The good stuff: I started a new job. I like it a lot better than my old job. It's more difficult and allows me to use my brain while paying me 10,000 more a year. Two thumbs up.
The not-favorite stuff: While my new job was an improvement, the drive wasn't. It took 45 to 60 minutes to get to work. I had to drop Emily off and pick her up after work and there were days where I had to stay late but Emily had to go early so we ended up just being at work for 12 hours. Luckily Emily has nice comfy outdoor chairs outside her work where she could read.
I'll be your guide as I go through the stuff that happened in April. It'll be short and relatively painless.
We went to the beautiful land of Lakeside in the White Mountains (on the other side of the Shire). We hung out with Janae. She's going to heading out to Oklahoma to meet some dude's family before she heads to Rexburg to learn things at skool. We got my mom to play Time's Up (amazing game), and we laughed quite hard.
We ate dinner at The Stand, which is a restaurant across from my old job. It was ironic.
I went skeet shooting with my home slice A.J. It was actually supposed to an Elders Quorum activity but we were the only ones to show up. We went to a gun range where they had machines that would launch clay pigeons and I had an amazingly fun time. I had gone skeet shooting once before but really only shot about 2 rounds so this was essentially my first time. I did much, much better than I was expecting. I hit at least 70 percent of the targets. Beginners luck? I don't know!
Now I kind of want to buy a shotgun.
I want to fight, fight fight fight
for my constitutional rights
to party and bear arms
yeah!
- Guttermouth
The new apartment is awesome and I'll tell you why.
1) We have many windows! The apartment has light! Our old apartment was a depressing cave.
2) We have a sweet patio that's private enough that we feel comfortable eating breakfast/dinner outside.
2) We're right in the center of everything. If we want to go clothes shopping, our favorite stores are literally right down the street.
3) We have a gigantic full length mirror. I don't care about that but Emily loves it.
4) They just remodeled and we have brand new appliances and all that junk.
5) We live close enough to Emily's work that she can walk to and from work.
The weather is still cool enough that we can open the windows at night. It's gonna get hot really soon but thankfully we only have to deal with a few months of face melting heat but everyone here has pools and state of the art air conditioning.
We put a pause on paying off student loans and we're going to save for a car, although we may end up not getting it and putting the money towards student loans. We're going to save just in case so that we have the freedom to make the decision. At the end of June we'll have enough to pay cash for a $6,000 car. Right now we're down to $13,500 on the student loans, which could be lower if we hadn't paused paying it off. Debt sucks. Not recommended. Boooooooo! We're pretty optimistic and excited about life though.
Time for May.
RAINBOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111
