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Something of tune's I inked/colored. I've been browsing pretty blogs (like Such Pretty Things), so I was in a mood to do soft pastel colors.

I wish I could say I've done some of my own art but...no. Just haven't had time or the motivation. I feel like a bum. D:

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So, even moving hasn't let us escape from the COMPLETE RETARDATION back in Warren.

Al's complaining because our stuff isn't all out of the house yet. He's claiming that he has someone who wants to look at the place (there haven't been signs in the yard in MONTHS). Despite him wanting us to get stuff out from the house, the driveway is not plowed (remember Angie and my adventure in the snow the other day?), so I can't even find someone to help us move because, well, THERE'S A FOOT OF FUCKING SNOW IN THE DRIVEWAY AND IT'S NOT MY GODDAMN RESPONSIBILITY.

It's just, FFFFFFFFFFFF.

I told him, the weather has been shit. We can't come in to get furniture and the rest of our stuff until the weather breaks a bit. SO SUCK IT THE FUCK UP.

I don't give a shit about your problems, I don't care what issues are going on. Once our shit is out of there, I turn the electric off and I wash my hands of this stupid, stupid man.

I CANNOT WAIT.

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Now, back to downloading Dark Angel.

At the student center on the main campus, waiting for Angie to get out of class.

My classes have been pretty good so far! I realized I'm taking almost entirely creative classes. I'm even including Writing I (again) in this because, well, writing IS a creative endeavor. I like my Understanding of Music professor and my 2D Composition teacher seems like he's going to be okay. He reminds me a bit of one of the art teachers from high school. Art of Theatre should be fun, as well! For Music we have to attend a few recitals/concerts/musical productions and for Theatre we can help out with stage stuff (painting sets, ushering, things like that). So it's all stuff I really like to do and I GET to do it. :D

2D Composition looks like it's going to be pretty easy. I have a decent grasp on composition already, so I can only imagine that it'll be an easy learning class.

I have to buy some supplies and a few books, but TJ and I are taking almost all our classes together, so we only need one copy of our books. This saves some money, at least.

I have to call our landlord about the keys this weekend. Hopefully they've finished up, we drove past there today (it's on our way to school) and the lights were on! I'm assuming our electricity got set up no problem. I have to call about the water and the gas, which should HOPEFULLY not require a security deposit.

Then, it's just a matter of getting our stuff moved in! If nothing else, we'll get the basics moved first, then everything else. I have people to meet up with this weekend regarding animal rehomes (which I'll clarify once they're rehomed!), as well.

Things are going good so far. The people on the Stark campus are all really nice. Like, I suppose it's because I'm used to all the bullshit and ghetto trash you get on the Trumbull campus back home. But it's nice to be around people who aren't epic assholes or exceedingly stupid.

I'm also glad I'm STILL getting mistaken for an age much younger than what I actually am. :D :D

In other news, I'm coming down with something. It's a normal sinus congestion deal. I hope it doesn't spread anywhere past my neck, to be honest. I think it's because of how weird the weather has been around here lately.

This is, god willing, our new house. It seems small, in comparison to the almost-mansion and barn nearby, but trust me, it's pretty roomy. Also, yes, that is a fuckhueg pool over there.

TJ was contacted by a guy in Stow looking to rent out a house on his property. Turns out, his father had it built for an office and whatnot. His father passed away at the beginning of the month and he was considering renting it out. A friend passed our looking-for ad on Craigslist to him and we got in contact. He's a nice dude, around our age and just recently graduated with his Masters. Him, his sister and, I believe, his mother live in the large house.

We went and checked it out the other day and met the guy. It's a fabulous place, considering it was built within the last five or ten years, I imagine. It has a sunroom and a laundry room and everything is just really comfortable. Not too squased together, not TOO much room. The only downside is there's not a BATH, just a shower-deal (though it has little seats in it). But, hey, for the price he's offering, I'm not going to complain.

It's about ten minutes to campus, roughly 3.5 miles. It's a 20-30 minute walk to a bus stop, but I won't mind that in the warmer weather (when the buses ran here, I'd walk almost 30 minutes downtown to catch the bus).

