Man I LOVE thanksgiving food. I thoroughly enjoyed the mashed potatoes and gravy (mmm...gravy), the stuffing, the turkey, the craberry sauce, the green stuff, the dolmas, the green bean casserole, the sweet potatoe pie, the pies (apple the good way, pumpkin, and not so much on the pecan), and most of all the time of sitting around with family. Granted this year the people I was around aren't quite family yet, officially. They just feel that way to me. So I had a good time.
I also got to talk with my mom and my other family over there in Arkansas. So that was good too. I think that next year Kim and I are going to go over to Arkansas for thanksgiving.
Ok that's all for now.
Happy T-day everybody!!! Make sure that you eat waaaay too much and enjoy the time off.
Well I have been looking around for possible positions as a real estate agent and have been finding a myriad of opportunities. I have talked to several agents who are all working for different firms and have been able to get a good grasp on what I'm going to need ask about while I am interviewing, so we'll see how that goes. I have an interview today with one of the larger firms in the north county ReMax. I'm also going to be talking to a gentleman who works for Coldwell Banker and see if I can get another job interview there. So things are going quite well.
In other news, I have nice new flannel sheets on my bed because it has been really cold these last few nights and if I'm going to be going to the North County where it is even colder than I am going to need something like that. Flannel sheets are good.
Oh and Davidyo has said that he will be able to help us with at least a little bit of the construction that Kim and I are going to be doing to the apartment. I've already mentioned that Kim and I are going to be living in an apartment on her parents' property right?
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Yes, I did. So yeah, that's going to be great and we're really excited about it. I think probably shortly after the holidays we're going to start cleaning the place up and see about getting ready for all the changes that we want to make to it. Yay!
That's all, except I also want to give a shoutout to Pam to "Feel Better" and to keep hoping that all her medical tests are going to pinpoint the exact problem and figure out how to make her better.
Song Playing: "Brown-eyed Girl"
For some reason unknown to myself I have been recieving quite the influx of comment spam. I have a lovely plug-in for Moveabletype called Moveable Type Blacklist which will allow me to filter out spammers by both IP address and domain and allow me to delete spam comments en mass. However, the persistence of these spammers is significant for I recieve new ones almost daily. This is quite annoying. I will NOT however, disable comments. I am a firm believer that comments are an integral part of any blog. I will consider upgrading to MT3 though, as Sean did. His method of loggin in, though sometimes strenuous in that it doesn't work properly, does make a more selective form of commenting.
Speaking of Sean I congratulate him, though somewhat late, on the official "titling" of himself and Sarah. You two are a great match.
This post is somewhat of a serious post and may come as surprising to some of you so only read on if you want to.
I have been attending church my entire life. I was in fact, quite involved at my church in Oregon before I moved to California. After moving to California however, I never found a church that I enjoyed very much and I just kind of stopped looking, so I didn't attend church anymore. There has also been something else that kept me from looking for another church and that is my faith. I have for as long as I can remember had burning questions inside me and views that are quite contrary to what all the churches I've ever attended taught. I whole-heartedly and openly believe in God and believe that He is good, which is why I can still attend church and feel like I'm part of it. I don't believe everything that the church has to offer and that is partially because of the origins of a lot of the traditions and the fact that organized religion is run too much like a business. Anyway, I'm not going to go into depth about my religous convictions and beliefs right now maybe some other time. I was just giving some background.
This new church that Kim and I have been attending is very, very much like the church that I was attending in Oregon and I'm really enjoying attending there because it's familiar, the people are nice, and I can picture having a family at a church like this. Every single church that I have gone to here in SLO I have not felt like I could have a family there and I didn't really have much fun it was mostly just a show and strengthened my dislike for organized relgion. I will admit there is a lot of good preachin going on at some of these churches, especially my friend Joe's church, Shoreline Christian, or something like that. That preacher can preach. I highly reccomend going to at least one of his sermons just to listen.
So I just wanted to explain that, though I have seemed somewhat agnostic towards church to some of you people who read this blog, that has not ever been the case. I just had not found a church that I felt like I could be an active part of or would enjoy attending every Sunday. That's all I have to say about that.
I have now updated both my laptop and my desktop to Fedora Core 3 Coolness.
In other news I have cleaned my room and finally installed shelves that had been sitting in the room for a long time. That's all for now, maybe more later.
Well yesterday I went out with Davidyo garage saling and found a yard sale that had a 19" NEC monitor that looked in pretty good shape for 15 bucks. I was happy with it, so I bought it. It's nice.
Other than that, Kim and I went cake testing and put a deposit down at the cake place in Atascadero called "Cassie's" Apparently a really good place because she has one several awards and the cake was really good. Exciting. Also the wedding is going to be at 4:00PM on the 16th of July 2005, with a reception to follow at Kim's parents' house. Kim and I are going to live in an apartment on her parents' property while we're just starting out. It'll be nice and we're starting to fix it up a bit now. So that'll be nice. I'm also getting ready to start my real estate career. Exciting times. That's all for now.
UPDATE: It's actually a 21" monitor. Not 19".
I changed my address information online today at Geico.com for my auto insurance, because I realized that I hadn't done that yet. So I get a lovely email response telling me this.
Your new six-month premium is $393.70.
This is an increase of $10.30 per six months.
This amount is prorated from today's date to the end of the policy period.
Your prorated increase will be $9.30.
How does changing my address from apt 80 to apt 82 increase my rate by 10.30 per 6 months? I don't understand...
So I got my date for the Real Estate exam. I'm going to be taking it on the 21st of December, that's right TUESDAY the 21st. So I have to get my butt over to Fresno on a Tues, but wait there's more. It's at 7:45 AM on Tues so I have to get my butt over there the night before. Luckily, I have some wonderful friends over there in Fresno that are going to be more than willing to put me up. So yeah, awesome. I'm stoked. I also have an interview on Monday with a real estate broker looking for agents at a small firm in Atascadero. Sounds absolutely perfect. So we'll see where that goes. That's it, bye.