Joe and I didn't do anything this weekend. We sat around and contemplated how pathetic we were as to not be doing anything. Sunday, Joe had to work and after he left, Riley moped around missing him. I did that last night when I couldn't sleep.
I made Riley a MySpace page. Riley's Page
Yesterday, I watched this show on the History Channel called Life After People. It was about what would happen if everyone just disappeared from Earth. They broke it down from one day later to 10000 years later. After one day, there would still be electricity. Eventually it would go off from anywhere from one day to several years depending on how its produced-Hoover Dam would keep electricity pumping to Las Vegas for years! Pets that couldn't escape house would die and those that did would become feral and revert to their natural instincts. Cats could colonize high rise buildings in 150 years after plants had taken them over creating a high story ecosystem. Zoo animals that escaped would set up shop whereever they were preying on deer and the like as they moved into the cities. When Joe and I watched, I Am Legend I was skeptical that the city would be taken over to such an extent (by plants and animals) in three years. However, the experts on this show said for plants to take over it would only take six months. I liked the show but they didn't show me the thing I really wanted to see-the abandoned apartment. Show me some unmade beds, some plates on the tables after 10, 20 or 30 years. They closest they got was a town just outside of Chernobyl that had been abandoned for 20 years. They showed an amusement park days from opening and an abandoned boarding school with matresses still on the beds and dolls left behind. Close but not exactly what I was looking for. Trees and animals had been killed from radioactive fallout but now without any human interaction they both are back stronger than before. This proves that sometimes if we just stop the bad that we (humans) do to earth, that nature will fix it. Leave well enough alone. Anyway, after 10000 years, the experts said that there would be very little if anything left to reflect on the fact that humans had once inhabited the earth. All of the buildings would of collasped and returned to the earth, trees would of grown up and streams cut through what once were city streets. Perhaps the only thing that would remain would be the pyramids buried beneath the sand and Mount Rushmore-carved from granite.
I made Riley a MySpace page. Riley's Page
Yesterday, I watched this show on the History Channel called Life After People. It was about what would happen if everyone just disappeared from Earth. They broke it down from one day later to 10000 years later. After one day, there would still be electricity. Eventually it would go off from anywhere from one day to several years depending on how its produced-Hoover Dam would keep electricity pumping to Las Vegas for years! Pets that couldn't escape house would die and those that did would become feral and revert to their natural instincts. Cats could colonize high rise buildings in 150 years after plants had taken them over creating a high story ecosystem. Zoo animals that escaped would set up shop whereever they were preying on deer and the like as they moved into the cities. When Joe and I watched, I Am Legend I was skeptical that the city would be taken over to such an extent (by plants and animals) in three years. However, the experts on this show said for plants to take over it would only take six months. I liked the show but they didn't show me the thing I really wanted to see-the abandoned apartment. Show me some unmade beds, some plates on the tables after 10, 20 or 30 years. They closest they got was a town just outside of Chernobyl that had been abandoned for 20 years. They showed an amusement park days from opening and an abandoned boarding school with matresses still on the beds and dolls left behind. Close but not exactly what I was looking for. Trees and animals had been killed from radioactive fallout but now without any human interaction they both are back stronger than before. This proves that sometimes if we just stop the bad that we (humans) do to earth, that nature will fix it. Leave well enough alone. Anyway, after 10000 years, the experts said that there would be very little if anything left to reflect on the fact that humans had once inhabited the earth. All of the buildings would of collasped and returned to the earth, trees would of grown up and streams cut through what once were city streets. Perhaps the only thing that would remain would be the pyramids buried beneath the sand and Mount Rushmore-carved from granite.
I told Joe the other day that we would need to think about moving in with each other because my lease renewal is due in Mid-February. Joe remarked Saturday that maybe we could move in with each other but I told him we'd talk about it closer to the deadline. Here's the thing. Joe and I have been getting along fantastically and finanically, it makes tons of sense for us to live together...but at the same time, 1) I know that Joe is hesitant (and I'd be lying if I didn't think the same thing too) because the research is there that states that living together before marriage leads to higher divorce rates (Article from 2003) and 2) I'm majorly hesitant because I don't want it to become a finacial burden on anyone (and by that I mean that I'm buying groceries for US, etc...) (I hope I tell Joe this before he reads it otherwise I might be in trouble, but its true.) Additionally, Joe wants to get a larger dog-though he's said he could wait until we move from Columbia. And with that larger dog there would be some rules as to the place we have. We know that we would have to have a two bedroom place because I study on my bed and if Joe is in it, I won't get anything done. A yard of some form would have to be there too. No dog to big and I don't like male dogs. What if it didn't get along with Riley or Roosevelt? Okay really, that all aside, if I renew my apartment, my rent won't increase and I will get a bonus. BUT my carpet is shot in my apartment and if I stay, it won't get replaced. And my friend who is moving from a two bedroom to a one bedroom checked and she said that the rental place told her she might get the bonus for staying with them but rent would increase. That's not fair! Screw the bonus, I don't want to pay extra rent. Its going to be hard to find a place that allows pets and is as nice as these places-the two bedrooms have internet included in the rent. Oh well, I've got some time to think and look.
Joe should stop reading this now.
Seriously, Joe, I mean it.
Yesterday, I found the most fantastic Valentine's gift for Joe! I had already had this idea and had sort of forgot about it. But yesterday, I was searching for a song to put on Riley's myspace page and happened across the They Might Be Giants page...and their tour dates. March 2nd here in Columbia! But that's a Sunday and Joe will have to work. So the day before, they are in Omaha. So for Valentine's Day, I'm getting us tickets and a hotel room Saturday night in Omaha. I know that Joe loved Rock and Roll Super Freak Out Weekend so much and this will be like a tiny one for us. Yea me!
[EDIT-Originally published to Blogger on January 23, 2011.]
Yesterday, I found the most fantastic Valentine's gift for Joe! I had already had this idea and had sort of forgot about it. But yesterday, I was searching for a song to put on Riley's myspace page and happened across the They Might Be Giants page...and their tour dates. March 2nd here in Columbia! But that's a Sunday and Joe will have to work. So the day before, they are in Omaha. So for Valentine's Day, I'm getting us tickets and a hotel room Saturday night in Omaha. I know that Joe loved Rock and Roll Super Freak Out Weekend so much and this will be like a tiny one for us. Yea me!
[EDIT-Originally published to Blogger on January 23, 2011.]
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