Sorry it’s been so long. Sorry family and friends who faithfully check to see if I’ve written anything. Sorry folks who want me to fix things with the themes I ported. I’ve been busy.

Since I last posted, I’ve traveled over 1,000 miles, started a new job, and taken on a new client (not related to the new job)… Not to mention things like fixing up our inner city house, going on trips every weekend, seeing historic ball games, volunteering, etc…

The job is great. I like the people I work with, I like the environment (it’s professional – something heretofore unknown to me), I even enjoy the work. =) I don’t love getting up early in the mornings, but even that’s not really a problem – as long as I put in my 8 hours a day, it doesn’t matter when I work them.

The house is coming along. The stinky master bedroom carpet is gone – Dave literally tossed it out the window. (How ghetto are we!?) Now all we have is a stinky hardwood floor that’s about to get primed (tomorrow morning) and a tack strip going all the way around the room (so we have to wear flipflops all the time). Next step in that process is new carpet.

Tonight, we spent about an hour cleaning out the oven finally… it was nasty! That oven cleaner, though, wow! That stuff is potent – we both choked when Dave sprayed it in there – and when I was cleaning it out, I swear I could feel it burning through my rubber gloves. But now, we have such a nice clean oven! Dave just finished putting foil on the racks and the oven bottom, so we can now bake our assigned dessert for the 4th of July fiesta we’re going to tomorrow night.

Just as we finished cleaning out the oven and scrubbing the oven racks, we heard some fireworks being set off… My thought: “Why can’t these rednecks wait until tomorrow night?” I found out that “these rednecks” were my best girlfriend and her fiancee. =) I had a good laugh about that. They had come over to see if we were around (we didn’t hear the knock because we were in the kitchen – back of the house), and since we weren’t, they started shooting off bottle rockets in our front yard. =) Dorks.

Happy 4th of July, family and friends. Hope you have a good one – and a safe one!