Random
*I hope we don’t get hit with a tornado tonight. I don’t know where to go. We live on the third floor. There is no basement. Where do we go for shelter? We’re under watch until midnight.
*Thank you all so much for the sweet comments on the picture post. For those wondering about the shirt, it was not a maternity shirt. It was just a shirt I bought at Lane Bryant. It isn’t that tight yet. I was just holding it down to emphasis my pregnantness.
*Speaking of clothes, I am very pleased to report that I only gave away one bag of clothes with this move. Usually I give away bags and bags of stuff that I never wear. My 100% rule (trying on every piece of clothing I want, and only buying it if I like it 100%) seems to be working well. I only gave away a couple of things that have been purchased since I instituted the rule, and those were things that I didn’t like 100%. This rule has really saved us a lot of money. I don’t have a bunch of useless clearance rack clothes that I hate to wear. Instead I have a few high quality items that I love wearing. I like this way of living.
*At our old apartment people always put their crap in the lobby for people to take when they don’t want it anymore. This drives me insane. I don’t like looking at it. Despite my hate for the ghettoness of it all, we decided to do that with several items that we never use and don’t want. We must have good crap because we got rid of every single, most of it in less than 20 minutes. You know what’s sad? There were some other people moving a few days before us and they had put some items out on the lawn. I know there were two TVs, a couple of kids’ bikes and some children’s furniture. I wondered if they were trying to give it away or if they were taking a break from loading and I found out a few hours later when I came down and they were crying because their stuff was all gone and it was NOT meant to be given away. Yikes!
*We (more like Mike) finished cleaning the old place and turned in our keys. I had a rush of giddy freedom flow through my veins when I realized we would never have to go back to those apartments again! I am still in love love love with our new place and can’t wait to get it all decorated so I can take pictures and share the love. The kitchen is basically done and the bathrooms are basically done. The living room needs sprucing and all our pictures need to be hung. I really need to get a couple of tall, slender vases with some really tall flowers to sit on the fireplace mantel. Really, I want to put a picture over the mantel but we don’t have a ladder and we aren’t going to buy a ladder just to hang a picture. The office manager told us we could paint the walls if we wanted and said it looked really nice to just paint an accent wall or two. I can picture it and it would be beautiful, but I HATE painting. If I thought we were going to be here for five years I would do it, but you have to paint over it when you move and I don’t think it would be worth it for just a year or two.
*School started Monday and I feel extremely antsy and guilty. I have researched what I need to do to get signed up to sub here and it is taking all my will power not to do it. Money money money! But I have to be realistic. There is no way I can teach in my condition. I can’t stand up for more than 15 minutes or so and I have never been able to master the art of teaching while sitting down. I know there are teachers who do it, but I suspect they aren’t usually nominees for teacher of the year. I can’t bend over at all. Subbing for the little grades requires a lot of bending. I can’t hold my bladder for longer than 30 minutes and teachers don’t have the luxury of going whenever they need to go. If they are lucky they have time to hit the bathroom at lunch time. I better just chill out and quit thinking in terms of “losing money” when I am sitting here. Instead I should think in terms of “growing a baby.” That sounds more positive.
August 31st, 2005 at 7:31 am
You have a fireplace? I’m jealous!