Life

As of today, I’ve gotten at least four calls for temp jobs that would take place over Wiscon weekend (the one I was called in for today would start… tomorrow. I have a 2:30 flight to Madison tomorrow). Blast. But hey, once I’m back from Wiscon, I’ve got nowhere to be until September. Then maybe

I liked living in Chicago. I liked feeling young and hip and successful. I liked my shiny shoes and my corporate card. I liked having money. And spending it. I didn’t like worrying about how I was holding myself when I was walking home at night, being worried about coming home a little tipsy, hauling

We let the paste dry overnight, and then it was back to work… using coarse-grained drywall sandpaper for the first pass… And fine-grained paper for the second pass. Tools of the trade Home renovation chic. The reason we were wearing masks. Time to take a break while the dust clears… Then it’s back upstairs to

Wear comfy shoes. And put plastic over fucking everything. Invest in a big ole’ bucket o’ paste. Remove crappy tape and apply new tape. If you are unable to remove crappy tape job done by contractors, fucking put new tape over it anyway. Tape tape tape. It is self-adhesive! Begin paste job. Slather paste. Two

…time for bed, chiklits.

Received my paycheck today for the three days of work I did at the investment firm last week. It means I can afford to pay my minimum credit card payments this month, but even with my student loans deferred, I’m still paying for all of my groceries with credit cards. However, now that I’ve done

I spent a couple of hours at Walmart today scouring the shelves for hypoallergenic products. Before I moved out here to Dayton I’d never concerned myself with this shit before. Who were all of these people out there with “sensitive” skin? Did this mean the creams were less abrasive? Were there no crushed walnuts in

I realize I haven’t posted any pics of my new diggs yet. Here’s my new room configuration and workspace: The map to the left of the desk is my GW world map. Sometimes actual WORK even gets done here. I even have line edits just SITTING on my desk WAITING to get input. Don’t knock

What I did this weekend…. Attempted to re-paste, re-sand, prime and paint this with my roomies: Up into the attic…. From here it doesn’t look so bad!! Wait a minute. There’s something odd about that ceiling… What the hell…? OMG. OMGWTFBBQ FOR SERIOUS (for the record, it looks about 10X worse in real life –