Jumbled Thoughts

nice couple of weeks
It's been a hell of a couple of weeks. Some bad, but a lot of good, and good came out of the bad. First and foremost, there was stuff between me and Kait. In the days prior to my birthday, we went through some rough waters. It got to a point where we almost broke up right on my birthday. We decided then to take a break from seeing each other for the week and see what happens from there. It was a more calm week for me at least, with work dying down since the kiddies are back in school and staying at my parents' a couple of nights. It seemed to me during this time that being single might be better for me, but when the break stopped, so did those thoughts. We made up on her birthday night, though sadly I was sick and the birthday run came to a halt. I went home to get some rest and told Paul to finish up the run with her giving him my money for her drinks, but she came to my room a little later and then brought me to her place to help me get better. I got a lot of rest and started to feel a bit better, so me and Paul tried the run again that night staying at one bar we like and I didn't drink at all. We got her really drunk, she beat out my birthday by a few drinks though over a little longer time, and even more amazing is that she asked for a drink while she was puking. She only drank half of it, but damn, that was pretty hardcore. I'm so proud of her, and made an away message for her saying that, which she kept up the entire next day. ^^;;; Things have been staying well since then, I'm happy we worked things out. ^__^

Other things have been working out pretty well too. I've been closer to my parents than I have been in years. I've been going there more often to help Dad out with building his barn and other yard work, spending the night when my work schedule makes it not worth driving back home then back to work the next day, it's been pretty nice. Financially, I'm finally just about out of the red. Chris let me borrow some money to help me out since he doesn't want to see me selling my stuff and is letting me pay him back a little each week. I'm caught up on car insurance, will have my rent back pay paid after the weekend, and am off a monthly plan for a cell phone. Granted, I'm nowhere near where I was prior to this past spring, but it is nice to not have to worry as much about getting the important things paid for.

I got a new cell phone. As mentioned above, I'm off a monthly plan, which is largely in part to the bill being unpaid. ^^;;; A phone isn't that important to me, which is why I let that lapse instead of other, more important things. However, with my extra money for the week, and knowing I need a phone of some sort for people to find me (even though I loved my little isolation from this ^^;;; ), I went and got a new phone with pre-paid minutes so I can just buy minutes as I need them. I have to say, I made out really well. The guy working was awesome, he didn't try hard to rope me into any monthly plan or anything like that (like someone at another one of their booths was trying to so bad), he only asked me once and I let him know I already thought about that stuff, and that was it. The rest of the time was just focused on getting me setup with a new phone. I got a pretty nice phone for $100 and it has two and a half of minutes to start out. I also got a case for the phone, which was discounted since I was buying the phone with it, so only $15 there. And to top it all off, they were having a big promotion for prepaid phones, and with the purchase of my phone, I got a cheaper phone with 60 minutes completely free. I didn't need it but I figured I might find someone who may want it, and ended up giving it to one of my shift managers.

Pretty soon, I'm finally going to be getting new contacts. I've been stretching the life out of this last set for over a year longer than I should, so my parents decided for my birthday to have an eye exam and get new contacts. I had the exam this past Tuesday, so hopefully they will be here after this weekend. Onto things not really important but pretty cool, me and Chris have been having a Donkey Kong Country trilogy marathon in our free time the past couple weeks. We got an urge to do that after playing Super Smash Bros. Melee one night and talking about the DKC music in it and started right there to relive the memories of that amazing trilogy. We're going for the max percentage in each game, and have already gotten 101% in the first one, and 102% in the second one. As I type this, we're all the way into the last world and have gotten everything possible to the point we're at, though we're not touching the lost world until we beat the last one. Once we finish that game, we're going to work on Donkey Kong 64 since neither of us really played that game. He never played it, and my expansion pack for the N64 was semi-stolen from me back in the day and I never went through the game when I replaced it a year or two later. It's been nice going through the older games back when they made better quality games.

It's been a nice couple of weeks, my stress level has gone down quite a bit and I finally feel really relaxed in general, something I've been waiting to attain all year long. And I've got this weekend off. I originally was going to the Syracuse DDR tournament, but decided against it last week since I won't get much play time and will pretty much just waste gas and money, not to mention I'm sure there will be a bunch of videos up so I won't miss too much. I was thinking about visiting my brother this weekend, but just as I was thinking about that, I was informed he was coming home this weekend and already made a bunch of plans with a few others also coming home this weekend. I guess today is our school's marching band home show so a bunch of them made plans and such. So with both my plans not really working, I'm just going to relax a bit more. Going to get some cleaning done today since I'm finally getting that couch from my old boss tomorrow morning which means I finally get my loveseat in my room and it will be complete. I'm also going to get an SMU comparison or two done up since it's been a while and I think I can finally get back to getting them done on a regular basis, and I've set myself a goal to help this happen.

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