it's days like these that keep me on my winning streak

Everything is moved. I started moving things at noon by myself, then everyone else joined me around 7pm and we finished at 8:30. Not too bad. And my back isn't screaming in pain, just whimpering. Now I'm just looking at the piles of boxes in my living room. :( But, I have tomorrow off & duckduck and her hub are coming over to help tomorrow night. Of course, I had to put my computer back together right away 'cause I'm a dork like that. And I love, love, love my new apartment!! It's very snazzy. I'll take some photos once things are a little more organized.

Have a meme for now.
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1. Reply to this post if you want/need me to tell you how cool you are!

2. Watch my journal over the next few days for a post just about you and why I think you rock my socks.

3. Post these instructions in your journal and give your friends a much needed dose of love and adoration!

I <3 Jesse L. Martin to no end.




Although this has to be one of the worst versions of A Christmas Carol I've ever seen.

Oh, and packing sucks. But I'm just about done, so it's not so bad now.

I'm moving again. *the audience groans* I'm beating my last move, which was across the parking lot. This time I'm moving upstairs. Bigger apartment, no more noisy neighbors above me. It's like a dream come true! More details to come, including begging for help.

I spent most of tonight hanging at the 'rents house, utilizing their cable modem. I am now the proud owner of lots n lots of Wicked and a bunch more Rent boots. Goddess, I LOVE the Internets!!

My illegal-downloading had a good purpose though. After explaining to my mom that I need some culture, and just how cool Wicked is, and then proving it by showing her some clips, I got her to agree to buy my tickets for my Xmas present. So I'll be set for both Toronto & Chicago!

My thought-provoking comment on tonight's debtate: "He really does look like a chimp!"

I don't really have time to write a whole entry as I'm swamped at work right now. But I wanted to drop in and say hello. My move went very well on Saturday. I'm slowly unpacking and getting things organized. I should have things in better shape this weekend. Now that I actually have room, I'm having people over tomorrow night for dinner & a movie. There's room for everyone to sit! Yay!!

I know that there was something else that I wanted to write...but I've totally forgotten what it was.

Back to my stupid project from hell, I guess.

It took 15 hours, but my apartment is CLEAN! Yes, actually clean. It's not perfect or anything, but you can actually see the carpet again. And I think I found every one of the CDs that I was missing. The only thing that sucks is now I have about 12 trips to make to the dumpster. And seeing how it's 2:30am, that's waiting until tomorrow. I do still have to pick up my bedroom, but that's only going to take a little while since I try to keep it decent. Yay! I'm so happy that it's finally done. With working so much and being gone so much this summer/fall, I just haven't had time to keep up with the mess. And now I'll pass the apartment inspection on Wed. (Okay, my aunt is doing it, so it wasn't like I'd get busted, but still) I have a few loads of laundry left since I ran out of quarters, but taylorea was kind enough to agree to let me to a couple loads at her house tomorrow while we're scrapbooking. Guess what I found while cleaning? My dining table! :) Under about a year's worth of junk mail. So maybe we can even scrapbook at my place soon.

Of course, the big reason for my cleaning flurry is that I found out on Wednesday that my uncle (who owns my apartment complex) is planning on moving me to another apartment. Yes, dazeebean and taylorea, I can hear your groans from here. But this move is going to be a breeze compared to the last one since we won't have to spend as much time cleaning as we did last time. Although it was fun to watch Andrew to scrub my disaster of a kitchen, that's not necessary this time as it's already clean. And I have made a decision that I'm getting rid of some of my books. I have NO desire to move 2,000 books. (no, you didn't read that wrong) I don't know how many I'll be able to part with, but some of them are definitely going.

I'm not sure yet exactly when I'll be moving. The people in my new apartment are there until Dec 31st and I'm so not moving on Jan 1st. Probably sometime during the week after that. I'm moving to the building across the parking lot, which means moving a zillion boxes and furniture across a slushy parking lot in the middle of winter. Oh joy! But, we won't need vehicles, so there's some sort of bright light. I'm actually pretty happy about the new apartment. It's a 2 bedroom (compared to the 4 little bedrooms that I have now) and in a lot better shape than the one I'm in.

The rest of my weekend has been pretty non-eventful. I spent Thursday helping my parent's clean their basement. Yes, I had to work for my dinner. But that also meant I got to spend the whole day with my doggies. It's always nice to get a dose of puppy love. I was also given clerical duties, as my sister is soon graduating from college and my mom needed labels printed up for her announcements. My brother came home from school for the weekend and I actually got to see him for a while. He's growing his hair out and it's all fro'ed out. Very disturbing. My mom wasn't really expecting any people for dinner and ended up with 8 people there, as a few people invited themselves over. You'd almost think that my family liked each other! I was there for almost 12 hours and didn't argue with my mom once, so I'd say the day was successful.

I think I'm off to bed now, so I can get some sleep before tomorrow's scrapbooking excitement. We're doing an X-Men marathon! Yay!! I've already watched X2 twice since Tuesday. Oh, and I hope that everyone remembers that Pirates of the Carribbean comes out on Tuesday. GO BUY IT!!!