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It's been a really, really long time since I've made a substantial post. I've noticed over time that I'm not the only one- I have notifications set for many of my friends here, and the notifications have been few and far between. I'm sure a lot of that has to do with the popularity of Facebook ... but Facebook is another animal. It's too public of a forum to say the type of things I say here, and I'm sure that's true for a lot of people.
I'm not sure why I stopped posting as much as I used to. It could be due to the general ennui I have felt for the past year. Being out of work for five months ended up being really difficult for me to recover from mentally. When I started working at my current job in September, it turned out to be really physically demanding. While I welcomed this, my body did not at first. Now, almost May, and I miss the physical labor, to be honest. I still do some, but it's not an everyday all-day-long matter any more. I've lost a little weight and gained a lot of muscle, and I like that.
When I was hired, it was as a temporary worker. Eventually I was basically promised to be made a permanent employee with benefits, but there was no date set. I went through a lot of mental up-and-downs through all this, busting my hump to impress people and then feeling like I wasn't working hard enough because it didn't seem like anyone noticed. Meanwhile, the main part of the project (hardware and software upgrade for the largest hospital system in New Mexico) ended at the end of the year, my team was split up, and we were put in various other positions to work until the next phase of the project began.
When the next phase of the project began, I discovered I was the only one from my original team that was on the new one. I didn't know if this was good or bad at the time. The bad part of the project was that we were now travelling around New Mexico to Socorro, Espanola, Tucumcari, and Ruidoso to do installations, staying overnight at least one night in each town. The good part was that Andy was on the team now, and we got to work together. I am truly a lucky guy in that I get to spend everyday with my best friend.
The phase of the project ended with the end of March, and once again in April was taken up with busy work until the first week in May, when the upgrades will go live. Andy and I are getting sent to Espanola. Espanola is not a town I like, but it's only for a week.
When we get back, we close on or house. We started looking for one in February. Thank goodness we had a good realtor recommended to us, because we would have been lost otherwise. We looked at close to 80 houses, I think. Out of those, we found four we liked well enough to make an offer on. And four times we lost out. The fifth house we found at the beginning of April, and it really is almost exactly what we were looking for. We made an offer, and the seller accepted!
Then the waiting began. The house had to be inspected. The mortgage had to finalized. The underwriters needed to approve the mortgage. The house had to be appraised. The repairs needed to be made that were found during the inspection, and the house needs to be reinspected after that.
Most of this is done with very little input from Andy and myself, although we did manage to be there for the inspection. It's an exciting and terrifying time. On May 12th, we get to sit down with the loan officer and sign papers for three hours.
Fun.
But I've felt like my life has been on hold since we moved back to New Mexico. I've been living in someone else's house, and while I do have my own room, and pictures on the wall, it's not the same. I am looking forward to a home of my own.
I still can't believe it's happening.
In October, I had an amazing experience at the 21st anniversary celebration of Poetry and Beer, Albuquerque's premiere poetry slam event, of which I used to take part. I was nervous about going, feeling a little selfconscious, but once I put on the clothes and boots, I found it was easy to slip back into the old Outsider persona.
It was awesome. I heard fantastic poetry and wonderful music, and I got to see old friends I hadn't seen in over 10 years, like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
slowmosexual, and others.
(I just lost about five paragraphs for some reason. I'm going to finish this post for now, and pick it back up later.)
I'm not sure why I stopped posting as much as I used to. It could be due to the general ennui I have felt for the past year. Being out of work for five months ended up being really difficult for me to recover from mentally. When I started working at my current job in September, it turned out to be really physically demanding. While I welcomed this, my body did not at first. Now, almost May, and I miss the physical labor, to be honest. I still do some, but it's not an everyday all-day-long matter any more. I've lost a little weight and gained a lot of muscle, and I like that.
When I was hired, it was as a temporary worker. Eventually I was basically promised to be made a permanent employee with benefits, but there was no date set. I went through a lot of mental up-and-downs through all this, busting my hump to impress people and then feeling like I wasn't working hard enough because it didn't seem like anyone noticed. Meanwhile, the main part of the project (hardware and software upgrade for the largest hospital system in New Mexico) ended at the end of the year, my team was split up, and we were put in various other positions to work until the next phase of the project began.
When the next phase of the project began, I discovered I was the only one from my original team that was on the new one. I didn't know if this was good or bad at the time. The bad part of the project was that we were now travelling around New Mexico to Socorro, Espanola, Tucumcari, and Ruidoso to do installations, staying overnight at least one night in each town. The good part was that Andy was on the team now, and we got to work together. I am truly a lucky guy in that I get to spend everyday with my best friend.
The phase of the project ended with the end of March, and once again in April was taken up with busy work until the first week in May, when the upgrades will go live. Andy and I are getting sent to Espanola. Espanola is not a town I like, but it's only for a week.
When we get back, we close on or house. We started looking for one in February. Thank goodness we had a good realtor recommended to us, because we would have been lost otherwise. We looked at close to 80 houses, I think. Out of those, we found four we liked well enough to make an offer on. And four times we lost out. The fifth house we found at the beginning of April, and it really is almost exactly what we were looking for. We made an offer, and the seller accepted!
Then the waiting began. The house had to be inspected. The mortgage had to finalized. The underwriters needed to approve the mortgage. The house had to be appraised. The repairs needed to be made that were found during the inspection, and the house needs to be reinspected after that.
Most of this is done with very little input from Andy and myself, although we did manage to be there for the inspection. It's an exciting and terrifying time. On May 12th, we get to sit down with the loan officer and sign papers for three hours.
Fun.
But I've felt like my life has been on hold since we moved back to New Mexico. I've been living in someone else's house, and while I do have my own room, and pictures on the wall, it's not the same. I am looking forward to a home of my own.
I still can't believe it's happening.
In October, I had an amazing experience at the 21st anniversary celebration of Poetry and Beer, Albuquerque's premiere poetry slam event, of which I used to take part. I was nervous about going, feeling a little selfconscious, but once I put on the clothes and boots, I found it was easy to slip back into the old Outsider persona.
It was awesome. I heard fantastic poetry and wonderful music, and I got to see old friends I hadn't seen in over 10 years, like
slowmosexual, and others.(I just lost about five paragraphs for some reason. I'm going to finish this post for now, and pick it back up later.)
