MOVING DAY

Hi, everyone! I hope everybody had a good weekend and relaxed a little bit, at least! I was busy moving from Thursday night through Saturday morning, but I am officially moved into my very first all-by-myself apartment and I am so happy!

I actually got my keys a little earlier than I had planned, and my dad and I were here on Thursday night to move in some of my existing furniture and assembling others (like my rad TV stand and my coffee table). Then on Friday I took a half day from work to move the rest of my things in and clean the place.

Moving went pretty much without incident. There was a leak in my kitchen sink that I called maintenance about immediately and the guy who lives across the hall complained that everything smelled like Lysol (Mr. Clean, actually, dude) but the leak is fixed and it appears that nobody else was offended by my cleanliness.

I’ve had two people over to visit already (besides my family, who helped me move–thank you!) and hopefully more will come see me over the next couple of weeks. Here are a few pictures from before and during the move.

Moving made me realize that I have *a lot* of tea

Moving made me realize that I have *a lot* of tea

I also have a lot of movies and TV-on-DVD

I also have a lot of movies and TV-on-DVD

The beginnings of my pantry on move-in day

The beginnings of my pantry on move-in day

Oy.

Oy.

It’s a good place, and I am so, so happy that I am finally here! It’s not a home yet, but I’m going to be working on it!

READ ACROSS AMERICA DAY

In high school I had this t-shirt (which really isn’t surprising, I had lots of t-shirts, because I’m a total t-shirt-and-jeans person) that had the Cat in the Hat on it and for the life of me, I can’t remember what the damn thing said, but it said something about reading. We wore them for our school’s reading week, which coincided with the first week of March. Because of Read Across America Day.

I really wish I had a picture of the damn thing.

Like just about every other nerd on the planet, I enjoy a good read. I don’t care if I’m reading an article about urban farming in BUST magazine, a book about a girl in a boat in Michigan, or Samurai Champloo fanfiction on my phone (Fuugen 4eva), I tend to enjoy whatever I read, so long as I am reading for the hell of it. (Maybe one day I will tell you the story about how I was an English major and hated everything and everybody, because I couldn’t read just for the hell of it)

It is Read Across America Day, so I do plan on taking a couple minutes–just a few!–to read something. Before I focus on getting new books, I need to focus on finishing the few I have started. Likely, I will be reading Burial Rites because that’s what I’ve been carrying in my purse for the last week.

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How are you celebrating Read Across America Day?