A Break

Finally some prolonged well deserved down time. I've been working my ass off since February with Union business and then my temp assignment on a special project. On the temp assignment I busted my ass working overtime. Paid off sweetly.

The overtime is going into one pot for the house down payment. Even my lease isn't up until fall, I plan on start looking at houses, condos and maybe a place outside of Houston. My first choice is a house with a yard. I need the space for my junk. What I mean by junk is I want a home office/studio. I figure a three bedroom house would fit my needs. Obviously the master bedroom for me, a guestroom and the third form my office/studio. Or ideal three bedrooms with a study. As for the studio and why I'm leaning to a house is I want to be able to play my music, guitar and TV loud. If I go the condo/townhouse route then loud guitar playing isn't allowed. I don't like plugging headphones into my amp.

I finally, after one year, turned my car over to my friend that does body work and painting. Her engine is finally restored and running like a colon on Exlax. Now it's time to fix her up and have her looking sexy again. Brand new high end gloss black paint job with new dashboard cover to hide the sunburned cracks. I really look forward to have her ready to go.

As for my break, I was supposed to start my vacation next week. Yesterday I saw we had extra people on schedule for the rest of this shift. So I walked into my supervisor's office and asked for the rest of this week off. I'm off for a total of two weeks. This first week I think I'm just going to pitter around the apartment, clean up some. Also probably head out to a lake or river for some morning or afternoon fishing. Maybe hit Galveston seawall for a good bike ride. I'm also going to get more exercise at the gym. Also a few days out at the pool reading and getting some sun.

Then next weekend I have a wedding out of town that I really don't want to attend. However it's family and I will be fulfilling the one obligatory function I attend once a year.

I called that girl Rebecca's ex-husband introduced me to. Haven't heard back from her so whatever.

I have a bunch of little projects at home I want to work on too but hobby stuff not chore stuff. So I think I'm headed to a nice relaxing two weeks.