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With Joe AND a car!!

PIcs and updates later.

I PASSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms (and moms-to-be!) today!!

*hugs*

Well, I guess, technically, *our* new place, but since I”m the only one whose been there so far, it’s mine. haha

I’m hanging out at mom’s for the weekend, however. Mother’s Day and all, so I won’t get to stay there until Monday night.

Old Apt rent thru May: Paid.
New Apt rent thru May: Paid.
Movers: Paid.
Walmart, for a couple of necessities: Paid.

The movers ended up being on time/early, depending on which quote you go by. I changed the time online and confirmed via telephone on Thursday, and they said they got the time-change, and we were good to go. Mom picked me up and we went to do the lease signing, and everything was happy-happy, joy-joy. We looked at the place and I started filling out the checklist. I have 3 or so days to get it back, so I’m going to finish it up Monday.

I’ll have pics up eventually. It’s a lovely, cute apt, and I’ll have to have everyone over soon. Like, after we get back from CA. And maybe get a couch, so ppl don’t have to sit on the floor. eheh.

I have a ton of cleaning to do at the old place, and I’m going to spend the rest of the week, until I leave, anyway, going over to the old place to clean up. I have a few more things (a box, max. plus my laundry basket) to make sure get packed up, but the rest of it’s just cleaning.

Time to catch up on email/blogs!

Want a good diet?
Spend 3-4 hrs a night cleaning & packing and having not much else but water. lol. Well, I”m imagining it works like a charm, but I haven’t weighed myself as the scale has already been packed.

I think it’s weird that I can sit up all night on Friday nights, but other nights it’s like my body KNOWS it’s a work night, and I have to go to sleep early.

Here’s what I have left to do, by tomorrow:
- Finish packing up kitchen (dishes, really. I’m almost done)
- Get crap out of closet (most everything left in the closet is just stuff I’m throwing away, so I just need to put it in bags, or take bags out)
- Get loose stuff off computer desk & throw it out or pack it. (not that much. most of it’s throw-away)
- Pack up electronics (dvd/vcr… printer… I think that’s it)
- Make a list of stuff to get at the store
- Notify PO of change of address (yes, i’m slow. I need to get ‘em to hold my mail while I’m gone, too. haha)
- Make a list of places I need to get my address changed on (work, bank, credit cards, Netflix, magazines, etc.)
- Get phone changed over (Can prolly wait until I get back from CA. Have the cell phone anyway)
- Find out if DSL will switch over. If not, figure out what to do for internet. (Can probably wait until I get back from CA, since I’m only going to be in the new place a week, anyway.)
- Get AddyChange cards to send to ppl? or just email everyone (if you want in on it & aren’t normal friends/family, but I know you and you want me to have your info anyway, comment or email me your address)
- add more to this list as I think of it.

Ok, that was a long enough break.

ABBA rules!

I’m taking a much needed “sitting under the fan” break. It’s freaking hot in here, even though I have the a/c on and all the fans I own.

I’ve taken out like, a bunch of trash this evening. If I weren’t such a freaking packrat, it wouldn’t be a big deal, but, well, I am. My goal this evening is to pack up the kitchen. I probably won’t mop or sweep the floor tonight, but I want to get it to the point where I CAN.

Tomorrow morning, if I wake up on time (HA! I magically turned my alarm off while I was sleeping & woke up too late to catch my normal bus. Public transportation has it in for me lately. Maybe it’s because it knows I’ll be leaving it soon for the wonders of my own transportation.), I want to clean off the dining table & pack up my printer and stuff. Then tomorrow I need to get the blue chair out of here. It was a nice chair while it lasted, but it’s time has come and gone. I’m going to be near furniture-less again. haaha.

Joe and I need to get a bed and a couch. A couple more chairs would probably be nice for the table, in case we ever have more than, oh, just us, over for dinner.

I checked my work email today when I got home (I wanted to check my pay advice, and I was busy all day today/didn’t think about it while I was at work, so I decided to find out what I was looking at tomorrow morning), and it turns out I’m not going over to the other office like I was supposed to. That’s probably for the best, because I’ll forget/won’t care about what I learn since I’m worried more about the move and going to get Joe. haha I’m supposed to take my driving test, but I need to talk to my boss about a good time. I was hoping to do it tomorrow, but hopes for that were dashed when I was supposed to go to the other office.. So I think I’m looking at Monday for that. But I need to talk to him.

Whee. soo much freaking stuff to worry about it, but I’m passed the freak-out stage now. NOw that i tlooks like I might actually get stuff done. ahahah Or done enough that I can wing it the rest of the way.

OKay, back to cleaning/packing. Anybody wanna help?

DART hates me. What appeared to be a normal day home ended up costing me about 40 min in wait-time cuz the stupid train ended up stopped at a station FOR NO REASON AT ALL causing me to miss my connecting train and having to sit outside in the humid heat, which caused me to MISS FREAKING GILMORE GIRLS. lol. DAMNIT.

Oh well, the good news is, I will be able to watch this season on DVD without feeling like I just saw everything. *sigh* oh well.

OK. off to pack! yay! packing!

Okay, so even though I think I’m DYING (I was sort of sick yesterday & am still not 100% today, but I feel a little better. I’ll spare you the details.), I’m getting a lot of this cleaning stuff done. I”m supposed to be getting my boxes today, so I’ve been taking care of business. Cleaning, throwing stuff away (got my book shelf to the trash, as well as my two dead dining chairs, plus about 3-4 bags of trash).. trying to sort of organize, so when I get my boxes, I just need to shove stuff in ‘em.

I decided to start going through the crap on my ledge between the front half of the apartment and the kitchen. One of the autographed hockey pucks I bought off eBay was up there… it was signed by Roman Lyashenko, #36 when he was on the Stars (he later went to the NY Rangers). I completely forgot I had that (I also have Morrow’s autograph, from when he was #45! heeh), so I decided that I hadn’t really heard his name at all in all the hockey talk. Turns out, after I Googled him, that he died while on vacation in Turkey back in 2003. After some more detective work, it looks like he committed suicide.

That’s so sad. Even sadder that it took me three years to find out, lol. but still. it’s really a downer.

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So yeah, I’ve been cleaning and throwing stuff away all day. I decided that I needed boxes, but there’s no way I’m going to be able to carry all of the boxes that I probably need home, sooo.. I ordered boxes. They’ll be here tomorrow, so I can’t really PACK anything today, but that gives me today to clean and clean and clean.

Things I also need to do:
- Get electricity turned on
- Look into renters’ ins.
- Contact SBC about phone/internet
- Continue cleaning/throwing crap away

I’ve decided that I’m going to do the unthinkable. I’m tossing almost all of my pictures.
Band pics? tossed.
Other pics? tossed.

Only because I have sooooooooo many.
I’m keeping the negatives… but if I were to keep the pictures, there’d be no room for Joe. haha. I have 6-7 photo/video boxes filled with photos. I have like 13 photo albums filled with pictures. I have 5? 6? binders full of negatives. I’m keeping the negatives. I don’t know where they’ll go, but I can’t toss the negatives. Maybe when I get a free day after all this stuff is done and people are settled, and I can breathe without wanting to kill someone, I’ll go through negatives & figure out which ones I really need to keep.

I know I”ll get sucked into looking at the pics… I’m going to keep some of my favorite friend/family/cat pics, but everything else is out the door.

It’s kind of scary.

Is it tonight yet? I need a sit-and-knit/watch-a-movie break.