I'll Be Back
Hey everyone!
Well this could be a huge mistake, and there's every chance I won't last a day without compulsively checking for updates, but I've decided that I'd better take a break from GA. Finals start Monday the 8th and end Saturday the 13th (and I do have one on Saturday ), then my move is the following Monday (the 15th). So in that time I need to pack (oh boy do I need to pack :wacko: ), Study for finals, find a new job for when I get there (really stressing out about this!), and try to say goodbye to everyone.
That's going to be the hardest part. Lately I've been getting alot of the "so are you having a going away party or something?", and one of my friends even offered to throw me one, but I'd have felt bad accepting the offer. I dunno, maybe I should have some sort of party or something. It's just that my apartment is a disaster area right now, I got in that bad frame of mind the logic of which is, "well you're moving soon, no point cleaning up twice" . Plus I have empty boxes everywhere in preparation for packing (I do have 3 packed boxes though! ). So I just don't think I want to have anything at my apartment. So I dunno maybe I could reserve a room in a restaurant or something. Or maybe have everyone go to the park for a big picnic (that sounds kinda fun!). But in all likelihood I'll probably just opt to do a series of individual goodbyes.
Anyway my last day of work is the Monday finals start. Wow! I've been there THREE YEARS! Patrick is the only person who's been there longer. I know I've been literally counting the days (5 now) that I have left, but I'm still going to miss it. More importantly I'm going to miss my coworkers. Especially in the last year it seems like I've really gotten close with them all. They even fulfilled one of those, "I've always wanted that" moments in my life when they threw me a surprise birthday party last August (and I really was surprised!). Plus when you get down to it they're the primary people (with a couple of exceptions) that I spend time with AWAY from work. So yeah . But it's been nice, and my boss is being great about it, he could have kept me until the 13th (and I'd have been okay with that), but instead the 8th is my last day. And it was so nice, when I found out I could go on the 8th I was like, "oh so you're okay with me leaving on the 8th?", and he was like, "well I'd like you to stay here forever, but you've got to go sometime." So anyway at least I can leave with no regrets.
I also got most of the address changing stuff taken care of (look I'm ending a sentence with a prepostion, oh well). I still need to actually do the forwarding address thing with the post office, but I can only think of two more actual businesses/organizations I need to notify.
I had fun today though. I used my all time favourite stress relieving tactic: I went shopping! (yeah yeah, I am so gay ) I mean it only makes sense right? I'm about to move. I'm desperately trying to save up all the money I can. I need to get rid of all my extra junk.....so I go shopping . LOL brilliant idea. Spend too much money and get more stuff to haul across the country :king: . But it was really fun, and I do feel better. Besides I don't want to get to Houston looking like a pauper. Soooo, you guys wanna know what I got? . I bought 3 new pairs of jeans, 11 shirts, a pair of "flip flops" (they're like really cheap rubber sandals, I don't know about everywhere else, but they're quite popular here), a real pair of sandals, a pair of sneakers, and a new pair of regular "going out" shoes. Yeah, I spent WAY too much, but "new city, new look" . And I know 11 shirts sounds outrageous but one of them was actually a long-sleeve wintery looking shirt (so I won't be wearing that one for awhile), and then 5 of them were nice shirts I could wear to work (assuming I find a job ), and then the other 5 were Tee's.
Anyway it was actually when I got home that I realized that I spend too much time on here. The first thing I wanted to do was get on and check around on the boards and blogs. When really I promised myself all day that I was only getting to go shopping because I was going to make myself write my resum
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