Welp, I finished Gravity. It was about two days after that last blog. It was a very good book. It kind of reminds me of Dreamcatcher by Stephen King and Aliens. It was a book that also made you kind of think about life. Well, anyway, today we got a bed. It beats the old air mattress we've been sleeping on. The seams on the air mattress have popped out, making the mattress lumpy. It would make you roll off the mattress in the middle of the night and was quite annoying. Also, Kim seems to be in a really good mood lately. We've been doing more together lately and she seems to enjoy her job more, even though they're sending her home too early too often. If I get the job there, it won't be as bad, but it still won't be perfect. Kim is also happy because this girl at work might give her a chihuahua (if that's how you spell it). It's still a pup, but I think we can give it a good home. We've also got our two cats there too, and they seem to enjoy it. I'm glad we got them, because her dad was going to kill them if we didn't give them another home. Again, we're talking about his greed in money. He's mad because he had to take a pay cut. Oh big woopty doo. He's still making more than Kim and I could both make together, PLUS he gets overtime on top of the 40 hours that Kim and I wouldn't be able to make every week. His heart needs to go into his home and family, not his work and money. At the job he's at, it could be pulled out from under him and he'll be put in our shoes. After his unemployment runs out, I'd like to see how far he could go in OUR shoes. He's always bragging about his money and his labor. Well, enough of that. I'll end this blog here. Have a nice day!

It's me again. I've been reading a book lately, and I'm about 60 pages away from the end (which will take me no time). It's called Gravity by Tess Gerritsen. Here's what it says in the front cover:

Emma Watson, a brilliant research physician, has been training for the mission of a lifetime: to study living beings in space. Jack McCallum, Emma's estranged husband, has shared her dream of space travel, but a medical condition has grounded and embittered him. He must watch from the sidelines as his wife prepares for her first mission to the International Space Station.
Once aboard the space station, however, things start to go terribly wrong. A culture of single-celled organisms known as Archaeons, gathered from the deep sea, is to be monitored in the microgravity of space. The true and lethal nature of this experiment has not been revealed to NASA. In space, the cells rapidly multiply and soon begin to infect the crew -- with agonizing and deadly results.
A recovery attempt ends in catastrophe; the NASA shuttle crashes, and the space station is left dangerously crippled. Emma struggles to contain the deadly microbe, while back home, Jack and NASA work against the clock to retrieve Emma from space.
But there will be no rescue. The contagion now threatens Earth's population as well, and the astronauts are left stranded in orbit, quarantined aboard the station -- where they are dying one by one....

Sound good? It is to me. I can't wait to finish it. Well, anyway, we've got to go now. We're planning on borrowing Mom's Foreman Grill to make some hamburgers and throw around this frisbee thing I bought called an Aerobie. Catch you all later!

The past few days haven't been too bad. Vic, Marc, and I all have computers now hooked up in a room and we've been playing games like Diablo 2, Baldur's Gate, ZSNES, etc. The house has been a lot cooler, so that's a plus, but we're still doing without water, which is why I keep coming to Mom's for a shower and such. Kim's job has been doing good as well. At first she hated it, but now she's doing good. She said she was the top person in her class for sales made so far, so I think she'll do good there.

Today, we're planning on finding something to do while she has a day off. She works tomorrow, so we don't have long. Movies, bowling, or getting a volleyball net or something like that. We haven't fully decided yet. We may even go out and eat (but she'll break her diet if she does).

Last night was pretty good, too. After she got off work, we went to Hastings to get some drinks from the new Hard Back Cafe and look at books and movies. Vic went with us as well so he could get some movies. So, we got our drinks, Kim got a book, and Vic got 3 movies. I've seen 2 so far and I'm going to watch the 3rd tonight.

That's enough for now, I suppose. Catch you all later!

I quit my job at We Pack. Not because I wanted to, but because Kim got a higher paying job at TCIM. Since we only have one car, this was the best choice at the time, but I regret quitting because it was nice to have money coming in. The work was monotonous and the temperature was hot, not to mention there was long periods of standing in one place not being able to move. It sure seems like a job worth more than $5.25 an hour, or however much it is that they pay, but I guess they don't want to bring the standards of that place up enough to make it a job worth staying at. Well, anyway, it seems like I'm going to be applying at TCIM again. That was one of my better jobs and the pay was always good, but it sure makes me feel weird at the thought of going back there.

Also, at the house (Vic and Marc's), it's been VERY hot lately. Even at night, Kim and I would both sweat a river. So, we got the old air conditioner that we had at Blossom from over at Darla's. That thing sure was heavy! Well, first we took it into our room where a 220 plug was next to the window. The air conditioner wouldn't fit, so we took it into the living room so we could take the smaller 110 air conditioner and put it in our room. When we put it in there, only the fan would turn on. This sure wasn't a good thing. So, we got an electronic tester and tested the plug. The plug was only putting out 110 when the jack was a 220, so only the fan in the air conditioner would turn on. So, we just left it there for the night since it was already dark. For once, Kim and I got to sleep in the cool air because of the old air conditioner that we moved into the room. However, we were going to have to move it back into the living room the next day. Well, that morning, Vic's dad woke me up and said he found a working 220 that had a different jack on it that morning. So, we moved the air conditioner into that room and bang, it worked! So now, the whole house is cool, and living there is sooooo much better. We still don't have water, though, so doing dishes is hard, not to mention we can't take baths or flush the toilet. Don't even ask HOW we do it, because it's a secret. :P

Well, got laundry to do, and cook for my hard working wife! LOL

Wow, a new blogging method. How nice. I certainly don't keep up with my blog as much as I should, so these things just kind of pass me by! So anyway, I've got a job now. It's with Manpower, but I'm actually working at We Pack. I've only worked two days so far, and the job is by no means easy. It is very hot in there and you have to constantly keep moving, but hey, it's a job. I plan on sticking with it, too. I've got way too much on the line, and I don't want anything like what has previously happened like Celes again. But now things are starting to look up in a way. I have a job and we have food stamps, so as long as nothing changes, we should be getting out of this pit we've gotten ourselves in. I also imagine that more than likely Kim will have a job with We Pack as well, seeing as how people don't seem to last very long there. I don't think the job will be bad at all if Kim works with me. It's weird how we spend so much time together already. We never fight, and when we're apart, we just want to see each other again. I don't know anybody else that is like that. After long enough, most people seem to start fighting over the small stuff.

Well, this week we watched fireworks. It was a really good show! However, Kim hurt herself there. Her ankle was sprained pretty badly, and you can now see a big black bruise. Me and some other guys were throwing a football around and she wanted to play too after watching us for like ten minutes. So, when I had the ball, I threw it to her. She jumped to grab it and fell, twisting her ankle. We thought she was laughing when it happened, but then we noticed she was crying. We were all laughing at her because we thought she was laughing, but then we felt pretty bad. So after the game we took her to the hospital to make sure nothing was broken. Still, all in all, I think we all had a good time. But speaking of hospitals, we're about to go again because Kim has a bad ear infection. She can't even chew! So anyway, I'm going to get off of here and take her there. Later everybody!