So, though I do have a buttload of finals homework and unpacking waiting for me, I’m currently at the beginning of my TWO days off in a ROW! Wow! Jump back! So I figured I’d take a little time out to give a slightly more informative update on my life.
First, if you haven’t already watched the video I posted a link to in my last blog, you should. If you already have and you hate it, you don’t have to watch it again, but your brain should absorb it at least the one time…it’s so full of color and cute and weird. Awesome.
Now, on to the important saga of ME!
Well, as my blog may have told you, last Thursday, we moved. We did so on almost no sleep — you see, when I got home from school on Tuesday night, I ended up pulling out some boxes and getting to some packing, which continued until 4am or so. I had to work the following day, on not quite enough sleep, and THAT night when I got home, Briggs and I ordered a pizza and then got to packing in a SERIOUS way…trying to get all that stuff that had been too essential to put away put away, disassembling the bed and so on. Once again, bed time was around 4am.
Wake up time was around 7:30am.
<–wake up call
We got up, I gave my email a last check and then we worked on getting even more stuff taken down and put away. Briggs bro-in-law, Barry:
…showed up around 10 or 11 and we started getting stuff packed in his F250 and the U-Haul trailer that it was pulling. We got everything big (stuff that couldn’t be taken in the car) in that trip and a bunch of other stuff as well.
After we got everything unpacked at The Foundation (aka Torchwood) we stopped at Sonic for lunch.
Why Sonic? Because we had been taunted by the commercials for years back in CA where there were no Sonics for about 100 miles. When we discovered that there was one right near Freeport, we knew we would have to check it out.
Unfortunately, it was quite disappointing. I mean, we knew it would be fast food, but it wasn’t even…GOOD fast food, if you know what I’m saying. It was disappointing FOR fast food. PLUS, there is no INSIDE for customers. It’s a drive-in, so you can park your car and someone on roller skates will bring you your food, but if they aren’t wearing a poodle skirt, what’s the point?
<–okay, not quite a poodle skirt, but still has the same general impression…
Anyway, if you aren’t getting food in your car, the other option is sitting at one of the little tables outside…which would be fine on your average balmy spring afternoon…however, when we moved, we were right in the middle of…well, perhaps not quite a COLD snap, but perhaps a very chilly snap? High 40s, low 50s, cutting breezes…it really felt like we were visiting a town by the coast, where the cold wind is always blowing and there are seagulls and salt water taffy every place you look.
Anyway, by the time we got back to the apartment, after a few unscheduled stops of Barry’s it was around 6-ish. Briggs and I decided to avoid rush-hour traffic by heading to Bed, Bath and Beyond and Target to pick up some random necessaries for the move. (At BB&B we had the most EMO little check-out boy…and, strangely enough, I DON’T mean that in a good way.
Apparently, scanning our items was an unholy burden to him.) By this point, I was swaying on my feet and Briggs was pretty thrashed. We had hoped to get the rest of our stuff out that night, but we quickly decided that one more load with the things we would really need+the cats
<–back when Nova was skinny
would be the limit of our abilities.
We got back to Torchwood around…I dunno. It was dark. We stumbled around and put a few things away and set a few other things up, then basically collapsed in a graceless heap, ate some food and slept like rocks.
The next day we got a few things set up and got some more stuff out of the apartment. I called out on Friday night ’cause I was still exhausted and hadn’t even had a chance to touch my homework.
On Saturday, we went to Lowe’s and bought plants (yay!) and found a much better food place with a much better 1950′s theme than Sonic:
Yeah. Awesomely delicious food, yummy milkshakes, AND they make a frozen-yogurt milkshake that is practically indistinguishable from the real thing!
Then we came home and, after a walk that didn’t take us where we expected, I worked on my mixed media homework:
On Sunday, I worked, but I also found out that my schedule got switched for the better. Yay!
On Monday I planted and transplanted plants, and worked on my Typography homework:
<–exhausted, post moving work. I’ll get a ‘B’ if I’m lucky. Probably lower. Damn.
The rest of the week has been pretty much the norm–school, work, homework…with a tad of added in trying to find time to unpack. On Thursday, between dishes and homework, I got a bunch of books on the shelves…Torchwood was almost beginning to look homey….until Briggs came home from work and dropping by the apartment with the rest of the stuff that had been left in the apartment and the house got piled up with boxes again. *sigh*
Today, I will work on my final typography project, which is actually pretty darn cool: we are creating a fictional album cover (record–size 12 x12) for a band of our choice…real or made up, big or small.
So, Mad At My Cat will finally get it’s first album. If you play the record that’s going to be in the sleeve, it will probably sound a lot like Sonny and Cher, but that’s just an illusion. Or perhaps a mix up at the the record producing company. ‘Cause despite the undeniable timeless nature of ‘I’ve Got You, Babe’, and whatever their other songs are, MAMC is just…well…we’re a better band. We ooze awesome. Our songs are simply Legen….wait for it….
wait for it…
wait a little more…
…dary!
Yeah, I bet you can guess what I’ve been watching a lot of lately. 
Along with my homework, Briggs and I hope to get at least a little unpacking and setting stuff up done today, so that when Heather
gets here on Tuesday, it won’t look too…
….and maybe get some more book shelves up since our modular shelf is more than halfway full and I’m only up to ‘H’…and am not even adding non-fiction or manga to the mix.
Tonight, however, we are bloody well watching Lost! Everyone else has seen the season finale and wants to talk about it and gosh darn it, we need to see it too!
Anyway, time marches on and I have more stuff to do, plus I need more caffeine. Later, skaters!
Steak and Shake – FUCK YES.
I feel your pain about Sonics. I was reading their website and if you join the franchise 5.9% goes to their advertising. I would be pissed if I was giving them 5.9% to advertise 200 miles away from my restaurant!
What the hell is this? You get a friend out there and suddently start neglecting the rest of us?!