Norah Norah Norah

Okay, so, on my trip to D.C. at the end of last month, I met this awesome girl named Norah (pictured) and we seemed to really hit it off. BUT I had to catch my train back to Baltimore, or I would have been stuck in D.C. until Monday morning (it was Friday) or required to grab a cab back. I wish I’d grabbed a cab! For whatever idiotic reason I gave Norah my card, but never asked for HER information, and I’ve felt like a doofus ever since my walk back to the train station in D.C.

Norah works for a certain House of Representatives member who will remain unnamed. I want to contact the office Norah works in, but I don’t want to seem stalker-ish. I’ve waited as long as I have through the advice (be it good or bad) of a coworker to see if she called or emailed using the info on my card, or if my interest in her waned at all.

Here we are two weeks later, and I’m still wondering about her, and wanting to contact her. I may call the office she works in on Friday and say Hi, or leave a message or something. I’d love to run back out to D.C.

GRRR.... What should I do?

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On top of this, I have a couple of girls here in Cincinnati interested in me. A couple of them are more friends and the others I met at a couple of clubs downtown. They’re all pretty darn cool, but I’m not feelin’ it for them that way. Though, they sure are fun to hang with!

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I need to order letterhead for Ripple, custom Ripple postage stamps for Ripple mailings, and some Ripple-branded envelopes. The cards I ordered last month ROCK!!!

I still need to finalize the formation of Ripple with the Lawyer we’re using, set up two checking accounts and a savings account for Ripple, get Trivantis to direct deposit a set amount into each of those three accounts for me every pay period, set up an account with Pre-Paid Legal to handle our ‘basic’ legal needs going forward. I also need to get our official articles of incorporation set up with Ohio dividing the 1500 shares of Ripple up as 25% for outside investment in Ripple, 52.5% for me, and 22.5% for Tony in total ownership of the company. I’m currently looking to charge around $1500/share in the company with 375 shares open for purchase out of the initial 1500 allowable by the State of Ohio before charging us more for incorporation.

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The budget is as tight as ever. Raising the amount of $ I need to send to my mom to pay off what she helped me with to get my car will be expensive. About $4400 at just about $1k a month. That’s a $500 check her way every pay period. Up until now, I’ve been sending $100 checks at the beginning of each month only. I am trying to eliminate all personal debt prior to seeking funding from any bank or individual investor (Angel investors) in Ripple.

I have paid off two credit cards, three OLD debts, and a few more recent ones. Again, paying my mom back is HUGE... and then I have school loans which if ‘on schedule’, should be repaid by October of ’07. Pushing ahead full steam!

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Why is life so aggravating? Everything seems to be grand and then there’s a twist, or a turn... and everything shakes down. I don’t get it. I don’t understand.

I know everything seems to be going my way at the moment. But I can’t help but worry about what will end up going sour and trying to plan for it.

Tony left his job, for a warranted purpose. It pains me to see him not working again. I can’t tell if he’s been sending out his resume or not. I don’t think he’s dropped by any temp services, and he doesn’t seem like the kind of guy to run out and get a ‘filler’ job just to space-time and pay the bills until he can find something he likes.

I constantly find myself wanting to help out and try and find him something, but every time I do that it doesn’t seem like he cares or is somehow completely indifferent. Before he moved in with us I could always pretend to not worry a lot since I didn’t see him as often. It’s harder to hide it now, and it directly affects Paul, Todd, and Myself if Tony ends up unable to pay his rent and other bills.

I think I’ll try my best to sit this one out and not protrude into Tony’s workings to find a job. While it is for me to worry about in general, I don’t have the time, or energy to expend on it. We’ll see if I can pull the entire idea off or not. This will be tough.