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Forgive me, readers, for it has been six months since my last confession.\u00a0 Er, blog post.\u00a0 But here I am again, ready to inflict my madness upon the world.<\/p>\n
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What has happened in the last six months?\u00a0 Well, to be honest, not a whole lot has changed.\u00a0 This year has so far been fairly good to me.\u00a0 I almost got a promotion at work and if the same position opens again (which it likely will, it’s just a question of when), I will probably get it.\u00a0 I am starting to do some coding on the side.\u00a0 Well, more accurately, I am about.\u00a0 I did a little last month and it has led to a side job.\u00a0 That’s the short version; I probably won’t go into detail.<\/p>\n
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I have had a couple of dates, but, well, although I enjoyed them, there was not much in the way of hints of romance.\u00a0 That is changing, too.\u00a0 There’s a girl I have gotten to know at Wally World who I have probably mentioned before.\u00a0 I don’t know what pseudonym I have used for her before, but today I am assigning her Renee.\u00a0 Renee is from Africa, and back in Africa there lives a couple of sisters of Renee.\u00a0 I may have mentioned the older one before, with whom there was the possibility she would find her way to the U.S., hook up with me, and get citizenified.\u00a0 The last attempt on this was what’s commonly called the Green Card Lottery, but Renee’s sister #1 was not selected.\u00a0 I suggested sister #1–who I think I have called Librarian–get a Visitor’s Visa–a complicated thing and a little uncertain–so she could visit the U.S., hook up with me, etc.\u00a0 Librarian prefers to continue the Green Card Lottery route, which means waiting awhile.<\/p>\n
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So Renee suggested sister #2, who I shall call Sweetness.\u00a0 That’s how positive things are looking.\u00a0 After Librarian was not selected in the lottery and opted out of trying to do the visitor’s visa thing, Renee told me Sweetness was “passionate” about coming to the U.S., and asked if I would be interested in her.\u00a0 Sweetness is younger than Librarian; they are 27 and 31.\u00a0 Sweetness has a 2 year old son but is single.\u00a0 The baby’s daddy vanished shortly after learning of Sweetness’ pregnancy.<\/p>\n
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Anyway, Renee got us hooked up via Facebook after I agreed to help Sweetness out.\u00a0 From there, I started emailing her and have chatted with her via Yahoo! Messenger a couple of times.\u00a0 We have developed a bond and I think genuine feelings are starting to grow.\u00a0 The only way I can really help to citizenify somebody is to marry them, so this is a good thing.\u00a0 Marriage is the plan, but I will not do it without going out with Sweetness for awhile and preferably living together for awhile before making a legal commitment.\u00a0 I already feel we are compatible, but until we meet and spend some time together I can’t make a 100% certain judgment.<\/p>\n
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My surviving son, Spiff, has been living with me since last August.\u00a0 He is doing better than he ever has scholastically, getting B’s (mid to upper 80%) range on his quizzes and so forth at the GED \/ high school alternative place he attends.\u00a0 It’s called LifeSkills, and it provides its students with a real HS diploma, not just a GED.\u00a0 It is self-paced, without all the extra courses kids get pushed into in high school.\u00a0 He is focusing on what he needs to graduate.\u00a0 At 19, that is the most important thing.<\/p>\n
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I am planning to move soon.\u00a0 I am aiming for the beginning to middle of July.\u00a0 Where I am living now is already crowded; adding Sweetness and her son in down the road would be impossible.\u00a0 My roommate, Sam, is desperate to move, just for the crowdedness.\u00a0 I am going to either get into a mobile home (easy to qualify for) or, if I can, get a VA loan and buy a house.\u00a0 My credit is pretty sucky, so the latter may be chancy at best, but I am going to try.<\/p>\n
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So this year is very busy for me, with lots of changes:\u00a0 Job promotion likely, second job happening, romance likely, moving soon.\u00a0 I am also hoping for a major computer upgrade later this year and possibly replacing my laptop.\u00a0 The laptop on home computer work fine (home PC’s CPU had issues and had to be replaced, but now it’s okay if less than I want it to be), but are aging, at least in technological terms.<\/p>\n
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Going forward, I don’t know how regular my blog posts will be.\u00a0 Today is a Saturday, after all, which I rarely posted on.\u00a0 I will not be structured with it as I was before, but will still post rants and pictures and wanderings as well as unclassifiable stuff like this post.\u00a0 I will try to post more often than once \/ six months, though, and at least post updates on the Sweetness thing.\u00a0 Plus, it being an election year and the conservatives are ticking me off regularly, I am sure I will have a few political things to say.\u00a0 Until next time, whenever that may be…insanity reigns!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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