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All out of oatmeal at home. I figured that'd be a fun title for my entry.
It's also true.
Spent the weekend doing 1 of 2 things: Seeing Travis, Conner, Alex, and Krista - and an anonymous friend that I dragged along for health and companionship purposes, and cleaning my house.

I realized that my house isn't as bad as I kept thinking it was. I am getting closer and closer to my ideals. The panic side of me gets freaked out when it starts getting messy because I think it will undo all the progress I've made, or that I'm starting all over again.
That's not true. I figured that out sometime mid afternoon Sunday.

I am currently wishing I had music to help me write this entry. Oops. I left my laptop at home today unintentionally.

So - house is getting somewhat cleaner. Jim's mom and Grandma are coming up to Issaquah on the 29/30th. I might take the 30th off.

Steve Pavlina and his girlfriend, Rachelle, are taking a Pacific Northwest road trip and will probably be in town this weekend. I believe they want me to be their tour guide for Seattle. At least Rachelle dropped me an email a few weeks back.

Jim and I are working on connecting physically more. The overnight schedule is still sabotaging that on some levels. He is still searching for something else, although he did get word that a backroom daytime position might be open at the crappy T.

Fortunately we were able to connect on Sunday. I really needed a day in my home and not out up North, lol. Friday/Saturday were spent following around a tiny Travis-ling.
It has been amazing to be with him as his life shifts.
And as usual - we somehow manage to have deep conversations that are reserved for the right kind of person. It reminds me that I am fortunate to have stumbled into this friend. Although, I see his life isn't as stagnant as mine, and his optimism for where life is headed is rubbing off on me.

For now, I'm relaxing more about where it is all headed. Because the grip of death thinking that I should control every step in time aspect - is not the right way. Not at all.

( Travis and Conner. )

-Angela

Current Mood: indifferent
Current Location: Work - Desk

September 17, 2010, 06:44, 8Lbs 1 oz - 19 inches tall.
Conner Brian Heinz joined us 6 days after his due date :)

My best friend, Travis - and his fiancée, Krista - told me the news. At long last, their baby was born this morning. I left work a little early to beat rush hour traffic to visit the 3 of them at the hospital. It doesn't happen everyday that your best friend becomes a father.

I wanted to be there for him in this exciting moment in time. It was a fun time to share with them. Very tiny baby!
Hairy and dark haired like Travis - he was perfectly healthy. I intend to be there to watch this kid grow up!! I'm not overly concerned about having a kid of my own, so these milestones are big; I intend on building relationships with kids in the lives of those who matter to me. (Most people make a very unreal assumption that just because I don't necessarily want a child of my own, that I want nothing to do with children. Not true.) And as for the lives of people who matter to me: Travis is one of those people. We spent a few hours with them, and then headed home because Jim had to work and we were hungry.

So, officially - when the wee lad gets older, I will tell him I met him when he was 9 hours old or so.
Jim called him on the phone while I was driving on the road, and made the observation that Travis sounded "different." It took Jim a good few minutes to describe it to me:
"His voice took on the quality that I noticed in the voices of men who come home from Iraq. Euphoria."

The proud father of one 3 year old step-son, and one brand new baby today, Travis has become quite the family man in a New York minute. Irony, as I think back to our 2008 trip to NYC, just prior to the real commencement of their relationship. Someone else came to visit while Jim and I were there, and they were wondering who I was. "Is this your sister?" she asked. And Travis shook his head and said, "nah, my best friend." There's a moment there that can't be described when sharing this kind of time with people.

Amazing to watch the parent switch turned on in Travis - but not at all surprising. The way he has always been there for me really does make me think he will be a strong parental force for his kids. Interesting, Alexander has already asked to hyphenate his last name to -Heinz, on his own. They are very ready to go home tomorrow morning.

Just another day in history, today. 9-17 isn't too bad for a birthday. At least it will always be easy to calculate how old Conner is. 2010 is a nice even #, jeah? :D

-Angela

Current Mood: content
Current Location: Home - (874) Den, my computer desk
Current Music: She's got it all - Kenny Chesney

On September 10th, 2010 - around 9AM, I paid off Classy. Momentous :)
It was a hard decision between a bigger cash savings in the bank, or killing the rest of the loan. I still have savings, and I'll be taking my extra cash that would have been used for the next 7 months (that was what was left on the loan) and paying up my savings to replace the dough I used for it.

It's a great feeling. It hardly feels real. ;) I am in no means in desire of another car loan for as long as I can get away with! So, this is great. At 77,000 miles, and 4 years old - the car is mine. Yes, all 77,000 miles were original miles, put on Classy by me. When I test drove her the first time, she had 4 miles on her.

Now, any other car I intend to buy in life won't be a brand new car ever again probably. (1-3 years old is a much better value). Other than the court parking lot dings (my office eventually became the municipal court underneath the IT office) and consequently my home, and my workplace - became the court parking lot. Let me tell you - people going to court are usually pissed off, and most of them do not car about dinging the cars in the court parking lot.

This happened to poor Classy. Also the random droplets of something that got onto her and ate away the paint in certain places to the *FUCKING* base. Wtf, right? Oh well. Needless to say, everything else about the car has been well maintained.

So yeay :)

Last night was fun, I met up with the Jessie and Icky and hung about them (Curtis left town for AZ and won't be back probably ever, so I had to cancel on our meeting for Friday). Was good even if it was a few short hours. Jessie and I went over some basic self defense techniques and spoke about mindset/mentality and tactics. I look forward to forcing time on the calendar to work more. Also need to call Mikey. We want a big male to use as our guinea pig. Mikey is definitely no little kitten.

What else.... hopefully Mikey will have his hair done though. I don't know if I could handle his aphro in my face... hahahahahaha.

Oh, good ole Mikey...
Travis' son has not arrived yet. He was due September 11th (which happens to be CRISTIN and also Krista's birthdays).
Krista=the mommy/Trav's fiance.

Hopefully Conner Brian Heinz comes to meet us all sometime today.
It is going to be a wild moment. And Trav is absolutely stoked.
Can't wait to hear his absolute joy when his son does arrive :) Travis is one of my very best friends, and it's exciting to see him go through this new life phase.

-Angela

Current Mood: contemplative

Travis: oh oh oh, there is a band down stares
*** Auto-response sent to Travis: I am currently idle.
Travis: oh blarg
Ithisia: :D
Ithisia: I hate that
Travis: I am currently idle.
Ithisia: OH NO
Ithisia: haha

-Angela

Current Mood: amused
Current Location: Work - Desk

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