assorted rambling

song+ Little Miss Obsessive- Ashlee Simpson- Bittersweet World
book+ October Previews
scent+ strawberry toaster strudel
quest+ getting everything packed up
upper+i'm paying for Delphine tomorrow
downer+ i'm utterly broke for the next while
attire+ brown summer pajamas
drink+ milk

our lease for the new place is ready to be signed. kyu and i are gonna go by on our lunch break tomorrow to sign it and pick up our key. tonight we're gonna work on getting our office packed, tomorrow and over the weekend we're gonna work on our room. then we'll get to the hard things: all of dad's crap. X.x

hopefully by next weekend we'll be ready to sleep at the new place, as it's much closer to work. then we could just go to the old place to pack and clean every day, but go home to something better. we still need to look into cable and internet providers, then decide on one and get it set up. xD i know we'll be able to afford it, it's part of why we chose this place over the slightly nicer one we were also looking into. i'd rather not be cut off from everything for a month while we wait for things to be worked out, being internet-less sucks.

tomorrow Wolfie is taking care of the stuff that needs to be done to get the car street legal again. namely the tags and registration, i think. tomorrow i'll pay for my Delphine order. i'm so happy i'll be getting her! i've already talked to Jenni, and Delphine will ship to her house and not our place. this is because any package worth this much needs to be signed for. we don't really know the management of our new place yet, and if they'd be willing to sign at all. Jenni also lives close enough to the post office that if for some reason no one is home to sign, it's not a half-hour trip to pick the package up. also i trust her. xD that's not an afterthought, i figured it'd be obvious enough on it's own..

i'm going crazy trying to figure out how i wanna lay out the new place. i haven't seen the upstairs part of our floorplan, so i have no idea where to even start. i figure i know what'll go downstairs, but i can't be sure until i know what'll fit upstairs. fo those who don't know, we got a one-bedroom two-floor apartment. living room/kitchen downstairs, bedroom/potty and i dunno what else upstairs. xD knowing would help me freak out a little less in my obsessive planning. i know it's not all up to me, as i won't be living there alone, but it's easier to get kyu to voice his opinion when i can give him options and say "which of these do you like more? okay, what do you want to change about it?" he hates not being asked, but getting him to offer an opinion is like pulling teeth.

in the new place we're gonna work more to get Harley trained (since there won't be anyone un-training her while we're gone during the day) so we can keep it cleaner. we might also employ the use of a baby gate to keep her downstairs, we have yet to decide on that one.

in things unrelated to anything else (well, tangentially related to doll stuff, but ya'll know what i mean) it's been really nice having Roro home again. it's good to know that if i wanna talk, i can, if i wanna visit, i can. this is dependent on previous commitments, but far better than being in different timezones limited by job schedules and the prohibitive cost of plane tickets. X.x i know you miss your other friends, Roro, but i'm here for you. i promise.

in attempting to be a responsible adult, i've got my checks pretty much budgeted all the way through christmas. X.x there's a small margin allowing for spurts of OLS, but most of my spending is planned out. x amount going to rent, y to savings, etc. it should make things easier for the first few months in the new place, and keep things easier for a while thereafter. in the same attempt at grownuptitude (which should totally be a word) i'm working on clearing out some of my accumulated crap. i get severe pack-rattiness from both mom and dad, and i've been working on controlling it, but i slipped up for a while and now have a lot of stuff. like, more than will likely fit in the new place with us. some i'm definitely keeping, but i'm gonna ruthlessly weed out the stuff that i don't honestly care about anymore but still have. it's scary to think about, but i'm sure it'll make things better for both me and kyu. i think he's gonna get rid of some of his stuff too, but since he has less in the first place, it'll be easier for him. xD

i can't wait till i have time and space to work on stuff for the dolls again. it'll be nice to be able to reach my sewing machine without having to push past all my other stuff.