Coming Up For Air
So... I'm moving in 2 weeks & 4 days. Well, that's the official moving date. The Pro Cleaning service is going through the Condo on 5/18, and once they're done I can start moving my stuff in.
I'm freaking a little, but it's mostly because moving has now become a foreign process to me. I don't know what my timetables are (similar to that disjointed sense of time-disconnect I had last month). It both helps and hinders that a lot of what I need to take care of I can now do online.
I have begun packing. Part of the problem is lack of space. I don't have much room to put the things that have been packed... so I hit a point where I can't pack anymore, because I have no where to put it that I won't be tripping over it (anymore than I already am.)
Tomas (HP of my coven) warned me to not fill the space I'm moving into (that inevitable "you may end up moving to some place smaller and won't have any room for stuff"). Well, as I'm going through and tallying and packing and sorting... I will have little trouble filling the space simply because I already have Too Much Stuff. My designs on an office/sewing room... I'll be lucky if I have much wiggle room. Seriously. But I will make do, darn-it! (huh... is it "make do" or "make due"?? Internet says "Make Do." moving on)
I'm also having some anxiety about the move itself. Necessity has me moving Memorial Day Weekend. I wanted to move at the end of April... but before I secured new residence that wasn't enough time to scrape together a security deposit... and after securing residence they needed that time to get the condo in order. So, end of May... which gee... is Memorial Day Weekend. And real people have lives and go do stuff on Memorial Day... people are going to Events (locally the Baronial Champs event and for some folks War of Roses in EK). Or people are traveling to see family or picnic or some other such fun and exciting stuff. It was just another day for me... meh. The weekend before is AE War Practice... in theory I could do a lot of my moving then. I could probably see to it that my mailing info is changed, and billing addresses and utilities switched over etc within a week (yay online activity)... and be out of the Hell Hole a whole week earlier... leaving me a week to clean and do any final walk throughs before official move out date. But again, that weekend is hella busy for a lot of people.
I'm contemplating movers... just because I feel like I'm inconveniencing people by asking them to help me move. Yeah, I know... silly/ridiculous/stupid/blahblah... I mean, G even said that he wished he wasn't traveling @ the end of the Month because he would've helped me move. Caradawc of no LJ's mother offered to help me move, and we've only met like what... 3x?? But, I still feel guilty and uncomfortable and awkward about it... esp since personal life has swallowed me whole and kept me largely anti-social... I feel like I don't really have a right to ask.
Anyway... I'm trying to deal with my anxiety in one of the few ways I know how... retail therapy! in this case... trolling craigslist. There is 1 thing I need to get, and 1 thing I should probably get, and 2 things I'd like to get for the condo... A dining room table & chairs I need. A New bedframe (incl Headboard and Footboard) at best or headboard at least for my bed, so that i won't end up rubbing fabric dye all over the walls of the new place like i have in my current place. And I would like to acquire a TV Stand that will hold the eventual purchase of a big TV (a 60" 3-D Ready DLP HDTV from Dell); and a tall narrow wine-rack for the other far corner of the dining room; seeing as I have developed an appreciation for wine.
Going tonight to look at a Dining set... tho i may have to make arrangements to get help getting it to the condo if it is too big and/or too heavy for me and Vittoria. Maybe the sellers would be willing the help... they're in Henrietta, and it has to go to Henrietta... and a table i bet would really help Mark with a nice big flat surface for the sorting and packing, etc... maybe?
Ah well... I've gulped my air, spewed a little rantage, and now it's time to get back to life. wheeeeee
oh yeah, and in other news... I survived my first bout as an NSO for Roc City Roller Derby, assisting in the Penalty Box! Lois DeGogh has made her Derby Debut, and didn't do too badly except for one rules snafu... blame it on learning curve, won't happen again. Depending on how much I get done during the week, I'll be at Syracuse for the Roc City Roller Derby vs Assault City Roller Derby bout on 5/15. If you're free and in the area, you should def check it out!
I'm freaking a little, but it's mostly because moving has now become a foreign process to me. I don't know what my timetables are (similar to that disjointed sense of time-disconnect I had last month). It both helps and hinders that a lot of what I need to take care of I can now do online.
I have begun packing. Part of the problem is lack of space. I don't have much room to put the things that have been packed... so I hit a point where I can't pack anymore, because I have no where to put it that I won't be tripping over it (anymore than I already am.)
Tomas (HP of my coven) warned me to not fill the space I'm moving into (that inevitable "you may end up moving to some place smaller and won't have any room for stuff"). Well, as I'm going through and tallying and packing and sorting... I will have little trouble filling the space simply because I already have Too Much Stuff. My designs on an office/sewing room... I'll be lucky if I have much wiggle room. Seriously. But I will make do, darn-it! (huh... is it "make do" or "make due"?? Internet says "Make Do." moving on)
I'm also having some anxiety about the move itself. Necessity has me moving Memorial Day Weekend. I wanted to move at the end of April... but before I secured new residence that wasn't enough time to scrape together a security deposit... and after securing residence they needed that time to get the condo in order. So, end of May... which gee... is Memorial Day Weekend. And real people have lives and go do stuff on Memorial Day... people are going to Events (locally the Baronial Champs event and for some folks War of Roses in EK). Or people are traveling to see family or picnic or some other such fun and exciting stuff. It was just another day for me... meh. The weekend before is AE War Practice... in theory I could do a lot of my moving then. I could probably see to it that my mailing info is changed, and billing addresses and utilities switched over etc within a week (yay online activity)... and be out of the Hell Hole a whole week earlier... leaving me a week to clean and do any final walk throughs before official move out date. But again, that weekend is hella busy for a lot of people.
I'm contemplating movers... just because I feel like I'm inconveniencing people by asking them to help me move. Yeah, I know... silly/ridiculous/stupid/blahblah... I mean, G even said that he wished he wasn't traveling @ the end of the Month because he would've helped me move. Caradawc of no LJ's mother offered to help me move, and we've only met like what... 3x?? But, I still feel guilty and uncomfortable and awkward about it... esp since personal life has swallowed me whole and kept me largely anti-social... I feel like I don't really have a right to ask.
Anyway... I'm trying to deal with my anxiety in one of the few ways I know how... retail therapy! in this case... trolling craigslist. There is 1 thing I need to get, and 1 thing I should probably get, and 2 things I'd like to get for the condo... A dining room table & chairs I need. A New bedframe (incl Headboard and Footboard) at best or headboard at least for my bed, so that i won't end up rubbing fabric dye all over the walls of the new place like i have in my current place. And I would like to acquire a TV Stand that will hold the eventual purchase of a big TV (a 60" 3-D Ready DLP HDTV from Dell); and a tall narrow wine-rack for the other far corner of the dining room; seeing as I have developed an appreciation for wine.
Going tonight to look at a Dining set... tho i may have to make arrangements to get help getting it to the condo if it is too big and/or too heavy for me and Vittoria. Maybe the sellers would be willing the help... they're in Henrietta, and it has to go to Henrietta... and a table i bet would really help Mark with a nice big flat surface for the sorting and packing, etc... maybe?
Ah well... I've gulped my air, spewed a little rantage, and now it's time to get back to life. wheeeeee
oh yeah, and in other news... I survived my first bout as an NSO for Roc City Roller Derby, assisting in the Penalty Box! Lois DeGogh has made her Derby Debut, and didn't do too badly except for one rules snafu... blame it on learning curve, won't happen again. Depending on how much I get done during the week, I'll be at Syracuse for the Roc City Roller Derby vs Assault City Roller Derby bout on 5/15. If you're free and in the area, you should def check it out!