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[Jul. 12th, 2009|10:08 pm] |
Had a somewhat productive weekend. Packed up a bunch of stuff yesterday, did some more today, there's still more to be packed up but the end is in sight and all that remains is getting the stuff out of here next weekend. Then figure out what to do with the things I don't want to keep. Got up earlier than usual today to do the laundry and there's a celebration in itself, that it's the last time I'll have to do the coin laundry again. Perks of having a washer and dryer with the new apartment! No more stretching the clothes out to three weeks.
Packing up reminds me again that I have a LOT of crap. I have brother's cast from when he broke his arm as a kid. Plus stupid little sketch things I did as a kid that mom saved and photo albums and LIBRARY CARD from junior high or high school lol. I've done a lot of paring down with the book collection but there's no away I'll get rid of some of them, like the illustrated Black Beauty I've had for decades. To show you how very old these books are, for some reason I have two copies of a trade paperback version of Misty of Chincoteague with a list price of $1.50. Not even HARLEQUINS are $1.50 anymore.
Though it'll be nice to move somewhere new, I will miss this place a little. Okay, so maybe not so much, I think I will miss only having a place completely and utterly to myself. There'll be a bedroom of my own though.
Watched some of old Torchwood and, maaan, do I miss the way the crew was. But I'm also satisfied with where the show has gone.
A week from now...in new place. Fun part is going to be cleaning this one up.
( True Blood, spoilers for tonight's ep... )
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[Jul. 9th, 2009|08:28 pm] |
Dropped some stuff at the new apartment, took some pics but it was mostly to document things being damaged or stained. Will do some actual pics of it. It's nice and it will be a lot quieter than this place, where you hear people enter the doors and leave the doors and WALK down the freaking hall. New place has more separate units. And while it has a nice little pantry thing, I am still disappointed with counter space and thinking there's also not going to be room for appliances to sit out, like crockpot and fryer and such so...they will have to sit in the mini pantry till I use them. But YAY for a self cleaning oven? I don't know what kinda cleaning they did but it was not in depth at all, as parts are dusty, including drawers, and I'm already thinking I want to have some kind of bin thing to store cooking utensils, rather than laying them out directly in drawer.
While there, was looking at the master bedroom and plotting where stuff will go. Bed against the west wall, I think, and near the window, with the dresser opposite and the TV resting on dresser. Then a small desk for computer maybe by window? This will require planning.
Talked to sister about my plan to rent UHaul truck, she thought it was unnecessary, that all could be hauled by car, but that would require multiple trips and the bed, for one, would require an actual truck, which means borrowing her hubby's truck, and he can be such a pisser about things...I came back with the argument that it would be better to get it all done at once, load it up then unload it in one trip and it's DONE.
One other nice thing about the place? There's parking RIGHT in front of the door. So it's a real short walk from car to front door. Unlike this place, where it's first come first serve with the parking places and hopefully the front lot is not all full when you're coming home with groceries.
( Now for Torchwood: Day Four SPOILERS! )
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[Jul. 8th, 2009|01:24 pm] |
To the ladies waiting in front of the store for me to open this morning...
I'm sorry if you might have thought it was rude for me to pick up the stuff your kids knocked down while you were still here. Me, I think it's rude that you let them run amok to begin with, and didn't ask them to pick the stuff up. So we're even, eh? Also, I can understand you simply can't be bothered to put back stuff your daughter tried on...but why did you also have to leave hanging in the dressing room something she never tried on to begin with? Gee, was the three strides you had to walk from bench to rack too much for you? It certainly was as long a walk to put it up in the dressing room.
To the young lady who called about exchanging her worn shoes...
Me, I know the first time I wear a pair of shoes if they're too big. So, no, I'm not going to exchange the shoes you wore five times to class and then decided they were too big. I'm no longer working at Payless, where that shit not only flew but was hoisted up on a flagpole to show off its colors. Ahh, Payless, you thought exchanging worn to death shoes for new was "good customer service". I guess it doesn't occur to you that you're not really making much in the way of sales off those customers who think paying for one pair entitles them to a lifetime of exchanges for new shoes.
Soooo glad today is shorter shift of being open. Am loving summer hours.
