Been so busy lately! But firstly, THANK YOU to everyone who's offered to help Tyler & me move. We're watching "Across the Universe" and I'm buying pizza & beer afterwards for anyone who's interested!

~Have potentially found a new job with a Real Estate company in Reston. Am probably going back for a 2nd interview tomorrow or Friday! Wish me luck!

~Current assignment with Five by Five ending today (just got notice yesterday...was a bit miffed about the short time frame they gave me >:|)

~I FINALLY HAVE INSURANCE. *gives the finger to Kaiser and hugs BCBS. And makes about a hundred doctor's appointments*

~Moving this weekend, HOLY CRAP! Been packing/painting/cleaning up a storm.

~Have scrubbed more grout & kitchen appliances in the past week than I ever want to scrub again. Kristin - 1. Dirty Ass Kitchen - 0!

~Unforunately, still have to scrub bathrooms & their respective floors. D'oh!

~Kitchen & bedroom at nuu haus are mostly painted!

~Have obtained Exalted reputation with the Netherwing Faction and am the proud owner of an Azure Netherwing Drake!

~Have ALSO obtained my Albino Drake!

~Currently speed-leveling Cerda to 60 in the hopes of joining the other OL-ready toons in Schadenfreude.

~Made a Draenei shaman as part of Team I Wish I Loved This Class with Audrey & her Human pally. WISH US LUCK.

Fortunately I have a four-day weekend coming up as I'm planning to use Monday & Tuesday to unpack & organize the haus. Hopefully I will be starting with the new place in Reston next week as well...o.o

Plea for halp!

Hokay! So, good news - Tyler & I GOT THE HOUSE!!!! YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYYYYYY FINALLY ETC ETC. We’ve been painting & cleaning & squeeing not-so-quietly for about a week now. However...this mean we actually have to, y'know...move into it.

Okay, that’s not so fun. But this is the part where I BEG FOR ASSISTANCE anyway. We are planning to move in on Saturday, November 7, 2009. If anyone is available to help I would appreciate it!! We will provide pizza and beer (and my Random Lucky Booze Box will be up for grabs – I have NO IDEA what’s in there, but it’s probably Ruby Red and Coconut Rum and other girly things) and cookie cake to everyone who is able to help out!

We are planning to split the forces for the first half of the day. Tyler will be borrowing his parents’ giant ass SUV & trailer and has mostly boxes & clothes to move, so I think we want to send one or two people over to help him (he’ll probably be able to recruit a couple of his friends as well to help with this). However, I have a whole basement full o’ shit to move and will be renting a U-Haul and borrowing my mom’s van, so I would like to commandeer as many people as possible. XD

Please let me know if you will be able to help! We will be ever so grateful.

So, I've come to a few conclusions about My Life So Far (which, by the way, Exit Mundi's "Stop!" Theory has really tried to convince me doesn't exist).

One, I think I've done a pretty good job of becoming a Capable Adult who can Still Have Fun. I work when I have to and even put in uncomfortable extra hours to make sure that I do my job well, but I know when to say enough is enough. However, I don't think I will ever be able to truly please my parents unless I get a government job that pays me a six-figure salary and stop liking "weird stuff" like WoW and cosplay. It's hard to be around them because even when I'm comfortable with myself, I can still feel them glancing at me in that bewildered, perplexed fashion that I hate - why didn't our daughter turn out like us? I don't have an over-developed sense of duty (not to be confused with loyalty), nor do I like average things like gourmet seafood dinners or watching professional sports on TV. I don't really care about making The Most Money or having The Biggest House. They don't understand how video games and cheap cheeseburgers and a job that pays the bills without requiring a 60-hour per week commitment can possibly be more preferable. Long story short - I am really, really tired of living under my parents' unsatisfied roof and can't wait to move out (again).

Secondly, I've decided that I am just not cut out for administrative work. I can do it, but it requires such intense concentration from me that it is extremely unenjoyable. I'm not the type of person who naturally writes everything down and has a concrete schedule that I actually stick to. I might PLAN to clean the house at 2:00 and be ready to leave for a party at 4:30, but the reality is that time frames just don't stick with me. Sure, I'll clean and I'll make it to the party, but who cares what time it gets done as long as it gets done? I like problem solving, but hate problem solving within an office "process". I like creating schedules, but I hate the hoops I have to jump through to follow "process". God, PROCESS! Creative license > Process. That just might be my main reason for disliking administration.

