Plodding Along

Well, somehow, all of the kitchen boxes have been unpacked and the items put somewhere. I still have a lot of organizing to do once everything else is also out of boxes.

My living room was arranged by my parents and somehow they made it all work pretty well. I won’t have to get rid of my coffee table and end tables any time soon — darn it. My mom and I are going to go buy curtains and curtain rods for all rooms but the office and kitchen (the kitchen got my pretty old ones and the office can wait until I have more money and have put the furniture in the right places). O.K. That’s just the living/dining room and the bedroom, but I can’t just have those windows open to the world — my mom thought she could just take measurements and then make me some when she got back to NM in a month, but I can’t wait that long — I can’t stand having those gaping black holes in my wall at night or the bright sunlight in my face in the morning.

Aloof has been acting more aloof than usual and I’m worried that he may be sick but he could just be annoyed about the move and all the commotion. After all, I leave him alone with my parents all day and I’m sure all of their fiddling around with things is upsetting his napping schedule. Still, I’ll have to keep an eye on him over the next few days.

My parents were supposed to stay until Friday morning and then leave for some meeting in D.C. However, all of a sudden my dad has decided they are leaving tomorrow morning and driving to meet some friends somewhere. I’m sure he can’t wait to get away from doing home improvement all day.

I really am greatful for all of their help and I feel guilty that I’ve asked for it, but I’m also disappointed that they are leaving even though I’m kind of ready to get back into some sort of routine that doesn’t involve tip-toeing around them. I’m a mess; I know.

Anyway, somewhere between going to Wally World with my parents tonight, cooking pork chops, and hanging curtains, I’ve got to hook-up my electronics stuff and uninstall the Bellsouth software from my computer in preparation for the Time Warner guy tomorrow morning. Oh, and I have to find my other two telephones so that he can also hook up my telephone. Plus, my dad and I need to work on the expense report. (Overall, we spent two and a half times the relocation expense allocation between the truck, the gas, and the hotels). I’m probably just going to write the check over to my dad.) I think it’s going to be a late night. *sigh*

I tried looking around for a bowling league online but I only found a mens-only one. Maybe in a month or so I’ll go over to a nearby alley or two and see what their leagues are like and if I can sign up for one that isn’t extremely competitive (read wants only good bowlers). I liked bowling a lot when I bowled on the hospital league way back when but I couldn’t take the smoke and Maine is a smoke-free state in public buildings or something so maybe that problem will be gone here.

I saw a writing class/group starting up in Portland this Thursday for $70 — 3 hours once a week for 8 weeks. It’s not a bad price. However, I really need to not get involved in that until I get settled and at least unpacked, I guess.

Besides, my first two major expenses need to be a used washer/dryer combo and my headliner — I’m estimating about $300 for each. I told Leif that I needed to hurry up and learn enough to be on-call so I can earn that extra $300 per week on call (once every 4-5 weeks). He told me that he’d pay me the $300 to take his on-call starting tomorrow :crazy:, but of course I don’t even have access to the Production systems yet, let alone know how everything works together yet.

It was really sad last night that my parents and I were all crowded on the sofa watching a tiny bw portable t.v. just to have something to watch…

I’m still trying to get the heat in my apartment to work just right. It feels chilly when I go to sleep at night but in the morning, I’m too warm and I’m just sleeping in a t-shirt. Unfortunately the heat while I’m asleep causing me to have a headache and todays has not gone away after I got up and got moving.

tags: discombobulated

One comment

1. on April 28, 2004 at 9:41 pm

   Sharon said:

   I tried massage therapy on Monday because of my chronic tension headaches. I actually figured out that I have had these for more than 8 years, I’d never figured it out before.

   The Massage Therapist exerted a lot of pressure with her hands during the massage, I was probably bruised but I didn’t say anything. I really think it worked. I haven’t clenched my teeth at night since and the headache is like almost completely gone. I’m going back again next week for more.

   Somebody at work told me that massage therapy can really help a wide variety of problems. I figured that if nothing else - it would be nice to relax and enjoy it for 30 min anyhow.

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