Sigh. I wonder how many of you I could convince to write up a summary of the past six or so months of your life for me…
So I just got a new (refurbished, cheap desktop) computer, after more than a year of my laptop being about to die. Nearly all of the reading and writing I have done in the past year has been on my work computer, most of it AT work. Which is why I never read anymore, and why I haven’t logged into PB in about three months, etc.
I’m not sure if I will read/write more now that I have an actual working computer at home. In some ways, I miss it, but in other ways, I like that I have stopped spending as much time in front of a screen as I used to. I feel like I used to be online for the majority of most nights, and now it’s just a quick thing I check on my tablet before I go to bed. I spend enough time staring at a screen at work, seriously. :/
Quick summary on my end:
- We are officially tying the knot in like two weeks (two weeks from yesterday, I guess?), which is kind of insane. I think it should be about 75% basically what we want, and the other 25% fluff that our families insisted upon or that we added for them. Which isn’t terrible, all things considered. It is, thankfully, enough of a low-key event that it has only been this weekend that I have started to feel slightly stressed about getting some of the final details in place. And some of those details are things like scrubbing the kitchen floor with a 3M scouring pad because it never got properly cleaned when we moved in and I’m embarrassed to let our families see how bad it is. So that’s MUCH better than spending the better part of a year consumed by wedding shit.
- My 19-year-old cat has been sick on-and-off, and there was a period of about a week in July where they were pretty sure she had cancer (she doesn’t), and I thought I was going to have to put her down. I was WRECKED over it, but it was good, because it got me to really face up to the fact that she is OLD AS BALLS and is going to die sooner than later. Which I wasn’t oblivious to or anything, I just hadn’t really had to face up to that until then. I was absolutely wretched over the whole thing, and I do think I got some mourning out of my system, and I will be able to handle it all a bit better when it does happen - I will still be sad, but hopefully functional at the same time. She is doing okay now, but she is clearly just…old. And eventually, it will be time.
- Job is driving me crazy because GRAY CUBICLE WALLS ALL DAY. It is not sustainable. Not sure what to do.
- Garden is AWESOME, and I have way more tomatoes than I know what to do with. Since I typically buy 10-20 pounds of tomatoes a week at this time of year and eat them all, that is saying something. I am experimenting with growing varieties of tomatoes that don’t transport or keep well. I have this dream of starting a tiny urban tomato farm where people (and restaurants?) would come get tomatoes for same-day or next-day consumption, because it would give people access to the kinds of delicious tomatoes that they can only eat today if they grow them themselves. I am very passionate about tomatoes, and sharing them with The Tomato-less.
- During a bored spell at work, I did some genealogical research, and discovered that my father’s mother was married once before she was married to my grandfather. My dad has long suspected that this relative who was presented as his cousin was actually his half-brother (my grandma’s son), for various reasons, but never had any proof. But apparently last time he looked into any of it, the 1940 census data wasn’t public yet (I think?), and now it is. So I was able to find a marriage record for my grandmother from the 30s, and combined with her entry in the 1940 census that lists her as “divorced” (she and my grandfather married in 1943), I think that’s pretty good proof that it was her. There’s obviously no proof that she was the mother of this “cousin”, but she married 11 months before he was born, so it’s likely that it’s true. I find all of this FASCINATING, just because…well, it is. My grandma was living in Chicago when she married this guy, and apparently her mother was friends with gangsters, etc. I’m sure the story of who this guy was and how she ended up marrying him isn’t actually all that great - he was probably a nasty drunk who beat her, and she probably went home to Colorado to escape it all - but the thought of buried pasts/identities is especially interesting to me. The funniest thing about it, though, is that I am SUPER jealous of my dad (who was raised an only child) for having a secret brother. I have always hated being an only, and have had fantasies that one day, a long-lost sibling would suddenly show up. Not fair. :(
- We still have two duplexes and they are A Lot of Work and cost A Lot of Money. However, we will hopefully have long-term tenants in both sides of the newer place by November or December (we have had short-term tenants because we needed to get in there to get some electrical work done, which we are doing next week…to the tune of $3K, with another $3K coming in October, ARGH), which will be lovely, because it will mean we can focus somewhat better on our place. We still don’t have a dishwasher in our apartment, though we are getting electrical run to the garage in two weeks, so we can have a GARAGE DOOR OPENER THIS WINTER, FUCK YEAH. It’s been a somewhat stressful, tiring, and expensive year. But I am hopeful that it will make things possible for us in the long-run that would have never been possible otherwise.
Anyway. That’s my life update. You guys....?
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