I am still making it in Texas nothing too exciting going on just work. Work is going along well with nothing to complain about and nothing to boast about so, everything is breaking even. Still no news on where I may be going to next. So for now I will just enjoy the time I have in Texas.
Got to go home again this past weekend and it was great! Got to see all the kids! (Except Cole and Chase) Nathan Reid was getting married and I was in the wedding. No better reason than that to come home. It was a good wedding, I wish them both the best. Saturday I got to go up on Norris Lake with Reddick and Megan. We just relaxed all day at the lake. I miss those lazy summer days. (But not before a wonderful breakfast at my mother’s) Trey’s family has a house boat up there. We went and crashed the party. I got to see Bonnie, Trey’s gardener, she was in prime time like always. Sunday we had the Jenkins tradition of a Father’s Day fish fry. The food was wonderful as always. But like all good things, it had to come to an end. Leaving home was just as hard as the first time, like Megan said “I thought this would get easier” but saying goodbye never is.
I have figured out that living with no one may bring about some bad habits in me. For starters, I don’t wash a dish till I need a new one. I figure there is no point to have something clean and laying around waiting to be used. Then there is the fact that I counted 8 used glasses on my coffee table this morning. I use the term glasses loosely because there were no cups in my apartment when I moved in. To solve this problem, I use anything that can holds liquids. This includes but is not limited to: measuring cups, used pickle jars (even after being washed I think it taints whatever I am drinking), cups from restaurants, and the container that crystal light comes in. This one has to be my favorite of all my liquid holders is the used coke can. I do this by taking empty coke cans and use a can opener to cut the top off. Not washing dishes has brought about the issue of me just drinking out of the container after I run out of liquid holders I just grab the jug/carton/bottle and drink directly out of it. Yes I realize that this process is not proper or sanitary in any shape form or fashion, but everyone has flaws right? I guess until the point that I have a roommate that it’s safe to say I see no reason to change. (Sorry Megan)
As you would expect I really don’t get any GOOD home cooked meals as often as I used to. Cooking is something else that I am learning to get by with what I got. Megan got me a George Forman Grill and Jeff Bowin gave me some downright nice cookware. The GFG has to be the greatest thing for single men ever. (Thanks again Megan) For the past almost 3 weeks I have eaten pretty much the same thing for every meal. Breakfast: 2 fried eggs and toast with some OJ. Lunch: Sandwich with a different type of deli meat, the same meat for a solid week. Dinner: Either noodles with ground beef with some sort frozen veggies or chicken with frozen veggies. I know exciting right. Shopping Sucks. Going to the Wal-Mart is not something that I have found to be really that relaxing. I go in and don’t know where anything is. I just walk up and down every isle at least twice till I find everything on my list. That is if I have remembered my list, most of the time I don’t. The real bad eating comes when the time to make a trip to the Wal-Mart is coming up. Like yesterday for instance, for breakfast I had a can of tuna with mustard for lunch a piece of chicken on bread with mustard and for dinner chicken again but this time with a half of a sweet potatoes only half because the other half was beginning to rot….So going home and having Mom make me something is, to say the least, a step up.
Having something to look forward to, for me, is the best way to get through the week. Like this week I am looking forward to going home for the 4th of July. Then I will only have to wait 3 day before Megan comes to visit in Abilene. She is going to be blown away with all of the exciting things I have planed or be ticked off because my apartment is a mess there is nothing to eat and I have no clean clothing. I am sure she will love to visit me. Then its 3 weeks till I am home again for Max’s wedding. It’s not that I am really looking forward to the wedding I just want to be home. (Sorry Max) So if anyone wants to visit me the last 2 weeks in July come on down to west Texas and stay a while. No really come on down….
P.S. I love you Megan
Went out to the lake and checked that out. One thing that’s kind of strange is there are not really any houses on the lake. Don’t get me wrong there are a few but nothing like it would back on Norris. After that I just took some turns and ended up on a gravel road then a dirt road and kept going till I found my friend Mr. Longhorn. When that got old I headed home for a night of watching TV.
