Monday, August 31, 2009

Things That Are More Fun Than Unpacking:
-Facebook
-Blogs
-Walking to 7-11
-Making lists
-Sleeping
-Almost anything

The Hardest Parts of Unpacking:
-Learning you have more crap than you thought (and yes, it is mostly crap when you're moving)
-Finding spaces for everything
-Organizing things
-Cleaning before putting stuff away
-Having to buy new stuff to organize
-Motivation to actually just do it
-Finding things while in the limbo of being half unpacked

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Whatever

Things I Do When I'm Bored:
-Make jokes, especially ones that are inappropriate to the situation
-Watch tv, especially hulu
-Cook
-Eat (more frequent than cooking)
-Read food blogs
-Read tabloid type things
-Get ahead in homework (or often just do homework on time)
-Read a book
-Research something random
-Txtmsg someone
-Call mom
-Play the piano
-Contemplate learning to play the guitar
-Grocery shop
-Take a nap
-Go to the gym
-Think about going to the gym
-Make lists


Sunday, August 16, 2009

mid-move inventory

Pros of Moving:
-filter through possessions and purge extra belongings
-potential from change
-cleanliness
-reminder of how temporary everything is
-no need to lift weights
-opportunity to reorganize things
-the puzzle of how best to move things, and then again on where to put them away

Cons of Moving:
-not fun
-strenuous
-not enough room for just one carload ever (not me, anyway)
-(with shared spaces) where to put things that won't get in roommates' way
-not enough room in new place (at least until space is familiar enough to figure it out)
-put everything in a box only to take it back out
-the soreness of lifting things that are heavy and carrying them around
-sore hands from lifting boxes and other such things
-forgetting where you packed things
-having to put everything you owned into boxes and realizing how much you have and yet how much you don't have

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Benjamin Franklin Style

Things To Do When Without Electricity:
-Light candles
-Tell scary stories
-Have a (pseudo-)seance
-Go to bed early
-Go somewhere else
-Notice that people tend to look creepy instead of pretty when holding candles lower than eye-level
-Panic
-Realize that you don't have lives outside of electronic devices (TV, radio, computer)
-Play games in the dark
-Theorize about life pre-electricity
-Be grateful for other modern conveniences that haven't suddenly disappeared (plumbing, cars, battery-powered devices)
-Plan what to do when electricity returns
-Try to get over phobia of lighting matches
-Eat all the ice cream in the freezer

Things Which Cannot Be Done Without Electricity:
-Work (in my case, at least-- all my work is done on a computer)
-Homework
-Read once it's dark (candle light isn't sufficient)
-Keeping the house's temperature controlled (no AC or heat)
-Packing (once it's dark, at least)
-Staying up late

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Transition

Method of the BYU Student Move:
-Make sure you have a place to live (contracts end usually a week to two weeks before contracts for the next year begin)
-Find people who can help you move heavy stuff
-Don't put anything away for a week or two before you move, using the excuse that you'll just have to pack it anyway
-Don't go grocery shopping for a couple weeks before you move, and eat down your pantry--especially perishables (which makes for interesting meals and dramatically increases cravings to eat out)
-Find packing boxes somewhere, like Smith's or Macey's
-Hope you're the first one to move into the new place. Extreme hope.
-Put off actually packing until a day or two before the move date
-If you're lucky, have a few days to move all your stuff and just move a carload at a time, reducing the need for as many boxes (unpack boxes each time you bring a carload)
-Clean for move-out cleaning check
-Move everything into new apartment
-Arrange to go home for at least a weekend before everything is unpacked
-Feel awkward around new roommates