I bought a house. Yes. I've been gone for what seems like years, and now I'm back--and I bought a house. My first house. We seal the deal and move in around the end of March/beginning of April ( Read more... )

So, yesterday was my follow-up doctor's appointment. It left me feeling all but relaxed. I have to go back for more blood work saturday so they can test more...god knows what...in my blood. My doctor is concerned because my previous test came back showing that I was quite anemic (shocked because I've never had issues with Anemia before and because ( Read more... )

Weekend from hell, let me tell you. Steph and I went up to PA for the holiday weekend to visit family/make some extra cash. Friday was really slow--I would say 10 people total came in all night (it was the 4th of July after all). I did, however, manage to make $175, so it wasn't too bad. Regardless, we left Friday with more than we'd come with. ( Read more... )

Remember when updating this thing daily was the thing to do? Yeah, me too. I can't beleive I almost forgot about this little garnet piece of joy. I don't even remember what the last thing I said in this was. So, let's start from the beginning. I'm engaged and live with my fiancee in Columbia. Visitors are always welcome, though it seems these days ( Read more... )

I have webbed feet.

Now that that's out of the way...

I GOT MY RETURN TICKETS HOME!

At 8:03pm on Friday December 21st, I will be back in AMERICA!

yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh baby!!!

Let the partying commence!

HELL: My weekend was less than perfect. Thursday I woke up to go to work and there was a note under my door with scribbled Russian. I was in no state to decipher it, so I let my recruiting assistant read it. The woman that owns this apartment building asked me to call her ASAP. Naturally I made Myroslava call. It was about an incident that happened ( Read more... )

Soviet trains breed Soviet hotels ( Read more... )

1) Babushki. I frickin' hate them. Granted, they aren't nearly as bad here as in Russia, but here's my beef: what's with them shoving their way through any crowd with their massive breasts? What's with that?! It doesn't help that they're all 5'2'' or shorter, but now breasts are poking you in the back, ribs and hands? Ew. And they don't feel like ( Read more... )

I enjoy sandwiches. I'm not a housewife. Happy holidays.

I got back from my trip to Sumy yesterday at 5am. Good lord, it was 8 days of pure hell. Some highlights:

Hotel or Motel?: The hotel we stayed in our first visit to Sumy was all booked up for this go-'round, so we had to stay at a different hotel. A delightful little 1 star doozy called " ( Read more... )

That's right folks, love that melanoma. Dr. House would be proud.

Some updates and irks.

Nose picking: Everyone in this country picks their nose whenever they damn well feel like it and lemme tell ya--it's sick. You try doing student interviews for 10 hours a day with your recruiting assistant sitting next to you between interviews digging for ( Read more... )