waiting to lock it down
Relatively uneventful evening last night. Shobhit had a board meeting at the Braeburn Condos. He also didn't get off work until 5:30, so it was closer to 6:00 by the time he got home -- about an hour after I did. I had pasta ready made for dinner, which yielded three containers for lunches.
I spent the rest of the evening pretty much just watching Netflix shows. I got to episode six of season 4 of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, which by then had gotten really funny, especially after what I thought had been a kind of shaky and uneven season premiere. I was surprised to discover, however, that the season ended at episode 6! What the hell? Turns out, they are separating this fourth and final season, the back six episodes not to be released until late January 2019.
Well, whatever. That leaves me more time now so I can finally get into season 2 of GLOW, and I watched the first episode of that. Gabriel texted me the night before saying, GLOW is stupid, right? And to that, I would now say . . . sort of. There were some elements of that first episode that were a bit prohibitively hokey, which I know would just turn Gabriel off completely. But by the time the episode ended, I could see some depth and some meat to the story to come. I really liked the first season and am nowhere near ready to give up on it.
I don't have much else to tell you today, really. I just ate my leftover pasta lunch out on the patio, with no one else out there. It was strange that everyone else eating at that time chose to stay inside, but maybe it was because it was cloudy at noon. The sun came out almost the instant I went out there, though, and honestly it started to feel too warm to me. It's all of 65° at the moment, but I guess that's what happens when the sun comes out.
I guess I could give you an update on my summer plans. I now have tentative plans to visit Ivan in Vancouver the weekend of August 18. That would be his final weekend there, for now at least, before his current plan (which could change at any minute, given we're talking about Ivan here) to come back to Bellingham for a year as of the following weekend, when his current lease runs out, to study for a year to be a hypnotherapist. He made this decision after discovering it to be "depressingly difficult" (his phrase) to look for work in Vancouver, which does not offer wages as high as he wants. He told me he'd work to support himself during this year nursing again -- after insisting he would never work as a nurse again. He said even then that he'd said that before.
I hope for his sake that he somehow manages to find something in Vancouver that precludes that plan, and he can just stay in Vancouver as originally planned. Either way I hope to make my visit up there next month happen. I am thus, also, currently actively trying to make a plan with Danielle to visit with her friend Jeanna at her house in the woods north of Spokane, in September. That makes at least one notable thing each month for the rest of the year starting next month: Vancouver visit in August; Spokane County visit in September; Halloween in October; hopefully Shobhit and I will visit Faith in Palm Springs for Thanksgiving in November; Christmas as always in Olympia in December.
I don't like not having plans quite locked down, but I always like having plans.
[posted 12:22 pm]