Kool-Aid

Not drinking the kool-aid, but drinking kool-aid none-the-less. Grape kool-aid. Generic, Giant Food brand grocery store generic grape "kool-aid drink" mix to be exact.

S and I have been trying to buy as much 'do it yourself' as possible during our transition between school-no job-job. We buy kool-aid mix instead of slurpee's, coffee mix instead of Starbucks, window shopping instead of shopping, and Ikea instead of, well, I don't even know where you'd get furniture that doesn't come with instructions! While sometimes we cave and go out to eat and after driving home from the beach without AC, we shared a delicious Starbucks venti - meaning large to the non-pretentious set - caramel mochiatto, we pretty much keep it on the minimum expenditure per item as possible, with S's furgality often trumping mine.

But the kool-aid is a remnant of this time in lovely CV, since this weekend he traveled back to his hometown to take a chem engineering job for a few months. The job is luckily in the same city as the train station I visit when I commute down there, which I will be doing next weekend to see his lovely parents and middle school aged brother, and oh yeah (hee hee) S himself.

For now we Skype, and make plans for the summer tour of our Rock Band group, which will be debuting in a living room near you within hours of my arrival to NC I am sure.

Fairly soon we will also see whether or not I will have a job in - eek! - New England. The land of pretty fall leaves and too much snow. I am going to be playing the ultimate waiting game this week, but that's nothing new.

Life has been surprisingly good throughout this time - I am just now coming out of a cognitive overdrive to reconnect with friends and blogs! I just got a really good Christmas present idea from one of my favorite blogs, and all of this moving around has me thinking about the holidays, since not too long from now we'll all be making plans to meet up for Halloween (Can we please go as Chuck and Blair?!), Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's. That's right, folks - anyone else realize that the year is more than half over? Instead of a ton of New Year's resolutions, let's figure out what we can improve now, and go for that, right away. As for me, I have taken stock of the fact that it is summer, it is all good, and the kool-aid is sweeet.