A slight change in plans

Hey everyone — I’ve got some news on my upcoming moving situation. First things first — it looks like instead of moving to St. Louis I’ll be heading up to Virginia. I don’t know if I’ll end up staying there — I’m going to look for a job in the area (Staunton and surrounds), but if that doesn’t pan out then I’ll move on. But a friend there offered to put me up for a while, and that’s an offer I can’t turn down the way expenses have been eating up my stash of cash. I’ve mapped out my route — I’ll be leaving Orlando on June the 12th and heading up to I-95. From there I drive forever until I get out of Florida (it’s true — almost half the journey is just getting to the Georgia border), and in South Carolina catch the I-77 in Columbia, and take that to I-81. The trip is about 12 hours as a straight shot, but I know myself and I’m probably going to have to make at least one overnight stop. I don’t know if there are any cheap motels along that route — I’m thinking no more than 40 bucks per night if that much. If anyone who lives anywhere along that route knows of one, drop a comment in here or email me — twistedspinster@gmail.com. (Or, you know, if you take pity on me and want to let me sleep on your floor… I take up very little space, and my cat even less. ;^} The only thing is, I don’t know where I will be at any given time. It’s me we are talking about here, who stretched a nine-hour drive back from Raleigh to Orlando into a two-night-three-day drive. Well at least I know how to drive the car now.)

Well, I stretched my cable access out as far as I could, but I’ve run out of time so I told them to come and get the box today. That means once they do I’ll have no access except the Panera, which at least is up the street, or wherever I can get free wireless. I will be online today until then.

Now I really have to buckle down and start throwing stuff in boxes. I have a bunch of stuff I’m just going to take to the Goodwill, and more books to sort through. I also have a ton of laundry — and I need to sort through my clothes for what I’m not going to need anymore. Also I really need a nap — I slept very badly last night due to a stomach bug, and then I had to get up early and get an oil change. Anyway, I’ve paid the rest of the rent at the office so I’m free and clear with the apartment manager. Hopefully that will mean I get my deposit back in a timely manner. The last place I left sent it back in a month, but that was before the economic nose dive. Also the tiny tax refund from Georgia (I worked for three months for a Georgia-based company and they taxed me!) is finally in the mail, so that will be a help. Of course I’m always taking donations…

I can’t believe I’m finally getting out of Florida at last. I don’t know what took me so long — all the fears I had seem so silly. I am relieved but also anxious because it seems like I have a bunch of little tasks I need to complete. (I don’t really. It’s just clearing out the apartment, packing up, hopefully selling my remaining sellable items, packing the car, hoping it doesn’t die between here and my destination, hoping the cat doesn’t barf on me, hoping I don’t get in a car accident between now and the rest of my life…)

Update: well, it’s 7pm and so far no cable guy, and as you can see I’m still connected. Maybe they had a lot of disconnects to do today — after all, it is the first of the month. (Okay, now that I’ve written this, I’ll bet they turn me off. Waiting. Waiting. Waiting… Nope! Still h

Just kidding update: hmmm, so that’s how you get to keep your cable a little while longer; ask them to come and pick up the box. Actually, I’m kind of wishing they’d get here already. I want to change into my pajamas.