Moving @ MindSay

Mindsay. I am so. tired.


We're scrambling to take care of everything we need to do in order to be ready to move.  Today we met with our new apartment manager, and he seems really great.  The complex is small and I feel like he's invested in the comfort of his tenants.  We got the keys, and the apartment is all ours :) Michael is there right now writing up the things that are wrong with the apartment so we won't get charged for them when we eventually move out.  We also went to the electric company to get our electricity switched over to the new apartment. We still need to get our mail forwarded. 

We're fucking nuts for traveling to Carlsbad for a few days right in the middle of all this, but we haven't seen our families in like 5 months and they were itching for us to come home. It's all kind of stupid because we'll be back in just a few weeks for Christmas, but whatever. We're actually going to celebrate Thanksgiving on Wednesday so we can get back here on Thursday.  Friday morning Michael is going to do a little Black Friday shopping (he's getting a netbook) and then next Friday and Saturday we're officially out of here.  I'm currently working on straightening up the whole apartment and getting everything in its place so that it can all be quickly and easily packed up. Yesterday Michael got his oil changed and his tires rotated in preparation for our drive to C-bad in the morning. We both have all of our clothes/stuff laid out for the trip but I haven't actually packed it yet. 

To top it all off, I have a ton of reading to do for sexualities over the break, and I also have a bunch of online Spanish that's due November 30th, which is pretty much the most inconvenient day ever. Then I have a psych lab report due on Dec. 4th, which is the last day of class *pulls out hair*  Finals are from December 7th- 11th. I need to study my ass off for statistics and for sexualities. And of course I need to study to a degree for everything else.  But I really just can't even think about finals yet...there's just so much that needs to be done between now and then. 

All of that being said, I am excited to see my mom, sister, dad, and step-mom.  It has been quite awhile since I've seen them, and I'm missing them all.  Plus Thanksgiving food is going to be delicious. 

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Hey guys.

I've been a really bad student this week. I vowed at the beginning of this week that I would go to all of my classes since I missed all of last week being sick.  Yeah well, it just didn't happen that way for me.  I went to all of my classes on Monday and Tuesday, but then I skipped Spanish on both Wednesday and Friday, and I skipped sexualities on Thursday. I didn't even go to campus today.  I slept through Spanish, then Michael and I got up to go to stats, but realized that we were just getting our tests back today. I really don't even want to know what I got, a bad grade would've just ruined my weekend. 

I don't know what it is this semester, I just can't get my ass to class. Of course I always complete all of my big assignments and do them well, but I hate having my time wasted in classes.  I think my get up and go got up and went.

I think I already mentioned this, but Michael and I are moving into a new apartment complex at the end of this month.  This week we've been looking at apartments and trying to decide where we're headed. Today we finally decided, and I'm pretty happy with the decision.  Our new apartment is the same size as the one we're currently living in, but rent is $60 less a month. On top of that the stove and heating are both gas, and the complex pays for all gas.  We're also super excited because there's actual central air instead of the stupid evaporative cooler we have at our current place.  The icing on the cake is that they pay for basic cable, which we have now, but are paying $45 a month for. Basically we're about to be saving ourselves a lot of money :)

The only problem is we only got one application and then realized we needed two, so we have to wait until Monday to put in our applications and deposit.  We're gunna rush over there Monday morning to make sure we get the apartment- it's the only one bedroom left on the complex, and we want it.  I'm not too worried though, I think we made a good impression on the manager and he knows we want it.  I'm really glad to be getting out of our current place.  We were totally unfamiliar with Las Cruces and inexperienced at apartment living when we moved here, but we really knew what to look for this time.  I think it's going to be a much better fit for us. I'm still not looking forward to the actual moving part of moving, but I'm more at ease now that we've picked a place.

I have more to write, but it's so unrelated I think I'm going to make it a second post.  I freaking love blogging, I don't know why I ever quit.  It's good to be back :)

I am exhausted. Being sick all week has taken so much out of me.  I don't even feel too sick anymore, I'm just extremely fatigued. Like I can't even tell you. I just have no energy.  I seriously cannot even think about all the work I need to get done that I've missed out on this week.  I can't even get my head around it. I managed to finish my 5 page paper for sexualities & society, but I haven't even started my 5-6 page gender analysis paper of Shrek.  I think that paper may even be fun and interesting, but I'm just so fucking tired. I also need to refresh my brain for my research methods exam  that I missed earlier in the week, and do some major studying for the stats test that I missed today. I need to do well on that test to keep a B in the class.  I'll feel like crap if I get a C in there =/.  I don't even know what all I misses in Spanish, but I also need to do whatever I have to in order to keep a B for that course. This is my final semester of Spanish, thank goodness. 

Registration for the spring semester is coming up soon as well.  Unfortunately I need to sign up for and get advising before I'm cleared to register, even though I pretty much know what I'm taking already.  After the end of this semester, I have three semesters left (assuming all goes according to plan) until I graduate with my BA.  It's getting closer...but three semesters is still a pretty long time.

The lease on the apartment Michael and I have been living in for the last year and a half is up at the end of this month, and we've decided to look for a cheaper place.  Next week we need to tour a couple of different complexes and then make a decision about where we'll be heading next.  I'm not looking forward to the actual move- moving is always a huge pain in the ass. I am looking forward to living in a new complex. I am so fed up with the management here, not to mention the fact that I now know we live in one of the most expensive complexes around.  We're definitely going to be finding something better- one of the places we're thinking about pays all utilities AND the rent is cheaper. Here, only our water is paid.  Anyway, it's going to be good. Just the actual packing and transporting and unpacking is going to blow.

A'ight fools, that's about it for now.  I'm sad that this reunion is coming to an end after tomorrow because I know a lot of old Mindsayers won't be sticking around. More on what I'll be doing once the Reunion Tour is over tomorrow...

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