovered that I was nearly out of gas. Never before have I needed an umbrella while pumping gas underneath an awning!!! Also, the power flickered out and that kinda made me nervous, but having the need to wring my pants out before getting back into the car was the last straw – not cool at all.

And I didn’t get to swim tonight because of the lightning…and I’m certainly not getting up early to go do it tomorrow morning, so tomorrow night better be nicer, damn it!

This weekend was particularly lazy, as most of my weekends tend to be, however I’m ever so happy to report that a single, solitary event caused the entire two-day rendevouz to be beautifully worthwhile! To rip off a perfectly good catchphrase, a fifteen minute call saved me much more than fifteen percent, but not on my car insurance, mind you. Over the last month I paid off one of my fairly large credit cards, so likewise once I received notification that the account was empty, it was time to call and get that baby closed…but wait just a gosh darn minute! I still had one card with an extraordinarily high interest rate, so using my ultra-slick negotiation skills, I ended up keeping the account open to the tune of a 0% balance transfer rate until September 2005…

So for those who can’t quite keep up with the math, at this point I still owe various creditors a bit of money, but I’m not paying them any interest to borrow it anymore…and there was much rejoicing! Between the two refinancing options I chose over the last month, I figure that I’ll be saving about $800 – $1000 between now and Christmas – that’s a cool grand that can be used to pay off my principal that much sooner, or instead purchase myself a very cool Christmas present indeed.

Nope – pay off the principal, damn it! I’ve already got a huge television…that’s just going to have to be enough for the time being.

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In other news, for the first time in lord knows how long, I went swimming tonight and it was great! Well, actually it was more like floating for the most part because I didn’t want to risk “waking my neighbors” because I was “breaking the rules” by “utilizing the swimming pool after hours,” but it was still nice to just float around and relax for a while. I must say that it did really scare me how out of touch with the water and swimming and all of that that I’ve become, as I definitely need to spend some more time over there in the future, but I really don’t think that’s going to be a problem. I’ve been trying to force myself into some sort of an exercise program now for quite some time with little success, but after “swimming” a few laps I certainly felt tired! Tired, but of course not sweaty, and that’s most definitely a plus when considering any workout plan for me!

I figure that I’ll start with a half an hour or so every other night this week to see how it goes. They say that swimming is supposed to be one of the best types of exercise because it hits just about every important muscle group, so we shall see what happens! Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to watch some Fraggles before bedtime…

I find myself getting more and more detached from the Internet these days, which probably isn’t such a bad thing anymore. I recall the Michigan days of spending hours upon hours on the computer when I got home from my shit-for-nothing job…and I can’t say as though I really miss those days, you know?! Maybe there’s just something about getting paid to sit in front of a computer all day that sort of takes all the fun out of it – when I get home I might logon long enough to check the SPAM in my e-mail, read the latest Penny Arcade and Theater Hopper comics, and more than anything check in on my work e-mail.

But life is good – enough so that I could probably express the last couple of weeks with bullet points if I so desired…

• I work at least fifty hours a week now, although everyone keeps telling me that I need to back it off – I wish it were that easy, but I feel responsible when thirty-some people don’t have any work to do because I went home early.
• Nonetheless, I really like my job now. I’ve been put in somewhat of a new position since about June – same pay rate and title, but very different duties – and it’s enjoyable. It took me nearly seven years of driving trucks and unloading stock at all hours of the night to finally find a job that I looked forward to showing up for every day, and by golly here we are now.
• I have decided, however, that I really need to stop looking for relationships at work because since I started last fall, nothing has really panned out yet…and for the most part, I think that that’s ok. Sure, there are times when I really would like someone to share the time with, but then again life is just really busy right now and part of me knows that it wouldn’t be fair to bring anyone but another workaholic into my world at this point. Maybe I need to just focus on friends at this point – they always seem to end up evolving into more than that anyways, and it’s much easier on me to boot!
• A new training class starts tomorrow and you know what that means – fresh booty for all my men!
• I saw The Bourne Supremacy this weekend and was utterly disappointed – good thing the ticket was free when I bought the first movie! It’s not even worth going into details because I thought it was simply horrible. Stay home and watch the first installment again instead…
• I’m not sure if my book is ever going to get done. I mailed the first third of it up to my sister over a month ago and still have yet to see anything in return, and I was kind of counting on the artwork serving as my motivation to get the rest of it ready for publication. I wish I could draw myself because I hate having to depend on somebody else who obviously couldn’t give a damn about drawing anymore…but then again, I guess that would make me an artist instead of a writer, now wouldn’t it?
• Along those same lines, she worries me sometimes and I just can’t put my finger on why anymore. I know that you have to let people make their own decisions and learn from their own mistakes, but the preferred scenario I thought would be to learn from somebody else’smistakes. Such is life.
• I bought myself a birthday present today – a very BIG birthday present!!! As most know, I’ve been paying off bills like mad and finally decided that it was time to do something nice for me, so a few grand later came an early birthday present that will certainly help the time to pass more efficiently! It is to be delivered on Saturday, so I now sit before what will undoubtedly be the longest five days known to man, but if anything at least now I’ve got a high-definition horizon to look forward to…
• I’m also thinking about getting a dog again, and I know that I talked about it before, but I’m a littlemore serious about it this time. I think it would really help to get me in the swing of exercising again and it might be nice to have somebody other than myself to talk to around home, but I’m still just a bit hesitant simply because I think I’d feel bad not being able to provide room for him or her to run around. I don’t really want a big dog or anything, but I certainly don’t want a small / tiny / show model either – being able to catch a frisbee without going for a ride is definitely a prerequisite! Knowing that I’ll probably be in this same apartment for at least another year, it’s just about enough to sway me towards the negative side, but we’ll see!See you in another two to three weeks, or so my posting record stands thus far…