Summer Time and the Living’s Easy

Hey there everyone! Happy belated Independence Day! I hope that everyone was able to enjoy the three day weekend appropriately!

 

I don’t know how, but i completely missed the month of june in blog world…. totally just slipped away! Well, June was a good month, went by very quickly, that’s for sure.  May ended on a great note with Cincinnati, but also on a not so great note as it became apparent that our apartment was not only ours, but we were sharing it with some friends.  these friends being the things that cannot be spoken of — the pesky plague of the city (coughbedbugscough).  This discovery was made by Emily who had only just moved in the week before.  Needless to say, much of the beginning of June was spent dealing with this and getting it taken care of.  It meant washing/drying/bagging all of my clothes, wiping all other items down and putting them in sealed bags (I now have an excess of vacuum seal space saver bags ), and tidying up.  This was a long process, and helps you realize how much stuff you really do have.  After a short struggle with our landlord we were able to book a great pest control management company.  Luckily the city requires that landlord pay for the extermination — which came to a wopping $2250.  I shelled out quite a bit of money between laundry, dry cleaning, bags, cleaning supplies, etc, but it would have been way worse had we had to pay that bill too!  The guy who we used was awesome, he calls himself the Urban Hunter — Greg, i think i found you a new profession.  and heck, at 220 a pop you could make a killing! Anyway, they have to do two treatments, about two weeks apart, and our second was last weekend.  I was never bitten/never saw any evidence in my room and this has continued to be true.  Emily has not seen any more evidence or been bitten since the first treatment, hooray!

 

The second half of the month was a little less hectic/stressful.  The past few weeks have involved a lot of cookouts/grilling sesssions on Ben’s roof with friends and his roommates.  There was also a BBQ festival in madison square park with live music and i even got some pimento cheese!

 

Work has been going well and i feel well suited to what i’m doing and have been learning a whole lot about the business world.  I am hoping that they will hire me into my position officially in the fall, so everyone keep that in your prayers! being hired as a BA would mean i would be payed more accordingly for the work i’m doing and provide some certainty around what i’m doing both in work and life!

 

The next months of summer are going to fly by — i have a lot of fun stuff coming up! I am going to Colorado for the last week of July to visit Trail West, then Miami for a weekend in August, and then to Fort Worth at the end of august with Ben.  Sprinkled in there are a few concerts and a lot of fun!

Oh and for the 4th, we went with some of Ben’s friends (who are my friends too, i should just start saying our friends) on a cruise on the Hudson river — which is where they set off the big fireworks show! it was so fun to be a part of something so new york! something that most people watch on tv i got to see up close from a boat!

Here are some picures from the recent past!

 

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