10 posts tagged “lacey”

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. 

Molly likes to watch What Not to Wear.
Watching it, I decided I need a makeover. I don't need a whole new wardrobe (although some new shoes would be nice) but I'm going to get my hair cut, colored, and have my eyebrows waxed.

My hair is quite long right now, and I don't want to go shorter, but it hasn't been trimmed in forever and the ends are in poor shape. I think a bit more layering would be nice as well. Naturally I have dark blonde hair, and I don't want to go much darker in color, but I don't want to do the Hollywood platinum blonde thing, either, so I'm thinking redder, into a dark strawberry blonde.

I was figuring having the salon do the color, unless any of you think I'm wasting money not buying a couple boxes and having Lacey do it?

Sweet:

-My credit union canceled almost all of my overdraft fees.
-Pike is paying me to work on a web project, and Corey is okay with it.
-I’m working on a blog post for my company. Blogging for work is fun!
-My dad is coming to visit me this weekend! I’m not sure how much I’ve blogged about this, but family is extremely important to me. My dad and I are exceptionally close. I really wish my brother could come, too, but I am really looking forward to spending the weekend with my dad.

Sour:

-Anna is being particularly cranky. She is annoyed because her underlings ask Corey questions and not her. We do this because Corey doesn’t bite heads off.
-She is also going to be here in my office basically all day because Molly is out sick. I could really use someone to talk to who is on my side. I miss Keith. He emailed me today.

Salty:

-Every time I see Lacey’s friend Meghan (twice this weekend, I guess Meghan is becoming my friend, too) I get interested in law school again, because she’s a law student. She’s in law school right now.
-It really depends on if I can get a high enough LSAT score to make it into the top law schools. One school (third tier) is having an online LSAT 101 course next week in the evening and I’ve signed up for it.

The author of this blog can't stop listening to this damn song.

Added later: Lacey just ruined my Twilight-reading marathon NYE plans by calling earlier and leaving a message that she'll be back in town tomorrow.  I guess I'll have to do the reading marathon on NYD instead.

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!

When my grandpa died it didn't hit me until a few weeks later.  We all knew he was going to die.  He was in the hospital, unable to breathe on his own, drifting in and out of consciousness.  He had never wanted this, so after his children took him off life support he passed away.  He and I had been close despite how he had battled with Parkinson's most of my life.  I credit him for much of my nerdiness: he was very into computers for a grandparent, had owned an electronics store, and was a ham radio operator.  Because when he died it was expected, I thought I would be fine.  Then a few weeks later it just hit me that I would never see him again, and I stayed up crying for hours.

Looking back I think this demonstrates how my emotions take a while to actually affect me, or perhaps I just manage to hold them off for a certain period until they come rushing in.  I'd decided to love Pike, but somehow I can't simply decide to stop loving him.  I don't know if eventually these feelings will fade, if I will meet someone new, or if I'll try to hold onto these pieces forever.

My apologies for the most recent bout of sappiness.  It's not like me.

I really need to make Lacey take me dancing.

-Pike is away with Luca this weekend.  I miss Pike when he’s gone, and I’m jealous that he gets to spend time with Luca.  Also, as I previously mentioned, Pike knows I think Luca is attractive and Luca is ignoring me.  Problems likely to ensue.
-Installing operating systems virtually is not fun.
-I wanted it to be sunny this weekend, not wet and drab.
-Even though I said I’d go, I don’t really feel like going to this party tonight.  I don’t know anyone except the host unless Addison and/or Lacey decide to accompany me.  I frequently do this when it comes to parties.  I’m a flake.
-I’m sleepy.
-No reliable intelligence has yet been gathered regarding Cute Intern’s current relationship status and living arrangement.
-Yesterday I had a lot of fun bickering with Keith*, and today he’s out of the office at least until later this afternoon.

*Before anyone starts getting any ideas, he’s not my type at all, and I’m about 15 years too young to be his type.  You can’t be a cougar and date someone two years older than you.

Last Updated: 11/22/2009

I have come to the conclusion that all the people I write about can be confusing.  They confuse myself sometimes, so I've written up this informative list.  It's in alphabetical order, which I decided would make more sense than "attractiveness" or "length of hair."

Addison - Best friend of Pike. He and I still friends, according to Addison, unless Pike and I force him to take sides.  I, personally, would never do that.

Anna - My ex-boss.  Sometimes she's great. Most of the time I felt like I needed to get away quickly.

Carolyn - My housemate, who used to annoy me sometimes by not being as laid-back as Lacey, Aimee, and myself, but I like her now. The house needs a bit of structure.

Cloudy - Me. Professional woman in her mid-twenties. A bit odd.

Corey - The owner of my company. Not to be confused with "The Company"  that my company does tech support for.

Dan - A client of mine that I like to flirt with. I don't see him anymore after my promotion, which is sad.

Everett - A friend of mine that I was into before meeting Pike. Would probably agree to marry him if he asked. He lives on the opposite side of the country.

HR Lady - A coworker that I generally get along with.

