All alone

[Sojourner]

Other than a brief three-month stint a few years ago in which I housed a friend, and then five months in which I imposed on a family's hospitality, I've lived on my own for nigh onto five years.

Two and a half months ago, a good friend/co-worker and I found this fantastically huge apartment at a great price and decided to go in together. It's definitely been an adjustment living with someone else, but we are both fairly accomodating, and we make pretty good housemates.

And, our friendship has actually gotten even stronger since we started living together, which I'm very thankful for ... living with a friend is always a chancy thing. But it's really nice to have someone you can complain about work to when you've had a hard day, or someone you can drag along to a movie at a moment's notice, etc.

So I've gotten used to not being alone, because she's almost always around, but this weekend she went to see her parents. My plans of biking up to see my parents fell through b/c of other people's safety concerns, so I have no plans over the entire three-day weekend except for dinner on Sunday night. I was really looking forward to it, but now the house is just empty and quiet, and it's really sort of lonely ...

[FlyLikeABird]

AAAWWWW. Come visit me, help me clean up my new apartment : I've got lots of books to put away.

[Sojourner]

:

Thanks for the offer! If gas weren't $3.50 a gallon, I'd consider it ...

[Maester Supremo]

Hi Sojourner

[Sojourner]

Hi Maester ... welcome to Phatmass! :

[Maester Supremo]

I don't need welcoming, I already know you, better than you know yourself. I am the rising phoenix, the messiah, the chosen one, I am... Phazzan.

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='Maester Supremo' date='Sep 2 2005, 10:50 PM']I don't need welcoming, I already know you, better than you know yourself.  I am the rising phoenix, the messiah, the chosen one, I am... Phazzan.
[right][snapback]709207[/snapback][/right]
[/quote]

[FlyLikeABird]

[Lounge Daddy]

heeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyy
we'll be here for ya

all weekend

[Old_Joe]

Believe me I know how you feel. My parents were away for over a week until yesterday. Normally, I wouldn't mind, but I really don't like alone.

[homeschoolmom]

[quote name='Maester Supremo' date='Sep 2 2005, 09:50 PM']I don't need welcoming, I already know you, better than you know yourself.  I am the rising phoenix, the messiah, the chosen one, I am... Phazzan.
[right][snapback]709207[/snapback][/right]
[/quote]




Hey, Soj... My exciting plans for the weekend are to clean my children's filthy rooms (and while doing it myself would be a WONDERFUL blessing, I must endure and require them to participate...) That's today.

Tomorrow looks like it has great promise as the children's godmother (RussianGirl) is taking the children to mass and then to Chuck E. coagulated milk for the day and we won't see them until late afternoon. While this seems like a great opportunity for HSdad and I, I fear that he's going to turn the day into an opportunity for us to plan a budget, and lay out some long-term goals for our unemployed future... <sigh>

And Monday... well... same old nothing. No. Wait... clean the garage.

[cmotherofpirl]

[quote name='homeschoolmom' date='Sep 3 2005, 07:56 AM']

While this seems like a great opportunity for HSdad and I, I fear that he's going to turn the day into an opportunity for us to plan a budget, and lay out some long-term goals for our unemployed future... <sigh>


[right][snapback]709425[/snapback][/right]
[/quote]

Surely you can find SOMETHING else to do with your "spare" time

[homeschoolmom]

Well, I think we can probably do both... "Okay, honey-- two hours of budget/what-the-heck-are-we-going-to-do talk... but that's it. The rest is FUN TIME."

We'll probably spend some time at the bookstore... It's soooo quiet there.

And there are all those books... to be read... without being interupted... BLISS....

We have ten hours...

[cmotherofpirl]

:

[Sojourner]

[quote name='homeschoolmom' date='Sep 3 2005, 06:56 AM']
Hey, Soj... My exciting plans for the weekend are to clean my children's filthy rooms (and while doing it myself would be a WONDERFUL blessing, I must endure and require them to participate...) That's today.

Tomorrow looks like it has great promise as the children's godmother (RussianGirl) is taking the children to mass and then to Chuck E. coagulated milk for the day and we won't see them until late afternoon. While this seems like a great opportunity for HSdad and I, I fear that he's going to turn the day into an opportunity for us to plan a budget, and lay out some long-term goals for our unemployed future... <sigh>

And Monday... well... same old nothing. No. Wait... clean the garage.
[right][snapback]709425[/snapback][/right]
[/quote]
Except for the budget talk, it doesn't sound like too bad of a weekend.

I get to spend some of my weekend digging through boxes looking for old tax records so that Uncle Sam and I can get back on good terms.

[Sojourner]

[quote name='Maester Supremo' date='Sep 2 2005, 09:50 PM']I don't need welcoming, I already know you, better than you know yourself.  I am the rising phoenix, the messiah, the chosen one, I am... Phazzan.
[right][snapback]709207[/snapback][/right]
[/quote]
Awww, Pharzarn!

It's so good to hear from you again. I've really missed you! I'd wondered where you went.

[Maester Supremo]

[quote name='Sojourner' date='Sep 3 2005, 07:49 AM']Awww, Pharzarn!

It's so good to hear from you again. I've really missed you! I'd wondered where you went.
[right][snapback]709463[/snapback][/right]
[/quote]

Do you love me?

[homeschoolmom]

[quote name='Sojourner' date='Sep 3 2005, 07:47 AM']Except for the budget talk, it doesn't sound like too bad of a weekend. [right][snapback]709462[/snapback][/right]
[/quote]

I found a knife with peanut butter in my son's room under a dresser. I could find better things to do with my weekend...

[homeschoolmom]

[quote name='Maester Supremo' date='Sep 3 2005, 08:53 PM']Do you love me?
[right][snapback]710182[/snapback][/right]
[/quote]
Don't you love yourself enough for all of us?

[zabbazooey]

BTW back Phazzan.