my life as a nomad

weekend update

friday = horrible weather. 6 inches of snow, followed by sleet, hail, freezing rain, and then rain (in that order). it was a pretty horrendous day to try and deliver packages by bike. notice i said "try"... that's because i couldn't even get the bike going in that slop. so i unhitched it from the trailer and attempted to use pure man-power to muscle my way through the route, but even that soon proved to be an ill-fated idea.

so i wimped out.

(i used the car)

which is ok i guess, and saved some time and i didn't get quite as soaked as i would have otherwise (ditto for the packages), but i felt like i had failed in some way. i guess even ninja's have to know when they've been beaten.

there was so much rain that parts of some streets were completely flooded in a foot or more of water. it was, in a word, rediculous. and the really bad part is my brakes sort of stopped working on the drive back home (i think because of the water), so that wasn't very cool. more on that later.

saturday = awesome day. the noonan side of the family had a big get-together at my aunt and uncle's house up in canaan. it was a superbly grand time. i hadn't seen some of my relatives on that side in a while, so there were many stories to be shared and, of course, lots of food to be eaten. it's hard to explain the dynamics of a noonan convention unless you've either been to one or know several members of the family, so i won't try and describe the day's events (plus, no-one cares). but anyways, it was a wicked awesome day. talked alot, ate alot, went sledding, played some games, and talked and ate some more. family is a wonderful thing.

sunday = subpar. i slept in too late so i didn't make it to sunday school this morning, so that was a bit of a disappointment. then when i got out the door to leave for church, i realized that (a) i hadn't driven my car since the problem with the brakes on friday, and (b) there was an inch of ice coating my entire car that i needed to chip off. so that took awhile. i think the brakes were frozen shut, because i had a heck of a time getting the car out of the driveway (that, plus my reverse gear doesn't exactly work. like, at all). so i was pretty stressed out about all that on the way to church, mostly because i have zero spare money right now for car repairs. and i discovered that my car has, for whatever reason, acquired a horrendous shudder which kicks in right when it hits 40 m.p.h. who knows why, but it can't be good.

anyways, i almost turned around and just went home to drown my sorrows in moxie, but i figured since i was almost at church by that point anyways i might as well go. and, of course, i was glad i did, because my sister visited us today (she usually goes somewhere else for church), so that was pretty sweet. plus, today they had the sunday school christmas program during the service, so of course the kids were all precious and adorable and all that jazz, and it was just really nice. the place was packed, too, which is always pretty cool to see, especially when kid's parents (who don't usually come) show up to see their kids in the christmas program

liz and i went to wendy's afterwards and schemed about how to get the folks to go see king kong. we hit upon a master plan, but it was foiled when her piano lesson that afternoon got rescheduled. oh well.

now i'm back in my previous pessimistic mode. my job with u.p.s. finishes up this week, and i have absolutely no job leads or prospects for when that's done. i'm hoping that they'll offer me a permanent position, but i almost hate to even dream about stuff like that because i don't deal well with disappointment. the worst part is i have a job i can go back to, anytime i want (they even called just recently asking if i'd be back), and i know it pays well and i could get ahead on my bills and stuff like that... but i've promised myself i'm not going back.

unless... i'm supposed to?

(i'd rather not think about that right now.)


on the bright side, i know something will turn up. it always does. it's just the waiting, looking, and searching part that stinks. but that's true of pretty much anything in life


on the even brighter side, it's less than two weeks until the grand new-years eve celebration party bonanza. and less than a week until christmas... which can be good or bad. bad if you haven't done all your christmas shopping yet (case in point: me). good if you love christmas (which i most definitely do). at any rate, it's a great time of year



what can brown do for you?

(um... how about give me a full-time job?)


-noonan-

posted by Patrick @ 10:15 PM