New job!

So I took the job with . Hooray! I start on Oct. 29th. It's a media writer position . It's a big fat huge pay raise over what I'm getting now. I'll be writing a little bit of everything for them.

Now it's me trying to motivate myself enough to keep working in these final two weeks.

In other news, Amy and I had a nice productive weekend. We needed a new bathroom sink faucet, so we went to Home Depot to pick one out. Since our last plumbing project went nothing like we'd hoped and ended up with us calling a plumber, Amy thought we'd just buy the faucet on our own and then call a plumber to install it. I resisted, knowing that we could do this one without having to call anyone.

And so we worked hard on it together, in the tiny space below our sink and we actually did it! No great floods have occurred, we didn't break any seals on the ancient pipes, and everything is working just fine. It's nice to have a home improvement project go the way you want it and not have to involve expensive experts.

We also finally got new awnings on our house, the photos are here for your proof - you get to see the old ugly ones and the new awesome one. It makes such a huge difference! I love the new one and that we took off the ones over our upstairs windows. We get so much more light upstairs now. Plus, we've finally gotten rid of that "Haitian shanty" look our house had. Always a bonus.

I also am posting some cat pictures, because really, one can never have too many cat photos. Tuesday is the queen of awkward sleeping positions.

This other photo of her sitting in our computer chair hilariously looks like one of those author photos you'd see on a bookjacket:

"Tuesday The Cat is the author of 17 books, including the NY Times bestsellers Give Me Food or I'll Whine Annoyingly for Hours and When I'm Happy I Drool - You Can Too! She won a Pulitzer for her heart-breaking true tale I Was A Single Mom on the Streets, That's Why I Act Like This.'Tuesday also won special honors for her gripping suspense novel Cat Nipple Exhibitionist.

"Her next book, entitled Let's Go Eat the Crickets in the Basement, is due out in the spring of 2008. She lives in Baltimore, Md., with her two owners and spends her free time discussing the finer points of market democracy."

Update

I disappeared! All is well, don't worry. Here's what is going on:

-I just got my second job offer and I'm 99.99% sure I'm going to take it. It's with and I don't know why I would turn it down. Hooray!

-I may or may not have a kidney stone. I've done some tests and what not, with no conclusion yet. So now I have to go to a urologist and get a very, very unpleasant procedure done. Yeeesh. Sorry if that's TMI.

-I just finished book #34 in my yeard of "Get Off Your Lazy Ass and Read." To catch you up, the last few books I've read are "The Gift of Fear" by Gavin de Becker, "Slaughterhouse Five" by Kurt Vonnegut, and "Animal Farm" by George Orwell. I'm now reading "Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway.

"The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect us from Violence" was an excellent book and I recommend it to everyone - especially women. He talks about fear signals and intuition and how to use them to your benefit. He then applies those signs to situations with friends, strangers, people you date, coworkers and more. So it's about trusting your intuition when something doesn't feel right.

I make it sound very girly, but I really think men would benefit from reading it too. It discusses signs that friends or coworkers may present if things are about to get dangerous. Wow, I'm terrible at explaining it. Click here to read the description from Becker's website.

Anywho, an awesome book. "Slaughterhouse Five" and "Animal Farm" were both very good. I'd never been required to read them school, so I figured now was as good a time as any. I enjoyed them both.

I think that's it for now with my update. End blog silence!