When we moved the first time last year (haha), I sold our big air conditioner as the first house had two.
This place has two fans, but no air conditioning, and while so far that’s been OK, today the high was 70Ëš degrees outside and 78Ëš upstairs. Downstairs it didn’t get over 70Ëš, but since I’m sure that’s not far away, it’s time we start looking for a new air conditioner.
One problem. The windows in the living room? Totally oddly shaped. There are 11, but they are tall and skinny (probably less than six inches across), and I have NO idea where to find an air conditioner that would fit.
Anyone have any ideas? I’ve found a couple, but they are all over $300. I have my limits, lol.
So in case you’re wondering, the TSA considers peanut butter a liquid and won’t let you carry it on a plane.
Jam? Totally fine.
WTF
When I got up this morning, it was still dark out and I thought, hmm, maybe my clock is wrong. Sadly, no. I don’t think I’ve been up this early in months, and I don’t like it.
We’re off to the most interesting interview (and all sorts of drunken partying). Happy St. Patrick’s Day everybody!
As per usual, life around here is very… slow, lol. Aside from working, I spend quite a bit of time looking at homes in the D.C. area, as that is where Chop’s interview is next week. He had one today and another one earlier this week (that resulted in a 1-2 month-long contract job which will give us moving money, is necessary), but the most interesting one will be on Monday.
The fun thing about this is that I have college friends in D.C., so I’m not at all averse to the prospect of moving there. In fact, there’ll be all sorts of insanity happening on St. Patrick’s Day while we’re down there, which I am greatly anticipating.
While I’m trying not to plan too far ahead (Porkchop is probably laughing at that, as I’m a planner and am driving him bananas), I’ve started looking at places to live down there, so if anyone has suggestions, please let me know.
Granted, he might a) not get this job and b) want to take another job, but I’m still going to have contingency plans ready!
March, for us, was the cut-off date for only local job searching. While we live in an awesome place, it’s actually quite far from any good techie jobs (especially if you add in a commute to Boston), and when Chop was laid off, we decided that he’d search for six weeks within 50 miles, but after that, we’d expand.
I should probably say I decided, as my brain is the worry-about-everything half of the relationship, lol.
So this weekend we went out to dinner and discussed cities we’d be comfortable and happy moving to.
Granted, we’d prefer not moving for a few years (I’m kinda tired of it after last year’s fiascos), but I’m just not sure that will be possible.
We have some rules… there has to be an ocean close by (within an hour), a good music scene, low-ish cost of living (depends on salary), relatively good weather and the ability to easily get another job in our field if another one goes south.
So for now, he’s concentrating on three state capitals and two other big cities, on both sides of the country.
However, we are taking suggestions!
The closest Starbucks to our house now is 10 miles away, and it’s not a drive-thru.
So when I read that there’s a goddamn Starbucks at Guantanamo, I experienced some rage.
What’s a girl have to do to get a good coffee shop on the corner?!
Super Tuesday is awesome and I love election years to bits and pieces.
I’m only sad that I’m no longer in college, lol, because being on a crazy-for-politics campus during a presidential election was one of my greatest years in college. The debate, the arguments, the insanity… good times. 🙂
Personally, I’m all about Obama, but one of my closest friends from college is a crazy Republican and desperately wanted Ron Paul to win. I haven’t figured out who she’s going for now, but I’m sure I’ll get a phone call this evening. She’s at CPAC, a crazy Republican convention and every year I get drunken calls from some party at 2AM. Makes me kinda miss college, just a little bit.
The Super Bowl is way too stressful for me, particularly now that we’re in the third quarter and it’s 7-3.
So I’m working on contract jobs and debating the merits of the commercials.
So far? Totally unimpressive.
Update 10:09PM.. Damn, wtf? We lost the Super Bowl?! Unbelievable. The Giants kicked ass.
For his birthday I got the Chop floor seats to the Celtics game this evening. Surprisingly, it was loads of fun and the game came down to the last seconds with the Celtics beating the Timberwolves 87-86.
The most interesting part of the evening, however, was the liquor purchasing policy. If you have a MA id and are over 21, you are fine. If you have an out-of-state id you have to be over 25. HOWEVER, if you are between 25 and 30, you have to have a second form of id to prove it.
I learned this the hard way, as it was my turn to get drinks and I had left my purse with Chop (taking my id and cash) and I had waited in line so long only to get turned away because I didn’t have a second form of id on me.
Wtf? Who made up this rule?
On the plus side, we went to Flemings for dinner and it was incredible.
Even nicer was coming home to find Chop had emails about jobs. 🙂
The Chop and I had big plans today. Granted, they involved sleeping in, then going to Atonement and eating Thai food, but they were big plans to us.
Sadly my websites got hacked again (this time by a Russian site of some kind) and I have spent most of my “day off” trying to fix them.
The Chop has also come down with some sort of cold nonsense, so in the end, the day has been spent with me working, Chop playing Madden on Wii and then me finally playing Zelda on Wii (SO much fun). Now he’s playing Zelda while I check and make sure all the sites are still active (they are, whee!).
We’re party people, lol.
