14 posts tagged “apartment”

I'm officially moved in to the group house. Although I still have a couple boxes to unpack. And I think I left my make-up bag at my old apartment.

My room is medium-sized with new hardwood floors and no closet. This is not the first time I haven't had a closet. My old apartment didn't have a closet. My favorite apartment of all time back in Hometown did not have a closet in my bedroom. I share a bathroom with two roommates, and it's a large but strange bathroom. It has this horrible black, white, and red design where the highlight is a bright red bathtub with a curtain that hangs from the ceiling. The curtain is kind of icky and needs replacing.

Downstairs is the living room, with a nice TV set and we have FIOS (which is strange because I haven't had cable since I was in college and I haven't had an actual TV in my place since moving to the City). There is also a dining room with a nice table. Lacey's piano is in there, along with my sewing table and Carolyn's desk. The kitchen is kind of crappy because there isn't much cabinet space or cooking space but there is a dishwasher. The outside is lovely. We have a huge backyard with a fire pit thing and Carolyn brought a couple tomato plants and herbs. There's also a hammok in the back which may or may not be leaving with one of the girls that's leaving. I hope not!

The housemates are my friend Lacey, who is tall and a bit on the heavy side with short dark hair. She's sort of seeing this guy Sven, but I haven't met him and she basically just goes to his place to sleep and have sex and sometimes they go out and do things. But he isn't her "boyfriend" even though that doesn't really make sense. Aimee, who has already been living at the house as well, is tall with blonde hair. She's thin and has a southern accent and is single. Carolyn is the other new person who moved in, and she's tiny and Asian. We met her boyfriend Micah who came to help her move in her stuff. 

Minus:
-Anna blew up at me today. For a complete misunderstanding. Which I of course couldn't explain.
-The New Guy likes to wear social awkwardness on his sleeve.
-I still don't know what happened with Dan on Friday.
-Had to borrow money from my parents again because I have more loan payments due. I hate being near broke all the time! I can't even afford the new Luxe book. Sigh.
-I'm getting to bed too late again.
-It's Wednesday and my apartment is already a mess.
-I have a dentist appointment this month, I don't remember when, and I can't find my dental insurance card and I have no idea how much the copay is. If it's too much I may not be able to buy groceries this month.

Plus:
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My head is explosive.  It hurts so bad!  I am not at work and they are kind of pissed.  I'm pissed, too.  I'll be in tomorrow even if getting holes drilled in my skull sounds like a good idea to relieve this pressure.

The night before last I dreamed that I was trying to get in somewhere, I think it was my apartment, but I'm not sure.  This woman was walking about ten dogs and the dogs were keeping me from getting through the door.  They weren't barking and trying to bite me, and they weren't wagging their tails and trying to get me to pet them, either.  They were just sitting there.

So I took the liberty of using Christina Love's dream dictionary site that she uses.

Dog
To see a dog in your dream, symbolizes intuition, loyalty, generosity, protection, and fidelity. The dream suggests that your strong values and good intentions will enable you to go forward in the world and bring you success. Alternatively, it indicates a skill that you have ignored or forgotten.

Door
To dream that the doors are closed or locked, signify opportunities that are denied and not available to you or that you have missed out on. It also symbolizes the ending of a phase or project.

So this means that intuition, loyalty, all these good things and good intentions are stopping me from accessing opportunities?  In other words, in order to get what I want, I need to act like a scumbag?  Although I wonder if it means something more that the dogs were completely passive.  Any thoughts? 

Sigh.  It's not like I get what I want now, anyway.

My 2009 To-Do List
When I was in grad school for speech pathology, we had to create goals for our clients and one of the major issues was that they be measurable.  So instead of doing vague things like "get fit" I've tried to make my goals more specific.
1. Start crafting again.
2. Create a binder for recipes.
3. Get a raise, higher paying job, or a job in Hometown.
4. Create a chore schedule.
5. Read 5 books owned but haven't read yet.
6. Learn to create Wordpress themes.
7. Start blogging again.*
8. Write 3 short stories.
9. Create an exercise schedule.
10. Get my World of Warcraft character to level 80.
(optional) Find the love of my life.

Things I Need from Target
1. Another hanging file folder box.
2. Activia yogurt.
3. A small notebook that wont get beat up in my purse.
4, A new purse.
5. Snack mix for work.
6. Calcium supplements.
7. 2 bulletin boards.
8. New Underwear.
9. Screws.

Qualities That My Next Boyfriend Must Have
1. Intelligence.
2. Silliness.
3. Doesn't make mountains out of molehills.
4. Willing to try and get along with my family--no prejudices.
5. Enjoys cuddling, and has a body that can be cuddlied with (ie, isn't malnourished).
6. Taste in things that doesn't clash.  (We don't have to like all the same things, but he can't only like rap music, reality television, and horror films.)
7. Likes staying in sometimes.

What I'm going to do This Weekend
1. Do dishes.
2. Do laundry.
3. Unpack.
4. Finish Breaking Dawn.
5. Continue reading Gravity's Rainbow which I found at my parents' house.
6. Get started on 2009 list.
7. Prepare for next week.
8. Figure out what I'm going to do for my birthday at the end of the week.
9. Maybe see Pike if he's back. Convince him to take me to the Andrew Bird show for my birthday.

Rants
1. I don't want to go back to work tomorrow. 
2. It's so stupid! 
3. Everyone is working on stuff that I'm not responsible for. 
4. I shouldn't have to be there and I hate that I do.

*Not this one.  I'm referring to a blog written under my real name instead of this pseudonym and more about stuff than my personal...issues.

List the three best times/things of the year
1. Quitting grad school and starting my job.  It’s not perfect, but it suits me and I earn money.
2. Finally getting laid again!
3. Starting this blog.  Being able to write openly like this has really helped me out.

