Blah!

This is my new hat. My wife picked it out. It looks ugly on its own, but on my head it’s glorious. (Posted for Novah)

Flat cap, on the table

Flat cap, on my head

Flat cap, on my backwards head

Thanksgiving Tree!

Our Thanksgiving Tree, posted for Lehsa

Tum-a-tee-tum, cho-co-late syrup, on-a my tongue!

Anyway.

It’s September now. Sarah and I have been married for over a year. It’s funny, though, it feels like we’ve always been married. Maybe I just block out too much of my life. I wonder what it would be like to remember things…

We’re going on vacation from the 15th to the 26th. Except, we’re not actually going anywhere. We’re just taking off work for two weeks. Earlier this year we decided our vacation would be buying a Wii and taking time off to play. I think that means we need to buy some new games in the next few weeks. I wish somebody would pawn their copy of Super Mario Galaxy so we could buy it cheap, like how we got Super Paper Mario. I don’t really want to pay fifty bucks for a video game.

Sometimes I wonder if my life would have been better had I gone to college. And by better, I mean, um, in the future, as I would have only just graduated a few months ago… ugh. Horrid idea. I don’t know why I hate school so much, but I do. I’m smart, I like learning, I write well, and for what classes I did take I have a 4.0… but the idea of taking classes all day and having papers and projects due, and getting loans and having to work part-time jobs instead of having one full-time job… it was too much for me.

Of course, the big thing was picking a major. I have no idea what kind of job I want. I work with computers right now, but I don’t know if that’s the kind of career I would want to study for. What does a Bachelor’s degree in computer science get you, anyway? If my brothers who had theirs at 19 are any indicator, the answer is debt and a Pizza Hut car topper.

I’ve considered joining the army, but the idea of the army I’ve had for so long doesn’t really fit with who I am. I’m not much of an out doors person, and I don’t really want to shoot anyone. I mean, yeah, only a fraction of the armed forces actually is in combat, I could easily be support troop, but somehow it seems like it would be wrong to join the army with the intent of not being a soldier. Then, of course, there’s the issue of it being a giant pay cut.

Sigh.

It’s not like we’re having money problems or anything. Sarah and I have no debt, we’ve got plenty in savings, and we’re both working steady jobs. But, we want to buy a house and have kids. Buying a house isn’t really a problem, as we would just switch from paying rent to making payments on a house. But, having kids would mean we would need to get medical insurance, which neither of our jobs supply, and Sarah and I both want her to be able to stay home with the kids until they’re old enough for school, which would mean less income.

Sometimes I wish we had state-provided health care like in Canada… but then I remember that I really don’t. Ok, ok, revised wish: I wish all our local downtown businesses would form some sort of a union so they could provide health benefits at a reasonable rate. If that would work. I don’t know.

Well, back to work I go.