Hello, Constant Reader!

Well, I suppose I should blog - seems like the thing to do. And I do feel I sorta owe it to my small group of local constant readers who still take the time to swing by daily to see if I’ve updated. They must be getting sick of making the effort only to find the same boring thing from 2 months ago. I don’t know who they are or why they check me everyday but nonetheless it’s appreciated and intriguing. I also don’t know what exactly THEY find so intriguing about ME. But, in all honesty, isn’t the point of having a blog for people to read it? Anyway, feel free to leave me a comment, intriguing constant readers; I’d love to know who you are!

So anyway, aside from my interesting local readership I don’t really have a lot to talk about. Our deal closed last month and we got our $$ so we’ve cut our mortgage by more than half and started the first of many big, messy renovations. We ripped a wall out in the living room and Nick rewired a bunch of stuff so we can have the TV mounted seamlessly above the fireplace all classy like. We now have a little less nasty textured wallboard, a little less cork tile and no more nasty smelling insulation. I actually prefer the bare studs to those gross things. Nick started drywalling so maybe by the end on the month we’ll have a fully functioning, normal looking wall. We also painted the hall way and replaced all the icky discoloured ‘things’, like the door bell ‘thing’, the thermostat and the smoke detector. It’s crazy how much of a difference little things like that make. Some day I may even past some before and after pics, I’m sure my ‘fans’ would love to see those!

We also decided that since we’re all rich and shit now we should probably have a toy, so we bought a Rhino. I guess as far as toys go it’s a pretty practical choice and I’m sure it’ll be fun. Nick also bought a truck to replace the ‘garbage truck’ which will hopefully mean he will use it as his daily driver and we can sell the poor ‘ol garbage truck and his aging Corolla. I would most enjoy a paring down of our ‘fleet’. So now we just have to finish up all the things we want to get done in the house so we can spend the warm months out in the bush playing with our toys. My, that certainly sounds dirty doesn’t it!

Other than all the awesome home stuff the only thing that’s really been going on is the not at all awesome work stuff. This place has really been getting to me the last little while. It’s actually really fucking frustrating. I hate watching a place like this take a gigantic nose dive when the problems are so crystal clear and oh so fixable. And it almost seems like the people most responsible for the problems are actually fucking proud of it. Like lending a hand in running one of the oldest businesses in Dodge into the ground makes them super cool hot shit. It’s sad and it’s pathetic and I am in the position where I need to decide between riding it out (for as long as it can last, which is starting to seem like not very) for the attractive remuneration or making a big change. Unfortunately I have certain goals that depend too heavily on money to be able to justify switching jobs until I have to. In a perfect world this place will hold on it a death knell for the next three years or so and then once it finally gives that last pathetic little shudder it’ll be more of that perfect timing I’ve enjoyed so much and I’ll simply go do something menial and fun whilst trying to get knocked up. That would be most good.