Wow, May. How'd that happen? Anywhoo, I seem to have fallen into the dreaded "I should write a post but I'm too damn lazy" funk. I got all sorts of crap to talk about but no ambition to type them out in an even remotely readable form. (as I aptly demonstrated in that last sentence) The topic of a lot of the stuff I'd nearly written involves working as a contractor at TJX. Things I have been meaning to write about but am too damn lazy are:

The company owing me over a month's pay due to their utter lack of a clue.
The company extending my contract due to people quitting left and right.
How fun it is to roll into work at 10AM and say shit like "My desire to get here on time is directly linked to the company's ability to pay me on time...or at all." And having everyone, including my bosses, agree completely.

I have to say though, despite the fact that on any given week I can be out of a job, being a contractor is great. Along with getting to ignore most of company policy regarding clocking in and out, job tracking sheets (TPS reports) and having to take a lunch break, no one in the place is ever entirely certain what days I'm in so they are always happy to see me. Well that's also because when I am there I work my ass off. But enough about that place as I have other news! Jeff and I are finally having the house resided. Our 30 year old house is covered in rotten masonite and we've nailed down (ha! get it?!) a team of carpenters to come in and tear it all off and replace it with cedar siding. Yeah, we're real-wood siding people. There was no way in hell we were going to wrap up groaty-old, ant-infested particle-board with vinyl. And before any of you folks who've been to my house give me crap like "your place ain't that bad!", please direct your attention to the following picture of one of our window sills.



Yeah, so. The guys should begin tearing the place apart later this week and I plan to take lots of pictures. Whether you see any or not depends on how long my lazy streak lasts. Speaking of streaks, Jeff and I will be running the Harpoon 5 Miler again next month. As usual, I'm in it for the free beer and race t-shirt. In other race/fitness news I am the lightest I have been since I got married. I attribute this to riding five times a week. It's a fact people, horseback riding *is* a sport and my legs ache ALL the time, but in a good way. Since I so nicely turned the subject to riding, now onto barn news. I renewed my lease on Baron but he's going to North Carolina sometime around May 7th. He may come back, he may have a new home there we'll see. Our new trainer took a job in NY so Katie & Jamal are taking over lessons again. With the warm weather now here there's a crop of new faces going through the Learn to Ride program. It's fun to see how excited folks are about it, reminds me how far I've progressed and how much I still love it. Last week Jamal labled me an advanced beginner. Not advanced chicken or advanced at sucking but advanced beginner. I was happy with that...next stop..intermediate or something.

:)