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Parent’s House Night 1
Well the move is done! My mom and my friend Lori spent several hours and several truck loads of stuff to my parents house (this is on top of all the stuff I had already moved).
I’m not delusional I know that this is going to be an adjustment, but wow, everyone is ready for bed at 11:30…I’m a night owl…I think this will be one of the hardest adjustments!
I’ve told a few people this already but I’m going to say it again…if you move hire a mover…it will be worth every penny! I wish I would have done that! It is 4 nights after the move and I am STILL sore and stiff! HIRE A MOVER!
Bentley is doing really well here. He has his “psycho” moments but overall he has been the calm lazy dog that I need him to be while we’re here. My dad seems to be doing ok with us here (if he’s complaining to my mom she hasn’t passed that along).
I’ll keep everyone posted on how this goes! Talk about a Psychology experiment!
HOLY HELL where did the last 30 days go?
While technically I have until the 30th to turn in my keys I am trying to have everything done and wrapped up by Thursday…that’s only 48 hours away, EEK!
There is still so much to do and I have no idea how I’m going to get it done (maybe getting away from the computer would be a good start, lol).
I’ll keep everyone posted on the new living arrangements! Wish me luck! Tomorrow the bulk of the move commences!
So I finally feel like summer is here in Michigan. Right now I’m sitting on my balcony on a wonderfully sunny Sunday afternoon drinking an Oberon , watching Bentley nap in the sun, and thinking about all the responsibilities inside my apartment that I’ve been avoiding like the plague.
I move in just 2 weeks…and other then selling my furniture I’ve got NOTHING really done for this move. It’s a move I’m not looking forward to, the closer it gets. It’s not that I’m not appreciative that my parents have offered me a place to live, but again this is not where I thought I would be at 29.
I knew this move wasn’t going to be easy but the closer it gets the more I realize it’s going to be one of the toughest things I’ve had to do so far in my life. I’m in a sense giving up all my independence and privacy. I ahve major concerns about how I’m going to be able to carry on my life while living at home. Here are just a few things that have been said that give me concern:
1. “Don’t think dad isn’t going to pay attention to what you’re spending, I mean you are saying you’re moving back to save money”
2. “Well this will be good, now if we need a ride home if we drink you’ll be there”
3. “He’s not going to be happy if you go out every night and leave us with the dog”
Now I know to most that those don’t seem like earth shattering statments, however but them in the context of conversations you’re having with your mom about moving back into their home. I haven’t lived there since I was 13 years old…this is going to be the biggest pain ever!
I can only hope that the mortgage I applied for the other day comes through and I can start house hunting quickly. I do still need to stay with my parents to save up a little more cash and take care of some bills but I think we all would take the move better knowing that there is an end in sight…sooner rather then later.
I’v been trying to reconnect with old friends lately. I don’t know if it’s just the madness of life, but it feels like I have lost most of the friendships that I used to have. I’m not denying that I probably let some of them slip away when I started dating Mike, but it truely is something I regret. I can only hope that these people can realize that Mike and I had such an odd start to our relationship with our different work schedules and only seeing each other once or twice a week, it made it hard splitting my time with others. Again I know now this is unacceptable. I can only hope to make up for my mistakes.
It amazes me how much we allow ourselves to be influenced or affected by our past. We’re all so hard on ourselves and on each other. We’ve all made mistakes and we’ll all continue to make mistakes. There is no one free from this. I want to live without regrets. I am working on letting go of them, I never realized how hard it can be.
Often I feel like I’m just climbing on one of those stupid StairMaster machines…the ones where you’re “climbing” stairs but not really getting anywhere. That’s how I feel. I’m trying to climb and going no where fast. I know that life isn’t easy, I’m not delusional. I’ve made some bad and some questionable choices in my life, but I’ve just got to practice what I would preach…own the choices you made. You don’t have to publicize them, accept opinion or accept criticism for them, but you need to personally own them. Acknowledge the good and the bad and do with it what is most productive for you. And realize that you can learn from every situation and choice.
I was so excited to get back from my mom’s last night to find out that I did have power back! I didn’t have cable or internet which was a nice break. I got so much done around the house packing last night!
