Stuff..again..
I’m thinking (like i have been for months) that once I get my room cleaned up, my life will be cleaned up with it..
Right now, my life feels like my room: full of crap, some stuff is great, stuff I neglect, some that’s not mine to deal with, lots of trash I could get rid of if I just buckled down and did something about it..
So I’m about to go to Wal-Mart to pick up some bookshelves for my room..I’ve been meaning to that for ever a month now, but they are too heavy for me or my mom and at first wouldn’t fit in my van..getting them delievered would be another 40 dollars on top of what I was already paying..
so I’m gonna get some stong (hopefully good looking) guys to bring them out to my van and load them..
Ironically, I’m getting the shelves and we’re remodeling my room, just in time to move out 3-9 months later..
I drove some stuff up for Matt and Jennifer to their new apartment, today..I wish I could have helped more..but I can’t carry anything that heavy lol..
Their apartment was GORGEOUS! When I start looking for an apartment, I’m getting them to help me because they found a great apartment (including a new dishwasher, stove, refrigerator, and microwave) that was big and clean! Of course when I look at apartments, I also think from my P.O.V. and everything would work for me (meaning in my reach, without having anything adapted)..they got theirs for $450/month..
So I hope they can help me find something at that cost or less with the same stuff pretty much, but maybe closer to downtown or the west side (I like West Broad, and could never stand east broad)..I honestly think I can afford $300-350/mo. easily with the job I have..if hours go down, I will have to get another part time job starting in the summer, but I don’t think it would be that hard..if I did get another job on top of being a Student Ambassador, I could afford probably $450-$500..
I’m just suprized to see the apartment be so great with the average Ohio price..I was expecting to find (in June when I start looking) one-room with low toilets, shared half-bathrooms, with smokey walls, pull out stove and I’d have to sleep on a couch because there wouldn’t be room for a bed, screwed up carpet with friendly mice, etc..
I know I could get a decent income-based apartment where Brittney and her mom have one, but everyone tells me it’s a bad neighborhood..maybe because poorer people live there, but at the moment, I’m one of those poorer people and I’m not going to rob or kill anyone (ok, I would kill someone if they were hurting or about to kill someone else..especially a friend or family member)..
Oh, well..
I’m worried for Matt though..and after that phone call, for Jennifer..they seem SO tired.. :o( Jenn sounded tired and Matt had that whole wide-eyed, rubbing eyes, leaning against every wall he was near thing and looked as if he was about to pass out..
I think I bothered them way too much about how he needed to take at least a short nap..but it was scary!
I’ve seen what lack of sleep can do (my mom became sick with a dibilitating disease and my dad has almost recked the car a few times..I’ve almost hit a few people, too)..he even called Nick to help him later and part of the “helping him” was keeping him awake while he drove..
He’s going down to Logan (which I’ve only been through once on the way to a wedding), but it’s a lot of country and I don’t think there will be many streetlights, so I’m like, “Tomorrow, I don’t wanna hear about cops finding a truck in a creek - I’m sorry, a crick”..or slammed into a tree or him hitting a deer..with him in it..
Luckily, I think Jenn will be able to rest..she packed VERY well, btw..I didn’t get to see inside, but I know when I move, it’s gonna be thrown into a box and thrown into a van..Matt said Jenn used bubblewrap and peanuts..she’s smart lol..
Matt said he’d help with moving my crap (good thing because my dad is the only other person I might be able to rely on being strong, so far)..I’m thinking of ordering a PODS to save gas since it would be driving back and fourth from Ashville to Columbus..
Oh, another thing..I’ve gotta ask around to see who would like to go, but my dad said if I pay another $100, he can get the same Florida trip open for $500..maybe I heard it wrong..maybe it’s $100 for the whole thing..whatever it is, I would like to celebrate our graduation (so many people are graduating!!) by taking a road trip down to New Smyrna Beach, FL for 5-7 days in a nice sized condo on the beach..I’d like to get at least 8 people committed before I get it..one of the people would be me..
the condo sleeps 6, but I got a cot for myself and the place is so huge, people can take turns sleeping on blow up mattresses (I have one of those, too) and sleeping bags..there are 1 1/2 baths and a great kitchen and a pool..there are 3 TVs, one with a VCR and DVD player..might even get one with a balcony..Orlando is as far away as Ashville is to Columbus State (around 35 min.)..so it’s great!
So - any ambassadors I talk to all the time, and even those I don’t, would y’all like to go??? The more people, the less each person would have to pay..
I’ve mostly talked to Matt about it because he’s great at getting people together..every time I try, it sucks and nothing happens, so I thought telling people who are good at it would help..
Other than that…
Ok, I was going to rant about the Newspaper, like I’ve been doing for 3 days now, but I won’t..
I was telling Jess some of what was going on in my life and I joked saying, “My life is like a soap opera, but my character has a crappy part” lol..it’s crappy because everything that seems to make it like a soap opera is negative or against me or has nothing to do with me, I just know it because friends tell me stuff..
I’m not saying that my life isn’t an adventure, but it doesn’t have enough POSITIVE drama..I want something to cheer about, not something that makes me complain all day..
but I have to say, I’n noticing the “plot” come together lol a.k.a. everything eventually works out..just in weird ways..like having no motorized chair ihas helped me lose weight (officially 17 pounds lost in one month!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!! that’s more than 10% of my start weight!!! next month’s goal: 10% which is 15 pounds lost so I hope my “accurate” weight will be 135 or less and May’s goal: 14 pounds lost ending with 121 pounds by June 1st..If I can do it, I will hopefully be able to go down to 115 by my birthday (June 27), but I’ll be happy with 125 because it’s mid-range normal for my height)..
Losing weight, will make me able to be more independant so I can start looking for a place starting summer quarter and hope to look for the extra job, too (while taking 5-10 credit hours) and move out by Fall Quarter..