June 6, 2008 mid-afternoon | 
Personal stuff, Work-y stuff
Well, that was easy. I submitted my resume at Brandon’s company and they hired me pretty much immediately. I’ll be working Monday/Wednesday/Friday starting next week. This works out really well as there will be no “who gets the car” issues, I’ll just be working the same hours as him on those days.
I’ll be on the internet all day, so I’ll still be able to answer my email and help clients, but I’ll probably stick to doing actual design work at home on Tuesday, Thursday and the weekend. Since I’m taking a break from new projects this summer, this won’t be an issue, but I’ll have to see how things go in the fall. I may need to cut down to two days a week if I start getting busy with projects again. Or I may just limit how many projects I do a month, so that I can do both without getting overwhelmed.
But basically my “job” will be to play a game all day. !!! Can’t beat that with a stick. It’s one of those new social network-y sites, but it’s aimed for kids and there are tons of games and a whole universe to play around in. They have their own avatars and houses and they get money from the games to buy furniture and stuff like that. But they can also chat with friends and live in the same “neighborhood” and play games together. My job is “lifeguard”. I think I just monitor all the chats and games and make sure there aren’t kids who are doing/saying inappropriate things and I get to kick them out if they are. Fear me, kids. I have all the power!
May 29, 2008 in the late afternoon | Yummy Stuff
It took about 6 years, but last week I finally got tired of eating in restaurants. I think mostly I was just tired of eating in the same 5 or 6 restaurants all the time. We’re not the most adventurous of people and mostly eat at places where we know there are menu items we like, but even good food can become less appetizing if you eat it over and over again. And honestly, just the thought of having to do the “Where to you want to eat?” “I don’t know, where to you want to eat?” dance we go through every. single. day. was the biggest deterrent.
So I went through one of the many cookbooks I’ve bought (and rarely opened) and picked out two or three weeks worth of recipes that looked good and that seemed simple enough to make. I’m not the best cook ever, but I can follow a recipe, my only requirement is that it not have a million ingredients (especially things I’ve never heard of) or take hours to make. I just don’t have the time or patience to cook like that.
I’ve never spent so much at the grocery store in one go in my life. $225! On food. I don’t even spend that much money in Target (and Target takes a good portion of my income). The majority of that was meat, fruits, and vegetables, so that has helped me to follow through with making the meals or else waste a crap ton of money. So far I’ve done pretty good. I made dinner for 4 nights straight last week. That has probably never happened before. Old habits die hard, though. We went out on Monday and I had a recipe lined up for last night, but wasn’t in the mood for cooking so we went out again (but we ate at a deli and had salad and sandwiches, so I don’t really feel bad about that).
