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summer_skinSo I'm moving.
Yeah, it's a surprise to me, too. I've been thinking about looking for a while. I've been living with my family since I moved out here and it's a pretty sweet deal. Seriously. So it's been a little hard to think about giving that up, while I've also been at war, internally, with wanting to leave. Even though I am an adult and they treat me as so it's still THEIR house and THEIR rules and, you know, some days I'd like to be able to leave my shoes by the door without them being tossed into the shoe closet I don't use because there are TOO MANY PAIRS OF SHOES HUMANLY POSSIBLE FOR THREE PEOPLE. I moved mine out of there months ago but my aunt moves my shoes if they're by the door for too long, so I have to go find them.
I know that's a stupid reason to move and it's not the ONLY reason but it just proves that it's not my house and that I'm staying here. And that's fine. I've lived here for four years and I've lived with the respect for their house and that's fine. But it's been time for me to think about moving on. THINKING ONLY.
But then on Friday I took an ad for an apartment that's in the same neighbourhood as where we live now, one bedroom, utilities included and they said they'd allow a cat, which is a MUST for me. I asked the landlord if I could see it that night. Went back on Saturday with the aunt and she declared it was okay, too, with some minor adjustments. So today I came back with half the deposit and I take possession on the 1st.
It's been a bit of a whirlwind weekend in that regard and I can feel it. I feel like there's a panic attack waiting for me in my throat. You know how you get a lump in your stomach or you feel like you could be sick but it just doesn't happen? That's how I'm feeling with my anxiety levels right now.
I know that this will be a good thing for me in the long run, to have a bit of independance in my life and to get out from my family, but it's still so daunting for me. I can afford it since I fritter a lot of my money away each month, but now it's a matter of budgeting and I've kind of forced my hand into staying here for a while longer. I was thinking I'd be getting ready to leave by this point but clearly it isn't going to happen. I'm not really even making the decsions, I'm kind of feeling my way, and that's troubling me, too, I think. But I haven't felt WRONG about them.
It's a basement suite, so it's a bit dark, but it's quite big for a basement. And since I'm by myself I don't have to worry about sharing the space. I have my own entrance and there's quite a bit of shelving space. The closet in the bedroom is also nice and big. I'd like to be able to paint the bedroom because it's got that old, '80's paneling but the landlord's wife doesn't want to. But I can paint the paintable living room walls (one is brick) and the kitchen. And the bathroom, I think, which will be nice.
I can have a cat, as well, as I mentioned. I can't imagine moving somewhere that I am not allowed to have an animal if I'm living alone. I really want to come home to something and I want something I have to take care of. That kind of relies on me. I want a cat that will be cuddly. I had asked the uncle a couple months ago if I could take Vincent when I left and he said yes but I don't think he thought I was serious or that I'd move out before the cat passed on (he's kinda old). So when I told the aunt and said the uncle said I could take the cat she was like, "eh, we'll have to talk about that." Which makes me a little sad but at the same time, excited because Vincent isn't a cuddly cat. He's decalwed, which I like, and we get along great now, but he's not a lap cat and hates being picked up.
So right after I dropped off my partial deposit I went to the SPCA. Priorities, I has them. However, I can't claim a cat and have them hold it for me until October because it's not fair to the cat or the other animals that need the cage space, which I totally get. And although I liked a few of them, none of them jumped out at me (literally and figuratively!) to say ADOPT ME!!! I would prefer a cat that's declawed (I know, some people have feelings about this and while I'd never get an adult cat or have it done personally to a cat, I'd gladly take one that was already declawed) as I would prefer a cat that doesn't destrory stuff. As we all would, I'm sure. The cat we have at home (home-home) right now has shredded the shit out of my mom's chair and she's tried everything to get him to stop. She's used the water bottle, gotten him all sorts of scratch-friendly items, etc, but he still loves to shred EVERYTHING ELSE. He was a chewer, too, when he was younger, so we had to soap the computer and TV cords so he wouldn't go for them.
