Wow... i was surprised to see that this blog was still up... i never expected it to be (i thought there was a timeout limit) and no doubt, people have stopped reading it... but i just finished watching julie and julia, and i got into a writing mood. So since it is NOVEMBER... i thought i would bring everyone up to speed.
I have landed in Hoboken. A quaint little 1 square mile of NJ, that approximately 35,000 people resides in. (yes... look it up!) and i love it. I have a small one bedroom railroad style apartment, (that means, everything is stacked front to back) that's about 9 foot wide and about 60 feet deep... it's not a bad place... stainless steel appliances, granite counter tops, whirlpool tub and heat and hot water included. (i know... something doesn't quite seem right about that statement... but i digress)
Living in NJ is everything i thought it would be, fast paced, convenient, and expensive. My rent here is more than my mortgage in Atlanta. but we will get to that later.
Parking is a nightmare, if you don't pay for a parking space, which i have decided to do, roughly $200/mo for a spot in an automated parking garage, where the machines park your car for you! It's a nice little arrangement, but sometimes, the machines don't work quite as fast as you would like them.
I have no furniture, with the exception of a bed, a card table with 2 folding chairs, a couple of stools, and a computer desk. I have brought up very little of my furniture from atlanta because it just won't fit... it's all too big.
Speaking of atlanta, i have still not rented out my condo. STILL not... so all of this time i have been paying rent and a mortgage. Do you have any idea how draining that is financially? it's crazy, but... i do manage to do it.
Work is another crazy adventure, I am not quite sure what to think of it. It certainly keeps me super busy doing mostly things i am not officially "qualified" to do, but I do it anyway. Everything that has to do with computers, I have my hand in, but i am still not perm... I probably won't become perm till at least feb, and then, only if i can afford it. (oh... still have my car too, if anyone is looking to buy one)
As it turns out, MOST (though not all) of my friends down in atlanta have no desire to keep in touch, and only contact me if they a. need something or b. i contact them. Other than that, i guess out of sight out of mind... the problem is, thinking back to my earlier blog about circles of friends, most of the inner circle are showing out, but everyone else is just not coming to the table. I guess i knew it was going to be like that, but oh well... nothing i can do about it now. I guess my atlanta roots didn't run so deep.
I have also been more than a year without medication, and for a while, i was fine, though i feel pangs of it starting to come back. that's not fun... i can feel it coming back, but i can't seem to do anything about it. =\ I guess we will see how it manifests itself.
other than that... life keeps trudging along... I have a feeling i will be writing more, however... i have made that promise before... a couple times... and i don't seem to do much about it do i?
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