The State of Indiana

Frank just left for work, leaving me all alone in his mom's house with his wacky younger brother and his very-much teen-aged sister.  Apparently they think I'm "weird."  This coming from two teenagers who have WOW parties.  I'm slightly frightened.  I was also not amused, when we got home last night, to find that my bags had been riffled through and all my cookies had been eaten.  *glare*  It's totally odd to be with someone who has siblings, not to mention underage siblings.  New experience for me.   Ah well, I'm gonna leave in a bit and bum around town and job-hunt.

Yesterday was a lot of fun.  We got woken up by his friend, Jarred, who asked to kidnap me for the day while Frank worked.  I agreed, and we wound up laying carpet at his girlfriend's dad's house.  Me and Tom, the dad, totally hit it off.  We went through his house and he was showing me all the work he's put into it, and I was offering tips and suggestions (I guess my dad did rub off a little on me) on how to do stuff cheaper, better, easier.  And it turns out that I'm the only one out of the 6 of us there yesterday that had laid carpet before, so they put me in charge.  Me and Tom had a blast joking around, poking fun at the "kids" (two of the guys yesterday were only 18).  Everything was going great; I was having fun, settling in to some potential new friends, and then Jarred threw a curve ball at me.  We had to go out to his aunt's house to get a ladder, and on the way he tells me that he thinks I shouldn't come here, and that Frank's using me to get over his ex.  Um...WTF?  He told me this in confidence, so of course I turned around and called Frank about it - I don't play those games anymore.  Frank flipped out, someone overheard, and a couple hours later Jarred cornered me about it.  I forgot how small towns are.  It all got straightened out in the end.  But now I'm somewhat suspicious of him and his girlfriend (who, it turns out, are best friends with Troy - the ex).  It's not that big of a deal, because me and Frank talked about it and I know I don't have to worry about it.  I do think it's amusing, though, that Jarred was really jealous that me and Tom get along better than he and Tom do (but see...I'm not dating his daughter.).

Frank works late tonight, so I'm kinda stuck doing nothing, watching movies, jobhunting, whatnot for the day.  And now I'm off to wally world to pick up some Pepsi because the kids here drank all mine (*glare*).

Perfect song

for today.  Geesh.  I forgot what it can be like out here in the middle of nowhere.  There's a storm blowing in, and I can smell it.  God, I love this.  I'm typing at Frank's computer, looking out his bedroom window and across the unplanted field behind his house - you can see for miles.  Every second that I'm here I fall more and more in love with it, settle a little more, and regret going back to the city.

I met Frank for lunch, and even something small and stupid like that was so incredibly nice.

I'm falling here.  Chicago's feels like it's a million miles away, a million years ago.  I can breathe.  All of those stupid petty little things that I think about constantly seem like they're just...gone.  After lunch, I said I was going to go wash my car and he asked if I was heading back home afterwards (referring to his house) and without thinking about it I said yeah.  Something so encredibly simple, but it means so much. 

Just for shits and giggles, I stopped by an open house for a new subdivision on the way back.  Just a cute little two bedroom with a nice big yard.  Did the tour and everything, and when I asked what payments/mortgage would be, they said it'd be what amounts to $200 less than what I'm paying for my studio in Chicago.  Which makes me 1. Ill, and 2. hopeful.  How awesome would it be if in less than a year, I owned a house (or more accurately, was paying a bank who owned my house)?  Things to think about that don't bring me down or feel impossible.

It's just...nice.

new layout

Okay, not so much a new layout as just changed some things.

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