October 2002
- 10-31-02
Happy
Halloween!!!
Just a relaxing day away from the office for me :) Yeah, it's a holiday to me. And I needed some extra sleep.
Going to NY this weekend - leaving work early tomorrow and Moe and I are going to the Catskills to do some hiking. Should be a lot of fun. Look for the pictures next week.
- 10-29-02
I managed to rip my nail off yesterday while I was moving some stuff and then today I managed to slice the other side of the same finger with a knife while I was carving up a pumpkin. Thus, it's a bit hard to type at the moment.
I'm trying though...
This weekend wasn't too bad. Sunday Moe and I slept in and then we both ended up working at McDonalds that evening. So at least I have a few more dollars for spending money. I'm gonna be working with him for a few hours on Wednesday and Thursday to help out too since everyone at the store took Halloween off.
Now I am waiting for the pumpkin that I carved up to finish boiling so that I can make some pumpkin pie or some sort of pumpkin bread or cookies. It takes a good couple of hours to boil enough so that you can mash it. Started at 6:30 and it's still going. The house smells like pumpkin at this point.
Nothing much else going on - can't wait for October to be over and done with, this month has seemed to go on and on and it never seems to end. As it is, we still have another couple of days left in the month.
- 10-26-02
I had tried to put in a journal update on Friday night, but for some reason, it just wasn't working and I gave up. So here I am late on Saturday night.
Last night I ended up putting up the new menu board all at once at McDonalds. Moe and I spent from about 8 in the evening until about 2 am putting it together. It actually took less time than we had thought and it looked pretty good. Plus it's some extra spending money.
We didn't get home until around 3:30 or so by the time we finished talking and hanging out with Sharon and finally went to bed. The alarm went off very early this morning because I had to take my car in for it's checkup. That was a bit more expensive (and took longer than I thought) so Moe and I picked the car back up and then went and took a nap.
Afterwards, Brendan came over and we went out and got something to eat and then stopped at Bob's Store to see if there was anything worth buying (I had a coupon as a state employee for today) but I didn't find anything that I would have wanted. I was pretty disappointed. I had a 30% discount and I didn't buy anything.
After shopping, the three of us met Sharon down at Lincoln Park and it was absolute hell for me. I had paid all my bills and the car had cost more than I thought, so I couldn't spend any money - I need it all for the next two weeks. So I left my money and my ATM card in the car and I followed everyone around and watched them play. Now I know how a recovering alcoholic feels in a bar.
Tomorrow I think Moe is working at night, so the morning we will probably just sleep in and take it easy and then I'll probably get some laundry done and I have got to get some stuff out of the house and into storage (and put the back seats back in my truck so I actually can take people in my car).
- 10-23-02
I hate being poor. For some reason (probably me spending money on stupid things and gambling, I know, I know) I don't seem to have any money and it is really a pain in the ass. For the last month I haven't done anything where I have had to spend money and I have asked Moe to pay for half of the stuff that we do. I feel guilty :(
I also hate annoying coworker. She is such a fucking cunt ass bitch. She drives me right up the wall. First she is pretty ugly and that's a compliment. Second she thinks that she knows everything about everything. Thirdly, she buts into every conversation in the entire office. As soon as she opens her mouth, everyone turns and walks away, that's how annoying she is. She is on the phone all day with personal phone calls and she can only talk about herself and how great she is. Just the sound of her voice is enough to make me want to run out.
On Monday Lorraine and I thought it would be fun to play a joke on her, as just a joke and as a sign that we didn't all hate her. So we took a piece of scotch tape and taped down the button on the phone so if you picked it up, there wouldn't be any dial tone. You couldn't see the tape either, so you would have to wonder what the heck was going wrong. I've done it before, everyone laughs, realizes there's tape and takes it off and that's it.
Oh no, not annoying coworker. Lorraine got in before I did and annoying coworker had already spent the last half an hour picking everyone's phones up to see if they worked and was screaming and yelling because her phone wouldn't work. Lorraine broke down and said that it was just a joke that we did and that we taped the phone. Well she still didn't understand - this is how fucking stupid she is - she couldn't figure out where the tape was.