Thirdly - well, maybe it's just an extension of "I Hate Administrative Work", but anyway - I've decided to not look for a full-time, permanent job and to just continue temp work for the forseeable future because...I'm Going Back to School (gasp!). Again, creative license > Process, and the only way I'm going to be able to use creative license within a job is if I have the training to actually LAND a creative job. Hence, school. I'm thinking Spring or Summer 2010. That's more than enough time to get my credit card debt squared away (it's down to half of what it was in June, woohoo!) and enough time for me to check out programs and tuition and attempt to get financial aid (although I may not qualify since I already have a Bachelors degree. Boohoo ;A;)

And...I think that's the end of my What I've Decided essay. Also, I'm at work, lawlz! My supervisor has been gone, so I can get my work done without pretending to be frantically busy. So far, I have done perhaps....5 hours of work this week. And that includes doing every aspect of my job that I should be - I'm *technically* not slacking off.

Inconsequential news of the day - I took my nape piercing out a couple weeks ago. Bye bye.

Haus news - we are supposedly closing this Friday. Who knows. Originally we were supposed to close last Friday, then that got pushed to Tuesday the 13th, and now it's on the 16th. Here's hoping! Short sales are an absolute nightmare - we're approaching 5 months of negotiations and setbacks now. I can't wait for it to all be over!

This weekend I'll be in Kilmarnick (how do you even spell that?) for Tyler's grandmother's 80th birthday. A couple weeks ago terra_firma helped me pick out an awesome dress and a pair of shoes for it.

OH. SPEAKING OF SHOPPING. kissokomes and terra_firma, I'M BEGGING YOU. PLZ TAKE ME ON ONE OF YOUR MAGICAL ROSS SHOPPING RUNS. PLZ. SOMETIME IN NOVEMBER WOULD BE OSM. :D

AND YOU, caffeine_monkey. DON'T THINK YOU ESCAPED. I NEED TO LEECH OFF YOUR THRIFT STORE-FU TOO. YOU KNOW, WHENEVER YOU GET BACK FROM PARIS. <3

Anyway, so I'll be in Kilmarnick, but I get this Friday off! So tomorrow is like my Friday! I'm so happy! Also, Sunday will be my OMG I MISSED YOU SO MUCH, WoW day. Don't judge.

Now, back to waiting on the techs to get back from lunch so I can snag one of them to cover the front desk so I can EAT. I AM FATTISHLY HUNGRY!

There's this TV show on TLC about some mid-Western girl who's "possessed". Because ZOMGZ THERE WAS A PENTAGRAM CARVED INTO HER LEG. No joke. And there was some kind of German phrase carved into her abdomen.

Yeah. Whatever. They're "exorcising" her at the moment. She's like a bad larper. "MY NAME IS SE--(ohshitItotallyforgotmyline)--SIX. IT'S SIX. PICK YOUR NAME, I HAVE SIX." Like, that is actually what this chick said during her "exorcism". I think these people watched "The Exorcism of Emily Rose" one too many times.

I mean. I believe in the spiritual world and I do believe possession is possible. But pffffft, TLC. Like you would actually WANT to find a real exorcism to film.

Ok now Intervention's come on and my kat is walking on my keyboard, and it's time for bed.

Do I leave early from work today? Or do I stick it out and leave at 3:30 tomorrow?? I'M TORN!! I'm having a crapular morning and would love to go, but I know tomorrow I'll want to leave early.

HELP!

Total minutes of actual work done so far: 4 (not counting 2 hour morning meeting)

Total minutes of time spent talking about WoW: a lot more than 4

I wanna go outsiiiiide in this amazing weatherrrr and probably ruin it by playing WoW on my pooooorch! Yesplz!

Omg also, October = exciting! Birfdays, ren faires and LARPS!

