Not again

Well the weather is warm again and here in our apartment/neighborhood that means a lot of things.
-The living room will soon become a boiler
-The window air conditioner will create a nice ice box in our bedroom
-Everyone will descend on Washington Park to lay out and throw things at each other
-Dogs will be everywhere
-Everyone will try to sit outside at Lark Tavern and Lionheart
-Our neighbors will have parties with lost of people outside on their patios

-Most importantly, the wasps and carpenter bees are back!!!



They look like this! Ugh that noise makes my whole body tense up. I can hear them from across the street! Those females want to drill into my life.

The horrid things buzz around our screens and swoop at you when you are trying to innocently get up the stairs to your door. After a lot of research today I learned that they are rarely aggressive, yeah, whatever. I also learned that they return to where they are born every year and are pretty hard to get ride of. This information combined with the fact that our landlord has more important things on his mind means that I will spend another summer not sitting on our little porch. I hate them.

This week was also free food week for us.
Monday - free Bombers
Tuesday - free Ben and Jerry's
Wednesday - sadly none
Thursday - free Chipotle
Friday - we tried to use a Friendly's coupon for free ice cream and they called us fraudulent
Today - We are going to try again with a different Friendly's

Butterfly in the sky

Well after lots of studying for the hellish GMATs and lots of applications, I ended up getting into two SUNY Albany grad programs: the MBA program and the Masters of Science in Information Studies. I choose Information Studies and plan take courses to become a school media specialist (librarian). I blame all that working with kids I did, my parents for making me read so much, and obviously Reading Rainbow with some Wishbone thrown in.



I am really excited to go back to school full-time and start a new chapter (books!) of my life.

In other unemployment news, I am still unemployed. This left me free to go visit the fam in GR on easter. The 11 hour drive was pretty good. There was no traffic at any of the borders (never happens) and a book on tape made the time fly. The visit was really nice, I got to see lots of family and many friends. I think Bailey misses me already.

Brian and I have been going to a rescue mission to serve dinner about once a week. They really needed us yesterday when we showed up. It's always nice to feel needed there and we have become friendly with a lot of the staff. One of the guys was working on a word puzzle. He walked up to me to ask a question, "You should know this, is the term administration?"
I ask in what context, he can't seem to be able figure out how to answer me. I tell him administration is a word and it can be correct. We go round and round. He asks Brian, he asks other people, everyone is confused. He comes back to me, "This administration term is for a 20 day cycle. Maybe a 14-20 day cycle".
Ohhhh now I get what he doesn't want to ask, "Do you mean the female cycle?" I ask him.
"Yeah, yeah that cycle!"
"That is called MENstruation not administration."


And for good measure Wishbone as Mr. Darcy:

Keep it cool, what's the name of this club?

We had a special election yesterday which Brian and his parents voted in. It was kinda of a big deal with national coverage and all that jazz. A couple weeks ago I found out that two guys I graduated high school with were working on this same campaign for the democratic candidate. I went out to volunteer for a day which was pretty interesting. I was skittish about making phone calls before I got there but I eased into it and it was pretty easy. I was calling those listed on the absentee list, so it was mostly older people who have trouble getting out. Some where nice and some were not. Now this democratic candidate is ahead by 50 something votes and those absentee calls might matter. Like I said to Brian in a close race like this, how can you argue that your vote doesn't matter.

I have been reading all the books that I'd been meaning to read and watching all the movies I'd been meaning to watch. Most have been worth it. Ghost Town not so much.

This past Friday we went to the dinner dance Brian's program puts on every year. The food was awesome but sadly the DJ was not. He decided we loved 90s songs many of us had never heard and played them all night long.