Monday, May 31, 2004

Weekend Update (Not the crappy thing from SNL)

Warning: I will admit that there will probably be plenty of typing mistakes that I don't catch while writing this since there were already three mistakes I fixed in the title of the blog and keep having to use the backspace as I type like it's going out of style.
This weekend was long and I did lots of productive things. On Friday I ran lots of errands. I deposited $1,159.38 in the bank from my last Baldwin paycheck and graduation money. I need to put it in a savings account to start saving for things like furniture, a wedding (which won't be for a damn long time), eventually a new car (since mine just hit 90,000 miles this weekend, I don't expect it to be around until I have kids and need a larger car), and, of course, the largest necessity of all when you live at home with your parents, many, many vacations away from them. I also returned my dead fish for a live fish who seems to be doing much better. They did a water reading on my tank and all the levels were normal. In fact, the pH was prime for the type of fish I have in my tank. My happy rainbow fish have the slightly acidic water they love. Then, I went to Ben's house on Friday after he got home from work. Will and Ian were there and we watched Girls Gone Wild: Dorm Room Fantasies 4(or 5). Well, Will, Ben, and I watched while Ian and Fuzzy talked about programming. Ben also got really mad at me because I asked Fuzzy a question about his astringent while Ben was trying to tell a story. But we don't need to go into that since Ben and I have had two big fights this weekend and are doing remarkably well in spite of it.
Saturday we got up at a decent time and started cleaning and packing. We had our second big fight on Saturday when I walked out of his house with all my stuff and almost drove home. I got to the end of the street and felt really childish, so I went back and we hugged and went to IHOP. Most of our fights center about picking which food place to go to and each of us (but especially me) get really bitchy when we don't eat. Ben gets angry when he has to move. He really hates moving.
Sunday we had left over pizza for breakfast. MMM..basil pizza. Then we finished packing up his stuff and moved the rest of it home in his seatless van. The van is so big that his twin mattress fit easily in the back. If we ever go camping in his car, it won't be an uncomfortable sleeping situation (well, less uncomfortable than two adults trying to sleep in a twin bed together). Then we moved all of his stuff into his parent's office in their house. The plan had been to removed the old crappy desk from the room and let Ben put his smaller and prettier table/desk in it's place. However, Ben's dad was not willing to part with this piece of crap that held all of his papers, so Ben's room is more cramped that it should be, and his desk is in the basement storage area. If we just send Ben's dad and my mom away, both of our lives would be quite pleasant. We went back to Ben's old house and cleaned his room. It's pretty clean, but one wall has peeling paint because of water damage from earlier this year.
When we got back to Ben's Stonegate estate, I put all of his clothes away while he labored to reattach his speakers and get them working correctly. Ben has more problems installing and setting things up than any person I know. I think computers just like to mess with him to frustrate him to no end. After his room was in order, we watched Taxi Driver (which I had never seen) and 40 Days and 40 Nights (which I had seen with him before but forgot and thought I had seen it with Kayla, whoops... but I think I watched it with both of them at different times).
Today I have meet the coaches from 1-3 and that's about it. I'm doing laundry now and am going to work on applying to Fairfax county for a teaching job. At some point I should eat breakfast. I think that point is now.

1 Comments:

Blogger Kayla said...

Wow, great job on being so productive. I've been trying to be that way myself, but um, I haven't succeeded to the extent that you have. Anyway, moving sucks and causes fights, your mom does need to lay off of you (she's just being ridiculous even if it is her way of being concerned). You are doing a good job of getting things done.
I miss you lots

5/31/2004 9:22 PM  

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