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Oct. 30th, 2004 01:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cabbitzillaToday's been a busy day, but I got a lot done, too.
Having someone rational here to keep me rolling with light conversation, pushing a new box in front of me when I empty the one I'm working on, is an amazing help. It also helps that Crys is someone I've always liked (even when she was my boss :D)... never mind the fact that if it hadn't been for her support these last few very rough years I would've been committed. We're not talking the 'I do.' kind of commitment here, either. Having her around ... brings back memories of better times. Days when I could work two jobs, take college courses, and still find the energy to smile. Back before my world polarized and became a prison. While I'm not silly or deranged enough to claim they were 'golden years', it was before my existance required $300+ per month in prescriptions just to survive. This apartment is the first step in my efforts to get some of my life back. The next step is legal in nature, and hopefully will not be as drawn out and painful as this move has been.
Anyway, having Crys here kept me focused and moving. If she's willing to come by in the evenings and help (and she seems willing), the unpacking will go faster than I'd anticipated. I might have my life completely back in a week or two. I can't even BEGIN to tell how much that idea thrills me. And I can look around me, here in my room... and it feels more like -=>home<=- than the Glen Burnie house ever did. There're spots of little clutter here and there, but anyone who's seen the GB house over the last four years would be utterly shocked at how ordered my room is.
I've got one more box here that I need to go through, one that was the 'this is mine' collection from the boxes Crys helped me go through. I've a suspicion that about half of it is going to have to -stay- in the box for the moment. Once my desk is here, it'll have a place to go. Until then it's got to be somewhere, and it might as well all be in one place. For the moment, my makeup's been displaced by stacks of CDs, cables, and software boxes... again, waiting on the desk.
On a relatively random and odd note: should anyone be hunting for a giftish type of thing for me for Yule or birthday or somesuch, I discovered about an hour ago that my anime collection has a new hole in it; at the bottom of a box was one of my videocassettes.... smashed almost flat. :( When I went hunting, I discovered that a second release had (finally) been made, and here they are for reference:
I really hate finding things broken. *sigh*
*rubs her temples* My brain is starting to shut down. I've got to get up and circle the wagons at Glen Burnie tomorrow. With the cleaning efforts done today, there's actually room to bring new stuff in. So it's off to sleepies for me.
G'nite
- I unloaded all but one box and the TV stand from the Explorer (while Megan, tired from riding to my doc appointment and back, took a nap).
- I unpacked 8 totes worth of stuff over the course of the afternoon, waiting for Crys to arrive with the Escape (which had been loaded last night, as was the Explorer).
- My dressers are now free of Megan's stuff.
- My bookcase is set up and mostly filled.
- The Escape got unloaded, along with the remaining bits from the Explorer. (Sleeping Booby got woken up for this.)
- The TV stand got reassembled.
- TV, VCR, PS2 set up.
- PS/PS2 games organized and shelved.
- 1/3 of my VHS tapes organized and shelved.
- Located all of the Noir fansub VHS tapes - It and Cowboy Bebop are at the top of my 'must watch now' list.
- Cranked through 9 more boxes of stuff while Crystal was here.
Having someone rational here to keep me rolling with light conversation, pushing a new box in front of me when I empty the one I'm working on, is an amazing help. It also helps that Crys is someone I've always liked (even when she was my boss :D)... never mind the fact that if it hadn't been for her support these last few very rough years I would've been committed. We're not talking the 'I do.' kind of commitment here, either. Having her around ... brings back memories of better times. Days when I could work two jobs, take college courses, and still find the energy to smile. Back before my world polarized and became a prison. While I'm not silly or deranged enough to claim they were 'golden years', it was before my existance required $300+ per month in prescriptions just to survive. This apartment is the first step in my efforts to get some of my life back. The next step is legal in nature, and hopefully will not be as drawn out and painful as this move has been.
Anyway, having Crys here kept me focused and moving. If she's willing to come by in the evenings and help (and she seems willing), the unpacking will go faster than I'd anticipated. I might have my life completely back in a week or two. I can't even BEGIN to tell how much that idea thrills me. And I can look around me, here in my room... and it feels more like -=>home<=- than the Glen Burnie house ever did. There're spots of little clutter here and there, but anyone who's seen the GB house over the last four years would be utterly shocked at how ordered my room is.
I've got one more box here that I need to go through, one that was the 'this is mine' collection from the boxes Crys helped me go through. I've a suspicion that about half of it is going to have to -stay- in the box for the moment. Once my desk is here, it'll have a place to go. Until then it's got to be somewhere, and it might as well all be in one place. For the moment, my makeup's been displaced by stacks of CDs, cables, and software boxes... again, waiting on the desk.
On a relatively random and odd note: should anyone be hunting for a giftish type of thing for me for Yule or birthday or somesuch, I discovered about an hour ago that my anime collection has a new hole in it; at the bottom of a box was one of my videocassettes.... smashed almost flat. :( When I went hunting, I discovered that a second release had (finally) been made, and here they are for reference:
| Dominion Tank Police |
| New Dominion Tank Police |
I really hate finding things broken. *sigh*
*rubs her temples* My brain is starting to shut down. I've got to get up and circle the wagons at Glen Burnie tomorrow. With the cleaning efforts done today, there's actually room to bring new stuff in. So it's off to sleepies for me.
G'nite
