I compelled to do a proper post about the weekend Sarah and I had — but everything I’ve written down doesn’t seem to do it justice. Instead, I’m just going to borrow from my gal’s playbook and do a stream of consciousness type list of some of my favorite memories from our weekend together…
- Walking into A New Hue1 to find my girl rocking the red hair.
- Bringing Sarah home to meet my folks.
- Three Words: Raspberry almond cake.
- Having beers at Rob and Lisey‘s place.
- Heading back to my parent’s place for breakfast burritos.
- Getting a nod and a thumbs up from my mom as we left my folks’ house.
- Going to the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium.
- Jellies!
- Being told, “You know, I’d really have no problem moving here to be with you.”
- Snacking on appetizers at Mao’s.
- Wading into the ocean barefoot at Venice Beach2 while holding hands.
- Talking about marriage and kids with neither Sarah or I freaking out.
- Distracting a pack of zombie seagulls with kettle corn to make a daring escape.
- Fatburger!
- Getting to play with a MacBook.
- Being given a personal check for “services rendered”.
I’m sure that a lot of this makes no sense when it’s disembodied and taken out of the context of our weekend, but I sort of don’t care… It means a whole bunch to Sarah and I — and that’s really all that matters to me right now.
What can I say? That girl is my universe, yo.
- Warning: Comic Sans ahoy!
- I might have hepatitis now, but it was totally worth it for the moment we shared.
And Then I Found A Job
After looking for a job for damn near 3 months, I’m happy to report that I’ve been offered — and tentatively accepted — a position with DreamHost.
I say tentatively because I’m still waiting on an offer letter from a colocation facility up in Los Angeles which I interviewed at a few weeks ago. It’s supposed to be in my inbox sometime tomorrow — but I’m not going to do much more than consider it unless they manage to do better than the proposal I was given this afternoon.
To be perfectly honest, this couldn’t have come at a better time. Despite saving up for such a scenario, both my former employer and the EDD have given me the runaround on collecting unemployment. And what I mean by the runaround is that I haven’t managed to collect a cent of it since I filed for it months ago.
I was very fortunate that I saved what I could before I was let go — which wasn’t very much I might add — and could pare back my expenses to live off of it for two months before I had to beg and take temp jobs. Also having a lovely girlfriend who was extremely understanding about having to cut back on what I could spend when I came out to see her was rather helpful. Even if it meant taking the occasional weekend off from one another and cutting back on our entertainment budget, she was a total trooper.
Not a lot of girls are willing to deal with spending a lot of time watching bad cable TV and DVDs with their recently unemployed, long distance beau whenever they do manage to get a weekend together — especially if they haven’t been dating for all that long. Despite all that, I’d be willing to say that spending all that time together cuddled up and making fun of the crap we watched between loving on one another probably managed to bring us closer together. *shrug* The heart works in mysterious ways, right?
But I digress… As of next Tuesday, I’ll be amongst the gainfully employed again. I’m hella excited at the opportunity I’ve been given — but to be perfectly honest, as jazzed as I am about the job, I’m just as excited that I’m going to be doing my job from a proper Apple workstation. Yeah, I’m going to have a company issued Mac on my desk. And while I don’t really need one to do what they’re hiring me for, they just wanted to make sure that I was working with an OS that I was comfortable with.
Man, I can tell that I’m already going to like working here…