~6 hrs sleep. not my fault.

[jazzfish]

In a couple of months I'm going to be living in my own apartment for the first time in . . . well . . . ever. This will have certain advantages over my current residence:

• The kitchen will be mine mine mine, not taken over by (to choose a random example) other people's fruit-fly-attracting produce / compost.
  
• The temperature will remain more or less constant: if I go to bed at quarter of eleven midnight teach me to post when I'm too tired to do math and it's so warm and stuffy that I have to turn both fans on full-blast and ignore the sheets and still not be able to get to sleep for an hour, the air conditioner will not miraculously kick on and form icicles on my nose at seven in the morning.
  
• Showering will no longer require putting my glasses on to check the shower stall for spiders, nor will it require waiting in line because my landlord decided today would be a good day to actually shower.
  
• No dog. No scratching of dog toenails outside my door at six AM, no dogshit at the bottom of the stairs, no frantic barking whenever anyone approaches the house.

A lot of things about two months from now scare me. Moving ain't one of them.

Comments

[pictsy.livejournal.com]

Where are you moving to?

[platypusgirl.livejournal.com]

living by myself (i did it one year), was an interesting experience. I knew that if there was a mess there was only one person at fault (well, me and 2 cats). But I have a tendency to turn sorta hermit-like if left to myself for too long.
And there was that constant back of the mind tickle of fear: if something happened to me, how long would it be before someone came to find me, and would my cats eat me?
but that's just me.

[jazzfish]

I may wind up hermiting as well. I certainly did the only other time I've ever lived by myself. I think that after a certain point I'll need to get out and see people, though, and there are a couple scheduled things going on up there that I can get out to.

I totally expect to be one of those corpses that rots away in the apartment for a week until the neighbors complain about the smell. (If I had cats I'd certainly hope they'd eat me, at least before I went too rotten. Makes for a better six o'clock news story.)

[absolutliz.livejournal.com]

augh. that sounds awful. where will you be living now?

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

Well... I'd still check for spiders. Buggers have a way of getting into everywhere. Hate them.

But, everything else: Yay!

[jazzfish]

The house is in the woods (one of the few things I'll miss about living here is the location), and the landlord will sometimes leave the (ground floor) bathroom window open so the cats can go in and out. Naturally all sorts of other things go in and (rarely) out, too. And without my glasses I quite literally can't distinguish my toes while sitting down (just checked), so searching for spiders means remembering to put them back on. Which often requires more thought than I can handle before I've had a shower and a cup of tea. When they aren't being directly invited in via open windows and fruit flies, it's a chance I'll be willing to take.

[narquelion.livejournal.com]

Between your title and my fried brain, I was envisioning you lacked sleep due to attacks of icicle-bedecked rotting produce spiders. Which, yeah - if I was one, I'd be angry other people got to sleep too.

The downside of not having scapegoats is when things still aren't clean and this time it is all your fault. My house resembles this right now....

[jlfranklin.livejournal.com]

Do you have a new apartment picked out?

[jazzfish]

Not even close. I should probably start looking for one of those pretty soon.

[jlfranklin.livejournal.com]

They're not cheap up here. I've got one of the cheapest places in Herndon, and it's running me about $1150/month. Granted, is a good sized one bedroom plus loft, plus two pets at $20/month each.

The sooner you start the sooner the sticker shock wears off.

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

:chuckle: First thing I do on waking is to put my glasses on. I'm rarely out of bed without them. So while I usually have taken them off in the bathroom before entering the shower (which is why the shower can get quite terrifying since I rarely see it), I don't think I'd have too much of an adjustment to start looking in there before removing the glasses.