ANYWAY. So now I'm in the process of getting things together for this move, things I don't have. Which is everything, aside from a couple awesome Ikea cheese graters and a sandwich maker that's over 10 years old. You're jealous, I know. ;) The place has a couch in it, which is fine, although I have this weird thing about leather couches, especially left over one. But I guess for now it'll do, especially as I have to buy a bed and things. I'd like a dresser for the bedroom because I don't have one right now, just one of those clear plastic drawer things that is already not good enough but I don't have room for a dresser up here.
And I have to arrange for when the Telus dude can come in to set up my internet and new fancy TV. I'd like it to be on the 1st, in case I want to move in that day. If I can get the day off work (Fridays are a bitch for us usually) then I'll spend the day washing walls and moving stuff and waiting for the Telus guy.
So yes, big time for me right now. But I'm going into this knowing that if things go badly that I can still move back here if I need to, and that's a huge weight off my mind.
This episode really didn't feel like a season finale. We had more intense episodes throughout the season that would have been more in line with finales as we've had in the past couple of seasons.
Good on Tara, that's for sure. Hopefully she'll find some peace.
Obviously Sam didn't shoot Tommy. He probably shot the bag out of his hand or something. That storyline kinda fizzled towards the end.
I thought Jason's storyline was going to go a bit further to the left in this episode but I guess that just leaves more open for him next season. I didn't expect Crystal to give up so easily, for sure. I don't really care if she comes back, I guess. The way the talk for the finale went it sounded like there was going to be a huge shoot out and somehow all the storylines were going to converge together in Hotshot in one big battle. But obviously that didn't happen. I thought it was going to be more like the Maryanne thing. Eh.
Hopefully a little more time will pass between this season and next, unlike the previous two. I mean, the whole show to this point has been like--four months in time. But if Tara is going to go find the person she wants to be and Sookie goes off to fairyland hopefully at least a few months will pass then. I don't want Tara coming back after a day or so and her not going anywhere with her character.
Fuck Bill Compton. I'm so OVER how he's written. He's so fucking boring! And seriously, can he screw Sookie over any more? If he's not treating her like a china doll he's using her for his advantage. And it's not even that I want her with Eric, either. I mean, yeah, I want them to have a fling and have hot sex and all but you know that as soon as they'd be in a "relationship" he'd be neutered and she'd have a wandering eye and then he'd do something to establish that he's still a big, bad, heartless vampire and he'd do something to make her wash her hands of him, etc. Just fuck and get it over with, sheesh.
Sookie can also make a stop over in Alcide-land, thanks. Goddamn he's hot. And he's nice without being fucking boring, Bill Compton.
I don't really have any feeling about Russell being encased in cement. It's nice that he can be brought back, if need be, but I hope he is gone for a while. Although, we never did hear much more about the Nazi werewolves, which was part of the storyline that really interested me and I wanted to know more about that whole sect of the werewolf culture. It seems that a few storylines, or a few parts of what made them, were left dangling this season.
Don't know what to think about Jesus being a witch and them moving on to focus on that next season. I don't want Lafayette to go off the deep end and I really don't want this guy, the first guy he's been with in the series thus far, to use him in any way. Please don't fuck with him. :(
And Sookie with the fairy thing. Eh. The only thing I want to see come from this whole thing is Sookie able to use her powers more and for HERSELF. Not to be a snack bar for vamps, even if she lets them. Time to move on.
I wasn't overly impressed with this finale, tbh. And having the break before the finale just kinda made it a bit more flat. It's like we wait doubly long after all the build up and it was a little, "That's it?". Which isn't to say it wasn't good, it just wasn't as wow-worthy as I thought the finale would be after this season.
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Helloooooo Hotness
This scene was creepy and foreboding!
Sookie has a touch of the Buffy ugly!cries.
Yeah, it's a surprise to me, too. I've been thinking about looking for a while. I've been living with my family since I moved out here and it's a pretty sweet deal. Seriously. So it's been a little hard to think about giving that up, while I've also been at war, internally, with wanting to leave. Even though I am an adult and they treat me as so it's still THEIR house and THEIR rules and, you know, some days I'd like to be able to leave my shoes by the door without them being tossed into the shoe closet I don't use because there are TOO MANY PAIRS OF SHOES HUMANLY POSSIBLE FOR THREE PEOPLE. I moved mine out of there months ago but my aunt moves my shoes if they're by the door for too long, so I have to go find them.
