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Jan. 27th, 2004 05:16 pmI locked myself out of my car after work on Saturday. This happens with relative frequency to me. Not just the car thing, I forget a lot of things. Today I forgot my lunch, leaving it on the dining room table as I headed out the door. My dear one put it away for me, taking care of me just as she did on Saturday by driving all the way out to where I work to pick me up. She is so good to me.
Anyway, I mention this because I did it again today. I got out to bring packages into the post office and left my keys on the front seat. I noticed after I got out of the car, but I just went in and mailed the ebay stuff in the interest of first things first. I got back out, futzed with the doors for a while, and considered going home to wait for my beloved to get home. Of course, this would involve borrowing a key to my apartment from the front office, (Again. I think this would have been the forth time locking myself out of the apartment) but I could deal with that. Then I'd wait 'till she got home with the extra key. Oh yeah. She gave me the extra key on Sunday so I could put it in my wallet. And of course it was right there. In the ash tray of the car.
I really, really didn't want to spend money on a Michigan locksmith for the 3rd time so I thought for a while and finally went in to borrow a coathanger from the Post Office. They had one. I went out again to the parking lot where I, a tall goateed guy with long hair and a black trenchcoat, bent the coathanger up and began fishing around inside the car door. No one paid me any mind. After some unfruitful efforts, a guy who was checking his post office box came by and offered his help. (He said he had to do it for someone at a funeral once.) With his advice, I managed to slip the coathanger through the door and open the car. I feel vaguely proud of myself, though I am perfectly aware that this is probably all my fault. The extra key is now in my wallet. The coat hanger I used to open the door is going in the trunk. I will have three methods of unlocking my car available to me now. Let's just hope that's enough redundancy for me...
Today was good. Work was the same as ever, but was made much less annoying by the wonderful morning I had. My raccoon made us omlettes for breakfast as I dragged myself out of bed and we had some wonderful, albeit short, time together. When she smiles a truly happy smile her eyes shine like mid day sun sparkling on a clear alpine river of pure melted snow.
I am very much looking forward to leaving for Capricon in tomorrow night. Vacation will be good. Getting to see our Chicago friends will be great. I miss them. We get to see my family too, as we're spending Wednesday night at their house in Kenosha. It'll be so, so good to see them again too. My brother has a copy of Starcraft now and is going to burn Brood Wars for me. With free long distance here, I'm looking forward to playing online with him sometime and being able to converse on the phone at the same time, almost like we're in the same room.
I've been meaning to talk about plans for a while here, for my own personal reference if nothing else. Haven't qute got around to it. I'm saving up money so I can pay off my overdue college tuition in one lump sum of about $1400, after which I'll start saving up to work on the credit card bills, which may take somewhat longer though ebay is doing pretty well at collecting money for them. Once all those additional monthly expenses are out of the way, we can start setting aside money for some kind of permanent residence. (Neither Andrea nor I want to stay at the apartment for longer than we need to; we never intended to.) In the meantime, we'll keep adding to our savings account in bits here and there too. For the immediate future I will, in all likelihood, be working at Clark Brother's Instrument Company, where I spent today building yet more speedometers for HUM-Vs. This is all working toward something, toward our future, and with that in mind, I can deal with it.
I continue to miss my parents and brothers greatly. Once in a while something reminds me of them and I start to feel kinda down. Especially in the mornings for some reason I tend to be pretty down. I have, though, managed to not find myself leaking from the eyes at work at all and by the 10 o' clock break I'm usually feeling generally good. I just miss them a great deal. For my entire life they, and their friends, were who I interacted with. I really didn't have friends of my own until Midwest Fur Fest last year, and they were always, always there for me. I miss them dearly.
Well, I'm going to go play a little dance dance I think, then take a shower, then get back to the cleaing I started yesterday. I worked on the apartment for three hours after getting home from work and got the kitchen all done and most of the living room. I'm going to tackle the bathroom next, probably with my star's help so I don't misplace any of her girl type things. My girl type things are already in sensible places. *giggle*
Anyway, I mention this because I did it again today. I got out to bring packages into the post office and left my keys on the front seat. I noticed after I got out of the car, but I just went in and mailed the ebay stuff in the interest of first things first. I got back out, futzed with the doors for a while, and considered going home to wait for my beloved to get home. Of course, this would involve borrowing a key to my apartment from the front office, (Again. I think this would have been the forth time locking myself out of the apartment) but I could deal with that. Then I'd wait 'till she got home with the extra key. Oh yeah. She gave me the extra key on Sunday so I could put it in my wallet. And of course it was right there. In the ash tray of the car.
I really, really didn't want to spend money on a Michigan locksmith for the 3rd time so I thought for a while and finally went in to borrow a coathanger from the Post Office. They had one. I went out again to the parking lot where I, a tall goateed guy with long hair and a black trenchcoat, bent the coathanger up and began fishing around inside the car door. No one paid me any mind. After some unfruitful efforts, a guy who was checking his post office box came by and offered his help. (He said he had to do it for someone at a funeral once.) With his advice, I managed to slip the coathanger through the door and open the car. I feel vaguely proud of myself, though I am perfectly aware that this is probably all my fault. The extra key is now in my wallet. The coat hanger I used to open the door is going in the trunk. I will have three methods of unlocking my car available to me now. Let's just hope that's enough redundancy for me...
Today was good. Work was the same as ever, but was made much less annoying by the wonderful morning I had. My raccoon made us omlettes for breakfast as I dragged myself out of bed and we had some wonderful, albeit short, time together. When she smiles a truly happy smile her eyes shine like mid day sun sparkling on a clear alpine river of pure melted snow.
I am very much looking forward to leaving for Capricon in tomorrow night. Vacation will be good. Getting to see our Chicago friends will be great. I miss them. We get to see my family too, as we're spending Wednesday night at their house in Kenosha. It'll be so, so good to see them again too. My brother has a copy of Starcraft now and is going to burn Brood Wars for me. With free long distance here, I'm looking forward to playing online with him sometime and being able to converse on the phone at the same time, almost like we're in the same room.
I've been meaning to talk about plans for a while here, for my own personal reference if nothing else. Haven't qute got around to it. I'm saving up money so I can pay off my overdue college tuition in one lump sum of about $1400, after which I'll start saving up to work on the credit card bills, which may take somewhat longer though ebay is doing pretty well at collecting money for them. Once all those additional monthly expenses are out of the way, we can start setting aside money for some kind of permanent residence. (Neither Andrea nor I want to stay at the apartment for longer than we need to; we never intended to.) In the meantime, we'll keep adding to our savings account in bits here and there too. For the immediate future I will, in all likelihood, be working at Clark Brother's Instrument Company, where I spent today building yet more speedometers for HUM-Vs. This is all working toward something, toward our future, and with that in mind, I can deal with it.
I continue to miss my parents and brothers greatly. Once in a while something reminds me of them and I start to feel kinda down. Especially in the mornings for some reason I tend to be pretty down. I have, though, managed to not find myself leaking from the eyes at work at all and by the 10 o' clock break I'm usually feeling generally good. I just miss them a great deal. For my entire life they, and their friends, were who I interacted with. I really didn't have friends of my own until Midwest Fur Fest last year, and they were always, always there for me. I miss them dearly.
Well, I'm going to go play a little dance dance I think, then take a shower, then get back to the cleaing I started yesterday. I worked on the apartment for three hours after getting home from work and got the kitchen all done and most of the living room. I'm going to tackle the bathroom next, probably with my star's help so I don't misplace any of her girl type things. My girl type things are already in sensible places. *giggle*
