I need all the good vibes/prayers and thoughts that the next few months finds Katie my roommate a job. If she doesn't we are going to have to part ways as she will be forced to move to Ohio and live with her grandparents and brother. I will be forced to find a new roommate that will never live up to the fun and frivolity that we have had over the last four years.
She has some excellent stories and poems that could get published but it would not be the constant income needed for paying rent and bills. She is very close to having the piece of paper that says she can do administrative office work and other things. Her grandparents have been funding her going to school and paying her bills but their money is running low as her grandfather has moved to being part time at his company.
I had hoped she would be my last roommate I would ever have but life changes. I hope it does not change too soon and we can have a few more years of fun together.
Other big news, I am going on an a bonafide, week long vacation to visit my friend Miki up in Washington State in one week. Bonafide vacation meaning I will be taking a flight to get up there thanks to another friend who funded me the money for it. I haven't flown since my first grandson was born.
I hate flying.
Not so much the 'I hate the hassle of flying and inconvenience of airports' but the 'I am up here thousands of miles above the earth and if something happens, I will die.' I hate the sensation of take off and landing, and the mild claustrophobia of being in a tin can with a few hundred other people jetting through the air. Luckily I will be going with Devon. He shares some of my fear of flying but not as much. The cheapest flight I could get was unfortunately leaving at 8:55 pm which means getting to our destination at almost midnight. Again I have a friend that will pick us up there and put us up at their house until the next morning when we can meet up with Miki.
This is very exciting for another reason.
Devon has wanted to 'live off the grid' for a good portion of his teen to adult life. Miki has a two acre property called 4 Ewe Ranch that she needs help managing. Voila. Young man who wants to be a farm boy (as long as he has wifi) and a woman who needs a farmhand. We originally planned on driving so he could bring Rex but that was way too costly, almost double the price of two plane tickets.
So, in 6 days I will be in the Seattle/Tacoma area experiencing a different lifestyle and scenery.
I am SO excited about this. I've been planning this for over a year. Meeting people I've only talked to on the computer but know like they are sisters to me that I never had.
Something else is going to be happening in the next few years that I have been waiting for since 1978 (or there abouts). It is sad that it had to wait until someone died, but the hope is that the end result will honor that person and their work and not disappoint people like me who have been waiting as long as I have.
I am talking about the Dragonriders of Pern books are finally being opted to become big screen movies. I don't have any details, other than Warner Brothers optioned it for all 22 books. I can only hope that Todd, Anne McCaffrey's son, will make sure that the story that comes to the screen be the vision that was imagined from the pages of her books. I remember sitting in the lounge area of my Jr College with friends and casting the first book with actors and actresses we knew then. I knew at that moment that it wouldn't ever happen with those people but at the time we had fun with it.
The technology is out there now thanks to the amazing work from James Cameron and those before him for doing dragons realistically. I hope to be alive and able to see that on the screen.
So, that's my update that is a bit overdue. Again. It looks like the weather has changed also, don't think it will be as blazing hot today, but then.. it's San Diego.
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