More apartment stuff / Et Cetera...
Got the last of my paperwork for my apartment. I was not looking forward to moving back to Elmhurst when the notion first struck me, but it doesn't bother me anymore. Yeah, i was miserable for the majority of the first time i lived there, but was because of someone..... now a stranger, by whom i am no longer burdened. Thank the almighty gods of fuck for that. I forgave that shit for far too long. Hindsight can be a cruel sonofabitch. Anyhow, back to the present....... So yeah.... it's really a very decent place to live. People are quiet and respectful, it's near everything i'd need, Sheri (resident manager) is great, very helpful and we get along really well, and Lifestyle (the management company itself) has been really good to me, accommodating, always patient, down to earth, et cetera. Even the more undesirable people living there during my residency (druggies) at least had the decency to keep to themselves and not cause drama. I kind of miss a lot of things about that place. When there wasn't "something else" making me wanna slit my own throat, it was really enjoyable. Plus i am now a full-time student, along with pursuing many other things, so boredom or stagnation is doubtful to be an issue this time around. I think after quite a long time, i have finally regained the ability to enjoy being an introvert. For a long while, it had seemingly just been something i tolerated and tried very hard to avoid, due to not wanting certain thoughts and issues to come to mind. After all -- An idle mind is the devil's playground, and that goes double when you share your life with demons. -- A lesson learned... brutally -- but not one i'll have to learn twice, that's for damn sure.
So, i feel really good about it now. My grandparents are moving out of state so they have a lot of things (furnishings, et cetera) that they're gonna pass along to me when i move in (May 10th, for those who aren't aware) which works well for me because i gave up nearly everything i owned when i moved south, and works well for them because they don't have to try and get rid of it all before they go - or have to drag it with them. Mutually beneficial there. I need to get an air conditioner (window unit) but aside from that, i am all set to go. I won't need the A/C for awhile yet anyhow. Got an enormous couch that folds out into a queen-sized bed, so that takes care of two of my problems already. I would not end up sleeping in the bedroom anyhow, even if i owned a bed. The A/C port is in the living room, so i'm sure i'll have that thing jacked right up my ass all summer. The top floor of that building (which my apartment is on) gets unbearably warm. The bedroom would be impossible to sleep in. Learned that the first time i lived there. The bedroom is just where i'll have my dresser, music set-up, bookcase, all the rest of my random shit. I think i'll make it my music / study room. I'm gonna pick up a wireless router so i'm not stuck in one place with my laptop. I got a nice laptop chair with a built-in speaker system for when i'm working on music or whatever. I can also use it to as a guitar/bass chair, as i can plug those into it too. Which is killer. Dacia lives really close (about 10 minutes) to me so that will be awesome. She actually offered to let me move into her apartment and live together, but she hasn't lived there long enough to make changes to her lease. That would have been jumping the gun a bit since we have not been together for very long, but i thought it was nice that she had the thought. That perhaps indicates a lot about how she feels. Things have been going very well with her; it's quite nice. I should have met her years ago. There has yet to be anything that we don't 'click' on and that's rare for me. She's just like me in that "what you see is what you get" way of being. Which is really good. I'm not an indirect or snaky person, and i dislike those qualities tremendously; it's nice to have finally found a person who feels the same. After the 12 or so months i've had, it is nice to have a break from insincere, fallacy laden people with unspoken motives. So.... yeah... things, in a lot of different areas of life, are really starting to come together.