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[Jul. 5th, 2009|10:20 pm] |
Got in to sign the paperwork and take possession of the apartment. It's not bad, bigger of course than mine, and I kinda claimed the master bedroom, which is only moderately bigger than the other one. It has the attached bath too which will house the cat and her paraphernalia, my justification to brother for claiming it, adding in that I can shut the door and keep her in that part of the apartment. A cat which we...ahem...don't really have. Or I don't really have. Initial talk about the apartment I asked about deposit, specifying a cat, but subsequent talks didn't mention pet so...gonna smuggle her in. After all, I've never paid for a cat deposit in this apartment and over the years I've had three cats in here.
Am still convinced the kitchen counter space is not as much as at sister's but I will deal with it. Living room isn't bad, there's a small bit of a dining room, and with bushes shading the windows, it should stay cool. Patio and laundry room with newer looking washer and dryer, which is a big bonus in itself. No more having to drag laundry down to the coin operated room while hoping the washers aren't all full, or that the idiots who put their stuff in the dryer will actually come back to get it in a timely manner.
Got my hair dyed. Wanted black, sister asked me to try dark brown first, and dark brown is DARK, am glad I didn't get black after all. Of course it might lighten up with the first washing but if it doesn't this is certainly dark enough for me. No need for an Itachi wig this Halloween to go with the Akatsuki robe! Will have to get picture of it. Though sister worked hard to get it all through hair, there's a couple patches of resistant gray which looks like highlighting so no biggie lol.
And while starting on my closet, found the gym bag I made in seventh grade. Good golly, I am a horrible pack rat, and yet I still dropped it into the "keep" box. It's dirty and old and not really good for carrying stuff but, hell, it's something nice to come out of a horrible school year, the worst I ever had. Seventh grade was my Carrie year and even now I hold a grudge against the ringleader shits.
Hmmm not tomorrow but the next day will hand in my notice. Actually want to wait till close to the end period so I get the maximum amount of days out of it, to clear the place and clean it up. Next payday I can get the UHaul truck and load this stuff all up in one run. Also rent a dolly or see if sister has one or see if I can get a reasonably priced hand truck.
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[Jul. 4th, 2009|09:30 pm] |
It's only when you're getting prepped to move that you realize how much junk you drag around with you through life.
Since I save all old paycheck stubs--going have a fun old day shredding them once I get a shredder--I was going through the containers to consolidate the receipts, throwing out old bills and such, and I come across a ticket for Metallica at Portland Meadows...July 20, 1994.
Yeah, I kept some faded stub of a ticket for 15 years. Sheesh lol. And all it takes is for me to look at the date and remember the day, how damned hot it was, 107 degrees, and it was out in the sun, Metallica with Suicidal Tendencies and another band whose name escapes me. Vendors making a lot of money selling off insanely priced lukewarm water, sprinklers to keep you from getting dehydrated. A fun audience and a great band and now I know why I keep the ticket stubs and the convention booklets, for the memories they bring.
Went down to UHaul to buy some boxes and discovered tire is almost flat, ironically enough one of the new tires. Will get it pumped up then taken in for fixing. Which I do not have money for, as I've been buying boxes and supplies, so maybe it doesn't need fixing, maybe it just needs air. Tomorrow we sign off on new apartment and if it is indeed open to move in, got some stuff already to go. It's hard to get going in the process, there's not really any room in the apartment to just stack stuff. Only in the living room, really, but as warm as it's been, I'm not wanting anything blocking the AC.
Will try to get some more done tonight but ambition is lagging...
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[Jul. 3rd, 2009|05:08 pm] |
AND...we are in!
Sunday we go to sign the paperwork. Apparently the apartment is ready right now? Brother has paid for a week at his motel so he's staying there for that time and I guess I can start moving stuff in gradually. At the least move the stuff still in boxes from last time or to be honest just go through the boxes and get rid of what I don't need to keep. Need boxes and lots of them MEHHH. Need to do a checklist of stuff needing to be done and one in particular: change of address. Just need to know what new address will be lol.
It will be half the driving distance and with the previous one being a fifteen minute drive it's relatively close. Central air so will be cool in the summer and warm in the winter. And since it's a 2 bedroom place and not the two of us sharing a small one bedroom it should be easier to get along, especially since I'll have a room to sit in.
