Staying at home this weekend turned out to be the right decision…and by home I mean Oshkosh, because I really wasn’t at my place very much. I was over at Brian and Jon’s new apartment Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights, and I basically spent the entire weekend with them. We spent almost all day Saturday shopping for various items for the apartment, and after they agonized over different microwaves, they eventually decided on one (well, I decided for them.) It was nice to make food together rather than eating out all the time (although it wasn’t really so much cooking as it was nuking things in the microwave and making a pizza.) We watched the first two Indiana Jones movies and I fell asleep partway through each. Friday night I brought over my new Smashing Pumpkins DVD and watched that (and prolly did a fine job scaring Brian’s girlfriend) and we had some of my birthday brownies.
The apartment doesn’t have an internet connection yet so it was really weird and uncomfortable at first. But after a day or so I got used to it not always being there and I was able to relax. It’s really disturbing how much I depend on there being a net connection wherever I go. It’s not like I need it but I somehow feel a lot more comfortable knowing I can just hop on IRC and see who’s there. I remember last summer when I was waiting for our net connection to get hooked up…it was a period of about 2 weeks, and it was torturous at first but after a few days I’d grown used to it and had found other things to do. I’m bothered by how distracting IRC is. And I’m so used to being able to talk to Ross everyday that when this is not an option, I get angsty.
Saturday I gave myself a haircut…it wasn’t perfectly straight but mehhh, my hair is so long now you can’t tell the difference anyhow. Saved me 15 bux, so who gives a crap? I don’t. XD
Sunday I went to my parents’ house and collected up a bunch of books and CDs and brought them back with me, then started listing them on ebay. Thinking about moving and the trip to Australia has made me realize just how much stuff I have that I never even look at anymore…things that I only looked at once the entire time I’ve had them. Augh. I’m through buying hardcover books from now on, and paperbacks are questionable. Now that I’m not tied down to school anymore I can actually make time to read library books so there’s no need to buy them (I started buying them because I’d never finish library books before they were due.) I think from now on I’m only going to buy books that are really important or meaningful to me, or have a practical purpose, like design resources. I’d say I feel the same about DVDs but I can’t say that there are too many that really have a practical purpose. XD I guess I can say that from now on I’m only going to buy movies I really want rather than movies that are cheap or on sale.
Yesterday I did practically nothing. I listed more stuff on ebay and washed my car again. After that I decided to check to see if the park had been cleared out yet. To my delight, most everything had been cleaned up and I was able to skate! There was garbage and goose poop everywhere but for the most part it was just fine. :-D It felt fantastic to get out there again.
Nnnnghhhh, thinking about my trip to Australia is filling me with a desperate longing…it’s bad enough that I want to go there more than anything, but having the Aussies awaiting my visit with equal vigor makes it all the more intense.
