S'up.
Wow, I really am out of the swing of this. I miss it, yet I make no time for it. That said, I have had little time to give. As I said in a previous post, I suspected starting the new job plus wrapping up the year with the girls might take a lot out of me, and I was, indeed, right. Between the two, it is all encompassing. I am going to have a lot more time for ruminating and reflecting come June 15, when the second of the two leave. But until then, it's going to be moments when I can get them.
And I'm considering weaning myself off Facebook. I'm not going to delete my account, because it can be useful for events and such, but I find myself on it for no reason at all. In which case, I prefer Twitter for my need to share small thoughts. But dudes, have you seen Google Wave? That's the shit, right there.
The new job is mostly good – I don't really HAVE any deliverables yet, which makes me anxious, since my last few jobs had specific metrics and deliverables, but at this stage the role is a bit of a relationship-building experiment. So I need to just roll with that. It's a hard mental adjustment though.
And the girls leave soon. Mixed feelings about this. Obviously I like them very much and I think the first few days are going to be weird and sad. I'm happy we will always have them in our lives. We've really enjoyed their company this month as well – we had an awesome trip to Austin together, and have just been generally goofy and silly and happy. But I can't say I'm not looking forward to reclaiming our space as well. We have plans to move some stuff around, and I feel a little in limbo since it is so close. Like, I'm putting off cleaning things and organizing stuff because in my head I'm like "Well, pointless to do this before we get the extra room back in a couple weeks". We are going to make their room our bedroom, because all we ever do in the bedroom is sleep & fuck, and our current bedroom is ENORMOUS, so we'll make that a library/art space/office. And THEN we can make where the office is now a proper dining area! Dude, I'm so excited. So, you see. Sad/excited.
So after we went to Amsterdam (which was fantastic and exactly what David & I needed) we went to Austin for a weekend for our friends Carrie & Dave's wedding. It was a really lovely wedding – that's what the photobooth shot in the last post is from – and we went to Barton Springs the next day. Damn, I need to get down to Austin more often. It's nice there. The girls loved it. They went to a party Saturday night and thought Barton Springs was great.
What else? We had a great Memorial Day weekend. Diorama-o-rama, a charity auction. It made me want to make dioramas, but I guess my list of things to make is pretty long at this stage so we'll see when THAT happens. They had free Magic Hat! Yum. And I introduced myself to Davey's ex, at long last. She was quite gracious, if slightly disingenuous in pretending at first she didn't know who I was, but that's cool. I came right out and told her I was nervous about introducing myself, but we agreed it is well in the past now and laughed about the whole thing. I don't think we'll suddenly be all hugging each other at parties or anything, but I felt a lot better for having just done away with the last of that weirdness, even if it just was on my part.
BBQ at Davey's grandma's on Sunday, then a great party here in East Dallas with bountiful alcohol, lots of food, totally mixed crowd, croquet, chicken shit bingo, a spinning catherine wheel, and a tank of nitrous. In retrospect, it was probably not an appropriate party to take the girls to.
So, you see, April & May have been nuts. If I'm not working or with the girls, then I'm out and about getting some much needed fun times. So I don't have the space to sit at the computer and blog – that's why I've been enjoying Twitter so much, because I can do it on the go. BUT. When the girls go, I will be back. I can't quit you. You know, YOU. The five readers I have left.
