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Weird Things I’ve found while packing…
A fake pirate water pistol
Three bottles of puffy paint
A smashed origami cube
A broken photo album with pictures from camp when I was 13
A few folders of schoolwork from 6th grade
A ridiculous amount of stuffed animals
Three blankets I swear I’ve never seen before
Some seriously ugly clothes
Three different copies of ‘The Complete Sherlock Holmes’
Two bottles of perfume I’ve never seen before
Birthday cards from age 7 and up
A ‘Thank You’ card from a wedding two years ago, unopened
Pictures of my Mom that made me cry so hard I ruined a few
Two video game cases for games I haven’t seen in years
Three different gift cards for Target, yay!
Zero gift cards for bookstores, boo
A Christmas stocking for my cat
Enough safety pins to make a full suit of chain mail
About 500 dried up ink pens and broken pencils
About half-dozen pictures that have never been hung
Two plastic swords
About a thousand dust jackets from my hardback books- I just can’t seem to throw them away.
Almost as many bookmarks as I have books- and that’s saying something!
And now I have to move it all… gah.
Now Playing
No, I don’t know what is wrong with the site or why it is loading funny, I’m working on fixing it…
Reading: Skimming books I haven’t seen in a while as I pack, there is a TON
Watching: True Blood on DVD and So You Think You Can Dance? (I can’t wait for cable!)
Listening: Matt King- I’m totally obsessed with him right now!
Shopping: Target, for boxes and duct tape
Playing: The “how many books can I fit in this box?” game, it’s a blast
Huh, and I though I’d already packed my self-pity!
I promised a friend I’d update so here we go… I’ve got four lined up for the day, but until I finish moving, this will probably be it for a few weeks. And yes, I’ve got ghost hunting stuff to finish writing up, just give me a little more time…
So I’m moving into a house with the Boy. Some days I’m so excited I can hardly stand the wait, other days I want to slap myself and scream ‘What the fuck are you thinking?!”
This is a big step, a huge step for me. I’m giving up any semblance of financial independence and it is scary as hell. The fact is I can’t afford the house we are moving into on my own. I could make it work for a month if I had to, maybe even two, barely. Other than that, I’m screwed. So while I trust him and don’t actually believe he’d ever leave me like that, just the idea that I can’t afford all the bills makes me feel nauseous.
It’s difficult to explain why I feel this way. Some of my friends instantly ‘get’ what I’m talking about and others stare at me like I’m a lunatic when I try to explain how anxious this situation makes me. See, I now have to rely on the Boy to keep the bills paid, and there is really nothing I can do about it, except keep trying to find a better paying job. I feel useless and needy and just generally icky whenever I think about it.
Also, the loss of my own space is scaring me silly. I LOVE living alone. I love having all my stuff wherever I want it, with no one else’s opinion to worry about. I am a greedy, selfish, spoiled person and that makes it really hard to live with someone.As the Boy will tell you any chance he gets, he is giving up the opportunity to ever live on his own. This is a Big Thing to us both. I’ve offered him multiple chances to put things off for a year or two so he can revel in the joys of being completely alone, but he declines. Still, having lived alone the last two years, I know how great it can be. It’s going be an enormous adjustment for me to live with other people after all this time. We both will have our own ‘rooms’ away from our joint bedroom, which I hope will go a long way towards easing me into the change.
With those two major issues you’d think I’d be dreading Moving Day, but there really is a lot of positives and I am excited to move forward with our relationship. More space is a definite plus, it is a better location for both of us and much cheaper than living separately too. There are other things I’m concerned about, like chores and money and the fact that it isn’t just the two of us, but I think it’ll work out. I don’t think it’ll be easy by any means, but it I’m hoping it’ll be worth it in the end. I’m just preparing myself for a bitch for a transition.
We Hold These Truths to be Self-Evident…
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090403/NEWS/90403010
What a FANTASTIC day to be an Iowan!