either you come get me or i am cutting it off...

top 5 things i learned when moving by yourself:

5. slush is your shoes worst enemy.

 

its half liquid and half solid. the shit just plain sucks. the more you step in it, the less solid it gets. it seeps into your shoes, absorbed by your socks and the stays wet until you take everything off. don't bother moving it- it flows like water and will go wherever it wants.

4. pack your vehicle nice and tight.

if you have a long journey ahead of you, the last thing that you want to hear is a rattling coming form somewhere inside your car. it's too full to look for the source and you end up having to suck it up and pray that the radio goes loud enough to mask the sound. it's like having a cricket in your house that you can not find.

3. purge, purge, purge

i had entirely too much shit. i ended up using 30 garbage bags to remove crap from my apartment that i didnt need anymore. not to mention, i drove to the donation drop-off 4 times to donate items. all crap that i did not need. plus, after packing one box, i was sick and tired of packing. it made my life easier in so many ways.

2. splurge and rent a fucking uhaul*.

life would have been so much easier if i had followed this simple rule.

*obviously only works if there are either two of you or if you aren't afraid to strap your car to the truck and tow it behind the uhaul. 

be careful of strong winds:

1. do not strap your items to the roof of your car, regardless if you have a roof rack.

i bet you can guess what happened. no, i don't want to talk about it. yes, i almost cried. lesson learned. hindsight is always 20/20.

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what can i say? i have to learn lessons the hard way. but after the whole bed fiasco, the trip turned out to be pretty nice. oscar didn't mind the trip at all:

and of course, i got to see some pretty sights:

and i fell in love with this song:

yeasayer: rome

my last day at work was saturday and i am finding the absence of a set schedule refreshing. knowing that i don't have to go into work tomorrow or the next day sits well with me. what did i do today? i played with the cutest puppy in the world, saw some houses with my friend jess and took a nap with my kitty. it was great. i'm definitely going to enjoy the next two weeks as much as possible.

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ti-minus three days until i pack all of my shit up in the jeep and drive across pa. i still haven't really done anything in regards packing. most of the essential items have already been packed and are currently residing in ny. i have to figure out how i am going to strap my bed on top of the car- i have a pretty good plan, so we will see how that pans out. i am trying to avoid looking like this:

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my parents are all hyped up because they are worried about me driving 500 miles with something on the roof. i have a roof rack- those damn things were invented to strap shit to. i am confident that the white trash in me will come up with a complicated but successful rope/ bungie-cord system that will prevent me from taking flight down i-80 or having my new bed decorate the side of the highway. 

i am a bit nervous about being trapped in the car with a huge fluffy cat for the better part of a day. he seems chill enough to forgo drugs and thank god because knowing my luck, i accidentally kill the cat and not know until i reached my destination, thinking that the drugs were working because he was so calm. regardless on how he feels, he is going to have to deal. i have been told that cats go into shut down mode when shoved in their carriers- my experience with this cat has only been an hour in the car and he was fine. a bit of loud meowing but he settled down and glared at me from the back seat.

jess, hopefully, is going to follow me in her car incase anything major happens. the odds are stacked against me. not only am i strapping a bed to the roof, my car is currently illegal for the roads and on the brink of falling apart. i recently have noticed that when i drive for an extended period of time, it smells like burnt oil and rubber. that can't be good. my plans have backup plans. and those plans have more back up plans. its ridiculous but i guess it's better to be prepared. 

not to mention the fact that it's winter and i will be driving through two mountain ranges. last time i drove this route, my car was covered in a sheet of ice that i had to chip off at rest stops because somewhere i had seen/read that a car can over heat like that. i saw a horrific accident on the road involving a tractor trailer and an suv that happened literally a minute before i drove through it. all i can say is that i will take my time, make frequent stops and i will get there when i get there. 

and i forgot- i am on my period. that alone is enough to reek havoc during any extended car trip. yuck.

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in other news, i am getting the prius when i get to ny and thank god. quickly i am starting to loath paying for gas once a week and bitch in the car the whole way to the gas station to no one.  it's always a nightmare. hell is getgo on a saturday.

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in music news, i fell in love with the morning benders 'excuses.' such a sweet song...

i highly recommend downloading the track here. big props are given to phil spector and the wall of sound. the strings in the beginning of the song is a nice relapse of etta james' 'at last' and of course the lyrics of cherishing a woman is a plus. and his voice... mmmm...  i am soooo happy music like this is being made again.

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god damn it but i really want to go to this:

of course it's in two weeks. of course it's in fuckin texas, a state that i vowed that i would never go in. part of me is calculating the amount of gas it would take and the other knows that it's not worth stepping in a state that will execute you if you don't eat meat and will torture you if you have special needs or are just plain old. 

just fuck.