I know that's a stupid reason to move and it's not the ONLY reason but it just proves that it's not my house and that I'm staying here. And that's fine. I've lived here for four years and I've lived with the respect for their house and that's fine. But it's been time for me to think about moving on. THINKING ONLY.
But then on Friday I took an ad for an apartment that's in the same neighbourhood as where we live now, one bedroom, utilities included and they said they'd allow a cat, which is a MUST for me. I asked the landlord if I could see it that night. Went back on Saturday with the aunt and she declared it was okay, too, with some minor adjustments. So today I came back with half the deposit and I take possession on the 1st.
It's been a bit of a whirlwind weekend in that regard and I can feel it. I feel like there's a panic attack waiting for me in my throat. You know how you get a lump in your stomach or you feel like you could be sick but it just doesn't happen? That's how I'm feeling with my anxiety levels right now.
I know that this will be a good thing for me in the long run, to have a bit of independance in my life and to get out from my family, but it's still so daunting for me. I can afford it since I fritter a lot of my money away each month, but now it's a matter of budgeting and I've kind of forced my hand into staying here for a while longer. I was thinking I'd be getting ready to leave by this point but clearly it isn't going to happen. I'm not really even making the decsions, I'm kind of feeling my way, and that's troubling me, too, I think. But I haven't felt WRONG about them.
It's a basement suite, so it's a bit dark, but it's quite big for a basement. And since I'm by myself I don't have to worry about sharing the space. I have my own entrance and there's quite a bit of shelving space. The closet in the bedroom is also nice and big. I'd like to be able to paint the bedroom because it's got that old, '80's paneling but the landlord's wife doesn't want to. But I can paint the paintable living room walls (one is brick) and the kitchen. And the bathroom, I think, which will be nice.
I can have a cat, as well, as I mentioned. I can't imagine moving somewhere that I am not allowed to have an animal if I'm living alone. I really want to come home to something and I want something I have to take care of. That kind of relies on me. I want a cat that will be cuddly. I had asked the uncle a couple months ago if I could take Vincent when I left and he said yes but I don't think he thought I was serious or that I'd move out before the cat passed on (he's kinda old). So when I told the aunt and said the uncle said I could take the cat she was like, "eh, we'll have to talk about that." Which makes me a little sad but at the same time, excited because Vincent isn't a cuddly cat. He's decalwed, which I like, and we get along great now, but he's not a lap cat and hates being picked up.
So right after I dropped off my partial deposit I went to the SPCA. Priorities, I has them. However, I can't claim a cat and have them hold it for me until October because it's not fair to the cat or the other animals that need the cage space, which I totally get. And although I liked a few of them, none of them jumped out at me (literally and figuratively!) to say ADOPT ME!!! I would prefer a cat that's declawed (I know, some people have feelings about this and while I'd never get an adult cat or have it done personally to a cat, I'd gladly take one that was already declawed) as I would prefer a cat that doesn't destrory stuff. As we all would, I'm sure. The cat we have at home (home-home) right now has shredded the shit out of my mom's chair and she's tried everything to get him to stop. She's used the water bottle, gotten him all sorts of scratch-friendly items, etc, but he still loves to shred EVERYTHING ELSE. He was a chewer, too, when he was younger, so we had to soap the computer and TV cords so he wouldn't go for them.
ANYWAY. So now I'm in the process of getting things together for this move, things I don't have. Which is everything, aside from a couple awesome Ikea cheese graters and a sandwich maker that's over 10 years old. You're jealous, I know. ;) The place has a couch in it, which is fine, although I have this weird thing about leather couches, especially left over one. But I guess for now it'll do, especially as I have to buy a bed and things. I'd like a dresser for the bedroom because I don't have one right now, just one of those clear plastic drawer things that is already not good enough but I don't have room for a dresser up here.
