It’s been a while since I have done a daily post. Of course that’s after I said I should get better about writing daily… Seems to be the way it goes. State something and do the opposite right?

 

New Years Eve was annoying. It turned from being a night alone with Zane to an impromptu party at our place… not cool. Super not cool that I accepted the fact that it would be sort of loud until after midnight, only to be woken up at 4am by a drunken yelling match over theology.

 

I don’t care how interested or passionate you are about your stance. I’m trying to sleep, and you’ve already been invading my space for the past four hours. STFU and GTFO.

 

I know I was pretty bitchy when I went out of the room and informed everyone, “It’s four in the morning.” And I still don’t care. I did my part. I let them have their fun. There’s a time limit on loudness, though.

 

Zane and I had an actual date day where we both dressed nice. I got to wear one of my new tops. The maroon one with the lattice back. I wore it with my long black skirt that I got last year. Zane liked it. I liked it. The food was awesome. It was a good day.

 

We’ve gone back to watching The Flash. I think we have 4 more episodes or so in season one.

 

The stove broke last Friday, and because that’s not listed as an emergency thing we weren’t able to put a work order in for it until this morning since it was the holiday and all. Super sucked. Maintenance still hasn’t been by to fix it.

 

Training with Terri last Thursday morning was great. We upped the free weights I was using. I upped them again today while I was training on my own. Zane is going to be getting me the free weights for home this paycheck. He also wants to get running shoes so he can run with me in the mornings before he goes to work.

 

We went walking together yesterday afternoon before his Pathfinder game with Trevor. Yesterday was a raining, cold, wet, icky day. He loved it, and I enjoyed it too for the most part. I don’t mind rainy days and long as the next day is sunny.

 

We drove to one of the bike trails and walked together while it drizzled on us. It was nice. Bonding. We got to talk about a lot of things we both have bouncing around in hour heads.

 

I like how our relationship is improving and it has nothing to do with sex. We’re not fixing it with a chemical band aid of endorphins. We’re legitimately addressing our issues and making significant, quality time for each other.

 

The apartment might be better than we think. Uke is going to join the Navy in the next month or so, but he still wants to pay to have a room in the apartment, that way when he takes leave to come visit he has his own place to stay, rather than having to crash in his parent’s guest room. That means it will pretty much just be Zane, Hannah, and me when the lease renews. Uke might be here for a month, but he won’t be around all that long.

 

And Hannah is only going to stay until her degree is done, which I believe is around June or so. Once she moves out, it will be just Zane and myself, while Uke is still paying $500 in rent. I could take over Hannah’s room as a craft / workout / guest room. And everyone’s rent will still stay fairly low for roughly six months because it will be four people doing rent, rather than 3.

 

It just seems like it is working out well. Two-ish months left until everyone leaves and I can deep clean the apartment and set it up the way I want. I’m looking forward to it, and so is Hannah and Zane.

 

I found a new cross stitch to work on. It’s a series actually, of the seasons. Right now I’m working on Winter, which I think is fitting. It’s a nice cool, calm, blue and it’s helping to remind me that right now it is a season for rest. Regrouping. It’s helping me to accept that here is where I am, and here is where I should be.

 

I have two other cross stitches that I’ve finished and need to wash / scan so I can post them online. I still have a ways to go with this one so I might take care of those today rather than waiting.

 

I found out today that I’m still scheduled for campus classes rather than online classes, which is going to mess stuff up. I have already emailed my Faculty Affairs contact as well as my instructor to let them know of the issue. I’m still waiting to hear back about the problem, but at leas that ball is rolling. I have an appointment on Wednesday to sign my new contract for the Digital Graphics degree.

 

There was also an email in my work inbox about this years Wellness Check up. That’s the thing I did last year where if I go and let them take my vitals I get an extra day of vacation time. Needless to say I already have a time scheduled for that.

 

I went to Jo Anns and got fabric scissors with the gift card my mom got me. That was actually pretty awesome. The brand I like is super expensive. The three inch embroidery scissors that I got were over $30, so I was expecting these to be around $40 or $50. Not surprising they were $44. A little bit more than what my gift card was for, but I was ok with that. They were going to be so worth it. I was day dreaming about how awesome it was going to be to cut the fabric for a new cross stitch project. How they were going to glide through the fabric…

 

Of course I was day dreaming because I had to stand in line for 15 minutes waiting to be checked out. No one’s fault really. I guess the computers were having issues and making the transactions take longer than they normally would have.

 

When it was my turn to check out I was asked if I had any coupons. Nope, not today, was my answer. The cashier asked if I had a smart phone, to which I said, “Yeeeah…” sort of drawn out. Really what I was saying was “Yes, I do have a smart phone, but I don’t understand how that is relevant to anything at the moment.”

 

“If you go to the website there’s a 50% off coupon we can use.”

 

!!!!

 

So I used my spiffy awesome iPhone to go to the website, and sure enough, under the coupons section there’s a barcode for 50% off your purchase. I got my amazingly expensive scissors for $22, and still have money left of my gift card to get mounting board, fabric, thread, more needles. Whatever I want. It was so awesome, and I was beyond grateful to my cashier. She totally helped make my day. It’s not in her job description to save me money, but she went out of her way to make sure I had fantastic experience, and it actually helped wipe out all of the negative experiences I have had at that particular store.

 

I called my mom as soon as I got back to my car to tell her about my own coupon story. Since she’s all hardcore into coupons she’ll tell me about how she gets rung up for $50 or more and walks out only paying $5 or something crazy like that. Well ha! I am a coupon champ, too! : )

 

I thought she would like to know that I was able to get something I really wanted with her gift card, and not only did I get it, I got it half priced and still have money to play with.

 

Things are going good for her. She’s loving being with Jace and taking him to the park and being grandma. I plan to call her later today to chat for a bit since the call on Saturday was kind of short.

 

I think those were all of the major points. I got the laundry done and put away yesterday. I’m doing good on the grocery budget. I have $40 in play money left. Actually a little less than that since I bought Gatorade at Walgreens this afternoon, but yet. Still doing good there. I made a big payment on the card again. Rent is paid, all bills are taken care of.

 

I’ve gone to the gym, so I’ve biked there, ran intervals in-between weight training, then biked back. I’m thoroughly enjoying sitting on my ass at the moment. Just making sure everyone knows that. I also don’t plan to move very soon.

 

There’s still a few things I want to get done today, but for the most part I’m enjoying, finally, having the apartment to myself and the alone time I’ve been looking for since halfway through December. I feel like I’ve done good with my reconstruction stuff. There are still things in that area I want to do, but yeah, forward movement all around.

 

The only way it could get better is if it were warm outside.