Sean and I are celebrating our 2 year anniversary. While we’ve known each other for more than two years, we’ve only been together since July 21, 2006. Knowing that we’re tight on cash, when we happened to be running errands last night in New Hyde Park we wound up stopping at this place called “Charlie Browns Steak House”. I’ve never been there before but Sean went numerous times when he was living in New Jersey. I picked up some ribs and the salad bar came included. He got himself a burger with the add-on of the salad bar as well. It’s a bit healthier than picking up the mozzarella sticks for an appetizer. Dinner was relatively nice, the food could have been a bit better (something we both agreed upon) but it was nice to just get out for a little while and have it be just the two of us.

For the last couple of weeks it’s mainly been family-time for me. I’ve been around my mother’s, I’ve hung out with my aunts, grandmother, father, sister, friends from around town (which are considered family in my opinion) so it really just hasn’t been the two of us, so it was nice to get out for a bit.

We’re in the process of figuring things out in regards to who’s going where. Unfortunately, I have too much going on up here where my life in Delaware is just not an option anymore. I love DE, and I adore Sean’s mom, I just can’t be down there at this point in my life. Too many family members are sick, and I’ve really missed my friends. I only have two people in Delaware. Sean and I are fine, and I get along great with his mother but I do need the friend input and I don’t go out and ‘make friends’ I’m comfortable with the people I grew up with. I know if I were ever able to FIND a job down there I’d be able to meet some more people but with every 100 applications sent, I’d get one phone call back and it would either not work out or just be such a shitty job that even wasting my time there just wasn’t worth it.

So the answer - I move back to New York. I’ve put in some applications up here so that I can bring in enough money where Sean and I can afford an apartment here on Long Island. My most recent application was sent to human resources as the hospital. It’s per-diem work, which isn’t even ‘Part-Time’ it’s a “call you as we need you” position. It’s my mother’s old job and per-diem work can very quickly turn into a full time job with the way people are rotated in and out of departments. When my father first started at the hospital he was working per-diem on the weekends, the guy he was covering for (full-time employee) decided to pick up and move to Florida a week after my father started. Dad was then asked if he wanted to switch to full-time and the rest is history. Five years later he’s still with them and making pretty decent money. He’s still in debt but at least there’s a solid paycheck coming in to take care of the bills.

So it’s my hope that I’ll be able to do that. I think it’s kind of funny that at this point in my life I’m about the same age as my mother when she first started working there. While I, in no way, see myself going down her route in life, I know there’s a lot of stability working for one of the top 3 employers on Long Island. Unfortunately, even with the economy, medical based jobs aren’t going to change, especially in the ER.

After a few months of working I’m hoping to be able to refinance my current loan so I can get some money for a down payment on a car for myself. I’ve narrowed it down to three choices - Chevy Cobalt, Honda CR-V, or VW Jetta. At this point, however, anything with reasonable mileage that I’m not going to be putting a lot of money into will do just fine for me. Maintenance is one thing, having to constantly fix engine parts is quite another. So I’m setting myself up with a budget of about of $12,000 MAX and I’ll see what I can come up with. I’m sure I’ll be able to find something really good with that amount of money, especially if I’m working at the hospital considering employees get a discount at numerous different stores, including car based ones.

Once everything else is taken care of, Sean and I will begin looking for an apartment up here. We just need something big enough where we can have a less-cramped bedroom, a decent sized office and it would be nice to have a formal living room, so I guess we’re looking into a two bedroom. On Long Island that doesn’t come cheap but we’ll also have a budget so we’ll be able to work it out. He’ll get to experience life with a very attached puppy, based heavily on the fact that she’s never been away from me. We’ll also be able to start our lives together without any outside influence from family members.

Should be interesting.

I don’t think that today could have gone any better. Sean and I were able to get the car fixed at $100 less than the original quote. We then hung out around the house for a little while. Dad, Sean and I went out to dinner at some diner that used to be an IHOP. After taking the long way home (half hour detour of just traveling around with the windows out on the jeep) we basically just relaxed and enjoyed the ride.

