Saturday, November 28, 1998
6:29 PM
Sorry I've been kinda bad about writing the past few days... I've been getting a lot of e-mails from a friend, and it generally takes an hour or so to keep up with them all and keep 'em answered, so by the time that's all done in the evenings, I'm ready for bed, and don't want to stay up to write an entry, even if I'm doing it in my notebook, curled up in bed.
Mom and I went up to the town of Elmer, where her cousin and aunt live, and her cousin gave her a perm and a trim, and cut my hair... short! Actually, it's not much shorter (if any) than I got it cut last time, but it feels really strange at first. I'd gone for about 6 months without even a trim, so I had hair down to about the bottom of my collar, and my bangs in my eyes. No danger of that now! Jev said he got his hair cut this week and it ended up shorter than he'd intended, too... I wonder which of us has a shorter cut! Ah, well... hopefully it'll have grown out a little bit by time I see him again.
I worked on my dragon cross stitch all the way up to Elmer, and while Mom got her perm, and I got a good bunch of it done, but after being dragged over to Mom's aunts, and not having had any caffeine or lunch until about 2:30, I wasn't really in the mood to work on it on the way back. My mom's aunt lives in this rickety little house where the floors are so slanted you could stand in rollerskates in one corner of the kitchen and not even have to do anything, to find yourself in the opposite corner. And there's only one window in the living room that lets in any light and it's just so dim and depressing, I just hate it. I gave up trying to be polite, and just went into silent sulk mode; I wanted out and I made no attempt to hide it.
We finally got home around 3 this afternoon (after having left before 9!), and I hopped online, but Jev wasn't around... I think he was at the game, and I talked to his mom earlier on ICQ, and she said his dad was watching the game and it had ended a bit ago, so I guess he went out to dinner before coming back to his room. Gives me a chance to get caught up on my journal, like I was supposed to do yesterday! ;)
Things seem to be a little better with Jev and I than they had been recently... since our long talk about trust last week, that is. The other night, I actually got to talking to him about things other than what we did today, and started asking him questions about what *he* thought about certain things... like his Mom moving in with us, and his idea of changing his/our last name when we get together, and so on.
Last night, he was feeling kinda down... both his parents have tried to talk him out of getting married to me, apparently for financial reasons, and he's been worried that he wouldn't be able to support us financially, if I should lose the little income I had.
I started looking at apartment rent prices in the area where he has the one job offer, and that got us trying to figure out a basic budget; somehow, that seemed to be what it took to get him feeling better, and I think it's starting to become apparent that if he takes the one job offer, we're not going to be in any dire financial straits. Sure, we'll have some loans and stuff to get paid off at the beginning, but we'll still have a little money left over for doing fun things, and for buying the little things that make life easier... can opener, blender, laundry hamper, waste baskets... all the little things.
He says now I have to start looking for a car for us... I guess I must have done well with the apartment thing. *smile*
