A potential sublet person is visiting today. Is "subletter" the proper term? Because the spell check doesn't recognize it. Screw you spell check - I break ALL the rules!
Ah, anyway, I'm blogging while I probably should be tidying up. Then I'll be eating cereal while I should be tidying up. And I'll probably end up watching the last half of that Pushing Daisy's episode instead of tidying up at all. And I'm sure it won't matter a damn.
This subletter would work out perfectly. He intends to move to Seattle (from Portland) the day after I leave. So monetarily that would work out rad for me. Plus, he's the first person to see the place and if it works out then I don't have to keep slogging through e-mails and tromping strangers through my messy apartment.
Right-o. Cereal time.
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Monday, July 19, 2010
Hello again!!!
Hello all you sweet little things, it's so good to have your eyes back along with your eager curiosity to hear what thrilling adventures await me on this spin of the Wheel of Life!
So as you've all probably heard, I'll be traveling to the Dominican Republic on August 19th (exactly one month from today!) and so I'll be writing about the preparation for travel in the upcoming month, and then I'll be filling y'all in on my daily adventures once I'm there. Fab! I'll be living with my sister and her family - her husband, Dave, their son, Aidan, and the two dogs, Neuf and Jack.
The first question that usually comes up is "what will you be doing there?" The answer is - a whole lotta nufin. My sister is a part of the foreign service and will be working at the US consulate (or embassy, I'm not sure what the difference is) so I won't really be able to get a "job" like I did in Ireland. There might be some volunteer work, and I'll pitch in as much as I can helping out around the house and watching my nephew, but overall I'll have a lot of free time. I just started playing guitar, and much to my utter surprise really liking it, and so I'm looking forward to devoting a lot of time to practicing and ideally writing some stuff too. Other than that, I'll read, pick up some dirty Spanish phrases, drink lots of beer, meet some folks and ideally not get into too much trouble - though if I do it'll be all like, "pffft, whatever, do you know who my sister is?"
The second question that usually gets asked is "who is watching the rats?" The answer to that is my most excellent good buddy Benny. Benny is tops and I owe a lot of my relative sanity to him, plus he's super great with animals and loves the rats! He watched them while I was in Asia last April and did a brilliant job. Of course, they did come back to me complaining that the cheese I give them was for too quotidian, so, whatever, Benny's cheese is better, like I care.
So, a month out, and it's just beginning to set in that my life is going to change radically in another month. For now it's day to day, trying to deal with some difficulties life has recently presented me, and from time to time remembering that I'm off to tropical good stuffs. It couldn't have come at a better time. Sometimes everything unfolds in a most curious and beautiful way. Also, often it is painful and messy, but I believe that the beauty is there if you sit with it long enough and allow it all to unfold. Undestructable, my friends.
So as you've all probably heard, I'll be traveling to the Dominican Republic on August 19th (exactly one month from today!) and so I'll be writing about the preparation for travel in the upcoming month, and then I'll be filling y'all in on my daily adventures once I'm there. Fab! I'll be living with my sister and her family - her husband, Dave, their son, Aidan, and the two dogs, Neuf and Jack.
The first question that usually comes up is "what will you be doing there?" The answer is - a whole lotta nufin. My sister is a part of the foreign service and will be working at the US consulate (or embassy, I'm not sure what the difference is) so I won't really be able to get a "job" like I did in Ireland. There might be some volunteer work, and I'll pitch in as much as I can helping out around the house and watching my nephew, but overall I'll have a lot of free time. I just started playing guitar, and much to my utter surprise really liking it, and so I'm looking forward to devoting a lot of time to practicing and ideally writing some stuff too. Other than that, I'll read, pick up some dirty Spanish phrases, drink lots of beer, meet some folks and ideally not get into too much trouble - though if I do it'll be all like, "pffft, whatever, do you know who my sister is?"
The second question that usually gets asked is "who is watching the rats?" The answer to that is my most excellent good buddy Benny. Benny is tops and I owe a lot of my relative sanity to him, plus he's super great with animals and loves the rats! He watched them while I was in Asia last April and did a brilliant job. Of course, they did come back to me complaining that the cheese I give them was for too quotidian, so, whatever, Benny's cheese is better, like I care.
So, a month out, and it's just beginning to set in that my life is going to change radically in another month. For now it's day to day, trying to deal with some difficulties life has recently presented me, and from time to time remembering that I'm off to tropical good stuffs. It couldn't have come at a better time. Sometimes everything unfolds in a most curious and beautiful way. Also, often it is painful and messy, but I believe that the beauty is there if you sit with it long enough and allow it all to unfold. Undestructable, my friends.
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