So I walk in the door and immediately here the shrill piercing voice of annoying coworker screaming my name. She's like "what did you do to my phone?" I walked over to her cube (which is next to me - so I am in double hell with her), said I put tape on it, ripped the tape off, turned around and said "Lorraine, let's go have our cigarette," walked out the door and didn't say anything to annoying coworker.
When I got back she was like "well I knew it was a joke" and I was like whatever you stupid bitch, I gave you plenty of opportunities to be nice and be sociable and you have fucked up every single one of them.
Then today she spent the day talking away on the phone and being her typical annoying coworker self. I just want to throw a fire bomb into the cube next to me so that she can't stay there, but she would probably just stay on the phone talking away while the fire burned up her cube.
AHHHHH!!!! I feel better know - but I hate her - and it takes an awful lot for me to hate somebody.
Last night I had to go to a night meeting in Pittsfield - yeah - the other side of the state. The meeting didn't start until 4:30 and I didn't leave Pittsfield until 7:30 at night so I didn't get home until about 9:30 or so. I was one tired little puppy when I got up this morning. I was late getting up, late getting out of the house and late getting to the train and finally late to work. I just looked at the clock, said "Pittsfield" and went to my desk and no one said a word.
But the
best part - I go out to my car this morning and I see this! Yeah, it's
October 23 and it's snowing
just
outside of Boston (and snowed there too when I got into work). Not that I
mind it, hell it looks pretty damn good to me right now - can't wait to strap on
some skis and get out there and go skiing. But it does seem awfully early
to be watching snow collect on stuff. The leaves aren't even completely
off the trees yet. You can thank Moe for the pictures, when he realized
that it was snowing, he ran outside and took pictures of everything. It's
not so often that a weather buff gets to see that early season snow.
Sorry for breaking the no photo rule I gave myself in the journal, but this was just too much to see. So I'm putting them in here and since it's my journal, I can!
Tonight Moe is working until 8 - I figure once he gets home we'll probably go grab something to eat or do something and then head to bed.
This weekend I am McDonalds man and have to get some laundry done.
Our friends, Jessica and Martin's one year wedding anniversary was on Sunday - Happy Anniversary!!! You guys are great!
- 10-21-02
Moe and I were stuck in Vermont, well not literally stuck, but we ended up being there all weekend when we had planned to just be there on Saturday. It was cool though because we had gone to Jon and Renee's wedding and it lasted longer than we thought. Then our friends were there too and we ended up spending Saturday night in Burlington at Vermont's gay club, 'Pearls.'
I can't say I really could have asked for a better weekend. Both Moe and I needed to get away and this was it. We hadn't even brought more clothes than what we were going to change into on the way home. It didn't matter - we changed, went to the club, stayed up half the night, slept on a futon, slept in, ate breakfast and finally made our way down to Boston.
Friday night we had spent the night with Sharon. We went to the mall (to find a wedding present) and then went out to dinner before finally getting home. It was a good time and it didn't involve any gambling, so that's fine in my book.
Last night after we got back from Vermont, Moe and I relaxed and watched "Big Eden," which is this great movie. It's about this guy who lives in NY and moves back to his hometown after his grandfather has a stroke. It's all about him discovering the people who really love him and discovering what true love really is. It also helps that all the townspeople are trying to hook him up.
Tonight Moe is making me dinner :) so I am just fooling around waiting for him to finish. I already managed to elbow him in the face when he tried to hug me and accidentally tickled me in the process. So I'm just gonna lay back and let him take care of dinner. I think we're gonna going out with some friends afterwards and have some drinks, but otherwise, nothing too exciting planned.
This weekend it looks like I will be McDonalds man - putting together the new menu board for Sharon and Moe, since they don't seem to understand how it works.
