After another long absence I return with small bits of news.

My parents have found a house! They found a Victorian era/design home in an older part of town. The neighbourhood is, on average, poor. However, the area is not bad, regardless of what my grandmothers both may think. (We lived in New Orleans though, so perhaps our definition of a bad area of town is vastly different from theirs.)

The house is some 3000sq feet containing three bedrooms, a parlor, den, living room, dining room, kitchen, utility room, and one and a half bathrooms. There is no garage or paved driveway but they plan to put in a carport and a parking pad/possible driveway.

The house has been repainted recently, the electric was redone in the past 10 years as was, I think, the plumbing, and central air and heat was installed. Dad said the house is in excellent shape - they built them a lot better back then and it's heart pine so the wood is in good condition. He wants to tighten up the floor some.

They will be able to move in about a month and half from now, but we all want them to move in today. The house is beautiful and we all drive by it every time we are(n't) in the area, just to see it.

$75k is what they will be paying for this and they will get some of the furniture (dining room and possibly living room) assorted and sundry Christmas decorations (they traditionally put a tree on the upstairs balcony and the neighbours love that, so they are leaving that tree), and the gas stove and the refrigerator (possibly the washer and dryer, I can't remember what mom last said about that). Yeah, awesome stuff.

On the job front, I'm still getting tired of my job and want to move on but do not know where I would move on TO.

Maybe things will change soon... We've hired a few new folks, and he is trying to hire someone to take care of books (payroll, inventory, bill paying, that sort of thing) who has a background in accounting so that will be off of me and my sister (we both told him we didn't want to/didn't feel we had the capacity to do it). Hopefully the new folk will be trustworthy and dependable and my sister and I will stop having to come in because someone "got sick" or somesuch horse manure (I'm beginning to have serious doubts when these girls tell me they are sick). Maybe the store will become a little more autonomous from my sister and me. Maybe.

Or maybe we'll just both quit and let all hell break loose there. Maybe.

Augusta Choral Society. Hey WCC Coral folks: Remember how much fun it was to get ready for Christmas music in the second trimester of school? Yeah, we will have had seven rehearsals on the Rutter Magnificat and the Christmas portion of Messiah and the Magnum Mysterium we are doing on the 14th. One of which was a part concert/part rehearsal in a room that's deader than a corpse last night at a retirement center (reminded me of All-state Choir for the probably ONE reader from LBASYC that I have, we were wearing Khaki pants and matching T-shirts, singing in an overly carpeted room to a bunch of folks sitting in chairs that belong in a conference room (excepting that they had these wonderful extra-wide arms on them because they are for old people. Fat people appreciate that as well, believe me.).) (gotta love nested parenthetical statements.) and one of which will be without our director, next week, in another different space than we are used to.

Apparently we will have 5 weeks to work up the Dvorak Stabat Mater.

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. I'm thankful that I do not have to work. I'm thankful that my parents are living here and have now found a house. I'm thankful that I just had a wonderful 2 hour nap. I'm thankful that this year is a bit more hopeful for me than last year.

I just went back and read my last post and discovered that I posted that news the other day when I woke up before I had to for work. Oh well, I'm leaving them both up, as this one was a little more detailed.
- posted by Nick @ 11/24/2004 07:41:00 PM | 0 comments