And I have to arrange for when the Telus dude can come in to set up my internet and new fancy TV. I'd like it to be on the 1st, in case I want to move in that day. If I can get the day off work (Fridays are a bitch for us usually) then I'll spend the day washing walls and moving stuff and waiting for the Telus guy.
So yes, big time for me right now. But I'm going into this knowing that if things go badly that I can still move back here if I need to, and that's a huge weight off my mind.
This episode really didn't feel like a season finale. We had more intense episodes throughout the season that would have been more in line with finales as we've had in the past couple of seasons.
Good on Tara, that's for sure. Hopefully she'll find some peace.
Obviously Sam didn't shoot Tommy. He probably shot the bag out of his hand or something. That storyline kinda fizzled towards the end.
I thought Jason's storyline was going to go a bit further to the left in this episode but I guess that just leaves more open for him next season. I didn't expect Crystal to give up so easily, for sure. I don't really care if she comes back, I guess. The way the talk for the finale went it sounded like there was going to be a huge shoot out and somehow all the storylines were going to converge together in Hotshot in one big battle. But obviously that didn't happen. I thought it was going to be more like the Maryanne thing. Eh.
Hopefully a little more time will pass between this season and next, unlike the previous two. I mean, the whole show to this point has been like--four months in time. But if Tara is going to go find the person she wants to be and Sookie goes off to fairyland hopefully at least a few months will pass then. I don't want Tara coming back after a day or so and her not going anywhere with her character.
Fuck Bill Compton. I'm so OVER how he's written. He's so fucking boring! And seriously, can he screw Sookie over any more? If he's not treating her like a china doll he's using her for his advantage. And it's not even that I want her with Eric, either. I mean, yeah, I want them to have a fling and have hot sex and all but you know that as soon as they'd be in a "relationship" he'd be neutered and she'd have a wandering eye and then he'd do something to establish that he's still a big, bad, heartless vampire and he'd do something to make her wash her hands of him, etc. Just fuck and get it over with, sheesh.
Sookie can also make a stop over in Alcide-land, thanks. Goddamn he's hot. And he's nice without being fucking boring, Bill Compton.
I don't really have any feeling about Russell being encased in cement. It's nice that he can be brought back, if need be, but I hope he is gone for a while. Although, we never did hear much more about the Nazi werewolves, which was part of the storyline that really interested me and I wanted to know more about that whole sect of the werewolf culture. It seems that a few storylines, or a few parts of what made them, were left dangling this season.
Don't know what to think about Jesus being a witch and them moving on to focus on that next season. I don't want Lafayette to go off the deep end and I really don't want this guy, the first guy he's been with in the series thus far, to use him in any way. Please don't fuck with him. :(
And Sookie with the fairy thing. Eh. The only thing I want to see come from this whole thing is Sookie able to use her powers more and for HERSELF. Not to be a snack bar for vamps, even if she lets them. Time to move on.
I wasn't overly impressed with this finale, tbh. And having the break before the finale just kinda made it a bit more flat. It's like we wait doubly long after all the build up and it was a little, "That's it?". Which isn't to say it wasn't good, it just wasn't as wow-worthy as I thought the finale would be after this season.
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Helloooooo Hotness
This scene was creepy and foreboding!
Sookie has a touch of the Buffy ugly!cries.
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Date: 2010-09-13 11:24 am (UTC)And Alcide's Epic!Smirk when Sookie rescinded the invitation to her house "to all vampires present" made the episode.
Good luck in your apartment - and not all cats are destructive, trust me on this. I have three of them. CLAWED.
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Date: 2010-09-13 07:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-13 11:50 pm (UTC)Thank God Joe (Alcide) is a season regular for next season. I want some Alcide/Sookie sexy-time. But I was kind of hoping that the show would have followd the books. I'm not sure if you read them, so I won't say..but I def. thought it was going to, because a ton of shit was introduced with the way the books go..
I hate that we have to wait a year now for the next season. Booo.
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Date: 2010-09-18 07:26 am (UTC)no subject
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