Well, I haven’t really been keeping up on this Blog lately. So I will have to get back in the habit again. I’m behind mostly because of all the changes happening lately. My roommate moved out of the house and two new people moved in. I am trying to get a deck built and hopefully will be wrapping up a few projects in the next month or so. The other big reason I don’t feel I have time to write is simply my schedule as of late. My project at work has gone from 3-4-5 (were I fly home Thursday) to 4-4-5 (were I fly home Friday). This gives me one less day a week to get things done with more things to do. Also add helping my parents move and I feel there really isn’t time for much else.
Not that I’m complaining I like to be busy. Just don’t feel I have time to get anything completed. That’s ok at least I don’t get board either! One of the other things I did recently was to take RB out for her birthday. We decided at the last moment to invite other people so we happy that four other people could come with us. We went to Bennihana’s – one of her absolute favorites – and then to Major’s sport bar over off of 394. It was a lot of fun. I had fun keeping her guessing about what her present was and she was totally surprised. I had gotten her a pair of rollerblades. She has never done it before and had mentioned months ago that she would like to, so she had no clue it was coming. Which was great. We we’re out pretty late though and stuff to do the next day so as usual I ended up getting less sleep than I would have liked! It was easy years ago when I would just not get out of bed until noon on Saturday. Haha.
The next day we went to look at a couple of cars. RB decided that she wants a Ford Escape. I think this is my fault because I talked them up a lot a year or so ago. But it’s all good because they are really pretty good cars. Actually the first one we looked at was a Mazda Tribute. It was in really bad shape though. It had scrapes along the side, a dent in the hood, and other major body issues. Beyond that it ran horribly. Some sort of problem with the fuel system I think. I was dumb founded because it was at a dealer. You would have thought they would have tried to get it into showable shape before trying to sell it. I guess not. It was also amazing because the car only had 39k miles on it and was only 3 years old. It ran and looked like it was 10 years old. In fact my mother’s old sable with 140k runs better. So that is defiantly a no go.
The next car we looked at was at Apple Valley Ford. Not the cheapest dealer to go to, but all in all – they have great service and reasonable prices. Sometimes it pays to pay a little more. Just not too much. The Escapes they had were impeccable. Both were 2005s so it make sense. They were about 6k cheaper than buying new, Limiteds, and had all the options, leather and so on. They ran like they came right out of the factory. Now granted they cost 5k more than the Mazda but some times it’s better to pay it up front then later. It will be a few months before she buys anything however. She wants to pay off her credit card and other debt first. I think that is a good thing. I just 2 months ago paid off my Truck and I still have yet to make a dent in my credit card.
After testing driving some cars, and I think reinforcing her choice to an Escape, we went to my folks house for a b-day party. My sister’s b-day is 1 week before Ruzana so this year they had to share one party. It was nice. I ended up moving stuff to good will for my dad and helping with some other moving items. Then we had a nice dinner, cake and ice cream, and that was it. Got home and rented a flick. Because I owed her for Talladega Nights and it was her b-day we got a chick flick. As usual I guessed 95% of the plot in 10 minutes. But what the heck. Sunday I got to watch a little football, worked in the basement, and got ready to fly out again. But at least the major work on the house is done for the year. So I am kinda caught up for now.
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