New House @ MindSay 
new room
saturday, headed down to richmond to grab my tv and some other things, and found that chris and rob had been ever so kind enough to move everything that wasn't theirs onto the floor of the living room, and the breakfast nook table. we quickly got down to business however, as rob, rather than renew for another three months at a $25 price increase, threatened to leave because he was certain he could find a better, bigger place to live at an even cheaper price (note he omitted the "newer" part). course, lease terms keep him locked in until the end of october at the earliest, and month-to-month is an extra $25 anyway. i also doubt he'll be able to find a place and move out by october 1st (you can only tell us you'll be moving out on the first of a month), considering how long it took him to move in..not to mention he got along pretty well with josephine and chris, and just how inconvenient it is to move, especially when you have as much stuff as he does (think uhaul vs. two car loads or so when i moved around downtown richmond).
seems like a good deal of trouble over what basically was one small issue: moving his things out of the fourth bedroom that he is not (and has not been) paying for, regardless of whether he believes the room to be livable and/or rentable. it is not a common area, it is not downstairs, he hasn't paid a cent for taking up its space, and thus i don't understand the incessant quibbling directed at us landlords when there's a perfectly good attic for all that stuff that he doesn't intend to ever sort through..we take care of the trash and utils, and you clean up after yourself, simple as that! but whatever..now he's stuck paying an extra $25 for using that room, until he moves out, which is basically the same thing anyway. who'd've thought it would be so difficult with other adults, eh? hahah.
sunday, i got to unloading the van as mother cooked more food for me to bring up with me. while it's awesome to have home-cooked meals for lunch and dinner while i'm up here, i keep telling myself i'll get around to cooking again..i guess i'm waiting for the whole living situation to pan out. speaking of which, marleah and/or amanda still haven't called me back as of this writing, so it's probably safe to say they went with whatever girl the interviewed after me. ah well, so much for that lead..and it would've been cool, too. so anyway, i never got in touch with kenny on saturday, and MA had already headed back to charlottesville pretty early, jennelle called to see whether i wanted to come over to watch another movie. after dawdling around a good while (taking care of mail and such), i got over there and we settled on quarantine, which turned out to be pretty decent (even though i'm not the biggest fan of survival horror, hahah).
started working the jems schema basically all day at work today. database are just so much fun!..right then.
usn™: ambiguous pronouns! you should use them more often. :)
headed down to the new house on thursday to trim the lawn (it's pretty sad how bad the grass is, but all of our neighbors spent a few thousand on theirs, which i think i'll hold off on) and leave rob a note regarding a few things, like me getting the job, him moving all of his stuff out of the fourth bedroom, not taking up both sinks, etc. chris has apparently lost his job also, so now the only people paying are rob and i, which has just been incredibly frustrating, and made no less easy by the fact that utility costs have skyrocketed since he's moved in (even with the rather hot summer)..
dawdled around in fredericksburg for a while because mother didn't want me going to charlottesville; picked up some food at the restaurant but got into town late, so we just stayed up and chatted for a good while. spent the afternoon with MA as she ran some errands; ran into tony and kara at target, then headed to kroger (where i picked up some 50¢ lifewater and sobe), and old navy. came back and doodled in the sketchbook with her before passing out on the couch. kato thought we were faking, hahah..but then it was off to the gym for a leg workout (yes, they're still sore), before coming back and doing nothing before we headed over to MA's to do the ram; wound up having weird errors with all 4gbs in, so we stuck with 1x2gb stick, while deciding where we wanted to go for dinner..finally settling on going to wild wing café..until we got to the parking lot and saw the $3 cover charge, and went out to buffalo wild wings instead (+jessica), which was pretty good. played trivia while we waited/ate, which we started off doing really well at, before failing on all these music questions that younger folk like us wouldn't've known..
took three soco shots and headed off to zbt..still had to whip out my id because the brothers at the door didn't recognize me, and i didn't want to bother with the "your president, dlu, is my cousin" story (even though it's the truth). david and jacqueline make an appearance shortly, and we go hang out for a bit in his old room (now zach's). ran into katie right as i was about to leave; we go back into the room and wind up watching heppe play someone in ssb (the original n64 version, no less). she tells me about the $3 cover charge and getting it validated by the waitress (or how to just validate it ourselves), which i keep in mind for the next time..wound up talking for another two hours before bringing her back to the psp house. sunday's the usual 11:30AM mass, and finally going to grab five guys and coming back to watch the international, which kato thought was duplicity, and didn't want to watch it for that reason. wasn't a huge fan of the ending, as it was rather anticlimactic, but it was good enough overall—and i got to watch them shoot up the inside of the nyc guggenheim (well, an exact replica of it, anyway), which was pretty cool..
