Swear it. So where to start? How about some comments on the weather?

Seems like winter wasn’t ready to be over with. Just as soon as things got nice and warm, we dropped back down to 30 degree temperatures for a week. Now that the temps are starting to come back up, we’re hitting the part of Spring where it’s windy and rainy. Bummer. Guess we’ll be waiting until mid-May for some casual weather. Probably be too hot by then. :-\

Work Stuff: Been keeping busy at work. I’ve been picking up that spare overtime here and there but it seems like the work we are getting just doesn’t want to quit. I got handed a couple of rough projects on Thursday that pretty much tied me up until today. I’d get to a stopping point on one, the other would come back and need some work, and then right back to the other. In between I’d eek in some time with UDF. We’re doing okay with UDF this month, but the easy part is over. Somehow I know that train is going to derail and screw me over somehow. At this point it should be entirely out of my hands. Whatever. Friggin’ nightmare. I feel bad for Tonia because she’s been tied up with the same project for over a month now and it’s beyond ridiculous. I don’t mind if I have to stay every now and then because most nights I just have an empty house to come home to, but other people in the department want to see their families. They hired someone new, but it seems like kind of a crock that it took this long. I don’t know. I don’t run the place and I get paid either way, so I guess it’s pretty fruitless to waste my time worry about it. I just wish that people would realize we don’t just press a few buttons and the work is done.

House stuff: I’ve been getting really upset the past few weeks. Ever since we had our BIG IMPORTANT ROOMMATE MEETING back in November or December, it seems like I’m the only one that has given a rat’s ass about anything that was said. It’s really disappointing that we could all sit there and attest to how big of slobs we are, and yet no more than a day after I clean the kitchen up (which is at least every other day) there are dirty, greasy dishes in the sink, the same clean dishes in the washer waiting to be taken out, countless pieces of trash and recyclables left on the counter… It’s apparently way to fucking hard to open up the back door that’s 4 feet from where people set their beer bottles and other crap and toss them in the bin that’s literally RIGHT OUTSIDE THE DOOR. Who am I kidding? I mean, why make the effort of opening a door to toss your trash in the garbage can when you can leave it sitting around? Okay, I get it, I’m not the best and cleanest person in the world. I have my bouts of laziness but if there is one thing I can’t stand it’s living among piles of trash. Chips in the carpet and on the couches, wrappers and beer bottles sitting around… you pass the damn trash cans at some point, TAKE IT WITH YOU. Again, I know it’s mildly hypocritical of me to complain, but I’ve been doing damn good since our wasted meeting. I’ve cleaned at least one room in the house every weekend. Nobody else can say that. Then I’ve been let down when I clean that room and it can’t be kept that way for one damn day. It’s aggrivating. Why should I bother?

Roommate issues: So in the quest to figure out what we were going to do come October when Joe moves out… we hit a few rocks. A couple weekends ago, I talked to one of my cousins who might be interested in taking over Joe’s end of the rent and really had no complaints about the price, situation, etc. Then the very same night I find out that Doug is “90% likely” to move in with Kate when Joe moves out. That really, really sucks. Regardless, I’ve decided that if the situation with cleanliness doesn’t improve by the time Joe moves out, I’d rather pay a little more a month and live by myself than spend all sorts of time cleaning up other people’s messes. To me, it’d be worth it to spend an extra $100 a month on a nice apartment than to live in a filthy house. So yeah. There it is. I’m not living with anyone that can’t clean up after themselves. Sucks, but if I wanted to live in slop, I’d go spend my nights in the street. We have a great house and we’re slowly destroying it by not being pro-active about things. Whatever. I’m going to end up giving myself an aneurysm about it if I don’t change the subject… because it sure as hell doesn’t seem like things will change soon.

I think I just need to hang out with other people more often. I need excuses to get out of here for a little while. I mean, its obvious to me that I’m the most different of the 4 of us. Whenever I want to do something, they always kinda roll their eyes at my ideas or shoot me down, but then they get upset when I hang out friends who do want to do those things. Whatever. I’m going to do what I want to do so there’s no point in getting worked up over it.

See ya.