I'm still tired from moving yesterday! It was hard for me to sleep last night too for some reason, and I ended up wide awake at 8am this morning, wtf haha. I haven't even finished moving stuff into my room, it's all in the living room & foyer. However, tonight I am feeling MUCH too lazy to finish that. :3

It was GORGEOUS today, which was great because I went to a community craft fair with my mom and drove to Reston to hang with ares_bourn, classic1st and the other feepits. The drive there is AWESOME and it was the perfect temperature and Fall is totally in the air...this is my favourite kind of weather! Kate also gave me my first non-drunk introduction to Rock Band and, um, let me just say that now I am SO buying a PS3 because I will be playing that game forever and ever. Thanks Kate! :D

Now I am at home and am doing laundry/watching TV (gasp! TV! First time in over a year, it's AMAZING)...also QQ-ing a little over my apartment-less state. caffeine_monkey, I totally already miss living with you. D:

Ok...now back to watching mindless TV!

I just had to clean up worm-ridden vomit.

Eugh.

Today sucks.

So...just to get it out there:

I'm moving this weekend!

Omg! I was expecting to move on September 19th, but due to various circumstances that didn't work out. I know this is short notice, and I'm sorry! >_<

...Sooooo, does anyone want to help? :D :D :D Pretty pretty pleeeeeease? I'm moving in with my parents until Tyler & I close on the Haus (OMG YAY!), and my mom offered to make everyone lunch! And I'm hoping to take most of my boxes (except for the really heavy crap) over this week, so it should be mostly furniture.

I can also provide fatty foods of choice if there are any requests. Drop me a comment or gimme a phone call DO NOT CALL MY PHONE BECAUSE IT IS A PIECE OF SHIT. Slight aside here - I've been getting maybe 1 in 5 calls people make to me. So if you call, I probably won't get it, and I'll only get your voicemail in about two weeks. Texting seems to be fairly reliable though...how sad. Next paycheck = i-Phone ahoy. ANYWAY. Moving? Anyone? Please? :D

THANK YOU in advance to any takers. I know manual labour is a REALLY GREAT WAY to spend a Saturday!!!!!!!

Today, I bought something off of Etsy. I think it looks like a Naaru from WoW. I think I may have just opened up a door to dangerous territory, lawlz.

Last night, I started work on two art pieces (one small single canvas and one triptych) to decorate my & Tyler’s house (whenever we get one ;A; I sure wish the short sale we’re tangled up in now would just end already, one way or another). I also had no urge to play WoW (WHAT?! I know, right?! Totally weird), so instead I watched a Winnie the Pooh movie & Serenity. Now I have an almost overwhelming urge to watch Firefly again…blast! If only I owned it!

This morning, I’ve eaten 6 Wegman’s mini chocolate chip cookies, 2 chocolate-iced doughnuts from Dunkin Donuts, and drank a glass of apple juice (and I wonder why I’m slowly but surely getting fatter…).

This weekend, I’m raiding the liquor store for boxes (no, not booze, sadly) and will start to pack. I’m moving in two weeks – I still can’t wrap my head around that fact. It’s undetermined whether or not I will be living with my parents for a short period of time, but it’s quite likely that I will. Hell, I won’t complain *too* much, no bills for a month is a-ok with me. The trade-off of not getting to see Tyler as much really sucks though. I sure hope we can find a house soon (EXCUSE ME MR. BANK WHO IS DRAGGING ITS METAPHORICAL FEET, HURRY UP AND MAKE YOUR DECISION K).

I also think I’m getting sick. The lymph node on the right side of my neck has progressively been getting more & more painful. Blah. However, this prompted me to FINALLY mail out my insurance application (I’ve been uninsured since I quit SRI. /laaaazy), so I should be covered by no later than October 1st providing there aren’t any administrative snafu’s (I just wanted to say snafu).

My kats are starting to get along, but Sasha pisses me off way more than is probably healthy. I think once he’s allowed to run around an actual house he will bug me less, though. Keeping him in my room is balls-ass annoying because he’s SO loud at night – always knocking books off of shelves or rustling in a litter box for15 minutes at a time or playing with the blinds or jumping on poor Calla...ARGH. He’s definitely not sleeping in my room when he doesn’t have to.

I think that’s about it. Nothing out of the ordinary.

So, it looks like I will most likely need to live with my parents for an indefinite (but hopefully SHORT) period of time because short sales are the DEVIL, and the bank is drawing this whole buying-a-house thing out way longer than necessary.

