Wow, it's been a long time since I updated this thing... nothing much has been going on lately. I'm still doing the paper route thing, and I've even learned to appreciate it. In fact, I actually credit the route and all the time it gives me to think in the morning for helping me get my creative edge back. For a long time (months and months....and months) I've been unable to work on anything artistically... but now I feel it all coming back to me. It's a wonderful feeling.

In other news my big sister is coming up from California for a visit. She's bringing along my nephew, Steven (he's fourteen) and my niece, Ashley ( 16 ). Ashley and Steven are bringing up their boyfriend and girlfriend, and I've already been told (by my mother) that my wife and I will be hosting one pair of them. I'm pretty sure it'll be Steven.. 'cos he loves his Auntie Em. Steven is the sweetest kid anyone would ever want to meet and I love seeing him whenever he comes up.

The wife is great. She actually auditioned for a voice over and got the job--which is really great. I'm so happy for her. The only thing is that we haven't been able to spend as much time together lately as I would like. We're both working opposite hours. I'm home when she's at work and vice versa. and then I'm up for two hours in the morning when we could be snuggling, doing that paper route. 

That's it for now. 

Peace. 

Emms.

So... this is another entry about my fancy new-fangled paper route (collective groan?). All this week I've been going along with the current lady (Linda) that's done the route for two years but is quitting because her daughter is graduating from high school and getting a summer job and Linda doesn't feel like doing the route anymore (it was originally her daughter's route). It's been fun and Linda (so gay.... though I think she's married to a man.... *confused*) is so helpful... But today was the first day that I went out on my own. It took me two hours and thirty minutes to complete the entire route on my own, which isn't a great time, but I've been assured that I'll get faster as I memorize the addresses (I really hope that's true because I really don't want to have to get out there at 3:15 every morning!) I feel I did okay on my own, but I did come up short on my last house and had to go and buy them a newspaper because I felt so bad about it and didn't want to have that hanging over my head all day (have I mentioned yet about my guilt complex?)

Speaking of complexes, my bosses at my other job are giving me one; They keep sending me off on my own with shitloads of work to complete while the rest of the gang get to hangout in the same location and goof off the entire day.... I'm starting to feel like they're getting rid of me LOL (not really, but it's more interesting than what's actually happening, which is, I'm the only one that does any actual work in the entire building so they send me off with all the hard tasks while the slackers get the easy jobs). Oh well.

I guess that's it for now. 

xoxo
Emms

I met with Michelle (paper route lady) at 3 this morning (I was right...she's even gayer than I am, which is saying a lot ) to go over how things work and to get a route map and an address list for the subdivision I'd be carrying. It's fairly straightforward stuff, and seems like it would be pretty easy to carry...plus extra money, which is always good. And the guy that Michelle was originally going to give the route to flaked out again and she told me that even if he did show up that morning she was going to give it to me because I seemed dependable and she liked me and the fact I returned her phone calls. So yay. I'm supposed to go in tomorrow morning at 4:15 and train with the lady that's doing the route right now... but I'm not too worried about it because I know that neighborhood like the back of my hand...

When I got home this morning I was really awake but my wife made me get back in bed because she didn't want me "lurking" around the house at 4 in the morning *LOL* I thought that was pretty funny. So I obliged her and spent the next three hours counting faces on the bedroom ceiling. teehee. 

Not much else other than work going on right now--nothing interesting anyway. I think I'll clean the house today and reorganize a little--make my girl happy and all that.

xoxoEmms