Jun 2009
Wow, it's been over a month...
Jun 21 2009 09:47 PM Filed in: Personal
Now that I participate in the ‘Social’ aspect of the
web (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.) I kind of
forget about my blog. There are some friends of mine
that this is still the way they know what’s going on
in my life, so I guess I should bring them up to
date.
I got a new car. I lease my car. I know, not exactly the best thing to do financially, but I’m one of those people that likes a new car every 3 - 4 years, so for me leasing is good. The lease on my previous car, a 2005 Black Mini Cooper Convertible, was ending in September. I liked the car so much that I decided to look into getting another one. This time I opted for a red one, with the white bonnet stripes. I picked it up June 5. I have a 3 year lease on this one. Figure by then I will be 40 years old, and I can maybe look into getting my mid-life crisis car.
Next, I got a new place to live. I’ve been renting the house I am currently living in going on 3 years now. I figure that’s long enough. I really don’t like the house all that much, I just hate moving, so I’ve kind of stuck around here. One thing I really don’t enjoy about this house is that it’s surrounded by so many tall trees. I dread any time there’s a huge storm, because I am just waiting for one of the trees to fall on the house. One did fall last month, but it fell away from the house. Still, I heard it falling and ran to the window to watch it. My new place is a loft. It is a 1 bedroom 1 bathroom which measures 1400 square feet. It’s in the same loft warehouse as Paige, so that will save me some miles on my new car, since most of the miles I put on are from driving between here and there. The place is mine starting July 1, I need to be out of here by the end of August. I plan on moving over the course of July and being out of here by the beginning of August.
I’m still working at Turner. I guess with the economy the way it is I’m just happy to have a job. Work has its good and bad moments. I’m still working on the Silverlight project. It’s coming along nicely, but the project isn’t being run all that well. I’ve just kind of stopped caring, figure I’ll just come in and do the work. I hate when work gets that way, hopefully things get better soon, so I start enjoying it again.
Paige and I are taking a quick little vacation next month. We’re heading down to Florida. We’re both on a saving money kick. That’s one thing I am happy about with the new car and the new place to live. The new car is $100 less a month, and once I add in rent, yard service, alarm, and pest service, I’m saving around $600 a month getting the new place. It will be nice to not shell out so much money every month. We may take another South West trip in the fall, but otherwise we’re doing little getaways, and have been grilling out on the weekends to save money on eating out.
There hasn’t been too much else going on. I’m spending my free time going through all my stuff, finding stuff to donate and stuff to throw away. I tend to do that when I move. Since my new place is pretty much a huge room, I’m not going to have a place to just throw a bunch of boxes of stuff, so I figure I need to get rid of the clutter.
I got a new car. I lease my car. I know, not exactly the best thing to do financially, but I’m one of those people that likes a new car every 3 - 4 years, so for me leasing is good. The lease on my previous car, a 2005 Black Mini Cooper Convertible, was ending in September. I liked the car so much that I decided to look into getting another one. This time I opted for a red one, with the white bonnet stripes. I picked it up June 5. I have a 3 year lease on this one. Figure by then I will be 40 years old, and I can maybe look into getting my mid-life crisis car.
Next, I got a new place to live. I’ve been renting the house I am currently living in going on 3 years now. I figure that’s long enough. I really don’t like the house all that much, I just hate moving, so I’ve kind of stuck around here. One thing I really don’t enjoy about this house is that it’s surrounded by so many tall trees. I dread any time there’s a huge storm, because I am just waiting for one of the trees to fall on the house. One did fall last month, but it fell away from the house. Still, I heard it falling and ran to the window to watch it. My new place is a loft. It is a 1 bedroom 1 bathroom which measures 1400 square feet. It’s in the same loft warehouse as Paige, so that will save me some miles on my new car, since most of the miles I put on are from driving between here and there. The place is mine starting July 1, I need to be out of here by the end of August. I plan on moving over the course of July and being out of here by the beginning of August.
I’m still working at Turner. I guess with the economy the way it is I’m just happy to have a job. Work has its good and bad moments. I’m still working on the Silverlight project. It’s coming along nicely, but the project isn’t being run all that well. I’ve just kind of stopped caring, figure I’ll just come in and do the work. I hate when work gets that way, hopefully things get better soon, so I start enjoying it again.
Paige and I are taking a quick little vacation next month. We’re heading down to Florida. We’re both on a saving money kick. That’s one thing I am happy about with the new car and the new place to live. The new car is $100 less a month, and once I add in rent, yard service, alarm, and pest service, I’m saving around $600 a month getting the new place. It will be nice to not shell out so much money every month. We may take another South West trip in the fall, but otherwise we’re doing little getaways, and have been grilling out on the weekends to save money on eating out.
There hasn’t been too much else going on. I’m spending my free time going through all my stuff, finding stuff to donate and stuff to throw away. I tend to do that when I move. Since my new place is pretty much a huge room, I’m not going to have a place to just throw a bunch of boxes of stuff, so I figure I need to get rid of the clutter.
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