Leaving south Everett
It’s hard not to get sentimental about leaving.
I’ve lived in this house longer than any place since high school, and even then, not by much. I was a tween the last time I lived anywhere more than a year or two.
We had good times, regardless. Continue reading ‘Leaving south Everett’
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Hiatus-ish-ness
I’ll be without non-mobile internets at home for awhile, so expect a paucity of new posts.
It could take a few weeks to sort out.
Oh gosh! Where will you read about the minutiae of my life?
Nowhere but other social media sites? Dangit!
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Good things
(Apologies for all the moving-related posts, but life lately is consumed by, well, moving.)
As I get ready to leave the house where I’ve lived in suburban south Everett for almost exactly a year and a half, I’m trying to focus on the positive.
There is so much negative that I feel like I’ve been holding my breath for weeks, like some little kid making a wish in a car in a tunnel, eyes closed, feet lifted off the mat.
I would be remiss if I didn’t mention some of the good things my roommates have done for me in the past 18 months. Continue reading ‘Good things’
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Excitement
I’m excited!
I’ve wanted to move for a looooonnng time.
Except for three pieces of furniture, 85 percent of my belongings are boxed up in the living room. (When did Elliott Smith CDs, love letters and exercise accessories get so bulky?)
For a couple of weeks now, I’ve been trying to remind myself that moving won’t fix everything. It won’t make my life perfect. I’ll still have my holiday-treats spare tire, my student loan bills, my super annoying cat.
But it’s a step. A brave effort to make every day a little better. Continue reading ‘Excitement’
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Moving casualty #1
Starting packing four hours ago, and something’s already broke.
It’s my cheap plastic critter souvenir from Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo in May 2007.
This hurts my heart, a little to a lot.
Never fear, I still have my cheap plastic choo-choo souvenir from Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry.
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We’re supposed to get a foot of snow in Everett before the week is out. Despite my four years in Pullman, my snow driving isn’t the best. I know HOW to do it, but it’s not my favorite, and I swear, nervousness and snow driving are like fear and rabid dogs … one incites even more trouble in the other.
I had one bad drive last year. I got off work around 9 or 10 p.m. I-5 had a couple of inches accumulated. It wouldn’t have been that bad, but people were spun out everywhere. There were at least four cars who’d missed my exit and ended up stuck in not-safe places. It was like that Mitch Hedberg joke about Target practice, all the people splattered about.
Anyway … during winter in Pullman in 07-08, I was out of contacts or something and had already rescheduled my optometry appointment a couple of times. It was mid-blizzard between Pullman and Moscow. I got there OK, got stuck in a parking spot, then fishtailed getting back on the highway, I was well along that highway when my windshield wiper on the driver’s side flew off. Moments later, a truck passed me, flinging mud and snow all over the windshield.
We were going 50-ish. I couldn’t see anything. I slowed down, holding my breath, waiting any second to crash into a semi-truck or a basalt cliff.
An eternity later, somehow, something knocked off some of the snow, and the snow let up so I could make it back to Pullman.
It was insane. I’m glad I didn’t die.
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Apartment viewing, round two
Julie and I had an adventure to Arlington this weekend.
I found a place I’m tempted to rent. It’s BIG for a one-bedroom apartment, has its own washer/dryer, TWO storage-sized closets and it’s only $625 a month. (The same thing would cost $950 in south Everett.)
The only problem is it’s in Arlington, 30 minutes north of Everett. My commute would be longer, and I’d be living in a much less populated area than I’m used to. Continue reading ‘Apartment viewing, round two’
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Things I Love Today
Or TILT, as BriBri says.
- Wiki’s List of English words of Yiddish origin.
- Johnny Lee’s “Looking for Love” from the Urban Cowboy soundtrack.
- Enough snow to freak out native Western Washingtonians.
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