February 2012
Me: I'm totally in favor of that [embalming room in the] basement setup... If for no other reason than to give our kids something to talk about during therapy.
I just spent the last 45 minutes on the phone with Cox Communications.
I now have a headache. [Although, I will say that they are significantly more pleasurable to deal with than Verizon.]
What is advertised as a $75 /mo package ends up being $98.
What is advertised as Advanced TV ends up being TV with an additional $5.OO /mo package.
Without buying a modem - and using the phone modem...
“For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a...”
– Anne Lamott, Bird By Bird (via skriving)
Did I say that I loathe you? Did I say that I want to Leave it all behind?
the blower’s daughter // damien rice
Trying to choose an Internet and TV provider is like having to choose which overpriced card table to be bent over.
Like having to choose which knife from the block to have plunged through your chest… and then twisted around.
“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a...”
– Jeanette Winterson (via writingquotes)
Exclamate.
Spent the last half hour trying to forecast March’s finances. With the move - although the rent is significantly cheaper than we’re currently paying [imagine that! More space and less money…], there will be other bills added to the mix.
It all evens out in the end, though. And we won’t have to spend $1O every week at the laundromat because the apartment comes with a...
“And no matter who is to blame, no matter what happened or is happening...”
– Heather Armstrong
Eminem is tonight’s soundtrack. The Recovery album.
Going home and drinking.
“Imagine him as a cruel villain with a cape and a mustache and a grand,...”
– Alison, Hi.: The art of getting really dumped (via quotewhore)
Apartment is ours. We move in Saturday!
All day, packing. Was hoping to get to some cleaning too, but I doubt it.
Just dropped off two massive bags to the goodwill. Four bags in the trash.
Need four more boxes & to pack up smaller things and we’re good to go for next weekend!
I can’t remember how many times I had to tell myself to hold onto these moments as they pass…
“…a considerate mistress.”
Me: Sweet! We can get our taxes done now!!
Keith: -face palm- we are SO OLD.
Went and got my name changed on everything. Now? Home, to sort & begin packing.
So. Excited.
Put a deposit down!
Last week life whipped out the shotgun that it...
- Heather Armstrong
(this is so perfect.)
everything changes // staind is my musical choice for the day.
…something fierce
If we get this apartment, we’ll have about $100 until we get paid.
It’s a great place…
We’ll see…
I miss it so much that my heart literally aches, sometimes.
I can’t help but feel, when I look around at my neat desk - the only danger being a papercut - that I don’t belong here.
I belong there - sewing up a craniotomy.
Something few people understand.
I miss it so much that it hurts.
January 2012
“I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every...”
– Lemony Snicket (via loveyourchaos)
The level of anger I have experienced over the past 12 hours is immense.
I got home and went straight to the “liquor cabinet” - the spot on our dresser
- and poured myself a strong one.
On our way to do all of our laundry at once for the small cost of $1O. In part, because we’re out of clean underwear and in part to get out of the house.
After the drink, I’m...
Bodies // Drowning Pool is the song that’s getting me through today.
You should try it.
We got the news last night that Keith’s parents are behind in the house payments. That, while we’ve been paying rent and all, other factors have contributed to a money redistribution and the impending, inevitable foreclosure.
Contingent on other circumstances in our life, Keith and I will have to make a decision - will have to find a place to live, find the money for deposits, etc.,...
