earthquakes and spiders and snakes...oh my!

hooray for a day off! i refuse to complain about work anymore because everyone has to work, and i am thankful for my job and all of that. so, suffice it to say, HOORAY FOR A DAY OFF! today i have one yucky thing to do. i like to do the things that i don't feel like doing first thing in the day so they're not hanging over me all day. today i have to quit my job at the library. there is just no way that i can work 40 hours a week, and then be available to work at the library on my days off. my Scary Boss-Lady at the library called me yesterday and asked me to work every saturday for the next 2 months! when i told her i'd get back to her once i found out my work schedule, she said, rather rudely, "well, just tell them that the library needs you every saturday!" AS IF!! and so i am quitting. this will be the 2nd job that i am quitting in only one month.

after i quit my job i get to go shopping for a bit and pick up groceries so i can make josh a great big feast tonight to make up for the last 2 weeks of not making any real meals at all. i am making chicken chow mein (my mom's famous recipe), fried rice w/veggies and lettuce wraps, which are to DIE for, if i do say so myself.

my friend miriam (aka goldie carlow) recommended a book to me called "the happy hocky family". i requested it from the library and it finally came in. it's a children's picture book, but oh, is it ever so much more than that! i read it in bed before going to sleep and giggled all the way through, then went right back to the beginning and giggled all the way through it again. and then, (i could not help myself) i interrupted josh's reading of the Serious Kennedy Family in order to read him a few pages about the Happy Hocky Family. josh did not giggle. he didn't even smile. he just said, "but it's a kid's book." how can he not understand?? when i don't feel well, i ask him to read to me from the many adventures of winnie the pooh, or of peter pan and tinkerbell. he complies, but he never really "gets" the stories. i am afraid to ask him to read to me from the chronicles of narnia, because it would be truly heartbreaking to me if he said he didn't "get" those books either. the fact that he is my favourite person in the world is the only thing keeping me from striking him off of my a-list.

we went to go show josh's parents our new place the other day. i was overjoyed to find that the kitchen really was as big as i had remembered it in my mind. the only scary thing about living out there is the rattlesnakes. apparently there are lots of them. i'm getting goosebumps just writing that. i wonder if pepper spray works on snakes....hmmm. i've already encountered my fair share of black widows outside and last night experienced my first good-sized earthquake. it was a 4.0 on the richter scale and woke both josh and i up at 4am! it was quite something.

well, i'm off to give Scary Boss-Lady a call, after which her title will be shortened to simply Scary Lady.

~heidi :)