The Wiles of Good Fortune
I am in a good mood, I keep telling myself that. Things in my life have fallen into place in such a perfect manner that complaining about anything might come across as whining.

But things aren't totally perfect. My pending life with Paula is perfect and I truly cannot wait to get our lives combined into an almost single entity. She is, without a doubt, the best person to ever happen along into my life, the best thing to ever happen to me. She's making the drive back south today after being here for 11 days that really felt like 5. She's making the drive with the understanding and secure knowledge that the next time she drives up, it'll be with me behind her in a moving van and we'll be combining our lives into one. An event that will be just plain awesome all the way around (yes, even amidst the clothing purges, dear).

And then there are other aspects of my life, my day and my universe that are out of kilter and in need of adjustment. The house is like that right now, the weekend party is seemingly extending into the week, the over flowing beer bottle bonanza on the counters continues unabated, lights are left on, doors are left open and crap's basically being left everywhere. I'll easily grant that I'm not the neatest person around but damn, at least I can see that leaving empties all over the place is really just not cool. Oh yeah, apparently I'm the only one who can see that the trash needs to be taken out as well. Me, the one who works all day, I'm the one who's supposed to come home and clean up after my housemates? Umm, how can I say this gently, no FUCKING way. I'm not a goddamned maid and I stopped myself last night from taking it out or cleaning up.

So tonight is house meeting night even though Mark's still in Key West. The others need to be made aware of pending changes in the continuum of the house. Its changing because I'm giving my notice to move out and I'm the only one on the lease. And that means someone else gets to step up and take over house administration duties, a mantle handing over that I look forward to with far more relish than I'd thought I might. Best solution would be to turn over the house to Mark as H isn't going to want to take it and I don't think Alice (my landlady) would allow Scot to sign a lease with her.

Work is also causing issues again, as might be expected because it had been going well last week. No reason it can do that two weeks in a row. Basically all of our schedules are thrown out the window when we have to interview job opp candidates. Its a good thing to have a new people coming through the door but its also a tremendous distraction having to study up on people when I can honestly tell in the first minute of an interview whether the person could get the job or not. And its not my decision in any case. But hopefully we'll get a good one in today and all that will ease up.

There's more work stuff but I'm leaving it lie for now. No reason to continue to stir up trouble for no cause. I'm not an intentionally antagonistic person but sometimes people gets my hackles all up and I have a harder time restraining my tongue which has a tendency towards cynicism and sarcasm (yeah, generally not a great mix).

And yes, a huge part of me is bummed, irritated and saddened by the impending loss of my better half in Paula. I thought that I might really be chafing for my own space and time again but I'm really very much not looking forward to her being gone. She's the best company (and occasionally, incredibly goofy and sweet) I know and I love being with her. I miss her right now even though I know she's lying in my bed right now. So I'm taking it all with a grain of salt, I'm probably more sensitive than normal and it might cloud my judgment some.

There's also the guy I nearly hit with my car last night in the rain. I just didn't see him until it was almost too late though I was only rolling along at 5 miles per at the time. Still would have hurt and kind of shook me up some.

Life's good and I'm happy, I really am. But that doesn't mean there can't be issues that need to be dealt with. I did just pick up these cool little snap together plane models at that paper store (along with a super fine UniBall Vision Elite pen) so I'm not all bummed. And one of these days I'll get my act together and get some pics posted. I've got a new one of Modoc that just totally kicks ass! And a couple of great pics of H's big black cat, Jagr, in the clover. Oh boy!

Oh yeah, and one of the cover stories in the paper is about how rent prices are falling from last year! So HOT DAMN on that front! Because now that its in the paper, all the other rents should drop too so that the rentors can stay competitive and ain't nothing wrong with a little rent dropping price war especially when I'm looking for a new place to live.