Home Sweet Home

I completely forgot the most important news of all: I moved. I now have my very own apartment. For the first time ever.

Due to a mess of complicated and asinine mistakes by the management, it turned out that my mom and I didn't didn't qualify for the 3 bedroom apartment. So they asked us to move out. Obviously, I was very upset. There was no way I could afford rent anywhere else, and my Mom and I had already decided that she would move back in with Russ. On top of that, thanks to my mom, my rental history is completely screwed because we didn't clean up the old apartment before we moved out. I kept trying to, but it's very hard to do all that stuff when you are working all the time and have a screaming 2 month old who wants you to pay attention to him. She didn't have a job and had plenty of time, but she would always say she was busy or tired or , and therefore couldn't help or even watch Snuffles while I went over and did it. But I digress. So anyway, I was freaking out. Then Allie, the manager came over and told us that she thought we would qualify individually for the 2 bedrooms here. She re-did our applications and made it look like we'd never moved into the 3 bedroom at all, and backdated it so it showed that we had lived in the 2 bedrooms all along. And she got us apartments right across the hall from eachother. And, even better than that, she gave us free rent until February. So even though they screwed up, it turned out to be better for us then if it had never happened at all. Not to mention that the apartment is gorgeous and brand new. And I have my own room!!! I hated sharing my room with Chase. His crib and various peripherals took up half the room, and now he sleeps through the night because I'm not in the same room with him. All in all, it's the best mistake that's ever happened to me. Read more!

Space, The Final Frontier

Mom's moving out. She and Sam are going to move back in with Russ, my stepdad. So Samantha, a friend I've had since I was 13, and Christian, her boyfriend, are going to move in with me. Do you know what that means??? I GET A ROOM ALL TO MYSELF!!!! Sweet! Chase and I will take the upstairs bedrooms and they'll take the downstairs bedroom, and so I'll finally have a room all to myself devoid of any buffin paraphernalia and all kinds of nice empty space that I won't have to clutter up! Yay!

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Good News

I finally found a new job, by the way. Merry Maids. And I go to the college on Saturday to register for my spring classes. Things are finally starting to fall in to place. Almost, anyway. Thank goodness.

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From Dwelling to Home

Been feeling like crap. Things around here have been sucking incredibly hard lately-- broke, sleepless, stressed out, effing moronic me forgetting to take my meds every day so I've been feeling even more crappy, and worse, the running is in my head again. Sometimes I feel stifled, like my skin is too tight and I can't breathe, and I just want to run. When everything is a mess and I feel like there's no use cleaning it, and I just want to start over with a clean canvas. Those times where I feel like grabbing my CDs, some clothes, and my journal and just driving until the gas runs out. This has been one of those times.

But today there is hope. Finally we got some good news- today we heard from the people at the apartment complex we applied to. It's a brand new complex (only a few people living in it right now), it's absolutely gorgeous and feels blank, no impressions or leftover unpleasantness from previous owners (I get impressions in places. I've turned down more than a few awesome apartments because they made me feel sad or creeped out. Wierd, I know.). We have to turn in a few things and we are pretty much guaranteed to get the place.

It's CHIP (Cali's low income housing program, for those who don't know), so the rent will be about the same or less than we are paying now for a beautiful 3 bedroom apartment. It's a really unique design, too: it's in a three story building and occupies the top two floors in a building with 8 units, 4 3 bedrooms and 4 2 bedrooms that are located on the bottom floor. The upstairs is accessed by a door leading to an internal staircase that is part of the upstairs apartment.

There are 2 bedrooms and a bathroom on the top floor and one bedroom and one bathroom on the lower floor. The bottom room would be mine, and I'd have my own bathroom (OMG YAY!). It is awesome. Filled with light, all energy star appliances, a kitchen with a fantastic work triangle, and lots of storage space. It also has a large storage closet on the ground floor for things like barbeque equipment and the like.

I am so excited. I love moving, it makes me feel new and satisfies the nagging urge to run. Best of all, my mom will finally have her own room (right now she sleeps in the living room), so we will have a real living room and won't have to retreat to our rooms after about 9pm. Yay! Late night movies and all that when I can't sleep!

Fantastic. Absolutely fantastic.

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10 Things

I'm bored and can't sleep. Damn pregnant belly and mooshed bladder. Oh well. So for my personal entertainment, I shall post a random list. Lists = Fun! :)

10 Things I wouldn't want to live without, in no particular order. I could live without them, but then what would be the point? :)

1. Bleach Pen-- Awesome. I don't have many white clothes, but I do have plenty of clothes with white on them, and I seem to have some sort of magnetic properties when it comes to stains. If it weren't for my bleach pen, I would have thrown away about half my wardrobe by now.

2. Spray butter-- As in "I can't believe it's not butter spray" With just this, lemon juice, and a little salt and pepper, I can make the best barbecued chicken in the world (a fact supported by everyone who has come to one of my barbecues).

3. Throw blankets-- I have a weird obsession with blankets. Anything really soft and fuzzy, or with a neat design, or some other novel feature (I have a fuzzy lime green blanket with the texture of a poodle), I have to have. I've gotten more blankets on clearance at Hottopic than most people have bought in their entire lifetimes.

4. Wireless Mice (Mouses?)-- I'm left handed (I'm a left-handed activist. That's right. I feel that us southpaws should band together to battle our right-handed oppressors. Do you know how hard it is to find a good left handed can opener or scissors? I rest my case.) and several other people use my computer on a regular basis. They all use their right hands to mouse (even my left handed brother... traitor!) and it's very handy to be able to move the mouse around the desk without dealing with a bunch of cords. Also good for long online gaming sessions where you get lazy and put a book on your lap with the mouse on it so you can slouch in the chair.

5. Parenthesis-- This is pretty self explanatory if you've read anything else I've written. :)

6. Shoeboxes-- I adore organizing things. Shoeboxes are fantastic for this purpose, and have the added bonus of being a generally uniform shape and size, good for stacking multidious (I'm pretty sure that's not a real word) shoeboxes in cupboards for maximum organizational fun.

7. Office supplies-- I always loved going back to school for the sole reason that I got to go shopping for school supplies. There is nothing better than organizing a fresh binder or opening a new notebook and writing in it for the first time.

8. Snapple Peach Iced Tea-- Tasty refreshing bliss.

9. Sharpies-- Need I have a reason? Sharpies are wonderful. It's great to take them along on roadtrips (when I'm not driving), to concerts, or anywhere that I'll be sitting still for a long time. I make fantastic "tattoos" on myself or others that come out looking really neat. (and yes my mother has told me on countless occasions that I'm going to get ink poisoning.) They wash off really easily (hint: hand sanitizer or other alcohol based product works wonders. just slather up the area, rub with a washcloth, and then wash with soap and water.) Example from my trip to Ozzfest:


10. Bittorrent-- I am poor. I am cheap. I'd almost never get any new music if it weren't for Bittorrent. Yes, I know, I'm a horrible person and a pirate. Actually, that's pretty cool-- Arrggggg. I'm a pirate :p

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