I have everything up and running with AGn Solutions. The new hosting plans are in place, the new pricing is in place, and thank god for the new company I’m going through because I now have a proper billing system that should help to keep everything running at ship-shape. Now all I need to do is push the advertising on it a bit more, but money talks so of course that will have to show up before anything. I have been able to figure out how to integrate things to another provider in regards to email management so I should be able to stay on top of things a lot better than I’ve been able to in the past.

So everything just seems to be looking up right now.

I’m working on a few things here as far as content goes. I’d like to finally get some of the templates up that I’ve been working on for the past few months, so we’ll see how much I can accomplish there. Maybe I’ll be able to finally come up with something that I like enough to publish to the rest of the world. I was contacted about sponsorships but I never responded due to my lack of creativity for the templates that they’re willing to sponsor.

Either way something will be done soon. I do have a lot of pictures to go through as well, there are a few creative entries that I’d like to throw up here as well.

A lot to do but no drive to do it - story of my life.

Over the course of the next couple of hours I hope to be able to stick to the schedule I set for myself last night. Sean and I are leaving about 10PM to conquor the long commute to Long Island. My father’s birthday is on the 26th, my sister’s on the 29th. My point of action is to get up there to get them taken care of on their birthday, to have some much needed R&R in my home town and to get in touch with friends and family that I really haven’t seen since I moved down here. I have to visit my grandmother and my aunts because I didn’t even see them for Christmas this past year, and to cover the other side of the family I’m having dinner at dad’s house on his birthday.

Today’s goals are pretty simple, they’re just tedious. I need to pack, that’s something I haven’t even started yet but thankfully being the list queen that I am, I know exactly what to pack, how much to pack and what’s going to actually fit in the car. The first things to be loaded in are basically any and everything that will fit in the trunk. This will allow me to have enough room in the backseat for Dad’s (rather large) gift, the computers and some pillows. I moved down here with them but since we purchased the new bed (last summer) I bought new pillows for it so I’ll bring my older ones home (which were really only used for six months so they’re in great condition, and I’ll be able to leave them up there so I no longer have to sleep on a blanket stuffed inside of a pillow case. Granted, it’s very soft, but real pillows are always great to have.

I have some shopping to do as well. There are a few last-minute things that need to be picked up. I’m making a run to Candy Kitchen to pick up some fudge for my father, sister and aunt and then there’s a stop at the liquor store to pick up a bottle of wine and maybe some other things. I may just wind up picking that stuff up in New York but I guess we’ll see what happens when I actually start moving.

I woke up about two hours ago. I still have to take a shower and straighten up the house a little bit but my breakdown is as follows:

• Shower
• Do my hair / make-up
• Shopping for last minute gifts
• Shopping for supplies for the trip up
• Getting gas
• Stop at the bank
• Pick up the mail, and send out a letter
• Packing
• Cooking Dinner
• Packing
• Loading Car
• 4 1/2 hour drive to NY starting at 10PM

It’s safe to say that the next 9 hours are going to be pretty busy. Sean and I do intend to take some time to ourselves to go out to dinner tonight so we’re driving up on full stomachs to keep us awake. I bought a cooler a few weeks ago at Happy Harry’s (Walgreens) for $5. It holds about 16 cans of Soda (supposedly) so the fudge I’m picking up for family plus a few bottles of water will be a staple in the car so we can stay hydrated. I’m making the first half of the trip and when we stop somewhere on the New Jersey Turnpike we’ll use the bathroom and switch roles. He’ll take over the remainder of the trip, so he’ll be sleeping the first half considering driving through Delaware is the most boring part of the trip. For me it’ll be easy because I’m not ready to take on the Southern State Parkway on Long Island so driving the boring aspect of things is just good enough for me.

Guess I should get my ass in gear.