- 10-16-02
Last night I got to spend the evening with Sharon down at Foxwoods, taking part in much gambling and merriment. Actually, I didn't end up spending anything, I just watched Sharon play for the evening and used up all the accumulated points I had on my card for food, drink and cigarettes. So it was good for me. I'm trying to wean myself off gambling and if I can sit in the lion's den without being scratched, I think I am well on my way to spending less money there. Plus Sharon played on my players card all night, so I still earned more points anyway!
Today I decided to take a mental health day for myself from work. After two weeks of running around like a chicken without a head, and then being stuck in NY for the weekend having to play big brother and dealing with my family (when my Mom and Dad were in NC, but still managed to bug me somehow!), I thought that I needed to sleep in, cuddle in the blankets and actually get to see Moe for a change.
Moe closed last night, so after we got back from Foxwoods around 12:30 or so in the evening, we headed over there and stayed at the store until around 1:30, at which point, Sharon looked like she was about to pass out, so I took her home and stayed up at home until Moe got home. We actually got to see one another!!
Today we got up somewhat late after enjoying the warmth and snuggles of our blankets and I made lunch for the two of us and then watched some TV and talked before he had to head out to work again for a close. Since then I've been reorganizing the bedroom, trying to make the new dresser fit here. I figured it out after several hours of different room designs. Now I just have to get to the storage unit and drop off the stuff that we don't need anymore in the room (we had a cheap little entertainment center for the TV and DVD, but now we have a nice one).
I'm not sure what overcame me last night, but I volunteered to Sharon that I could close on Sunday nights and could work on the Saturdays before the Sundays that I close. For two days worth of work it's like a $100 dollar check or so - which means that I can take my regular paycheck from the office and just use that to pay bills and use the McDonalds money to pay for lunches and gas and stuff like that. I think that even though it might be a little crazy, it will help. Plus it means that I will get to see Moe more often because he closes on Sunday nights and he is usually working some sort of shift on Saturday.
- 10-14-02
4 days this time! I've been busy. Friday I ended up being Mr. Boston tour guide and only managed to get lost once. I was trying to get to my office building from Quincy Market and ended up walking around it before realizing that I was going in the wrong direction. I did a quick loop back and there it was. So I was pretty proud of myself.
North Station wasn't all that hard to find and it turns out that the Amtrak trains come right in with the commuter rails, so finding Marcia and Sara wasn't a problem at all. I felt pretty 'metropolitan' and all, finding them, showing them around the city and in general just being much more city like than I thought I ever was, since deep down I'm much more inclined to enjoy the country.
I was going to go to NY on Friday night, but considering I didn't get back from Boston until almost 7 at night, I couldn't see myself hopping in the car and driving to NY, no matter how much I wanted to be there. I stayed here and then left on Saturday morning to go down there.
So for the last two days my brother and I have been traveling around the Catskills. We went to the Octoberfests and Hunter and Windham on Saturday and then to the one at Bellayre on Sunday. The only downer was that it rained the entire weekend. When I got there on Saturday morning most of the streams and rivers in the Catskills were in flood. It hasn't rained all summer and it decided to dump about 5 1/2 inches in 6 or so hours.
It was just my brother and I because my parents are down in North Carolina for a family wedding that I managed to get out of. Of course, it turns out that they decided to stop for breakfast in Virginia on Friday morning, about 8 miles from where the sniper shooter attacked on Friday morning so they were tied up with that and quite rattled and then when they got to NC, it turns out that the remnants of Tropical Storm Kyle were coming ashore. All in all, it was a pretty bad 2 day drive from what they tell me. They read me the riot act for leaving my brother at the cabin on Friday night alone, which kind of pissed me off, but is understandable after the day that they had had. I told them to make sure not to stop in the DC area for anything on the way back, less they get involved in that sniper thing again. Pretty damn scary, especially since my father also stopped for gas down there and that's who he has been picking off.
I came back here to Boston this afternoon and had to deal with the inevitable holiday weekend traffic. The pike was bumper to bumper and stop and go all the way from Sturbridge to I-290 and for no apparent reason. There was an accident before Sturbridge, but that wasn't really backing anything up.
