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So for the last week or so I have been seriously thinking (for perhaps the first time) about moving in with my sister in NYC. 'Cos jst_klo is evil and logical like that.
Some of you might be saying, "But Lux! What about what happened last time you did that??" Which is something I've been wondering myself and is a valid concern. However, it's 10 years later and we're all much older and in different places (not just geographically). For one, I'm not running away from my mother this time, I have a GED and a chunk of community college credits to my name, and work experience that I didn't have before.
Yet I still have reservations. It wouldn't be for about a year anyway. And my biggest worry actually is the cats. They're used to living with very few people and having the run of the apartment. At my sister's they would be in my room all the time. Because I don't trust them around the nephews and I don't trust the nephews around them. And my sister's cat is pretty territorial anyway. It's a decent-sized room for one person. For one person and two cats? Hrm :/ I think it goes without saying that the cats and I are a package deal. But if that's the biggest hurdle? That's not so bad because we could probably make it work. The cats are usually on my bed anyway :P
But anyway. I'm pretty sure the tailor at the shop just quit via text message right before I left work today. I'm not surprised. She and I have discussed it a lot over the last few weeks (both of us quitting, actually). Of course I never mentioned it to The Boss because we were mostly just fantasizing about it ("What would you do if you won the lottery?" -- "I'd quit!" -- "Me too!" etc) But I know the tailor has been just as unhappy at the shop as I have been so I'm more on the side of, "Good for you!" than anything. Her leaving sucks for me a little bit, but mostly I know that she'll be a lot happier and that's good.
Which brings me to me leaving the shop. I haven't. Not yet. But moving in with my sister would get me away from the shop and that's good. That's very good. Like I said, it probably wouldn't be for another year while I got things more situated here re: credits and school. But it's on my mind a lot these days. I've begun looking around at my stuff and categorizing it into Things I Want and Things I Can Store in the Basement.
For now, though, I am going to go clean the kitchen and have lunch and take a nice long shower and then I'm going to go see the Hush Sound in Philly and it is going to be an amazing night. I'm not looking forward to what I'll have to deal with in the shop tomorrow or Friday or Saturday.
But for tonight, I am going to have a great time.
Edit: New Horrible Thought -- how will the tailor quitting effect me taking the half-week off for my 3 Darren shows????????????????????????
Some of you might be saying, "But Lux! What about what happened last time you did that??" Which is something I've been wondering myself and is a valid concern. However, it's 10 years later and we're all much older and in different places (not just geographically). For one, I'm not running away from my mother this time, I have a GED and a chunk of community college credits to my name, and work experience that I didn't have before.
Yet I still have reservations. It wouldn't be for about a year anyway. And my biggest worry actually is the cats. They're used to living with very few people and having the run of the apartment. At my sister's they would be in my room all the time. Because I don't trust them around the nephews and I don't trust the nephews around them. And my sister's cat is pretty territorial anyway. It's a decent-sized room for one person. For one person and two cats? Hrm :/ I think it goes without saying that the cats and I are a package deal. But if that's the biggest hurdle? That's not so bad because we could probably make it work. The cats are usually on my bed anyway :P
But anyway. I'm pretty sure the tailor at the shop just quit via text message right before I left work today. I'm not surprised. She and I have discussed it a lot over the last few weeks (both of us quitting, actually). Of course I never mentioned it to The Boss because we were mostly just fantasizing about it ("What would you do if you won the lottery?" -- "I'd quit!" -- "Me too!" etc) But I know the tailor has been just as unhappy at the shop as I have been so I'm more on the side of, "Good for you!" than anything. Her leaving sucks for me a little bit, but mostly I know that she'll be a lot happier and that's good.
Which brings me to me leaving the shop. I haven't. Not yet. But moving in with my sister would get me away from the shop and that's good. That's very good. Like I said, it probably wouldn't be for another year while I got things more situated here re: credits and school. But it's on my mind a lot these days. I've begun looking around at my stuff and categorizing it into Things I Want and Things I Can Store in the Basement.
For now, though, I am going to go clean the kitchen and have lunch and take a nice long shower and then I'm going to go see the Hush Sound in Philly and it is going to be an amazing night. I'm not looking forward to what I'll have to deal with in the shop tomorrow or Friday or Saturday.
But for tonight, I am going to have a great time.
Edit: New Horrible Thought -- how will the tailor quitting effect me taking the half-week off for my 3 Darren shows????????????????????????