Home Alone

I am home alone!  Truly...alone!  No guests, no friends, no Marguerite and no Drew.  First time in months and months.  After I took my friend Tom to the train station this morning I came back home and layed in bed until 10:00.  Then I came downstairs and layed on the couch watching television.  A bit of guilt set in..."I should be doing this or doing that."  But I justified it with the fact that I've not had an official day off in probably four months. However, at about 2:30 I got my can of paint, a brush and supplies and started painting the house.  The part of the house around the front porch.  My home will be on the Heritage Historical Homes tour this weekend so I want it to look real nice.  I already did a bit of cleaning inside...extra cleaning including hiding a buch of "stuff"" (like all kinds of knick knacks).

I have to sub tomorrow for sixth grade in Saugatuck...so my home alone time is very short lived.  That's ok.  Then I'll pick Drew up at 3:00 in Holland and a full house checks in on Friday.  So it goes from one extreme to the other right now. 

I paid my taxes today.  Boy that is a hard check to write!!!  My first full time job's annual salary at the Bank wouldn't have even covered the summer tax bill.  GULP!  At least I had the funds to pay it.  Now I have to hope I can make it till February when the winter taxes are due. 

Friedl asked me to dinner tonight.  I figured it would be nice with just her and me.  In fact I should leave to go there very, very soon, but it's so nice to sit alone on the front porch swing. 

I keep moving on! - Jimmy