met with a driveway guy tonight. seemed promising. inspections tomorrow. feeling a little anxious that the plumber isn't going to show...

d's at the U2 concert. we gave the 2nd ticket to one of the new recruits at work. had 2 new folks start today. got some negative comments about one of them & that's no good... ugh. oh well.

i'm looking forward to curling up in bed & reading! no work tomorrow! yippie!

i need to pay my library fine

quick weekend getaway to stl for a family wedding. a good visit. restful and uneventful. tasty greek food w/ gena. the zoo w/ my bro & niece. hangin w/ the folks. cards w/ my grams.

back to the grind today. one new recruit is already having serious issues w/ his supervisor. funny thing is i saw this coming 1000 miles away. i knew there was an ego issue before i offered the position... how do you tell someone who doesn't even make minimum wage to stop being a wanker?? guess i have to figure that out. someone else got canned today. it's been a couple of months & everything seemed to settle down but this'll shake it all back up again i'm sure. i'm afraid part of her work will fall on me & i can't handle it.

everything's feeling a little crazy right now. find a mortgage. find an inspector. apply for a zoning appeal... & yet this doesn't seem any more real. well, maybe a little bit. are we really buying a house?? jeeeeeeeeezus. what the hell are we getting ourselves into??

don't jinx me!

ever since i wrote my super complainy blog post, i've had nothing to complain about. & no it's not because i got it out of my system. the problem has miraculously disappeared. thank you nicotine gum or our landlord or whatever magical faerie descended on our crappy apartment & made things better. i hope that doesn't mean the guy died & the place is about to start smelling like rotting flesh...

it's all about me really. no concern for him or his loved ones - just me & my nasal passages & lungs.

how long will these good times last?

end of week 2

between moving & work & house negotiations, it's been a long crazy stretch. turns out this cute new apartment is the worst hell hole ever. i have avoided writing because i have little positive to say. being in here makes me angry & i expend a lot of energy thinking about how much i want to strangle our downstairs neighbor for filling our apartment & our lungs with his stupid stupid smoke. it's awful. i woke up last night & felt like i couldn't even breathe. it was horrible. i'd like to burn this place down (so we don't have to live here anymore & we don't have to move our stuff anywhere else).

met with our realtor today for what we hope will be our final offer & contract signing. it's been a long stretch of negotiations for this damn place. d & i were at each other's throats today about the zoning variance. do we really need a drive way? do we need to get approval before we buy it? it all boils down to neither one of us wanting to spend one more day in this hell hole apartment. it's hard to stay rational & realistic when you're exhausted & miserable. & so it goes.

my 2 weeks of insanity at work is over & i survived. the new crew has arrived & is undergoing training. one of them was assaulted (mugged & beaten in CV) last week - horrible! they're a laid back crew. i don't feel as pumped about them as the previous crew, but we'll see how they do. i'm always apprehensive in the beginning.

at the end of the week i make a quick trip to the lou for a cousin's wedding. should be fun (& hopefully relaxing...)