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"The Best Laid Plans . . . "

September 14, 2009 10:30 PM

've officially spent more time, effort, and money trying to make my new apartment look nice than I've spent on every other place I've ever lived combined. Mostly, this means that chelsadilla and I have been painting. A lot. We had thought that we'd be done by Sunday, but that didn't work out. Then I thought that Wednesday would definitely be the last day of painting, but now I'm not so sure that'll work out. Still, we'll be done sometime this week. We have to be since everyone's agreed to help me move on Sunday (thanks, people!) and I have significantly more packing to do, even though I did get some done this weekend. Take all of that and add in the fact that cool social things are going on, and plans and schedules start to get hectic. Today was a perfect example.

When I woke up, I thought that I'd be able to leave the office rather early. The plan was to paint, run, cook a not-entirely-unhealthy stir fry for dinner, then do some packing. But as the day wore on, I realized that there wasn't going to be nearly enough time in the evening to do all of that. So I suggested that maybe we put off running for the week since I've got so much moving-related crap to do. We agreed, but I felt guilty since the running is going fairly well but we've been slacking lately. Then, I got stuck in the office and didn't make it back to Madison until just before six, and I still had to stop at the bank. Suddenly, all of our fancy plans seemed questionable.

We started painting and, next thing you know, it's 8:30 and we're only through half of what we had to do tonight. Then we looked up and realized that one of the colors we had chosen for some problematic walls essentially ruined an entire room, so we decided that we had to redo them, even though we had just done the second coat of the offending color. That was a low point.

By the time the painting was all done, it was 10 o'clock. In order to cook dinner, we'd still have to go to the grocery store and buy the raw ingredients. So instead of a not-entirely-unhealthy stir fry, we had pizza. Sure, the pizza was free, but I don't think the fact that you didn't have to pay for something means that it contains fewer calories.

So, all in all, things did not go as planned today. But I'm confident that our revised itinerary will work. And, yeah, the next few days are going to suck, but it's all going to be worth it when I'm settled in my badass new place.

That's what I keep telling myself, anyway.



1 Comments


chelsadilla said:

we will finish painting on wednesday. we WILL finish painting on wednesday. we will finish painting on wednesday, we will pack up all of your stuff, and we will move said stuff over the weekend. during the weekend after that, however, i will NOT be getting out of bed.

at all.

fyi.

September 14, 2009 11:17 PM



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