A lot has been going on recently! Kinda.

I went to Folk Life the other day, in Seattle. Follow the flickr link and take a look at the FolkLife set if you want to see more pictures.

I have been spending almost all my time searching for jobs over the last few weeks. Only one promising job has been available - a game tester for Nintendo. I have a good feeling about it because I've worked with them before through the same company, Aerotek. I'm going to an orientation tomorrow to see whether or not I'll actually be working there. If I do, it will be a 6 month contract at $10/hr. Not idea pay, but it works. Hopefully the commute is livable... Unfortunately all this job searching has fucked up our sleep schedules. I've been working on it, but I still tend to wake up around 12-1:00 pm. (That is much better than staying up until 7:00 AM and waking up at 5:00 PM, ick.)

Other than job searching... Ah, we did plant a garden today. A small one. Most of the time went towards weeding and clearing the dirt of rubble. Four or five pumpkins and about 20 flowers (bulbs of some sort.) I'll have more pictures once that gets going.

I've taken a vacation! Katie and I have taken off to Utah for two weeks and will also be visiting Flagstaff and driving home through California. A longer account on these events will come in the future! See my Flickr for a more visual account.


(photo from the top of the Angel's Landing hike in Zion Natl. Park)

My first trip out of the county was a learning experience. Katie and I learned what to do and what not to do, even when just taking two days. We spent way too much time trying to find certain locations and failing. It was great fun though. Canadians are extremely nice people. I could see myself living there -- although not so much the area we were in. Downtown Vancouver never goes to sleep. Even on Sunday night at 2:00 AM there were many, many people in the streets bar hopping.

Two days doesn't seem like quite enough time to explore such a huge place, unfortunately. We had great fun on Valentines day going to our first bar ever. And the next day we had a great exploration to the beach and a different area of Downtown Vancouver, but it seems like we missed a whole lot. I think next time we go we'll try a new area and take more time to do it.

We also stopped in Bellingham, WA going both ways. I love Bellingham. It's a beautiful city way up north about an hours drive from Canada. You can see by the pictures how pretty it is there. I wouldn't mind moving there to go to the University.

Other than Vancouver nothing exciting has happened. I'm still just working at Puget Sound Energy and trying to save up money to get out into our own apartment and start taking college classes. I'm starting to get a little antsy about living in Katie's parents house. I like having my own space. When here I don't have that luxury.

listening to: Karate - The Bed Is In the Ocean

So a few things have changed that I thought I might inform you of. I received a new camera from Johanna. I have since created a flickr account and tied that account to make posts to my blog here. So you will now get photos along with all your blog entries! Horray! Here are the first few. Largely tests photos.

Feel free to keep an eye on my flickr account @ www.flickr.com/photos/mataus