So because of the crazy ass storm that blew through Waterford yesterday afternoon I lost power around 4PM. So finally around 9:30 last night I conceded that I was not going to get my power back packed a bag, loaded up ALL the groceries that I had just bought, loaded up the dog and headed to my parents for the night.
Talk about a preview of the move. Now I know it will be different when I get my stuff in my room, but I had to sleep on the icky guest bed (its SUPER OLD!), Bentley couldn’t calm down last night so he kept pacing the room. Because I was in a different space from normal I kept waking up to EVERY little noise. It was so irritating. I think I slept maybe a total of 2 hours!
The drive to work was awesome though! It would have only taken about 10-15 minutes if there hadn’t been so much traffic because of power outages and whatnot.
Tonight I am making the crazy choice to go back and stay in my no power apartment for the night. Cold shower it is for me in the morning. Even though it’s going to be a little warm and stuffy I think I’ll sleep better. And I’m hoping the 10 power crews I saw working in my area this afternoon when I went back to open up the windows will have worked some kind of miracle while I’ve been gone and maybe, just maybe I’ll have power when I get back there in a little bit. If I don’t somehow magically have power back by morning then I’m going to bring Bentley back to my parents on my way to work so that he isn’t in the warm house all day. It could be very dangerous for him in the heat we’ve been having.
I hope everyone is doing well and that you’re able to look into your life when we lose such “necessities” as power and think back to times when there wasn’t even the option of A/C, and for that matter how many people still do without such “basic” luxuries.
I’m so excited…I’ve sold almost all my furniture! The only thing I have left to sell is my futon ($150 and pictured below if anyone is interested) and 2 PartyLite candle stands.
The move is all becoming so real! Tonight I am actually putting the futon together so I have a place to sit, because believe me my back is only going to be able to handle a little more of this typing on the floor thing! I only have to have my cousin come pick up my grandma’s table & chairs and then I can start loading everything into the storage unit and start getting stuff over to my parents house so that I can relax the last 2 weekends of the month and just get stuff unpacked and organized.
Hope everyone enjoys their weekends!
Just to let everyone know I still have furniture for sale. The only thing that has sold so far is the dining room table. Please let me know if you’re interested or know someone who might be. I’m so excited that the dining room table sold today! I reposted it on Craigslist and within 3 hours it was gone! Yay! The guy came and looked at it and took it on the spot! WOO HOO! In a little rant though I have to say I just don’t get people sometimes. I just had a woman call me regarding the couch and chair. She was asking all the regular questions that I’ve been asked, how old, what size, pets, smokers, etc. She asks how much just for the couch and I tell her if I have to break up the set the couch would be $350. She she says the following: “for a couch that’s more then a year old that is just a crazy ridiculous price, and you obviously need to learn a few things about business”. Hello lady this couch cost my grandmother a TON of money and is in great shape there is not one spot on it and if I didn’t tell you it was a few years older you never would have known! Good luck finding a Drexel Heritage sofa bed for less then $350 lady…regardless of how old it is! She was irritated that I wouldn’t go down and basically hung up on me…nice! The old bitty cracked me up!
Dang it’s Sunday…why can’t we have 3 day weekends all the time? I wish we could get down to a 4 day work week. This would be cool for so many reasons, topping the list right now is the fact of $4/gallon gas!
So my big move is moving along well. I’m getting tons of stuff sorted through and tossed away or packed away. I’m hoping to get my storage unit this next weekend so I can start moving some of my rubbermaids in now. I also need to go and get my PO BOX this week so that I can start having my mail sent there, so hopefully less things will get lost in transition.
I went with some friends last night to see Sex and the City…it was great!!!! We went to Godaiko Japanese Restaurant after (check out http://fearlessgaleats.wordpress.com for a review of the restaurant). I can’t say enough great things about the movie. I could have sat there watching it for several more hours! I’m glad that they didn’t go the route that some were saying they were as far a death of one of the main characters, that would have ruined the whole movie in my opinion.
A very cute younger then me guy said “hi” to me as I walked past him last night…it’s so silly but it made me feel so good that a guy even noticed me. Yep I think I’m ready to get back out there!
