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I have packed nothing yet. NOTHING. I'm scared. Hold me. |
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but rather a swift kick in the ass and a blown kiss to get fucking packing...eh spider!!!!! |
But I figure since I'm just moving across town, I can just shove things in random boxes, schlep them over to the new apartment in messy fashion, and then deal with straightening things out when I set my stuff up. Ya know? I plan on getting all the shite in my room shoved into boxes tonight. Tomorrow Rainey's sister and her friend Lea are coming to help us, and they're both obsessive-compulsive and just love to pack things up and clean things out, so I imagine most of the work will be done when I get home tomorrow night. Then, the movers aren't coming Friday until 1, and I have the day off, so I have all morning to finish up then. So I'll be cool, right? Right? |
My bro's in the same boat. He won't get rid of anything, either. Recently, he picked up a 500 album record collection, for free I shit thee not, from some dude's basement. Apparently the sleeves were mildewed and he didn't want them anymore. I need to get and touch with him and find out what he got. |
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Moved four times in last decade, three in last five years, two in last three years, and could not have done it without help of a lady whose boxes I have now stored in my garage...I was in Aruba for the last two moves, at least up to the week preceding the move. Get lots of help, the more chaotic the better, and order lots of chinese food. |
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I'm so glad I'm moving. This morning traffic on the Beltway was backed up all the way to my onramp from Kenilworth Ave. It's only been that bad maybe two other times since I've lived here, but I was reminded how good I'll have it in my new place. I'll live on the same street I work (though there's about 5 miles between home and work). Last night, I drove there from work to sign the lease, and I got there in ten minutes. TEN MINUTES. This morning it took me an hour and 15 minutes to get here from my current apartment. We'll have a view of East-West Hwy and the Metro station. This makes me happy - I love living near train tracks. These are nice, too. I'll have a big bedroom with a walk-in closet. Lots of cabinet space in the kitchen. Lots of storage closets. Nice carpets. Sprinklers in every room (good for me because I'm afraid of fire). Alarm system in the apartment itself. I won't have to go to the post office to pick up missed UPS deliveries anymore. There's a pool and a gym and a dry cleaners on site, grocery store next door, pharmacy across the street, and an Einstein's bagels catty-corner to us. Not to mention the Metro station right there! Right across the street! I can take my car in to get fixed, and I'll still be able to get to work without a problem. This rocks. |
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I may live in a hovel, but there are big trees in the yard, lots of birds and squirrels, and cats to chase the birds and squirrels. And there are only four apts. in my building. |
I like typing in caps every once in a while. |
fires, earthquakes....all spell disaster in those types of buildings. |
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i'm sure i'm biased, but the tallest things i want in a 20 mile radius of where i sleep are redwoods. |
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unless you mean, come to DC and see how nice your place is. i'll do that. since you won't come to new orleans. |
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I'd rather live in the city than drive to it five days a week. but I'm just biased. I hate traffic. I'm fine with having the rainforests and volcanoes and and alpine lakes and islands and old-growth forests and sea water and rivers as far as 40 miles away as long as I can walk to the grocery store. I think the little birds and trout are happier without my car's exhaust, anyway. |
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I just got a phone call from my roommate. She and her sister and friend had spent all day packing and moving stuff to our new apt., and now she called and asked me if I wanted to meet them for dinner after they went to church, which gets out at six. They wanted to meet them somewhere in DC, and all I could think of was how that would mean that I would have to stay here for, like, an extra 45 minutes and where would we meet? Nowhere convenient (for me). So I said no, we'll just meet up at home after 6. Never mind that they've been moving all day and maybe I could make a little sacrifice and do something they want to do. Shit. |
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Are you going to get a priest to bless your new apartment, Spider? My parents did that with their house and I was wondering if it was an American Catholic custom as well. |
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especially if you see your roomate all the time [uh, yeah, i know] and you're moving to the same place. you shouldn't feel bad if you don't want to go. |
I agree with Cyst and Cat on where to live too, except substitute "maple trees" for "Gum trees" and "lake shore" for "bush." |