Updates

Well it's been over a week. Lets just say last week was a tiny bit stressful and I'm probably understating things there. We had a lovely notice from our landlords telling us to vacate end of next month (joy) Jagr wasn't happy about this he was hoping we could go to a month to month lease and maybe stick it out a bit longer to save up a bit more cash. They also wouldn't give us a reason I suspect they want to renovate and increase the rent on it oh well. So now we are busy trying to find a new place to live in. I have a feeling we may end up moving down the road to Dublin/Pleasanton given that we have 2 cats that really limits the number of places available to us in Livermore and we just can't quite afford to rent a house there either. We are also trying to see if we can find a place with it's own washer and dryer rather than having to share and lug the laundry around every week. Got to say after 4 years for me and well 6 or 7 for him we are both tired of that lark. I hate to have to move our of Livermore but short of trying to get a new lease on a different apartment out of our landlord (no thanks not after this), quite honestly not a chance. I have to say the whole business over this has left such a sour taste in my mouth that I never want to have to deal with Prometheus Management again.

With the increase in rent and no noise reduction the whole place is old and stinks I would rather pay another 100 or so for a much nicer place than our dump. The paintwork looks awful that they did last year and already looks like it needs repainting, I want out of there. And the management there just don't care and they give that impression, I don't want to live in a place like that thank you. So we are looking at moving down the road, just more choices and well it would shorten my commute so I guess that's a plus, most likely it would knock 20 minutes or more a day off my slog. That or we move to Tracy and I add to what I do now and I'm not sure I want to do that I'm at about my limit.

Also I was on my own last week doing both admin jobs in the office, it wasn't fun. I skipped having a lunch break a lot just to get everything done.

Jagr's grandmother is going into hospital soon as we are both wishing her well. Maybe after things have settled down we have moved etc we can find the time to go and visit her. I think right now in all honesty we are struggling a little bit. Jagr with sleeping with the nightmare of the noise situation and to add now we have to find time to go apartment hunting with our odd schedules. We will cope it's just not easy, I'm thinking I'm going to have to take more time off again so we can move and both look at some places together.

This last weekend I just shut off I admit it. I was so tired after the last few weeks and a week of hell at work I didn't want to do anything useful other than just try to relax and de stress. I think I slept something like 12 hours Friday night which was bliss, then when it got a bit warm again in the afternoon Saturday I stopped on the computer playing Oblivion moved to the sofa watched a movie then fell asleep in front of the ac. Sheer bliss I almost felt refreshed by the time I went back to work again yay! Another 2 months and I get some time off I'm so looking forward to that I haven't really had a chance at some good R&R since our wedding last year....em wait was that really R&R I'm not sure it was so em goodness May last year then for a long weekend out in the country. Jagr is even worse! Oh well just keep going a bit longer get this move over with then perhaps we might get a chance to relax for a few months. Got to say thank goodness we started to save to move or we would have been in real trouble 60 days isn't that long when you think about it by the time you pay bills etc and moving ain't cheep! At least we won't be going into horrible debt to find some new place to live.

Anyway time to do some work I've rambled enough and ranted. Our apologies to everyone we have been neglecting. It might be a bit longer now but we do think about you all.