Welcome Home...Again...and Again

Yoza!

2010 has been a bleak writing continuum. That New Years resolution of write more, fuck up less, and do more hot yoga has ceased to exist...Well actually not the Hot Yoga part, as I had been going frequently until this week when I caught the inevitable airborne illness everyone I know seems to possess.

As a matter of fact, this year has been going splendidly if I do say so myself-

I finally got off my caboose and decided to join Americorps. (By joining this means taking 3 months to complete an application) I compromised with the Boyfriend, carefully conveying to him that that moving would really tickle my pickle (In a more modest, less subtle form of phrasing). Since he, however, is not too keen on NYC, the one place I've been packed and ready for since day-after-graduation-2008, I decided to apply to Denver, San Fran, Washington state and the Portland area, randomly New Hampshire...

I decided that March first would be a fabulous start date, and even better, after a completed year of Americorps, I can choose a decent chunk of money and apply it to outstanding student loans. (The soul cause, other than wanting to help and move, for joining Americorps). Seeing that I accrued close to 1000 skanky dollars in my frivolous year of traveling and jerking it to re runs of Sex and the City, (in addition to the twenty-some-thousand-dollar student loans I have out) I thought this was a magical opportunity. And since my dear lover too thought this was wonderful, he decided to apply to the same city's in which I was applying...now, this only seems befitting...

March first will be his start date for his new job...in Albuquerque. (Not quite the big move I was hoping for, huh?) Giving the state of economic hardship in our country, it seems no one in any of the city's I wanted to live in were hiring. Oddly enough, the only noteworthy nibble the BF got was from the Albuquerque job. So, as I predicted, March first would have been a fabulous start date, and for him it will be...here...in Abq.

In the beginning, I was less than thrilled, and quickly realized (the moment loan deferment ended and the 300 dollars due per month for said money lenders came in the mail) that living here was not that bad. In fact, I came to the insane conclusion that living at home momentarily (or for somewhere near a year) is considerably cheap. I mean, how else will I afford 2 foreign country trips this year??? Some would say "grow up Courtney"....and those people are jealous their roommates are not my parents! Suckaaas, Grandma's boy ain't got nothin' on me.

And in some more irrelevant news, my 18 year old sister who enjoys nothing more than to make fun of me for living at home again, is getting ready for college. In an appropriate back handed compliment, she stated that she wanted to be just like me, except when she graduates college, living back at home won't be an option. Thanks, a lot sister. Enjoy those trips to Wal-Mart and Mud Volleyball tournaments all paid for by student loans! Nothing tastes as good as mom's homemade, can-opened tomato soup.


So, for the time being, ABQ will be my temporary perma-residence. (Holler, oxymoron). I'm pausing my monumental move and sticking it out, if not for anything else, a little love :)