Backbeat, the word is on the street

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Good morning everyone. It’s Sunday funday. The coffee is brewing and I want to thank you for stopping by.

Yesterday I went to checkout the flat. It’s tiny, and cozy. I told the land lady that I’d take it, then provided my mom and BossLadies phone numbers for references. She’s going to write up the lease paperwork tomorrow. It’ll be mine on April 1st.

It’s tiny but useable.

I’m happy, excited and scared to be moving. Like I told Crystal yesterday, it feels like I’m moving out of a half way house. Everyone means well here, it’s just I don’t do anything for myself. Laundry is taken care of. I don’t cook. I cooked here a couple of times. It went ok.

When I’m here, I just exist. I really don’t do anything for myself. I think it’s time. I probably won’t miss the grandfather clock going off.

Yes, there’s a decal on the wall.

I will miss people. Oh god I talk like I’m moving out of the province to a cabin in the woods. Mom says I can still come to dinner every night until Crystal gets here. I’m thinking maybe just dinner on the weekends, but we’ll see how much more human interaction I need. Some days, I’d have preferred to just make something quick and just shut down on my bed. Some days I don’t have the energy to talk with people after work.

So I have a month and two more pay checks to get everything all together. I could do it right now, but it would be very very tight. So with two more pay checks under my belt to get utilities and whatnot turned on.

I love to do laundry.

I have a running list going on my phone of stuff I’m going to need. Food stuffs, cleaning supplies, cooking supplies, etc. So if you’re so inclined, post a quick comment of stuff that you’d think I’d need, or stuff that you forgot when you moved into a new house or apartment.

I hear movement. Shady Acres is slowly starting to wake up. It’s a bright cold and sunny day so far. High of -10 today. Almost tshirt and shorts weather. Not.

And that’s where the hornet stung me

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Awake. Yesterday, we had a high of 2 or 3c. Today, right now, it’s freaking cold out. And it snow about 2 or 4 inches between yesterday afternoon and last night.

Eww.

Coffee.

Yesterday, it was wicked slow, so I decided to be an adult and call about a 1 bedroom suite available in town. I think I talked to her for about 15 minutes and she asked when I wanted to move in. I replied probably the end of March, 1st of April. Today I’ll text her and see if I can do a quick walk through. I told my mom and showed her pictures.

The. I remembered. The bed. I quickly texted the landlord and asked for measurements of the bedroom. The bed will fit.

Hopefully Monday, the house paperwork will arrive. It’s on its way, that’s about all I know. I have to inform our realtor when I get it, and inform her when it’s mailed out. I hope hope hope it comes in Monday.

I’m gonna try this afternoon, to try and relax, and to read for a couple of hours. We’ll see if I can. But tonight is date night. I’m very excited for that.

You in that dress, my thoughts I confess

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Happy Friyay! We made it! Woohoo 🎉

I’m not really awake yet. I could use another couple of hours in bed. But I’m so used to getting up early, I’m sure I wouldn’t sleep in very long. I can’t sleep like my dad. On his days off, he’ll get up at around 10:30/11 eat lunch, then go back to bed. He’ll usually then get up around 3 or 4 for dinner, then sleep for the rest of the night all the way to the next day. Crazy!

Coffee.

It’s been warmer here than the week before which is nice I’m trying to not get used to it, as if I remember correctly, it’s going to get frigid again. This is just the calm before the storm. I have a feeling it’s going to get ass-freezingly cold again.

I just have to make it through today, then I can hopefully relax for a couple of days. Next week may prove to be busy.

Here I go again on my own

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It’s kind of quiet here today. Yesterday, we (mostly me) moved a lot of furniture around and refreshed the art on the walls. I don’t know if NewGirl knows what to do if there’s no customer orders or anything like that. For the last two days all she’s done is follow me around.

I told her this morning that I wasn’t going to talk to her for an hour so she could make the phone calls she was supposed to do yesterday. But she was busy following me around. So I sat down to pull some discontinued fabrics. After an hour, I was just about done. She came and stood over me as I was working.

I finished as fast as I could and got out of there. If you don’t know what to do, find something to do. There’s a lot of shit in here that needs to be priced. Something, anything. Please just stop watching what I’m doing!

I’m still getting used to working with people. My last job it was me. I was responsible for pulling and getting special orders for stores. In a certain time limit. I still struggle with actually communicating in this job. But I’ll get better at it. I hope. I struggle with communication in general.

But I am trying.

Anyways, here’s what I styled and put together yesterday. Mostly with minimal help from NewGirl.

Behold, my excellence. I should be on HGTV or something!

Thanks for letting me vent. I feel a little better now. Sometimes working with others steals most of my spoons.

Also, no letter from the consulate today. Maybe tomorrow.