Pros of moving in with the parents:

No rent or utilities bills!
I will significantly reduce my credit card debt (I can pay about $1500 a month and still be quite happy with spending/saving money)
If I stay long enough to eliminate my credit card debt (~3 months), I can start saving money for haus expenses
My parents will let me use their basement as storage, so I wouldn’t have any bills except for gas & insurance
My kats will have a bigger space to move around in and hopefully Sasha will stop being such a butthead

Cons of moving in with the parents:

…moving back in with my parents after being on my own will be a difficult adjustment… D:
No more sleepovers with Tyler…sooooooo ronery D:
In that vein, MUCH less time with Tyler in general coz he’s so far away & no sleepovers D: D: D:
Invasion of personal space (my parents are up-the-butt nosy about what I do/who I see/where I am/etc. when I live with them)
Having to pack/move/unpack twice…eeeeeeew

Mrrr. At least there are SOME good aspects, now that I look at it…I’ll save money and my kats will hopefully get along. Ugh, but moving twice and hardly seeing Tyler = total sweaty ballsac. D: I’m hoping I can maybe be like “The parents. I’m going to LIVE WITH THIS MAN. PLEASE LET HIM SPEND THE NIGHT AND NOT IN ANOTHER BEDROOM. THANKS.” I don’t know why they’re so Puritan-ish about that whole deal, it’s not like my dad is religious. I think my mom just wants to ignore the potential “Ess Eee Echs” factor because she somehow missed out on the 60’s sexual revolution and it embarrasses her so she passive-aggressively avoids talking about it. GRR.

There’s my fuss. If it were in my power I would throttle the Bank That’s Dragging its Feet until I got a solid answer.

P.S. SRI ACTUALLY SENT ME MY VACATION PAYOUT ONLY 15 DAYS LATE, AND I BOUGHT THE COMPLETE STAR TREK: TNG SERIES WITH IT, BOOYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

As I asked the previous time you came around, please Fuck Off. I don’t want to see your ugly orange face around my dashboard anymore. Just yesterday my gas gauge (and your ACCOMPLICE) told me I had a quarter of a tank left. Today, my gaslight is on. Since when does a tank that is 25% full equal an emergency? Is this my punishment for having McDonald's for dinner? Was sitting in the drive-thru really that taxing? I can find no other reason for your deviant behaviour. Please cease and desist. Thanks.

--Sunday, Tyler & I are going to go see our potential house. It’s FINALLY vacant (meaning FINALLY minus people who consistently sleep til 4pm – seriously, we went there twice and both times people were in bed – people who smoke inside, and have piles and piles of crap obscuring everything)!

--I painted my toenails a really shiny purple colour and I now all I want to do is stare at them.

--I uh…got a RAF account. *hides from the shame* How long does it take for triple XP & the Zhevra mount to be applied to the account/accounts?? I did this last night and it’s still not registering!

--It’s about to storm outside

--I decided I want to make at least one art piece for each room of the new house. Spent last night “researching” for inspiration (aka Google- & Etsy-fu)

--Etsy.com is awesome!

--Did you know they make WoW credit cards where you can earn game time by buying stuff???

--I want a WoW credit card so I can earn game time by buying stuff!

--Sasha and Calla were friendly last night!! For about 4 seconds, anyway. They sniffed each others’ faces! It was cute.

--Tyler & I are going to I-HOP TOMORROW FOR BREAKFAST *FATTY*

--Oh, also, belated – L5R LARP WAS AWESOOOOOOOOOME.

--Now I really want to Wanderlust again

--Also hiking, also it sure is August outside with all the wet & the humid…

--I had a dream a couple nights ago that I had a baby

...Please Try Again Later."

NOW, TELL ME BLIZZARD. HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO LEVEL MY ALTS, OR RAISE MY REP WITH ANY FACTIONS, OR GET EMBLEMS, OR BETTER GEAR, IF I CAN'T GET INTO ANY DUNGEONS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idSfhYsEHYc

Goddamn you Bliz-ZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARD!

I just had a “humans are fucking weird” moment. My company got a full-colour, 6x11” advertisement for a horse race, and it’s just like. What the fuck are those guys DOING, running in circles on top of big smelly animals and jumping over bushes in windbreakers & helmets? God. Humans are FUCKING WEIRD. (No offense to any horse riders of course, this just struck me for some reason).

