exceeds expectations

woot!

1) didn't get lost
2) the apartment is nice
3) the area is not as ghetto as i feared it may be
4) the other girl, maggie, who was in my room but not moving out til next week moved all her stuff and is sacking out on the couch so i can move into my room now! yes!
5) my roommate, kate, is super nice...
6) ...but not a threat to steal boys
7) the landlord family upstairs is totally nice too
8) all my stuff is out of the car, and it didn't take that long
9) now i can go shopping and get set up
10) i think i'm gonna like it heeere! (pretend my hair is red and my name is annie)

i was sitting in my room writing a message on facebook, when i heard the office theme coming from my roommate's room, so i ran over to check it out...she was on facebook too. haha.

i need some excedrin and a nap, but i think i'm gonna go shopping first...

last hurrah

so, i'm moving in the morning. it finally became real today as i packed up the car. chilled with ma' grilz 2nite. rather calm actually... got some jambas, went to a park, played on the swings, made a little clover-chain bracelet, went to jody's (where she's house-sitting anyway) and watched the middle/end of the BBC jane eyre - the good one with timothy dalton. yes, i cried. i always do... it's a little melodramatic (fine, a lot) but there are some good lines! returned travis's hat that i mistakenly wore home the other night so he can get it back from them. when i got home and walked in my room i was a little surprised. it's so empty looking! like, i was moving things out all day, so i saw it, but to walk in after being gone a while and have it not look the way i'm used to it looking made it seem a lot more final: i'll be gone in the morning. weird. but good weird. i'm ready for things to change. not like they're bad here with g'ma and the jj's, but it's time. i feel good.

anticipation

okay, so i was catching up on bismark's blog today, and i realized that while he's been going crazy, i've been totally slacking... but of course, i came up with an excuse: see, it seems like my life must be really exciting right now cuz i just got a new job and i'm gonna be moving to seattle and everything, so there's a lot of exciting stuff going on...only it hasn't really happened yet, and all of this time that i've been waiting to see what was going to happen i've hesitated to say anything because, just like with the DP blogs, as soon as it seems to be going well enough to start writing about, all of a sudden it falls apart and i have to shove my foot in my mouth...so i guess i didn't want to talk too much about all the jobs i was applying for and plans i was making cuz then if they didn't work out i'd look dumb. not that i don't always just end up looking dumb anyway...but can you really blame me for occasional attempts at avoiding it? okay, yeah, maybe you can... but hopefully in a couple weeks when i actually move i'll have something worth saying.

in the meantime, let me just throw this out there:
i went for a walk tonight and i was thinking about how this girl who i think is going to be my new roommate is probably really cute and i'll never be able to bring guys over cuz she'll steal them away...not that i have anyone for her to steal, but should i find somebody that would definitely suck. not that i've even met her yet, but she's into outdoorsy stuff, so she's probably got a great body, and she's got this really girly-high-pitched voice, so she's probably really cute and stuff too, and then i started making this list of what guys seem to value in girls: (1) body, (2) active/outdoorsy-ness, (3) clothes, effort in appearance, (4) face, (5) intelligence/personality. then i realized that this list has nothing to do with guys, but actually is just the reverse list of my own qualities: apparently i assume, due to my constant failures with guys, that what they want must be exactly the opposite of what i am. but this girl, who i haven't even met yet, i have assumed after one phone convo that she's exactly the opposite of me and thus that every guy is going to want her instead of me. wow. talk about issues! i definitely have some. but, i have this horrible feeling that i'm right and that they aren't issues, they're just an unfortunate reality of my life...we'll see...if you're shaking your head at me right now, just wait a few years and if i'm single when i turn 30 then you owe me...

seattle

some of you may know that i've been making a lot of trips out to seattle...lest you think it was all just a ploy to see DP, i haven't seen him the last two trips (not that i didn't want to), but all of them have had a job-related element, which finally resulted in an acutal job OFFER today, which i of course accepted (with the provision that if it is offered, i may take the one i interviewed for this morning instead because it's at an office which would be more convenient in terms of housing and transportation). so, as of july 1st i will be working and living in seattle! how exciting!

i'm especially glad b/c it was otherwise a somewhat frustrating day... i had to come back to the hotel and ice my stupid, bum ankle for like an hour and then when i managed to get back out i had to untape it cuz it was turning all red and then i kept getting lost and wasting soo much time, and forgot my good shoes at the hotel so now i have blisters and a bum ankle and i'm getting really hungry cuz i skipped eating the whole day (except when i decided to go to jamba, got way lost, finally found it, and then they overcharged me and made my smoothie wrong...blah...i need to send a complaint about that one)...

but i also made it to the seattle temple, which was pretty, and sat outside and read some BoM and wrote a letter to jac...that was good... and went over to the mccaw, cuz DP said i needed to see it at night with the lights on...unfortunately i saw the lights, but they weren't as cool cuz the fountains weren't on... but now that i'm moving out here i'm sure i can check them out another time! yay! but i'm still hungry...and i'm too tired and sore to go get any food (and too fat for fast food, which is all that would be open now anyway...) and too cheap for room service...
but i think i can hold out until the free breakfast... and i'll give myself a few extra calories for tomorrow since i used less than half of today's... does that count as cheating on a diet? kind of like a cross between bulimia and anorexia...no puking, but you starve one day and splurge the next...hmm... oh well...