Update To Date
Sep 15th, 2008 at 3:53 pm by Jon
I’ve become horribly sloppy about updating this blog, much to my regret. I have an absolutely terrible memory, therefore blogging was a way to keep track of everything. As its been so long since my last relevant entry, I suppose all I can really do effectively is to give a brief summary of the events in my life since March…
- Love
- As of tomorrow, MJ and I will have been together for exactly nine months from the day I asked him to be my boyfriend. By this point, we’re completely living together, most (if not all) his worldly positions are sitting in my tiny apartment.
Its a bit funny how it all happened… MJ’s parents are going through a divorce and as it turns out, they have to sell the house. Matt was officially living with his mother (even though he rarely went back there) and when he heard this was extremely upset. Of course, most of his worries stemmed from his parents, but he was also concerned he would have to move back into his condo (which he and his ex-boyfriend own equally, however that is a story for another time).
As he was saying this, the idea to ask him to move in just kept bouncing around my head…so I did. He was shocked, just as much as I was. After all, we had only been together for a little over six months. We talked back in forth about it while cooking, eating, and cleaning up from dinner. It just seemed to me fate had directed so much of our relationship and we had come so far, why not let it guide us some more? In the end, he said yes and the rest is history.
I know it is far too soon to be saying this, but I can really see spending a very long time with this man (if not the rest of my life). That is if I don’t f**k it up first…
- Family
- There are only two things to mention about my family…
First, my Grandfather died back in the spring. Despite the fact he was (to quote my father) a narcissistic son of a bitch, he was still my grandfather. He’d been sick for a long time and everyone was prepared but I still feel a bit apart when I heard the news. Being that I hate to miss work, of course I came in the next day, which proved to be a horrible idea…
The funeral was rather interestingly, to say the least. It was raining the whole time and of course every time there was a story mentioned during the funeral mass, there was a burst of thunder and lightning…we all joked that was Leo telling us we were doing it all wrong…because that was the type of thing he would do. After it all was said and done, and Leo was in the ground, the grandchildren got drunk. My family has always loved alcohol (it is the French in us), so naturally we drank the entire day away. Toasts were made, curses were flung, and we all mentioned how much we missed Grandma, saying we wished she hadn’t been the first to go (that is another story for another time).
During all of this, my cousins asked me about who I was dating. I was shocked they knew (one of them had looked at facebook) but started to volunteer information. They were actually interested and wanted to meet him! Of course, the funniest part of the entire thing was when my littlest cousin Liz (who was 18 at the time) asked who was the pitcher and who was the catcher!
This of course, leads into the second noteworthy mention: my immediate family finally meet MJ. We were both very nervous about the entire thing, as my family hasn’t been the most supportive of my lifestyle. Our worries were completely unfounded; my family was impeccably polite. MJ had meet my Grandma earlier (we had dinner with her a few weeks prior) and had meet my father (he came over to pick up the bunny after they came back from vacation), so my mother and brothers where the only surprise. My mother was charming, my littlest brother was actually civil (he was the one who told me I was going to hell for being a fag) and my other brother actually seemed eager to meet and talk with MJ. I just about passed out from shock.
- Friends
- The only noteworthy event to happen with my friends has been a trip to Tennessee to visit one of our college friends. The first night ended up with me consuming far too much alcohol, puking out the window of the car on the way back, and ended with my head in a trash can. Of course, I didn’t end up with a hang over the next day (sadly, Tammy did and felt like $hit the whole time). A visit to the mall and then pancakes the next day rounded out the whole trip. All in all, it was far more boring than last year but I think I enjoyed this trip a bit more…
- Work
- Other than my boss leaving for another position and my manager being promoted in his place, work is pretty much the same as it was before. Granted, I’m not longer solely working in the legacy system from hell, but other than working with a new custom framework, the job is pretty much business as usual.
- Computers
- The only really interesting, noteworthy event would be my purchasing a new computer. Due to complete stupidity, I ended up spilling water on my Dell XPS notebook. I immediately cleaned it up but the damage had already been done. While it would start, it would randomly freeze, sometimes durring start up, sometimes after a day of usage. Frankly, the situation wasn’t improving, so I bit the bullet and decided to go computer shopping.
I ended up going to NewEgg as I usually do when in need of anything computer related. As it turned out, I found the perfect computer for the grate price. It had the same amount of computing power as my Dell with a slightly smaller screen and a noticeable weight difference. I’d never purchased from Asus but all the research revealed it to the a good product, so I took a chance. Needless to say, it paid off and within days of my order, Apollo (my computer) was up and running again!
On a side note, yes, I’m still using Linx as my primary machine. However, I do have a new (as of four or so months) windows desktop at home running XP.
- Politics
- I’ve been following Indecision ‘08 (thank you John Steward) with an alarming enthusiasm. In the beginning (don’t you just love it when people start out with that) I was a Hillary Clinton supporter. As it stands, I still think she would have made a great president (or for that matter, a great vice president). However, she hasn’t motivated and drawn people into this race as much as Barack Obama.
My friends have never been interested in politics before. In fact, they’ve avoided talking about the political arena around me for as long as they’ve know me. However, they are now so involved in this presidential race they can’t help it. The reason: Obama. No other politician in years has drawn so many people into politics. His enthusiasm and charisma is the driving force behind his campaign and is perfectly coupled with his message of change. In the current economy, with the current president, and the current war, individuals are just drawn to this message.
The moral of this isn’t my political views, but of what all this means. They say you are a reflection of your parents. I have always firmly protested this, as I hate most of what my parents believe in and stand for. However, it seems I’ve misjudged the old saying. While I am not a closeted republican posing as an independent (an accurate description of my father), I am just as much a political pundit as my dad. It just turns out I follow politics just as much as he.
Well there you go, my life wrapped up in a few paragraphs. I hope from now on I’ll be come active once again with posting here, for how else will I remember?