Moving into the summer months...
Once again, life has come in the way of my proper blogging schedule. That, and a new puppy, and getting settled in the new house AND starting to travel. Damn it’s been busy. Last weekend Melissa and I finally finished our furniture shopping. We rounded out the endeavor with a fabulous Bassett bedroom set which we lovingly refinished this past weekend…well, painted it anyway. Hopefully it’ll all look simply wonderful when it’s in place, but I didn’t get to see it in its full glory as I had to fly out on Tuesday morning.
The puppy, Dagny, has been wonderful. She’s a sweetheart and doesn’t have many of the bad puppy traits that I can’t stand. In the three weeks that we’ve had her, she has only wet in the house 3 times and twice were in the same day (on Melissa’s watch ;) ). It’ll be really exciting to watch her grow up into a good dog that we know she’s going to be….damn I sound like a proud parent.
This weekend, my parents have finally decided to make the trip down to the wonderful South. They are driving down the two cats to come and live with me again, so that’s pretty exciting. They cats have been living up at my parents house for the past year and a half, so to finally have them back will be nice. Hopefully Seven will stop his random pissing habit that he’s developed since he moved to my parents house, but we’ll have to wait and see. Worst case scenario, I’ll just have to limit him to the laundry room. In preparation for the cats, this past weekend Melissa and I got two bird feeders and hung those in the yard. We also did a bunch of yard work to spruce it up a bit, got out-door patio furniture and cleaned up the yard. The front lawn needs a good mowing, but hell, there’s only so much time in the weekend. That’s definitely one of the draw backs about traveling on the weekends.
My parents should arrive tonight around 10:00, and tomorrow morning we’re going to drive out to 6 Flags for a work function that I have to attend. Tickets were free, so it’ll be a good time I’m sure. If nothing else, it’s something to do for the day to get us outside. Don’t really have many other plans other than showing my parents around the city. I’m sure that I can find some things around the house where my father can provide some input, but my guess is that there is going to be a lot of wine and beer drinking, lots of dog talk/play and probably more good food than we should eat, all of which I am looking forward to.
Work has been going well. I’ve been working on a Hyperion project, flying out half way across the country ever week, which, as you can imagine, isn’t the greatest thing. Granted, I am able to save some money, but that’s not really any consolation when I have a puppy and a girlfriend at home that are both needing my attention. We’ll see how long this travel thing lasts. I figure that in a few weeks, I’ll talk to my boss in Atlanta about finding an Atlanta based project. On the slightly brighter side, at least I’ll be able to build up some hotel and flight miles.
I still have my car. Had a little fender bender with it, which wasn’t my fault, so I’ve gotta get it repaired which is a pain in the butt. Insurance paid me $1200 to get it repaired, and I have a feeling that the body shop that I bring it to will come to a higher number, so I’ve gotta go and get that taken care of, but I don’t think it’ll happen this weekend. Perhaps next weekend I can bring it up to Marietta, where I found a garage, and have an estimate done.