MM, the Move, Math and other Ms

[same_sky]

Yay me! I finished up with content for the next issue of Mosaic Minds! That takes a major weight off my shoulders, let me tell you. It went faster this time than last time.. well, for one thing, I didn't document every step of the way. That saved a bunch of time. :) In any case, it's all done. Also, lizardek helped with the creative writing section. And while I'm at it, it was super nice of drottningen to offer to help--I sure would have taken her up on it if I hadn't finished it up today. Anyway. Now I'm a little giddy. You know I tend to procrastinate, but there is something to be said for getting stuff done early, too. What a warm fuzzy feeling.. I don't know if I have ever felt that before! :)

I also got a haircut today. I figured that I was getting a new job, a new city, a new apartment.. might as well have new hair. It's cute, I think, although the real test will be what it looks like tomorrow, of course.

I heard from the apartment people today, but only to answer a couple of questions. She was supposed to call me back but she never did--M called this afternoon and apparently the girl handling it took the afternoon off. Lovely. Hopefully, it won't delay matters all that much. One can hope, anyway. What might delay matters, though, is that I think I'm getting sick. I really hope I'm just imagining it, but I think my throat is sore and I think I'm beginning to feel achey. i really hope I'm making it up.

Apparently, I'm a little scatter-brained today because I can't tie more than three sentences together. Oh, well. Also apparently, my family thinks I've lost my ability to do math. That's the only reasonable explananation. Several people have expressed their concern that we're not going to be able to affod living down there. They hear what my salary will be and they hear what the rent is, and this makes them think that we can't afford it. First of all, we've done the math and we'll be perfectly fine with a fairly decent margin. For another thing, it's not like we picked an insanely expensive apartment or anything. Thirdly, we really don't spend a lot of money, and we don't have a car payment. And finally, M will hopefully have better luck on finding a job now that he's not seventy miles away from the city (and he's not without an income even now.) So. I just don't know what to say to all of this unexpected lack of faith from all quarters. I guess they just think that we don't realize that rent costs money, since we own the place we live now. I guess. My aunt hinted to M that if we didn't like it down there, we could always move back and no one would laugh at us. Which.. okay. I hadn't even thought that anyone would laugh at us if we moved back. Great. Now I have something else to worry about. ;)

I said earlier that I was going to have to schedule some time to worry about the actual job. I'm expending all this energy worrying about the move, so I don't have time to fret about all the rest. ;) No, I'm kidding.. I'm actually not *too* worried about it.. relatively speaking, considering how I am about stuff like that. Speaking of the move, I convinced M that it wouldn't be jinxing our apartment to start packing--we're going to have to move somewhere even if this falls through, so it's not like it would be a complete waste. The problem is that we can't really pack the stuff we'll need, because we.. well, we need it. And it's not all that efficient to pack up all the stuff we don't need, because we won't need it down there at first, either. But M stopped at the produce market (which is now owned by a friend of my dad's) and picked up some boxes, so I guess we should get started on it anyway. Somewhere. I'm so not looking forward to this, but at least it's beginning to feel more exciting than scary now!

Comments

[courtesy.livejournal.com]

I'll laugh at you if you move back. But then... I'll laugh at you if you stay down there. I'm not expecting your excellent sense of humour to change either way...

At least you know there are people handling the pessismistic side of things and you now only have to worry about the optimistic side of things. It'd be worse if it was the other way around ;)

[lizardek.livejournal.com]

That's an excellent way of looking at it :)

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

What a remarkably nice way of looking at it, you remarkably nice person! :)

[lizardek.livejournal.com]

I'm SO glad that MM went smoothly and quickly this time, and it was my pleasure to be able to help out a bit more. :) I've been a bit worried, to tell the truth, that both you and Carrie would get so stressed out about it that you'd decide it wasn't worth the effort, and I think we have a lovely zine going :)

It's natural to have some anxiety about new things and unknown things, and you have TWO big ones: a new job and a move. Cut yourself some slack, girl!!

[carrieb.livejournal.com]

This one was a LOT less stressful. In fact, I felt almost no stress at all. Ok, so a little procrastination stress that I brought on my self, but we didn't have any of the people issues that we've been having so it was very, very, very nice. I think having things up on the WIKI was a very big help since people could change what they absolutely wanted changed and there weren't so many infernal e-mails to keep track of.

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Those emails were crazy. It was such a pain to keep it all straight. I definitely like the system we've got going now.. much improved. I felt less general stress about it, too, except for the whole moving thing.

By the way, to save myself an email... we should still be here on Friday night, so uploading the site shouldn't be a problem after all. I might need to do it in the afternoon instead of at midnight like I usually do, but I figure that's close enough. :)

[carrieb.livejournal.com]

Ok, sounds cool. I am going to look at the travel section right now and get that to you ASAP. I'm sorry about being so late on that. I am such a bad example!

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Me too! I'm happy with what we've produced and I would hate to see it go away. :) At the same time, I don't want it to become something unfun, so less stress means more happy!

[ozswede.livejournal.com]

Re haircut: although the real test will be what it looks like tomorrow is VERY true. I hate it when you get hypnotised by the chemicals in those places and agree to something that you regret in the cold light of tomorrow morning's bathroom mirror!

How exciting to be starting on a new phase - job, apartment, new town. I'm amazed you get time to stop and write all of this. I hope it all works out great.

And please tell me you ain't keeping your current ISP - or is that too much to hope for?

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Nope, new ISP! Isn't it sad that that was one of the first things we said about moving, that we could finally get a new ISP? It's so cheap that I'm a little concerned about it, but we'll see how it goes. Sounds delightful on paper, at least.