It's sad and pathetic to think I have lived in that place for about sixteen years. Not so much finances as complacency and not being eager to move out of my nest. And the nest was even more comfortable once I kicked the other birds out of it. To my mind, only real good thing about having a roommate is sharing rent and bills.
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[Jul. 3rd, 2009|12:53 pm] |
Oh, and I forgot on previous post. GMAIL! For some reason on sister's laptop when she tries to send emails through Gmail, she will type up the body of text and hit Send and IE will pop up a window asking her if she wants to send email without text. Looking through Google, I found a page full of complaints on this but no solution....anyone have a solution? One poster suggested it was IE8 but another said they had IE8 and it only did it on one of multiple browsers. Which I take to mean it does it on one computer the person has used. Can it be fixed using an older version of Gmail? I have no problem sending emails through this computer but I am also using Firefox. She won't use another browser due to bookmarks or just her innate stubbornness, which I can understand, because it should just work.
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[Jul. 3rd, 2009|12:18 pm] |
I am getting real tired of trucking down to the rental office.
This time the senior lady was in, and had apparently been called by the idiot to be apprised of the situation. Allegedly, they sent the information back yesterday but probably like one minute before she went out the door or something, just to be a lazy bitch about it. So later on today I have to call the PNP again to see if they got the info.
Good news is I don't have to do a 30 day notice, just a 20 day notice, so I have till next Friday to do notice for end of month. As far as the lease goes, they will let me do a buyout of $474. Damn, it should be illegal for these places to not only charge you for the remainder of your lease but to also draw rent on the unit. I got my list of cleaning instructions but as they're going to be replacing the carpet and vinyl, I don't have to shampoo carpet or mop, just sweep and vacuum. Looking at the list it's also amazing the shit they try to pull on you, like charging $7 to replace each light bulb. I will have to replace a few but not the ones on the dining room and bathroom fixtures, as they will be replacing those. As for the cleaning, I am wondering if it wouldn't be worth it to just pay someone to do the cleaning. Will have to look into that...
95 yesterday and supposed to be 93 through the weekend, going down to the 70s again on Monday. Am ready to move into place with central air so there's no more noisy rattling AC.
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[Jul. 2nd, 2009|05:18 pm] |
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This morning I trudged down to the rental office AGAIN to see if the senior, not-so-stupid lady was in the office, and YI from yesterday comes ambling in, tells me she's been working on my papers every "free" moment she has, since I came in yesterday. Given she didn't look exceptionally rushed or busy when I went in yesterday, I don't get why she couldn't have finished it yesterday. I'm sure she wouldn't have bothered to LOOK at the damn faxes if I hadn't been there asking about a fax.
Apparently she didn't have any minutes at all today to work on the referral 'cause it's now past 5PM and no word from the new potential place. At sister's suggestion, I called to let the NPP know we're very interested and the current rental office is dragging its heels, the lady in the office said she'd call the screening company and have them light a fire under them. Apparently YI is impervious to flames, as nothing has happened.
SIGH.
Now, if I was paranoid, I would think these bitches sat on the paperwork so I couldn't do the 30 day notice and will have to wait another month for it by the freaking time they get their asses around to doing shit. If your excuse is, you were outing showing places, well, if you did my paperwork, then you'd have another freaking place to show.
So tomorrow I will ONCE AGAIN go down to the office to harass them about filling out the stupid fucking paper. This is just getting ridiculous, they've had it since Tuesday, I'm sure, and I don't fucking care if Senior Lady has been out the last two days, why bother put the Idiot in charge of office if she can't do anything???
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[Jul. 1st, 2009|04:47 pm] |
Why can't you smack the stupid out of people? And...FREAKING APT MANAGERS!
So again waited till late afternoon before calling the new potential apartment complex, to be told they were waiting on a callback from MY landlord. Not brother's, just MINE. SIGH. I call the office three times, no answer. I call sister, she comes over to watch the store while I hustle over to the office, rent check in hand, to find the younger idiot behind her desk. Oh, she hasn't gotten any calls or messages, she says with big sincere eyes, she checks the message machine and no messages! I tell her I've been calling today and then it's, oh, I've been out showing places today but I sped back here in time to sit here when you arrived.
