This week...

Judy is still in the shop. I have high hopes that she'll be done
tomorrow. I have enjoyed one thing about being without a car...this
girl I've been dating, T., has been so kind to let me ride with her
back and forth to work. She works close to my place of employment,
and lives close to where I live. We've been out to dinner & coffee,
to lunch, to see The Big Rock Show, and just last night went to see
The Exorcism of Emily Rose. I really like seeing her in the morning
when she comes to pick me up, and then after work. We talk the whole
time, both there and back.

I'm really growing very fond of her. She's beautiful, intelligent,
funny, charming, and she's the kindest woman I've met in a very, very
long time. I'm always worried that I'll say the wrong thing and
offend her, hurt her feelings or make her uncomfortable. I'd be very
angry at myself if I did that. I'm such a awesome jackass sometimes
when I don't want to be.

She has kids of her own, two girls mostly grown, and then another
daughter about Lexie's age. I was thinking of asking her if she
wanted to get together with her youngest and my two sometime so they
could play together. You know my kids never meet another child who's
not automatically a friend and playmate. That's good. I like to see
them socialize, especially Logan. I worry about him now because he's
not in daycare and doesn't get to spend much time around other kids
his age, except for big sister.

I got an offer, and accepted from my new job today. I'm officially a
full time employee beginning Monday. The bad thing is that I've been
getting paid weekly, and now I'm going to have to hold out for three
weeks between being paid by the temp agency, and the new job. Ugh.

Funny thing is that my hire day is the same day my sister starts HER
new job! Speaking of which, she came over tonight. I fixed supper,
then we sang some karaoke on my PC. After that we watched a movie she
had brought over called Joyride. I saw most of it but fell asleep
about 3/4 of the way through it and then woke up for the end. It
seemed OK. I'd probably like it better if I wasn't so tired. *shrugs*

I hope my car is ready tomorrow. I hope the old girl is "all better
now". I'll be glad to have my wheels back, and I'll be definitely
ready to see the kids on Sunday. Saturday night I originally had
planned to go take my sister out...Saturday is her birthday. But then
we cancelled, but now I think it's back on again. My friend Steven
really wants to go, and he talked me into it. The bar that we're
going to is not the kind of place where you have to spend a lot of
money at all. Cover, if anything will be about $4, and I'm not
supposed to drink much alcohol anyway, so I may just be doing
cranberry juice or ice water. No big deal to me.