roommates

I have been made the captain of the employee committee at work, which means that I am in charge of deciding how we should spend our (considerable) employee fund. Last year nearly all of it went to our Christmas party (which I plan on calling our Kwanzaa party this year) but I think we could do more with it. So does John, which is why he put me in charge of it (officially, at least.)

I guess it is time for my monthly entry.

For those who don’t keep up, I work at the Home Depot in Keller. I spent almost four months as a lot loader, which was 90% cart pushing and loading heavy stuff for customers who were unable (or, in the case of some pricks, unwilling) to do it for themselves. (You fuck-heads know who you are) Now I am a garden consultant (with a state nursery certification!) Not that is is that different. I still help people load mulch and soil and the such, and still push carts when the lot guys can’t keep up (daily) but I now enjoy going to work almost.

Jennifer and I finally gave her mother the boot. Our lease had been paid up to the beginning of this month by my mother, and I told her mom that when we started paying rent, she would need to help out. It was due March 1, and ( surprise ) she left about Feb 26 and we didn’t see her again until March 5 or 6. So we told her that she needed to get out. Her stuff is still littering our apartment, and she comes by almost daily to change and drop more shit off before and after work, but at least my wife and I can walk around the house naked at night the way God intended.

-Made a few behind the scenes changes to my site, the most noticeable being AJAX-enabled search (site-wide) and archives by month archives page- I considered switching over to WordPress for a while, but wound up deciding that it was too much of a pain in the ass to customize templates, and it would take a solid weekend of not leaving the computer to clean up the TXP import and make sure all my data was still there. I believe that I will be running TxP for quite some time.

I am doing well working at the Home Depot. I have passed my 90 day mark, and all my benefits have kicked in. And while I am currently working as a lot loader (cart jockey) next week I transfer to the garden department. I know quite a bit about it since I used to be the garden department manager at Kmart. I am hoping to be a head cashier at least by the end of my first year with the company.

Jennifer and I are discussing moving sometime soon, although we have different (opposite) reasons for wanting to move. Her mother-in-law is still with us, and while I am of the opinion that the woman is like a cockroach infestation that is best cured by moving away from it altogether, Jennifer wants to get a larger apartment so that her mother can have more space to fill with her crap. Of course I am going to puss out with Jenna and go along with her plan, but I am sure as hell not going to like it.

Jennifer told me at one point that her bartender told her that most of the sob stories she hears are couples that just got married and then had a parent come stay with them (or stayed with a parent) and it wound up leading to divorce. I am not going to leave Jennifer over her mother but I understand quite well how someone else could do so.

At least I have OS X working again.