While I'm in the office, I call the new potential place to ask them if they can call again, they say it's the screening company that does that, and they'll have to call but they sent a fax as well so... Young Idiot claims at first she doesn't have a fax from them then opens a program on computer and WHADDYA KNOW! there's the fax. She prints it out and says oh so sincerely that she'll do what she can with it, with the limited authority she has. Well, why the fuck is she left in charge of the office if she doesn't have the authority to do things? To keep the desk from flying away?
Tomorrow I got to go in AGAIN and badger them AGAIN about responding to the fucking fax. Sister made the marvelous suggestion of bringing up brother's disability and how I'm leaving the place so I can share a place with him and help him out and won't they be nice about letting me out of the lease? From what I remember of last time, they told me I had to do a 30 day notice at the BEGINNING of the month or some crap like that, my argument for that will be I would have given notice yesterday if they'd bothered to respond to the freaking fax.
At the risk of being too optimistic, I think once this gets settled, we are in with the new complex.
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[Jun. 30th, 2009|06:20 pm] |
Applied at chosen apartment complex. Went by to see another one, just in case. Had brother call to check on it, as they'd said earlier when we handed over applications that it would be end of day or first thing tomorrow when we would hear back from them. They're apparently waiting for landlord to get back to them...so I'm assuming...it's a go? Maybe?
So I say to sister, do I need to go down to the manager's office of my building first thing tomorrow and ask them, WHY THE HELL haven't you called back??? I just want this done and settled, much as sister does, because if brother has a place to live, then he might not be spending all frickin' day at her place. Now we won't know till tomorrow...SIGH. In any case, I'm not going to be moving into the place until August because I'll be screwed if I'll pay rent for my place and not live in it. Then it's a matter of seeing how much of a bitch the management is going to be about the lease. I was looking online on tips to get out of a lease and one states playing on the lack of safety in a complex...does getting your license plate stolen off your car and replaced with another work as a safety issue?
Ehhh I'm gonna be all fussy until we find out tomorrow.
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[Jun. 29th, 2009|11:34 pm] |
So...I think we've found a place. Settled for a place. Tomorrow we apply and then find out if the place wants us.
Over the weekend, I had pretty much convinced myself I didn't want to do the apartment thing with brother but apparently I wasn't completely convinced, as I agreed to stick with it and settle on this one place. Central air, AC in the summer and heat in the winter, washer and dryer, etc etc. My share will be $400 so I'll get the chance to save some money. Given the last time we did the application and got turned down by this rinky dink apartment complex, I am not so sure this will go through but at the least, will have given it a try.
In any case, I can't get out of this place for at least a month and then I've got the problem with the lease. Won't go to the management about moving until we find out whether or not the other place will take us. From the lease's wording, I'm liable for any rents accrued till the place gets rented out. Good luck with that, people! Though since they claim they can get people in new to pay more than I do, they shouldn't have a problem filling it, should they?
Heh, will see how it goes. Might have to keep looking. No point in getting excited about it or thinking it's a done deal ahead of time. Though if we get turned down again due to the same reasons last time--bad credit on brother's part--then not sure where to go from there.
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[Jun. 29th, 2009|12:35 am] |
Finished up the latest book in Naomi Novik's Temeraire series, Victory of Eagles. Now, normally I go through her books fairly quick but this one was a bit harder for me to digest, though it got easier towards the end. I am thinking it might be because she adds in a Temeraire POV, as well as the standard Laurence POV, which has always guided her books before. It's not that I don't enjoy books with multiple POVs but she's the second author I've had trouble with this kind of thing, another is an old favorite, Jennifer Roberson, whose newest series I found very hard to finish. Too much switching back and forth with POVs, from an author whose styles has been sticking mostly to either first person POV or just a single POV. Charles DeLint, for example, will have switch back and forth from several POVs in his books and I never have a problem following them. I guess it comes down to getting used to a certain style and having a hard time switching to another style of reading.
True Blood tonight...which I have the internet to thank for a quick upload and a download to my computer.
