elanya

I just did something pretty horrible to my back reaching behind me to grab a ha;f filled paint can while I was sitting on the floor. I just took a bunch of advil and am hoping for the best ;_; I tried some yoga stretches but Im not convnced it is a muscle thing - not after that horrible crunching ;_; I guess this is what happens when you wake up stiff from the gym the day before and don't stretch out properly.

I am just going to lie here in bed and try not to have to get up.

At least the bathroom is done :p

Things I did today:

Paint.

Yeah.... I can see through time @_@

I also listened to many episodes of The Shadow!

I also broke my diet. This is not my fault, as bacon mysteriously appeared on a potato I ordered where no bacon should have been! Damn you, Potato Shack, and your delicious bacon!

I have a crapload of stuff I need to do tomorrow. For one thing, I have to pack for Muffcon. Which will be an adventure in finding stuff I need to bring *and* in rearranging stuff in suitcases! Well, since my bedroom is pretty much done, maybe I can actually rearrange *furniture* and put clothes away properly. Oooh! I need to make sure that my pick up is properly scheduled for Thursday, and that I have everything I need ready for my TO trip - ipod charged passport in hand, copy of confirmation number written down, all that good stuff. I am also going to the gym in the morning, and need to buy some extra paint as well. Stupid stucco increasing the overall surface area! So it is going to be a really busy day, basically. And I need to find the time to write for at least a little bit in there! Although if I am going to the gym, I can get some book writing done easy. Today i threw some more stuff at Cursed Wreck, but not much beyond a paragraph.

Painting is really draining. Guh.

The weed of crime bears bitter fruit!

Sooo muuuuch craaaap!

Moving is a royal pain in the butt. painting even more so, but that is self inflicted so I can't complain ^-^

Tomorrow I must:
Gym
Take lease copy to post office
Arrange walk through for the old place
Finish masking and edge my bedroom, mask the study and maybe do the trim in there? or edge? Hmmm... And the hall. We'll see how it all goes!
Write

I thought there was more, maybe I'm crazy o-O I guess that is probably be enough :p

Some thoughts and a plan.

I am up early as a result of going to bed early. I slept pretty well considering that it was my first night in the place. A few odd dreams but I don't remember them specifically. I think one of them had me hanging out with Shan? It is starting to feel a bit like 'my' place, but mostly because it is still covered in my mess ;p I think this is gong to wing up being an expensive move - I want to make my house more homey, for real this time. Paint is a start (which is money, supplies are more), I really need to get a desk now, and possibly also another table (incidentally, Hazel, I am thinking of painting mom's brown table, since I'm going to be painting anyway - any objections?) for the kitchen. I also need a new hard drive (luckily I found my windows XP installation cd, wooh)!, and an external hard drive.... Maybe a webcam, I'm undecided. That's another big chunk of money.

More immediately, I need groceries! These are even more easily obtained than before, however, as my house backs on a grocery store. It would be evener more better if there weren't a fence, though!

I am hoping to get paint today, and maybe even do some painting before Exia. I can probably at least start masking things off so that I can really get started tomorrow. I looked at my colours again, and while I still like the over all scheme, I don't think I am married to these specific tones - we'll see. I also need to decide if I should paint inside my closets, and what to do with my doors (currently painted to match the rest of the apartment). And I still need to finish cleaning in the old place. I'll head over there early this afternoon, after lunch and some groceries. i need to get my pantry sorted still.... but I also want to get some kind of paper to line my shelves with, so I don't want to go crazy yet.

My kitchen here is huge, but I think I might actually have less storage space. At the old place, I had an actual pantry to store things, whereas here I just have cupboards. I am also going to need some kind of organizer for my bathroom, where I only have one (admittedly large) cabinet, under the sink. I'll sort it out, anyway - for now i have writing to do. I've barely posted anything for august_writing!

Moving was very easy - took about three hours and four and a half trips or so for four people. The bigass truck really helped! Afterwards there was pizza and beer! The pizza was from Antonio's, which makes it extra win, and it will probably be dinner when I go home. To the new home. The one I hope to keep for the rest of my stay here, anyway.

After lunch, I started unpacking a few things - mostly kitchen and bathroom, i.e. nothing I'll just have to move in order to paint I am looking forward to a house with some colour! Okay, possibly a *lot* of colour, as most of the shades I've picked out for my place are ery bold warm colours - brick orange/red for the living room, with a mandarin orange-y gold for trim and the hall, a nice deep blue kitchen (complimentary colours-ish - also my linoleum is blue :p) and bathroom, a pumpkin pie shade for my bedroom, and a deep green for my study. I doubt martha Stewart would approve but hey, raise your hand if you don't care! :D

So this afternoon I've been cleaning out the old place. I vacuumed the carpets, cleaned the closest and all the cupboards and cabinets, washed the windows (except the exterior where there was a screen because I couldn't figure out how to take the windows out -_- I also cleaned the fridge and spot washed walls and window frames, etc.

Major things I still need to do are:
Oven
Linoleum in kitchen and bathroom
More spot washing of walls
Counters
Sinks

I think that is all of it. Unless I want to start on things like washing all the light fixtures and doing more than a half-assed job at cleaning the mini blinds. Oooh we hates that! Now I have to decide if I want to go get oven cleaner now, or wait and just do that tomorrow. I think I will, though. I'll give it a spray and leave it until tomorrow. It's been a loooong day!

ETA: Fuckin' Texas! It started raining, and *then* it clouded over! Right when I wanted to go (that is walk) home >:P Hopefully it won't last long - I'm getting hungry!

Need to start doing more stuff and being more organized! Friday went alright. I got lots of stuff done. I even managed to be productive on Saturday, between work for school and packing. Today I am going to just write, I think. Maybe do some more packing - my closets are still very full. But I really have been neglecting Cursed Wreck.

On that note, it is currently impossible for me to get IRC's in the city. I am going to be in Canada in two weeks, and I think I'll just pick up some stamps then, and send in my story then if I have to - I'd rather do it sooner, of course, so if anyone is willing to send it *for* me, that would be very swell! I'll be seeing you in about two weeks, after all.

Gym first this morning, though. Leg day - I have dropped my weight a lot in order to get my form down better, which I guess is a good thing. Blarg. Sleepy. Full of bees -_- *kills them*

Other things to do:
Set up another driving session with Megan for this week
Set up test for my learner's permit
Arrange to have my power and phone transferred
Figure out how much rent I am going to owe Doux Chene this month for rent
Get some more boxes, possibly from the grocery store - I mostly need ones to hold miscellaneous crap and food at this point. most everything else has been packed. My house would look really bare if it weren't for the boxes :p


Oh, also, I have decided that I want to paint my new place. I am tired of white walls, and I think it wold help give me more of a feeling of permanence. I did some math and I have moved something like nine times in the past six years. Some of those weren't 'full' moves with furniture, but many were, two were transatlantic, one more was also international, and 4 involved moving across a good chunk of continent. I have moved house completely once a year for the last four (including this one). Anyway, I think I am due a little paint on my walls, since I am allowed (as long as I paint back), and since I am planning on staying put for the next three at least. Along those lines, I am thinking of asking people for my birthday this year to, instead of buying me stuff, get me some gift cards to places I can buy house things in the US, to again help me have some feeling of permanence and adulthood. Wooh!

Okay, time to get dressed and finish my tea.