Holy crap, it's MAY?
It got stupid hot in our apartment yesterday. We don't have a/c. We do have a couple of window fans and there's a ceiling fan in each room, but when the temps are 90+ for 2 days in a row, it gets sticky no matter what. Our leasing office say that they will give everyone one a/c wall unit to use, but they have to install it. We didn't ask if we could paint, so we're all afraid of what could happen!! D'oh!! I guess nothing would really happen except maybe they would want to use it against us in getting the security deposit back, but really, they wouldn't evict us over that, would they?
And maybe if we did get evicted, that would be a good thing, because we need more space!! Look at me, always looking at the bright side! The sucky part would be we can't really move right now, as we are super close to some major big craft shows that we MUST spend time preparing for.
But whatever, we will probably buy our own a/c wall unit. I didn't sleep well at all because it was so fragging hot. I think I slept for 40 minute clips. I was having this dream when I just woke up - we were in this big, older house and this guy with a cute shih tzu came over and wanted to see the basement for some reason, so I was talking to the dog and we both (me and the dog!) decided to slide down the stairs like you do when you are little, but it felt more like a slide than stairs. It was fun and then like 5 minutes later another guy with a different dog showed up and I was trying to get that dog to slide down the stairs with me. HA! I'm so easily amused, even in my dreams.
This week, we're going to try to get our drivers licenses switched over to NJ ones. Our Indiana ones haven't expired and I *really* like my picture on my Indiana one. I don't know if any of you remember it, it is the one where I look like I've seen a baby bunny? I remember posting it here in 07 when we got them.
There's a lot of little things we need to tie up about the move. We applied for health benefits way over a month ago and still have not heard whether we were accepted or declined?! WTF, that's taking way too long. Matt even called about it 2 weeks ago and they said there were no problems, it is just taking awhile to process, BUT WHY? What if we *need* to go to the doc?? We don't KNOW if we're covered, we don't have any proof and they haven't charged us yet. I'm assuming since we haven't been charged yet, we aren't covered yet, but we dropped the other insurance because you can't legally be insured in a state that you don't actually have a legal residence in. Now if we had to go somewhere else for insurance, we wouldn't have continuous coverage because of these schmucks who are taking a month and a half to decide!!
Anyway, other than these few things, we LOVE LOVE LOVE being back in NJ. LOVE IT. Words cannot express how grateful we are to be back. It is so good to have friends that you can see IN PERSON any time you want to or need to. Cramming friendship into small windows of time when you don't live near each other is so bittersweet. It's good times and you don't want them to end, but they do. It is 8 million times better to have a full and broad horizon. I mean when we moved back, I really did feel like the roof had been rolled back and we could see the giant, endless sky above us for the first time. That sky was there before, but we didn't notice it. Then we moved to Indiana and were trapped in a prison sort of, where it did not seem likely that we would ever have the life we wanted. After a week of being back here, that ceiling (or those dark clouds - whichever analogy works best for you!) lifted and HELLO, SKY! I see you now and I get it.
You cannot always fully appreciate the boundless possibilities until you experience a situation in which everything you want is so beyond your grasp.
And maybe if we did get evicted, that would be a good thing, because we need more space!! Look at me, always looking at the bright side! The sucky part would be we can't really move right now, as we are super close to some major big craft shows that we MUST spend time preparing for.
But whatever, we will probably buy our own a/c wall unit. I didn't sleep well at all because it was so fragging hot. I think I slept for 40 minute clips. I was having this dream when I just woke up - we were in this big, older house and this guy with a cute shih tzu came over and wanted to see the basement for some reason, so I was talking to the dog and we both (me and the dog!) decided to slide down the stairs like you do when you are little, but it felt more like a slide than stairs. It was fun and then like 5 minutes later another guy with a different dog showed up and I was trying to get that dog to slide down the stairs with me. HA! I'm so easily amused, even in my dreams.
This week, we're going to try to get our drivers licenses switched over to NJ ones. Our Indiana ones haven't expired and I *really* like my picture on my Indiana one. I don't know if any of you remember it, it is the one where I look like I've seen a baby bunny? I remember posting it here in 07 when we got them.
There's a lot of little things we need to tie up about the move. We applied for health benefits way over a month ago and still have not heard whether we were accepted or declined?! WTF, that's taking way too long. Matt even called about it 2 weeks ago and they said there were no problems, it is just taking awhile to process, BUT WHY? What if we *need* to go to the doc?? We don't KNOW if we're covered, we don't have any proof and they haven't charged us yet. I'm assuming since we haven't been charged yet, we aren't covered yet, but we dropped the other insurance because you can't legally be insured in a state that you don't actually have a legal residence in. Now if we had to go somewhere else for insurance, we wouldn't have continuous coverage because of these schmucks who are taking a month and a half to decide!!
Anyway, other than these few things, we LOVE LOVE LOVE being back in NJ. LOVE IT. Words cannot express how grateful we are to be back. It is so good to have friends that you can see IN PERSON any time you want to or need to. Cramming friendship into small windows of time when you don't live near each other is so bittersweet. It's good times and you don't want them to end, but they do. It is 8 million times better to have a full and broad horizon. I mean when we moved back, I really did feel like the roof had been rolled back and we could see the giant, endless sky above us for the first time. That sky was there before, but we didn't notice it. Then we moved to Indiana and were trapped in a prison sort of, where it did not seem likely that we would ever have the life we wanted. After a week of being back here, that ceiling (or those dark clouds - whichever analogy works best for you!) lifted and HELLO, SKY! I see you now and I get it.
You cannot always fully appreciate the boundless possibilities until you experience a situation in which everything you want is so beyond your grasp.