Anyway, I’m pretty sure my kats tried to drive me & Tyler insane last night. Sasha (my new kat, confined to the bathroom until he and Calla learn how to be fuzz-frenz) decided it would be a GREAT IDEA to play with the door stop (wound metal spring that apparently makes a very appealing twang-thwock noise when batted). So Tyler hauls himself up and sticks his head in the door to mutter a barely coherent “STOPPIT SASHA” before stumbling back into bed. Unfortunately, seeing Tyler prompted Sasha into a fit of “Mrow. Mrow. Mrow. MROW. Mrrr. MrrrrrrrOW MROW MROW MROW MROW”’s until I got up and brushed him for a few minutes. Later, around 3 AM, Calla decided to CLIMB THE BLINDS on my window. When I woke up and tried to grab her, she just decided it would be better to crash to the floor in a sheepish heap. In order to soothe her dignity and punish me for interrupting her blind-climbing escapade, she decided to play in my water glass and flick cold, cold water onto my face at random intervals throughout the night. Ffffff. So much for going to bed early.

THANKS KATS. THIS IS WHY YOU WILL NOT BE SLEEPING IN THE SAME ROOM AS TYLER AND ME ONCE WE'VE MOVED.

Tomorrow, I think I’m just gonna introduce Sasha & Calla to each other and let them duke it out. I can’t take too many more nights of Sasha’s ‘OMG LET ME OUUUUUUUUUUUT’ yowls.

Also, I’ve been thinking that part of the reason I love having long hair is coz I can hide behind it when having inappropriate emotional responses (ie, blushing for no reason, laughing at inopportune times, concealing impatience when being bombarded by a micromanager).


So my weekend was pretty baller. I hung out with terra_firma for most of the day on Saturday, which was awesome coz it had been about a month since we'd been able to get together! We totally fatted it up and blew off a social engagement (partly because Audrey was feeling unwell, partly because we wanted to keep sewing, and partly because we wanted to keep eating cookie cake and watching videos of Chris-Chan on The Interweb). I got a full lesson on the weirdness of Real Dolls, I discovered George the Spider, also GIVE ME BACK MY PLAYSTATION NETWORKS JACK THADDIUS, I finished about 75% of my Basilisk mock-up dress (including the top part of the sleeve that actually connects to the dress! I still have to adjust the sleeve & neck holes as they're too big, and I have to draft up the sleeve shape & size from about mid-bicep to wrist), and I also learned that when you decided to make someone else fulfill your social obligations, they will also cook you a delicious dinner! Thanks, Kevin & Tyler!

On Sunday I did about 8 loads of laundry (Calla decided to be a stupid pee-kat and not only went in her own bed, but also in my laundry basket full of clean clothes. Fffffffffffff), vacuumed, cleaned the bathroom (although I have to sweep it daily now coz Sasha gets kitty litter EVERYWHERE with his long draggy-ass fur...lol, or draggy ass-fur, BA DUM TISH!), changed my sheets, dusted, and (sort of) cleaned the kitchen! My mom also made me & Tyler a dericious dinner of steak, baked potatoes, corn on the cob, and tomato caprese. Mmmmm mmm. Also a cake that she made over a month ago that tasted like she just made it that same day. Apparently cakes freeze really well, who knew?

I HATE MONDAYS!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously! 10-hour workday, every Monday! It's like jumping from a warm & comfy hot tub while slighty buzzed into an ice cold pool full of hangovers! It sucks!

I had meetings for FOUR AND A HALF STRAIGHT HOURS this morning! 7:00 - 11:30 AM! NYARGH!!!!!

Also, where did the summer go? How is it already August? :O

Yesterday I did all productive things I needed to (dusted, vacuumed, changed sheets, changed litter box, really cleaned my entire bathroom including floors & shower!) and I also loafed a lot, watched Sex in the City a lot, played WoW a lot, and almost finished the upholstery job I'm doing for my mom (a very belated Christmas gift). I also realized I have a stupid case of tendonitis on the top & left sides of my right wrist....probably from playing WoW on my laptop all the time. /win, /cool, all that.

After work today I'm going to meet a kittykat I may potentially be adopting. Hope I get along with him and his current owner!

Okay! In an effort to not be completely negative...

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