Catch Up!

Well, it’s been a while but it’s time to get back to work!  Just to catch you all up on what’s been going on I’m my life in the last 2 weeks since I haven’t been writing… I moved!  I am officially homeless and squatting in my parents’ basement.  I’m so awesome :).  I am hoping that this will make me work that much faster to get everything done but in the mean time it’s not a bad deal and I am very fortunate to have the parents that I do!  It was a total pain in the butt to move, I am determined to never have that much ‘stuff’ again.  It seems like each time I move I get rid of half of my things, this time is no exception.  I sold pretty much everything I wanted to sell, including pretty much all of my furniture bigger than a basketball (I kept my mattress, that’s all).  The house I was in was so small but it still took forever to clean out two plus years of living in.  Now that that is done it’s time to keep pushing forward though!  Here is a short picture show of my life in the last two weeks! 🙂

Some pictures not seen are going to Shakespeare Festival with my brothers and some friends, we saw Romeo and Juliet, it was such a blast as always!  I have the best life ever, I have been enjoying a little break from my build but I assure you, updates are coming again VERY soon!

I got to hang out with Carissa and her new puppy Tyson, both are pretty adorable! We took him down to a really nice dog park that Carissa picked out and I got peed on by a dog... not Tyson. Tyson actually did REALLY well, I was impressed, he's a sharp little dude!

We have this cat that has been hanging around the office since last winter. It was SUPER skiddish forever but we feed it every day so it's gotten pretty used to us... We noticed some 'boyfriends' hanging out a few weeks ago so Walt (my boss) and I decided it was time to take 'her' down to get fixed. 'kitty' and I had a slumber party and 'she' was the most loving cat ever. I took 'her' in bright and early to get spayed and it turns out she is a he, and he's already been neutered. I'm not sure what to make of the 'boyfriends' we saw, pretty sure 'Mr. 'E' (clever name - eh?) was violated! Poor kitty... either way he is happy and healthy and back at the office, even if he's a little bit pissed at me for the whole ordeal!

My amazing bro got a raise and, because hes an amazingly generous person, decided to take his family out for dinner to celebrate! We had the best time, amazing food and an awesome waiter. I can't remember the last time we had that much fun going out to eat! Congrats Nate!

Mom is making dirty jokes with the waiter (totally out of character, but hilarious!)

The last leg of the table! Such a good time. The next day mom got some very similar good news, my family is a bunch of rockstars! 😉

I went on an awesome date with this handsome fellow! Best date hands down that I have had in... maybe forever?? We went to a summer solstice art show where a friend of mine was showing off her skills. Very fun night... I'm guessing you can expect to see more of this guy lending a hand and flexing his design skills on this page.

There was a BBQ put on by Big Brothers Big Sisters that was a blast! I got to go hang out with Carissa and her family. Such cool people, Carissa climbed the rock wall (she's getting all geared up here!) and I chickened out... We got to watch a police dog work too, that was another highlight!

Carissa being the bad-ass that she is!

I was able to head up to Table Rock (local bouldering spot) and get some climbing muscles thinking about climbing again. I went with my brothers Dan and Jeff, some of their friends and James. He's got some camera skills so he snapped a few pictures I'm stealing 🙂 This is one of my favorites.

So, my brothers make fun of the hippie in me but look what I got! There is so much trash at Table Rock so after a while of walking around it I started picking it up... found some glasses, they were broke but I'm a weirdo and I fixed them. Now they are my favorite! It's convenient because I just lost my other set of sunglasses 🙂

On the way back there was a deer laying in the grass outside of a building downtown, we stopped and I got to practice some of my camera skills. 'Someone' 😉 was busing pointing the camera in the wrong direction but it is proof, I am still trying to keep up with that! The deer images are on my real camera and thus are not included in this post since I still don't have an easy way to download those images yet... working on getting a little more settled.

It's be REALLY hot and I was going to get some soup for lunch but the weather calls for ice cream so ice cream (frozen yogurt) it is!

It's totally my fault but, after winning trivia night with my bros (first place!) I had to enter my car from the passenger side... it made me laugh.

Back soon with a roofing/plumbing update!