List the three worst times/struggles of the year
1. Breaking up with Pike.
2. Deciding to quit graduate school.
3. Figuring out how to deal with Anna.

List three personal traits you've changed throughout the year
1. Becoming in control of my own life.
2. Even though I’ve always been positive, I think I have become even more optimistic.
3. A slight increase of motivation.

List three personal traits you haven't changed throughout the year
1. I’m still self-obsessed.
2. I’m still messy.
3. I’m still rational.

List three people you've met this year
1. Anna
2. Keith
3. Redhead boy

List three people who have made a major impact on your life this year
1. Anna
2. Pike (even ending the relationship made an impact)
3. Travis (the catalyst)

List three people that you had to say goodbye to (even if you didn't know them) this year
1. Everyone from graduate school
2. Travis
3. My family, every time I see them I have to say goodbye again.

List your three greatest accomplishments of the year
1. Getting my job and keeping it for as long as I have.
2. Having the guts to end things when Pike even when I didn’t really want to, because it was the right thing to do.
3. Getting my own apartment!  And in general, just being able to make it as a real grown up person.

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Disgruntled:

-It's Tuesday, and I'll be seeing Pike later today for Nerd Club.  While I really want to see him, I fear it will be rather awkward.  Even though he doesn't know what happened, he has ways of dragging the truth out of me.
-I really need to do laundry and I probably wont have time to do so tonight.
-I'm disgruntled because I can't have a cat in my apartment.  The landlord's kid is allergic to nearly everything, so I understand, it's just that's the one thing that's really missing from my life right now!
-Men in general and how they are nowhere near as straightforward as they claim.

Giddy:

-Anna is gone today!
-Lacey is up for dancing in early December when she returns from Thanksgiving.  I'm probably really going to need something then to hold me off until I can visit home for Christmas.
-Putting Nanowrimo aside.  Yes, this is actually a good thing.  It's been keeping me from doing other projects I want to get started on.  I'll finish the novel eventually, but at my own pace.
-It's lunchtime!  Yay!
-My Vox Neighborhood is awesome.  Thanks for sticking with me!

Mal:

-I miss my cat.  I wish I could have a kitty in my apartment.
-It's a general boring day at work.  Anna took me around to meet the other offices, but hardly anyone was having any technical problems.  We did run into Corey (the owner of our company) and we had lunch, so that was actually good.
-The temperature is quite cold for October in The City.
-I had a dream where I wanted to get back together with Pike.  Then yesterday he decided to break his sponsor's rule and come over.*  He arrived right after Rowan finished asking me out.  I was a bit on the edge of my seat there.  At one point, when Pike was over, I started rubbing his arm out of habit, and he said, "Cloudy!" and I stopped.  I still feel so comfortable around him I forget that I'm supposed to behave differently--as friends.  That's hard.

Bueno:

-Keith left early today so I get to have the office to myself.  OH!  It turns out Keith is actually dating someone younger than him right now, so no cougars at the moment.  I'm not sure if this is such a great thing, because if he was dating a cougar I'm sure it would provide much more interesting vox fodder.
-Two days of Project Beautify before the date.  Must bleach, work out, and exfoliate like I'm a celebrity.  (I'm not sure if this really goes under bad or good.  Two days is better than one?)
-My dishes are nearly done at this point and I think I might actually have my apartment clean before my mom and her friend show up for the weekend on Friday. 
-I'm really looking forward to having them here.  Her friend is closer to me than my actual aunts.**  My mom is also bringing me some of my things from my parents' house and some groceries and necessities.  I also can't wait for her to see how I'm living like a grown up person in The City!  I've got a job and my own apartment in one of the most important places in the world.  I've made it!

*He brought me stuff I left at his apartment in exchange for supper
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**I have a lot of aunts and uncles who all have a lot of nieces and nephews.
 

Boo:

-I noticed that my neighborhood only entries get way more attention than my public ones (probably for obvious reasons).
-I hate telling people in Hometown about the break-up.
-A client started telling me about her new puppy and I really wish I could get a pet (I'd probably go for a kitten) but my landlords are against it because their child is highly allergic to animals.  This makes me sad.
-Anna's back and cranky.

Woo:

-I finished unpacking everything at my apartment over the weekend!
-Work has been going by really fast.  I didn't even glance at the clock until what I thought was around 10:30am, but it turned out to be 12:30 already.
-Travis emailed, and wants me to go to some kind of happy hour with him on Thursday along with other work people.
-I picked out last names for the characters:

Katia Perkins (lust)
Seth Fournier (gluttony)
Astrid Van Tassel (greed)
CJ Barker (sloth)
Sandy Penn (anger)
Josie Soto (envy)
Porter Kelly (pride)

Sad:

-My apartment is such a pigsty.  It's completely unlivable, and I'm not going to be able to clean anything this evening because I have Plans.

-I'm staying at Pike's tonight and all I can think about is what excuse is he going to have to bitch at me.

-My mom will not stop emailing me.

-I wrote Luca an email last night and he hasn't responded yet.

-It's freezing in my office.

Happy:

-Finally able to write a public entry!

-Plenty to do at work, and Anna's out of the office for a while.  Plus she seems to be in a good mood.  (As in, she hasn't yelled at anything/one yet.)

-Cute Intern is proficient in witty banter, which is probably my favorite form of flirting.  This is going to be a fun few months.

-I'm going to see some friends tonight that I haven't seen in a couple weeks.

-I'm just in a general good mood today.  Let's hope it stays that way!

You know how you can only poop in places that you feel really comfortable in?

Since I've moved to my new apartment, I've taken to pooping at the office instead of pooping at home.  I guess my body feels more comfortable being at work than being here.