Surprise, surprise, Moe is at work - as he has been all weekend - so why would I have bothered to stay home and do anything? I'm starting to get tired of working around his schedule. I mean, it seems that we almost had more time together when we would work our schedules around my visits - thus I would see him that entire time. Now that we live together - I'm either at work and he's off, or I am at home and he has to work. It really sucks. I'm just bitching, but it really is a pain in the ass. I want to spend time with him and it seems like other people get to spend tons more time with him. Kind of puts in a pretty down mood - maybe that's why I have been feeling so down lately. The cabin was good for me though - 2 1/2 days of isolation from the world. If I wanted to stay in bed all day - my brother didn't say a word and if I wanted to have a smoke, he didn't complain and if I felt like going for a walk - again, no complaints. Sometimes I guess we all just need some of our 'own' time to get away and take care of ourselves. I think that I probably need quite a bit more, between the stresses at home and all the extra work that I have been putting in the office lately.
I'm not sure what is going on tonight. About an hour ago Moe called me from the store and he told me he would be home in 10 minutes or so - as I said, that was an hour ago. I have a dresser sitting in my car that I picked up from the cabin and I refuse to pull it out myself, in addition to pumpkins that I got for us.
So keep your fingers crossed for an exciting evening.
I'm back to the office tomorrow - I can't wait to see how many emails are waiting and how big the pile of mail is for me (can you hear the sarcasm).
It still doesn't look like anyone has been doing their gay shopping at 10% productions - come on - go and shop and help us get a few bucks. And take a minute to read my reviews at Epinions so we can make some money there too! I'm so freaking poor at the moment, that any little bit helps at this point.
- 10-10-02
Okay, so I missed 3 days! I've been busy running around the state and by the time that I have gotten home, I have crawled into bed and gone to sleep. In the last two weeks, I've put about 1,000 miles on my vehicle (what's that work out to at 25 cents a mile?). So I have every right to be a bit tired.
Last night I got home, crawled into bed and waited for Moe to come home at 7 - he got home sometime around 7:30 - I got up - went to dinner with him, then came back home and went back to bed and slept through right until this morning.
Then this morning I was once again off to a meeting on the Cape. I am getting pretty sick and tired of going to meetings on the Cape. It's all fun and cool to be on the Cape but when I know the back roads around Barnstable and Hyannis better than I know the roads around my house, there's gotta be a problem. At least in the next two weeks, it's looking like I am just gonna be in the office - which after two weeks of what I have been doing, looks pretty darn relaxing.
I'm taking tomorrow off so that I can meet my friends Marcia and Sara in Boston and spend the day with them. They are coming down from Maine on the train from Portland and I am meeting them in North Station - where the Amtrak trains come in. The best part is that I have never been there and we are supposed to find one another. I imagine that I will be wandering around for quite a while.
I've put a new link on the side over there to your left. It's to my old geology page. Call me a geek or a science nerd, but geology has always been my first love and so I am gonna show it off. I've got to do some work on the pages and hopefully pretty soon it will be up and running and look a whole lot better. Let's see if I can do for geology what I did for our site here.
Doesn't look like anyone has been doing their gay shopping at 10% productions - come on - go and shop and help us get a few bucks. And take a minute to read my reviews at Epinions so we can make some money there too!
- 10-7-02
Chinese Buffet!
Moe and I took Alicia out to dinner - it was very good :)
Tired from being outside all day.
- 10-6-02
Another weekend that went by way to quickly for my liking. Moe and I were up late last night with some friends because we went out to get dinner and then ended up hanging out for quite a while. Warning to anyone in Massachusetts - never, ever, ever go to the Friendly's in Franklin - it sucks beyond all belief. We thought that other Friendly's were bad, this one makes those look great. It was that bad.
