Muck and Drudgery to Fuzzy Cuddles

well, the last couple of weeks have been wrought with stress, in some cases in expected ways, in others not so anticipated. it didn't help that everyone i had to deal with was experiencing a similar rut lasting well over a week, and slowly, oh, so slowly picking up over the last 9 days. ::Long friggin' Sigh ::

haven't gotten the test results back yet... in this part of the world, it's far enough out of any sort of main stream that stuff has to be sent out of town (into city) to get processed... so i might be looking at as long as 4 weeks -- half way done today.

disgruntlement subsiding, things are generally leveling off into a normal work drudgery and long late evenings with my favorite fuzzy little troublemaker... who's currently content in playing with my pj draw-strings... and can do so for hours. since putting trouble 2 down, we've been letting Mr. Trouble himself sleep in the bed and he makes a point to get as much half-conscious attention as possible, then usually sets up his perch on top of me... no matter how, he manages to.

currently really looking forward to coming out west... i actually can't wait... please give me western highways... at least your speed limits aren't maxed out at 55 mph... and all the roads 2-lane with absolutely no legal passing zones... and lots of old people... and hicks who will jump out of their car and try to teach you a lesson about "proper" driving... heh...

thinking of jaunting up to vegas for a couple hours for real greek food and picking up my photo albums... haven't worked out the details yet, but since we'll be up that way...

Disgruntlement

i've settled into a disgruntlement of late... it appears my ambitions and personal freedom are limited by the inhibitions of another who refuses to take the benefits that go with minor sacrifices...
sooooo... looks like i get to all but completely alter my course and head in a determined direction once again. but now i'm rather content to just let things come and go of their own volition and float until the universe tells me to start jumping...
blah

DONE!!!

so, i can party hardy now... everything that i could possibly be responsible for in order to get into the military is now complete.... now it's just waiting on everyone else
so it could be up to 3 more months, but that gives me some travel time

lots of love
jer

suspension

one more arduous day to go... then what's left suspended can all fall out...
of course it'll take a week to do so, but then i know if my future career will be made or broken
the moment of truth... and then the suspense will be over
so, party on thursday... then possibly a follow-up party next week

trouble gone : death or dialasis

Jeremy had to put one of the cats down due to blockage and inflamed kidneys; likely having to do with kidney stones. If not, then the poor troublemaker would've been on dialasis and medication the rest of his life...
His brother misses him terribly, and is very confused, but persevering.
I have pics on the bottom of all my blog page for your enjoyment

Michaux - Misho - Mushy

well, whilst Gustov pummeled the eastern seaboard, we decided to take a backpacking expedition along the Appalachian Trail where it passes through Michaux State Forest in southern PA, just outside of Gettysburg. Albeit a comparatively short hike, i'm quite impressed with myself for enduring 6 or 7 miles of hiking in ceaseless rain, sleeping the night at one of the Appalachian Trails many shelters along the route, and hiking 7 miles back out (for, yes, my endurance sucks). The rain allowed us a relative aloneness until we reached the shelter; a nice break from the slow but busy psuedo-urbia of two lane highways with no passing zones and low speed limits full of naught but old people and cumbersome drivers. Having prepared our upper halves well for the rain, we were a bit unprepared for how much cotton cargo pants soak up water, and subsequently our otherwise water-proof hiking boots, which held all the water in quite nicely.

The stars beat out the rain some time around sunset, and there was no dry wood for a fire, but we did get our own shelter, and it was one of the most uncomfortable nights of sleep i've ever had; the pants and socks were still damp when we got dressed again, despite having been hung up overnight and even dangled over the gas stove, but were nicely dry after 2 hours of sunfilled hicking -- so a dry ride home we had, at the very least.

We didn't take the cameras with us... it's just green, green, and more green... like some fairy puked on everything. But the leaves, I hear, are set to be changing soon, so we'll have another trip up north-ish and will likely be taking lots of pictures.

traversing practicality

received news tonight regarding my employment future with the company i'm currently with as an outside contractor of sorts... i may be let go 2-3 weeks before my contract is up... or i may be added on with as much as a $200/week increase in pay...
yeah... take a wild guess what i'm hoping for.

in anticipation of this situation, i had already started looking for alternate employment: there are no other desks hiring here, there are a number in phoenix and elsewhere... and i'm looking into the military again, for now dabbling with the national guard for the part-time opportunity...

we'll see how it goes