- Peppermint Corner
- Featherbed Lane
- Muzzy Lane
- Blackberry AND Blueberry Rds
- Tiger Tail Circle
I am convinced that we live in the land of elves, or at the very least, dedicated users of psychedelic drugs.
I have an unfortunate tendency for misreading perfectly legitimate words and names as less-appropriate alternatives. In this case, my brain transformed "Bedard Avenue" into "Bastard Avenue" as my eyes roamed over the map.
The oven has finished self-cleaning, so I can safely enter the kitchen without threat of having my eyebrows singed off from the heat. Back to unpacking!
Well, I am all moved into my first house, that I own all on my own.
I have to say, when my ex left me about 5 years ago, I thought I would never be able to one day buy a house, but here I am. Nice neigbourhood to, quiet, few dogs next door, but they are cute, they protect the neigbourhood, the owner had to intoduce me to them...so they would stop barking, lol.
My legs are KILLING me, so much crap to move, lol, glad its all here now, just have a bit more unpacking to do, and I am all set to go!
Howdy doo...
A fair bit's been happening lately. Funnily enough, I feel like every day is so busy, but at the same time I'm not doing anything and I'm getting no where. Well, just to update you on the present, I'm in Canowindra, at home wif mah mum and sisters. I had to vote and I am still enrolled in canowindra so I came home for the weekened. Anyways. I'm actually living back in Orange... Again... With a friend of mine from school. We've known each other since year 7 and we kinda grew up together. Her boyfriend stays a couple of nights a week too, so it's a pretty mad set up. There are some mad parties at our house let me tell you that much. The boys downstairs come up and visit heaps too, we've been playing poker a fair bit lately. I'm actually getting pretty good. :)
I still need a job... *sigh*
I'm getting rather frustrated with that situation. Yeah I winge and bitch, I winge a lot about not having a job, and people say to me "Do something about it" but don't you think I have? Trust me, I'm doing everything I can to get a job. I could be doing music, my passion, at Tafe, but I'm doing Hospitality Management so that I have qualifications to get a good job with good money. I've got a pretty good resume (admittedly it needs to be updated) and there must be twenty businesses around Orange that have a copy.
I could be in freakin' Uni.
But I'm trying to get a job instead.
I could be in Sydney singing and dancing...
But I'm in Orange trying to get a job.
Anyways...
I'm in Jekyll and Hyde the musical. Which I've already mentioned... But that's going good. Me and SC have started going to dance and singing workshops for Cats which is coming up at the end of the year, and that's pretty awesome. SC has been wanting to get back into dance again, we danced together a couple of years ago when we were still in school and she's really quite good.
So that's cool.
Hmm... Love life? Non-existent. End of Story.
Um... Tafe? Great. Been sick the last week and half so I havn't been to Tafe. Some horrible respiratory infection. Lots of green mucus coming out of my face and drowning me in my sleep. Yummy... *vomit*
No, Tafe is good. It's a great course and the teachers are awesome. They take care of me. :)
Er... I'm trying to think of other things to talk about...
Oh yeah, March 11 was the anniversary of my Dad's death.
The day itself was actually really good. Me and DH moved the loungeroom around that day and suprised SC, and then we all got wickedly drunk (the boys downstairs came up) and everyone DH and SC commented on how well the day had gone for me.
It took a slight turn for the worst later on after I got even drunker and I threw a bottle against the cement. Don't know why. Couldn't even remember it until they told me to sweep it up the next day. Which I did.
No... The hardest thing about the anniversary of Dad's passing was the anticipation.
The two weeks leading up to it I was a nervous wreck.
And the week after it I was heaps scattered, like my head was so tired from being so tense and stressed that it just let it go and flopped around like a dying fish.
But overall it wasn't that bad.
Living with SC is great. It always makes a difference when you actually know the person you live with. When we were in school she was one of the very few people who actually spoke to me and treated me nice. She was my best friend all through school and we've been through so much together. Our friendship is a very deep running one. She's actually the first girl I ever fell in love with. Also the last one I ever asked out before I went fully gay. Lol. And that opens a whole can of worms with all the other girls that were absolutely devastated when I went gay. *falls to the floor laughing so hard tears are pooling around him*
Anyway. That's enough of an update for me. You know the basics of whats been happening in my life.
I don't want to bitch about shit because I made a resolution that I wouldn't do too much of that, so You guys have heard all the reasonably good stuff. :)
Love yas.
Peace out guys.
Matty D.
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