Journey to the center of the bed...

So I was talking to my dear Friend Anne. I was telling her how I am having a problem sleeping and actually utilizing the whole bed. Almost ten years now of sharing my bed I have spent it on the edge. Now that it's just me I still find myself doing it. Anne said you gotta do it just sprawl out and enjoy having a whole bed to yourself. Well technically Anne has a kitty to cuddle up too ;-) Last night there was a phone conversation at around 3 am that I pretty much knew was coming. After a bottle of chilled apple wine and half a box of tissues...I woke up this morning with my head at the foot of the bed and my body spread out diagonally from corner to corner. Not quite the center...but I am well on my way. Thanks Anne :-)

It would appear as though we are doing ok :-)

Check it out! Its only been what...a week! Look at all of the little sprouts!

How did they know???

Every once and a while your horoscope is right on. Here was MSN's Horoscope for me today.

Today's Sagittarius Horoscope: May 22, 2008
It is important for you to not over-analyze every little detail of your situation at this time, dear Sagittarius, especially when it comes to issues regarding love and romance. It could be that you are jumping to ridiculous conclusions based on purely circumstantial evidence. Don't lose sleep over things that you don't even know to be true. Release your stranglehold on certain issues, and concentrate on simply rebuilding your own self-confidence.

Grow with me!!!

We are once again trying to grow some herbs. I saw this cute little herb kit at Joann's and had to have it. With so much stuff on my mind I thought a little growing encouragement would be good. If the plants can grow in the basement then I can too! We have sweet basil, chives, curled parsley, and two others I can't remember at the moment. So I will keep you posted on both the plant and me.

Some apartment updates

The kitchen is starting to look more like a kitchen. Table and chairs and rugs :-)

Nothing to exciting new in the bathroom...some new pink washcloths and hand towels which look very nice :-)

sA look at the living room. Notice the hat box end tables. Not only for storing costumes but great as tables. (Also used at foot rests sometimes.)

Looking at the Kitchen.

The living room :-)

I survived night one!

I survived...Night one in my first apartment on my own. Talk about weird. It kind of felt like being back at school and going to a friends house for a sleepover. When I got home yesterday the first thing I did was to clean some of the leaves out of the window sill. When I looked out the window above the sink there was about 6 inches worth of leaves. Two trash bags full later (and a loan worm that I so nicely pardoned) the window was clear but there are still a bunch of leaves down there (I think the hole may go all the way to China). Right about now I have hit the rain drenched stuff from the buckets of rain that have been coming down. I decided to give it a rest for the day and let some of that stuff dry out.
Next stop was Joanne's to look for some sheer material to make some curtains that let the light in. Didn't find anything too exciting fabric wise, but got a lovely herb pot to try and grow some fresh herbs. Next stop was Target (as I had no luck finding a Wal-Mart). Mission: Pink hand towels to match my pretty flowered shower curtain. You can never go to target and get just what you came for. Along the way I picked up...a toilet brush, a duster, sponge/scrubies, and two doormats. Now I am my mothers daughter, so when the first hand towels I saw were $5.99 I said no way! Then I saw $3.99...getting better but still it's a hand towel. Finally I spotted them! $1.59 for TWO pretty pink hand towels! Hell for that price I got the matching washcloths also $1.59 for 4. Although I did very good with all this wonderful stuff totaling a mere $27.00, that left $20 in the pocket for dinner. Hello Giant! $17.00 later the staple Kreiner diet of hot dog sandwiches (buy one get one free mind you) with cheese and some milk and cereal were in the bag. So home I went to make my little hotdog sandwiches and watch "To Wong Fu" I found it a appropriate movie for my first night in my apartment.
Before I realized it, it was midnight. Time to put the futon down and try to have a sleep. Beings I still have a cold the coughing was giving me some issues. I think I did sleep a bit but probably not a whole lot. Frankly I was a little disappointed at not receiving any messages at all from Paul to make sure I was ok. I think I checked the phone a couple of times when I woke up just in case. Disappointed but not surprised. Something I need to work on getting over. Everything was pretty quiet until the guy upstairs got up at 6:00 a.m. I'm thinking hey may have overslept he was running back and forth. The alarm went off at 7:00 I hit the snooze twice and finally got up. Had a nice hot shower got ready and out the door. A little later then I wanted too but I still made it to work on-time and in about 25 min. So not to bad.
Lots of thoughts right now. It's a strange feeling, being by yourself when you have basically had a body beside you for about ten years now. I'm not sure how to react. I still slept all the way at the edge of the bed even though I had the whole bed to myself. I'm excited, nervous, a bit scared and worried a bit about being lonely. But this was only night one. I do have my knitting. I plan to buy a bike in the next few weeks. And I have a great nightlife around me. And there is my dancing of coarse. And I plan to try and move Mindy in over the weekend I know she will keep my company. So we shall see, I have no idea what is going to happen with my relationship at this point. I hope everything can work out but who knows, only time will tell. I will try and get some pics up of the place now that there are a few bits of furniture in it.

New Job, New Apartment...what else can we find new?

SO as many of you already know...I have had a lot of changes going on in my life right now. I was fired from my job on Good Friday(obviously not Christians there). I started a new job on the 21st and already I am loving it. Small office nice group, good pay and benefits. I even get a day off for my birthday! The next big change involves another move. Not to Ireland this time but to Arlington. I have in my hands the keys to my FIRST apartment by myself. It is actually very cute an will work out nice. The circumstances leading up to this are irrelevant. I am kind of excited...kind of scared...a bit of everything. So, new job, new apartment and after this weekend some new friends as well.

Living room looking at Kitchen/Dining room

Bedroom

Nice big closet!

The Living room

The Kitchen (look diswasher...whew!)

And my favorite bit...the bathroom!