( SPOILERS! )
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[Jun. 28th, 2009|06:42 pm] |
Dragged myself off to see Away We Go. A good movie, though one I'd want to watch again? Huh, not so much, but still good. It's going for the quirky Juno feel--it has Allison Janney even the more over the top than she was in Juno--but for me, it wasn't trying so very hard to be quirky as Juno was. This was especially evident to me in the soundtrack, which meshed with the movie, rather than the Juno soundtrack, which to my mind at least was so pretentious in its attempt to be alternative. It advances slowly but nicely to its conclusion as the lead couple seek to find a city they want to call home as they prepare to have their first child. The lead actors are good and the supporting cast is fun, though I would have liked to see more exploration of Verona's relationship with her sister Grace.
When at the grocery store I like to sometimes take a look through the frozen food aisle and see if there's anything there to provide inspiration for dinner. One of the new Marie Calendar dishes, pasta al dente, I think, had a rigatoni with sausage and meatballs so...made that for dinner. It was good! Not spectacular but filling. If I try it again, I'll make my own meatballs rather than using the frozen ones.
And rented Defiance, starring Daniel Craig, based on a true story. Yes, another Holocaust-period movie and only the story of its origin making it really stand out as the performances are...adequate. Rather than watch it, I'd recommend picking up a book on the inspiration of it, the Bielski brothers. Heh, will have to check that out myself.
FEH how quickly a day off goes by. But closed on 4th of July and next week we shift into the summer hours so that'll shorten the day. Will be glad to see the 4th of July go by, so these idiots will stop setting off their damned fireworks.
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[Jun. 27th, 2009|09:58 pm] |
No interest in seeing Transformers. Haven't seen Star Trek or Terminator movie, will probably see once they hit $3 theater. BUT now am kinda interested in maybe seeing something tomorrow. I spoiled myself for My Sister's Keeper, by reading the Wikipedia entry on the novel, so that can wait till DVD. Then it's down to...The Proposal or Away We Go. Both, I could realistically wait for DVD release, I am leaning more towards Away We Go, given the offbeat feel of it from the promos. After all, we vote with our dollars and if we don't vote for the offbeat films, Hollywood won't make them anymore. Or just less of them.
Heh, most likely I will sit at home and be bored.
Out of boredom I downloaded the first two episodes of the new True Blood season and so...
( Spoilers for True Blood...and, why not, Harper's Island! )
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[Jun. 26th, 2009|02:33 pm] |
Relayed to me through sister....brother apparently wants central air/heating in apartment. 'Cause heaters catch fire?
SIGH.
We're already at a tough point in wanting two bathrooms and two bedrooms. Adding in the extra bathroom jacks up the price. Wanting central air raises it up more.
Of the places we've seen only one had central air...but the counters were SMALL. Yeah, I want central air too mainly for the purpose of air conditioning for the warm times this summer but I am willing to take a place where I'm going to have to add in an air conditioner of my own. Counter space, though, I WANT. I cook and it's important to me, plus it makes it easier to do the job when you got more room to spread out.
Me, for sharing a place, I don't want to pay all of what I am now as a shared rent. I want a rent where my portion will be at least $100 less than I'm paying now, for the purposes of getting to actually save up money. BLEAHHH I knew this was going to be a problem from the beginning, getting a place with him, and after only this week of looking, I am ready to stick with my own place...but he doesn't want to live alone so...BLEAHH. One problem of his is that he seems incapable of getting into the mindset where you have to learn to adjust to your surroundings/situation, rather than letting it send you into a frenzied spiral of anxiety.
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[Jun. 25th, 2009|05:33 pm] |
Was wondering why LJ was being so slow to load...and then see it splattered all over, that Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson died.
Customer came in and told me the news, I go, "huh", and add in that I always like Farrah better. But, still, Michael Jackson was 50, and I didn't really think he was OLDER than me, but then I guess he was, and doesn't that feel weird. Farrah was more a childhood icon for me, I was watching FIRST RUN Charlie's Angels in the 70s, and I was more partial to the Osmonds than the Jackson 5, so...yeah.
It's sad they died. It's sad my grandma died last year. It's sad that a girl in Iran, part of a peaceful demonstration, was shot in the chest and bled out on a city street. Maybe the saddest part of it all is that there's so many deaths happening in the world, so many wonderful, beautiful people dying, who will be remembered by only those close to them, and will not garner the notice a celebrity gains with his/her death.
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