Kyle Hepp

November 13, 2007

I haven’t been blogging because when I put up an entry I like to respond to everyone who left comments the last time I blogged. And I just haven’t had time to do that. When you’re busy, something’s gotta give and for me that something has been blogging and self portrait picture taking. I didn’t take a single SP all last week. I am going to get back into this week, but if it becomes too much of a hassle I think I’ll just stop. The point of the project is for it to be enjoyable and challenge me to be creative. But when I’m stressed and feel like it’s just one more thing on my to-do list, I’m not creative and I definitely don’t enjoy it.

So let’s see, what has happened recently that you all need to know about…

My gossip blog boss sent me a package to thank me for helping her out while she was away and I had to take things over. She wanted to send me things that you can’t get in Chile, so of course I requested Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. They are MY FAVORITE! I just ate an entire Jumbo sized bag. I think I’m gonna be sick. If this entry just stops suddenly somewhere in the middle it’s because I’m vomiting peanut butter and chocolate Christmas tree shaped Reese’s into the toilet. God, I love the holidays.

Last night I saved S’s life. He was in bed asleep, sleeping peacefully, like a giant baby with a beard. I turned on the light to look for a sweatshirt which I thought was probably strewn somewhere in the bed. The first thing I saw was a GIANT spider. This thing was maybe a little smaller than my fist. It looked poisonous and it was headed straight for S’s head! I shooed it so it was heading in the other direction and then woke S. up. He tried to kill it with my flip flops but they were too soft to smoosh. He spent like 5 minutes trying to get the damn thing to die.

We are apartment hunting, but we also finished the paint job upstairs. I’m still so torn on the issue of whether to stay here or not. But, as we have been trying to fix up the apartment upstairs it becomes more and more aparent that it needs a lot of work, time, and money to be put into it. And we both kind of feel like, why would e invest money to live here where we’re both going batshit crazy, when we could pay the same amount to rent somewhere nicer (albeit, much smaller), in a better neighborhood, far, far away from the in-laws.

You know most of the times people say there are things you just can’t put a price on, but that’s just not true. I know the cost of my sanity. It’s approximately $500 a month, the amount of rent money we’ll need to live in somewhere far enough from here where relatives can not just drop in whenever they feel like under the pretense of cleaning.

S. started his new job on Monday. Only two days into it and they’re already behind. Hmm, this doesn’t bode well. So from the get-go he is working longer hours than what the company said his schedule would be. But, they also did say that those hours were contingent upon construction being completed on time.

And that’s about all I have to say. Aside from being busy, I’ve also felt very boring and haven’t known what to write about…any suggestions?