Our waitress had about one functioning brain cell if she was lucky. It took her about 10 minutes to figure out that we were sitting at the table. There were only 4 of us - it took another ten minutes to get our drinks and by then we were like "take our order now" so she didn't go away forever again. We get our orders in and order an appetizer to snack on before hand. Justine's and my meal came out before the appetizer and before Moe and Brendan's. She said theirs would be right out - 10 minutes later she realized she had forgotten their meals and the appetizer. So finally everything came out. We had no ketchup and we had no side of mayo that we asked for. Justine and I were already done eating and they were just starting.
It was scary...add to that the store looked like a bomb went off in it and it was so dirty that it was bordering on disgusting.
So don't go...
We slept in this morning and then woke up Sharon so we could go and try the brunch at the restaurant that we go to sometimes. Turns out that it was pretty good - but didn't agree with me - so I have had a stomachache all day :( We stopped at Best Buy so I could get a new, longer cable for the DVD player (since we reorganized the room). Then we headed back home because Sharon had stuff to do and Moe had to work.
I never got the oomph to move the mattresses that we took out of the room yesterday, so they are sitting in the kitchen - waiting to go somewhere. Now I just have to find someone with a truck because they won't fit in the RAV. Mind you I managed to fit my entertainment center in there somehow.
Tomorrow it's back to work for me. I've still got to be out in the field so I have no idea what my hours are going to be like. Could be a 6 hour day, could be a 12 hour day, depends on how it goes. That kind of sucks - I like the overtime and all - but I hate never knowing when I am going to be home and a 12 hour day (plus travel) can get pretty awful after a while.
Same with Tuesday. Then I am finally back in the office on Wednesday, only to be out for a conference thing on Thursday and then I am taking the day off on Friday to hang out with some friends from Maine.
- 10-5-02
Sorry that it has taken me so long to get the October Journal up and running. I have been out of the office every day in the field and by the time that I get home, I just haven't had the umph to do any updates here. Now that it's Saturday and I still haven't given myself a break, I figured it was time to force myself to do some updates.
I spent the morning and most of the afternoon at my storage unit. I had gotten it when I first moved down here from Maine, since I was moving in with Alicia and Moe, they had a lot of stuff already for the apartment, and most of my stuff wasn't needed. So it sits in storage. Well, Moe and I finally decided to get rid of the smaller bed that we had in the bedroom and just keep the queen that we have (no more keeping up appearances I suppose). I order for that bed to fit, I had to completely reorganize the unit. What a bitch and a half of a job. I was also going to take out the entertainment unit that we have in there and put it in the bedroom for the TV - since we'll have the room now. Of course, the unit was in the back and to get it - everything came out. It's amazing what you can fit in a 10x10 storage unit.
What's even more amazing is that I have half of this stuff. Some of the boxes have been packed since I moved to Maine from NY three years ago - and they have never been opened. It's gotta tell me something - if you haven't needed it yet, you probably don't need it. Well, simplicity was always one of my weak points. So it's stayed - and the unit is reorganized with plenty of space for the bed when we get it there. I wasn't going to take it myself, so Moe and I will have to do it tomorrow - I think we will have to tie the mattresses to the roof, as my RAV doesn't have enough room inside to fit them. That should be interesting.
Now I am pooped! I came home, flopped on the couch, then decided to do this - however, I am having trouble keeping my eyes open.
Last night we went out with our friend Brendan to the movies. If you get a chance, go out and see the Banger Sisters - the beginning is a bit slow, but the end is hilarious and well worth it. Then we went and got ice cream at Friendly's before heading back home. Moe and Brendan has some stuff to do at McDonalds so they went back down there, but I stayed home and crashed - slept from about midnight last night until 10:30 this morning. I am thinking that tonight is going to be an early night too.
It's all because of this week. Since I wasn't in the office, I had this idea that I could stay up later, even though I was going out to the places probably only an hour later than I normally would. So I either never caught up on my sleep, or actually slept less than normal. So I am trying to catch up this weekend.
Looks like next week will be a pretty fast week too. I am going to be in the field on Monday and Tuesday, then an all day meeting on Wednesday and Thursday and then I have Friday off because some friends are coming down from Maine and I am going to spend the day in Boston with them.
More tomorrow...
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