Well, I've had an eventful four days!  I went over to Christine's Thursday afternoon and she helped me look at fabric for my Tonks coat.  She also looked over the reference pictures I had and thinks it will be easier than I am fretting over.  We went over to Joanns and I got a couple of patterns for the coat, as well as my thread for the dupioni and a zipper for the dragonmaster dress.  Then I headed over to Mom's work to see if her co-worker was able to fix my computer.  He had found a nasty Trojan, which he was able to get rid of, and some spyware.  However, when he tried to restart the computer, it wouldn't start up; kept freezing right after the Windows splash page and before the logon screen.  He even tried the cheat method, but it wouldn't let us access the system restore points.  He worked on it for several hours, and I tried a few more things over the weekend, but no luck.  It looks like the spyware deleted at least one vital dll file, so I a going to try re-installing Windows tomorrow.  *sigh*

Then I headed over to Newark after having dinner with Mom, talked to Andy's mom for a while, and then after Andy got off the computer, talked with him.  Then Kelly got back and I caught up with her.

Friday morning Kelly and I drove around and looked at some apartments, had lunch at DQ, stopped at Cord Camera for me to pick up an application, and hung out at Best Buy a little, where one of her co-workers gave us some other leads for apartments.  Then we checked some more places out and headed back to the house for me to fuss with the computer and her to play a little WoW before she headed to work.  Then I went to visit Grace for a couple of hours, and then returned to Andy's.  We watched some more Chobits (second fave anime series!) until Kelly got back from work.  Then he went to a bar with his sister for a couple of hours, while Kelly and I watched the Escaflowne movie.  Then I got ready for bed (sleepy!) while she played some WoW.  Andy got back just before I fell asleep, and we talked about 15 minutes, and then he headed to the computer while I went to dreamland.

Saturday I slept in later than I wanted, but Andy and I still had time to look at some places.  He wanted to go to Best Buy, so we stopped there (I'm going to be a regular soon, it looks like) and I grabbed Road to Perdition for $7.  Then we returned to his house and after Kelly got back from work, his mom took us to dinner at Texas Roadhouse.  After dinner, Andy, Kelly and I had a planning meeting and discussed some logistics about the apartment, and it looks like we are leaning towards a 1380 square foot townhouse in a place called McMillan Woods.  We watched Phantom of the Opera after that, since Kelly hadn't seen it yet, and then Sunshine, one of Andy's picks.  Then Kelly went on the computer and Andy and I finished Chobits.  His mom looked over the pictures from the photo shoot I did with him a few weeks ago, and ordered some prints (my first order - woohoo!)  Chrissy (Andy's sister) also wants a photo shoot done, which I will schedule for August.

Sunday I visited with my friends Mark and Mike.  We went to Dawes and spent some time there, and then they drove me over to Buckeye Lake and showed me where they used to live and how much it is being built up with new mega-houses.  We had grilled chicken for dinner and then I returned home to look for that damned Windows reinstallation disk.

OK, here's an update with me for the past week or so:

1.  The laptop is still being wonky.  Avast did find a Trojan, which I got rid of, and it is currently undergoing a thorough scan, so we'll see if that helps.  I also have a friend who is very knowledgeable about computers who will take a look at it later this week.  Keep your fingers crossed.

2.  I'm going to a job fair tomorrow!  It's being held in Columbus, and seems to be fairly large.  I already printed up a bunch of resumes and business cards to take down.  I'm being optimistic that I'll find my dream job (I need to find something soon - only four weeks of unemployment left - eek!)

3.  Costumes: Thanks to selling lots of things on eBay, I purchased my rust beaded trim and my gold trim at Joanns last week, and located my Mary Janes that had disappeared in my room for my Scottish lass.  The tartan should be arriving in the next week or so from the UK.  I won the combat boots on eBay for Tonks and they just shipped - now hopefully they will fit!  I also ordered my dupioni - a beautiful olive green.  A seamstress friend of mine is going to help me with the Tonks coat - I will be seeing her Thursday for fabric hunting and construction assistance.  I finally did find a very high-res picture of the coat - it is more intricate that I thought, but I am still going to try to pull it off.

4.  Photography:  I finally got around to printing off some business cards, as well as pricing lists, order forms, and samples of the frames/borders and color spaces I can use on the photos.  Now I just need to start getting the word out there.  I am also looking into submitting a few photos into our local county fair in late August.

5.  Now that summer temperatures are returning to normal, I am finding it harder to get out and do things.  Heat and humidity have never agreed with me - I find even 80's hot!  I am planning on getting my bike tire fixed this week, so maybe I will go biking on the trails in Newark.  If I didn't have so much to do this week, I would drive up to the state park and take a hike in the coolness of the trees.  I really need to get out and about - that will be the great thing when I move and have roomies; I am much more motivated to do things when I am not alone.  I think I will take a nice walk at Dawes on Sunday! 

6.  And finally, I'll be starting to go apartment hunting this weekend!  Kelly and I are scoping out places Friday morning, and then Andy and I will go back to the places that we liked to see what he thinks.  Just a few months (it appears)!