Jack - Friend of Lacey's that I tried to flirt with and ended up without my favorite pair of earrings. He is in love with Sylvia. It is definitely un-reciprocated.

Jamal - My new supervisor, who is this awesome hilarious older dude.

Joan the Cougar - Pike's most recent ex. She is ten years his senior.

Karen - One of my best friends from high school. We don't really talk anymore.

Keith - The coworker formally known as Cougar-Meat. Completely hilarious young man who tends to date women about twenty years his senior, but currently has a girlfriend his age.

Kelly - Pike's current girlfriend. Lives in the same city that Joan the Cougar lives in, but Kelly is actually closer to Pike's age. I met her before they started dating, and I actually liked her.

Lacey - My roommate and probably my best friend if I had to pick one.

Luca - Friend of Pike's and mine who lives somewhere other than The City.  Cute in the "sexy" kind of way.  Beautiful hair. We basically stopped talking since Pike and I broke up.

Mark - Corey's brother who was a big shot at some huge company and now works for our tiny organization.

Molly - My coworker and best work-friend, although we no longer share and office, which is sad. Anna loves her. Her fiance used to be roommates with Dan.

Oscar The Loud Breather - Guy I was sleeping with a while back.

Parker - Coworker that very much unfortunately has a girlfriend.

Pike - Ex.  We are still friends. He is a serial monogamist.

The Quebecois - Amazing, sexy man who is crazy about me, however he lives in Canada so we are reduced to video chat and much sexual frustration.

Redhead Boy - Boy I went on a few dates with. The romance kind of petered out before anything could actually happen.

The SR - Awesome client that I used to flirt with until I found out from Molly that he's actually gay. He's still awesome, but I don't see him anymore after my promotion.

Syliva - Lacey's friend, one of those people that everyone bends over backwards to please.

Travis - Used to be a client of mine, cute in the "I want half of your genetic markup in the DNA of my children" kind of way. Overly friendly. In a relationship. Lives in another country far far away.

Web Girl - Coworker who does most of the web work. She currently shares and office with me and she talks nonstop.

Web Guy - He's my coworker that is supposedly in charge of the "web team" but doesn't do much for it. He's cool though.

I might be missing some people. If I don't write about them in here, it's probably because they made such a non-impact in my life I hardly found it worthwhile. 

I'm sitting in my apartment in front of the air conditioning drinking a glass of ice water excited by the fact that I don't have to share the ice cubes with anyone!  Moving was crazy, but it turned out okay in the end, meaning that I and all my belongings are now here.

Only one snafu occurred with the move, but it was a major one: I couldn't rent the van, being that I'm just a few months too young!  I don't even want to go into the insanity.  Poor rental woman had to see me nearly bust out in tears.  Luckily Lacey and her roomy trunk were there to save the day.  We managed to stuff every since item of mine into her car.  Addison was quite helpful with the car-stuffing process.  There was hardly room to breathe and I'm surprised the thing actually went up hills!  I had my knees up from stuff being under my feet and I had a box on my lap.

Lacey: "I'm going to drive slowly because if the air bags deflate, we'll be killed."

We made it alive.

Now my stuff is still all in boxes, but for now I'm just happy that the internet works and that there are ice cubes in the freezer.  I don't feel that this is "home" yet.  I think a few things need to happen first:

1. I need to unpack all my stuff so it actually looks homey.

2. Besides the morning I came to look at the place a few weeks ago, I haven't actually been here during daylight hours.  And morning doesn't count since I'm too tired and frantic to notice what anything looks like.

3. I haven't spent a weekend here by myself relaxing and recuperating.  Sometimes I enjoy spending weekends home, by myself, just relaxing and enjoying being away from people.  What was that word again?  Home.

It's moving day!  It's movink day, dahling.  I still have a couple things to pack and I want to clean up Pike's place a little bit more.  He'd complain if he thought I "trashed" it.  I don't mean like a drunken drugged-out celebrity in a hotel room--lampshade ripped, window smashed, beer bottle through the television set.  Pike's more of the "You trashed my apartment!  How could you do the dishes and not put them away?  And I can't believe you changed the channel on my TV!" person.

The fact that I'm going to be living in my own place is still hard for me to believe.  I wonder when it will sink in.  When I get my key?  When my friends leave me stuck with my boxes of stuff?  After coming home to work to a place that's just the way I left it?

My two friends who are helping me are:

Lacey - Initially a friend of a friend who happened to move to The City with me.  We used to see each other a lot more, but my social life slowed down quite a bit when I was dealing with being in-between jobs.  Since she's being so nice to help, I should probably make an effort to socialize with her more often.

Addison - Actually Pike's best friend who just moved to The City.  He knows that Pike and I are in a downward spiral.  It's nice that he's not willing to scrap the friendship with me just because Pike and I might not stay together.  I think he's always thought of me as the more rational one.

I do not have much that needs moving, so the three of us should be able to do everything very quickly.

Here's hoping that everything goes smoothly!