Up early with Hans before he left. Online for a bit to check email, etc. Expecting Hans' friend Scott in about an hour to give him a haircut. My first paying gig as an unemployed person! :) Hope the $20 I'll make doesn't mess up my unemployment! ;)My printer jammed the other night when I was printing out the itinerary for my flight to Wisconsin. It printed fine, then for no reason it sucked the paper back inside and ripped it in half! Half of the sheet I was able to pull out, but the other half is still crumpled inside of it! My work desk is a disaster because I had to pull the printer away from the wall and move everything that was sitting on and around the printer into the middle of the table.
So, today I hope to:
-clean the bathroom (Done, and you don't really realize how far gone it was until you see it clean!)
-get the rest of the dishes done (Again, did just one rack-full. Eventually I'll get them all done.)
-cook dinner: I'm thinking pasta with sauce and chicken nuggets (kind of a white-trash chicken parmigiana), steamed asparagus, garlic bread and romaine salad. (Done, and it was really yummy, even though I had to relight the oven like 3 times over the course of baking the chicken nuggets and garlic bread)
-wash that last load of laundry (Done! I even folded and put away the other two clean loads!)
-get the library books organized so Hans can take them back (the library is down where I used to work, which is near his work, so it makes more sense for him to bring them back than for me to make a 100 mile round trip to bring them back!) (Done, but I forgot to give them to Hans on Friday morning.)
-bring the trash bin back in once the trash is picked up (Done)
-scoop the litterboxes (Done)
-give Scott a haircut (Done)
-start organizing what scrapbooking stuff I'll be bringing with me when I go to Wisconsin. My brother Joel wants me to make a scrapbook outlining who he is as a car-dealer and family man, as well as outline the benefits of owning a Hyundai. (Not done, gotta work on this Friday for sure!)
So, nothing's getting done while I sit here! I'll update at the end of the day!
Update:
In the afternoon I applied for a job at The Painted Turtle, a summer camp for children facing various illnesses. I think it would be an amazingly rewarding job, and I'd love to get it. It's only 11 weeks in the summer, but it would be a lot of fun!
Also, I remembered that I have my online mentoring at http://www.icouldbe.org/ to check on! Since I'm not getting the updates because I can't access my work email anymore, I hadn't checked it since last Thursday. I caught up on the work that my mentee Cate had done in the last week, and emailed her as well.
I also updated the Michiana Monologues website: http://www.michianamonologues.org/ and realized that I could be in town to see the Community Monologues! I'm very excited about this possibility! I'm definitely planning on getting a copy of the book and DVD of this year's production!
The whole time I was working online, our biggest cat Panda was sitting on the table next to the keyboard sleeping. He kept stretching out more and more and eventually I was typing at an angle on the very edge of the table! It was cute to have him up on the table so close though!
While cooking dinner, I saw and overheard a loud, profane arguement going on across the street behind our house. I tried to ignore it as best as I could while it was just talk, but when the guy picked up a pipe or piece of wood and started chasing the woman trying to hit her, I went out on the back porch and yelled that he'd better stop because I was calling the cops! That was a bluff though, because my cell phone doesn't work here, and we don't have a house phone! He yelled that I should fuck off and mind my own business, and I said that as long as I can see and hear what he's doing, it is my business. The woman yelled that he was on drugs and didn't know what he was doing, almost like she was apologizing for him.
I emailed Hans, just in case the guy decided to come over and give me trouble. I wanted Hans to know what had happened. I figured when he got my message he'd call Jay and Scott (who live a few miles away) and they'd be over to cover things until Hans got home, because he worries about me being out here alone. They didn't come over though, and I finished cooking dinner, and relaxed until Hans got home.
He said he had tried to call Jay and Scott, but he owed on his Verizon bill, so they wouldn't let him make calls out from his cell phone! He said it was the longest ride home wondering if I was ok or if this "tweeker" (he thinks everyone up here is tweeked out on meth) had come over and tried to start shit with me too.
After dinner he went to Jay and Scott's and got a shotgun! It shoots buckshot, but he showed me how to use it, and has it sitting by the front door with a box of bullets! I told him I don't plan on shooting anyone, but he said that if some tweeker jumps the fence and starts trying to come for the house, I should at least get off a warning shot, and if he doesn't run, to shoot him for real! Ah, the comforts of small-town living!
The picture above is an artist's rendering of me shooting at a tweeker. The tweeker is represented by a dinosaur. As you can see in the picture, he's about to eat our cat Rocky, so I'm shooting him. My cat Remy is climbing the rain gutter, and it looks like Pudd'in has almost made it to the roof. I don't see Panda in this pic, or the dogs, so they much be coming at the tweeker/dinosaur from behind. :)
So, that was my Thursday.
