North Side, South Side, Let's Ride!

Right now, I'm at the library again. Renee's got Renaissance at the puzzles. She seems to like Woody from Toy Story even though she's never seen the movie.

My time lately has basically been spent at home and at work, which is okay. Renee and I are trying to lay low until we can get back on our feet. The last few months of working at GAC (my previous job) killed us financially, but things will get better.

I don't really have anything earth-shattering to say, but I don't want to abandon my blog. I wish I knew the addresses of my high school classmates' blogs if they even have any. I wonder what everyone's up to. I miss high school and how easy everything was, even though I don't regret where I am right now. I don't know if that sounds weird, but I don't think it does.

Most of Renee's family just had Thanksgiving/Christmas this last Friday. They did it just to make it easier and get everything done in one trip. I got one present which was a new pair of shoes, which is awesome. I needed some because my old left shoe was making a weird squeaky noise every time I took a step. I think it was something inside the shoe, because it was clean on the outside. I miss Airwalks, but Vans are cool, too.

I also miss having the Internet at home, but I think I'd really just rather have wireless Internet when we can afford Internet at all. It would make a lot less hassle. Wires suck, especially when you have a kid.

Right now I'm reading a book about teenage hackers. It's pretty interesting. Kind of like a Dateline special and a really easy read. I also just checked out Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them on CD. It looks interesting.

But anyway, it's time to go home or Wal-Mart or something. Hopefully I'll post again soon.

From the Library...

A lot of things have happened since my last update. Right now I'm at the local public library which is pretty cool.

The biggest event has been my wife's car crash. She was dropping me off at work the night before Halloween and didn't see a car going straight and drove in front of them. I experienced the scariest moment in my life. I had gone to my locker and was walking to the time clock and one of the guys I work with yelled my name and I walked towards him (it's a big long hallway) and he told me that my wife was in a car crash. I asked him if he was serious and he said he was, that everything was okay and to go outside near the entrance. I get chills just remembering it. The feeling that my whole family could have been killed. And not knowing if they were really okay or not (people always say they're okay). I don't think I'll ever forget that feeling.

Renee got a broken rib, a contusion (a deep, painful bruise), and whiplash. Renaissance bit her tongue a little, and our Neon was totaled.

Renee is well on her way to being fully healed and Renaissance is still a little cutie. Now we've got a 2003 Mazda Protege. It's much better than the Neon (and it has a hatchback).

I still don't know when we're going to get Internet installed again. Renee and I were getting hopeful for this month, but then we remembered that we still have the Comcast bill to pay from our old place. So if we got it this month, we wouldn't really be saving any money. Which sucks.

Oh, and Renee and I saw the Grudge with our friends who came down for Renaissance's first birthday party. I beg you, do not ever see this movie if you have to pay for it. Unless you like "horror" movies that end up being comedies with really crappy endings. In that case, see it a bunch of times. Some quick thoughts: meowing isn't scary, funny noises aren't scary, what the heck was a hand doing coming out of her head and why didn't it do anything to her?, why the heck were any of the ghosts doing any of that crap?, what exactly was the crap the ghosts were doing?, why wasn't anything explained?, why was there no plot?, why was it rated R?, etc. Just... spare yourself the experience. See The Incredibles instead. It's probably scarier.

Now on to Renaissance's first birthday party. It was pretty cool. She dressed up like a little princess and had a wand and crown. She got lots of presents that she loves. My mom came down from NY without my dad. I don't understand that. Somehow cleaning the house when you're unemployed is more important than your granddaughter's first birthday. Apparently being unemployed takes a lot of time and he had to hurry up and burn everything in the house that doesn't suit his fancy at the time. He has no job. And a lot of time. The party was more fun without him there anyway, but he really needs to reevaluate his priorities.

Anyway, this is long enough, so I'm gonna get going. Hope to blog again soon.