They're still in the process of cleaning the place out (normal cleaning, not 'oh, this is gross' cleaning, just moving out their fathers' stuff), so it's not going to be ready until about the time we have our money anyhow. He's cool with this and we're cool with this, so it's pretty much in the bag. He's e-mailing us on Sunday to talk more about it (since he was in a hurry to go somewhere when we were over looking at the place), so we'll go from there.

We're pretty stoked, overall. He doesn't care about the pets, as long as the place doesn't get messed up. Which, really, we're responsible pet owners, sooo.

Now, we spend the next two weeks organizing and packing. Upside, we don't have as much stuff here as it seems, as much of the things here are Al's things. A few critters still need to be rehomed, as well. This is proving difficult for some, but that was to be expected. I'm going to spend the next week putting in applications up there, too. Since I now have a good idea of what's really close and where I'll be at.

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New Years Eve was nice, though it's not really ever a huge deal for me. I'm not big on those NEW FRESH STARTS because every day is a new start and you just sort of keep moving forward regardless of what life throws at you. But, I'll be honest, 2010 feels good so far. I hope this continues.

Angie, TJ and I stayed up and watched the South Park movie and shit on TV until, like, 3AM. We were going to go out, but decided against it and just grabbed some booze and drank a bit at home.

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I'm working on catching up on internet business. I need to do some cleaning. I'm going to tackle the kitchen and the bathroom and pack up stuff we don't need right now. We're going to try to do some pruning of things we don't need, as well.

I also need a bath. D:

Now that I've gotten that horrible ordeal out of the way...

I told my mom about the moving thing. She's very against it. But not because she doesn't want to see me move, but because of the weather and she thinks we're doing it WAY too fast.

Well, considering once the utilities are off her, we may as well be homeless, there isn't a way to do it other than 'fast'.

She said she'd help with the bills here, even postponing getting her car/license back so we can at least wait until the weather breaks so it's safer to drive. I don't know, I don't want to have to be responsible for someone elses' fuckup, to be honest. I shouldn't have to put out money because someone else was a complete retard.

I'm going to think over it. And when we go out to wash clothes at Rob's, I'll see what his and his mothers' opinion is on it. Because his mom always has good advice.

Plus, TJ's been giving me the 'are you sure we're doing the right thing' questions and I haven't had a good answer. I really do feel we need to get out of this place, but the weather does scare the crap out of me. Especially when the car needs new brakes and we'll pretty much be driving into worse weather the farther north and west we travel.

So, we'll see. I foresee us moving, but maybe not as immediately as we planned.

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We went over to the apartment early yesterday morning to get a bath and drop stuff off over there. Took most of the fur over and some clothes.

They cleaned out TJ's room to paint the walls and it's the worst painting job I've EVER seen. One coat of paint, paint on the ceiling, pained the lightswitch. It's atrocious. And this is by someone who's supposed to be a handyman. I know how to pain a fucking room. You mask the edges and you give it more than one piss-poor, jagged coat.

Fucking christ.

I had to 'shovel' the driveway with a TOTE before we left. A foot of snow meant TJ couldn't back the Cavieler down the driveway more than about six feet. And, because there's no shovel anywhere in the house (because, of course, it's not something a girl needs!), I had to spend swice as much time and energy removing two pathes of snow from the driveway with a plastic tote.

Ugh.

Then, we got Hot Dog Shoppe and came home to sleep.

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So, we're leaving this place.

Al came over and said the water company won't turn it back on without the $130 AND AND AND the electric is due to be shut off by the 22nd. Which, really, would leave us homeless. We can't go back to the apartment, the landlady ythere doesn't want us there. We have too much shit to impose on any local friends and my mom lives too far out in the country for it to be worth going to work every day.

We're driving to South Dakota to crash with Squeeji. Really, in essence, cutting out the middleman in us moving with her in a few months anyhow.

I know this probably seems irresponsible to some people. That's fine. But right now? Anywhere is better than here. Being homeless in another city is better than staying in this toxic envoirnment. But when I'm stuck in a shitty situation, I'm not going to sit around and let it beat me up. I'm going to remove myself from it. I'd rather face the unknown possibilities than stay in the shitty situation we're in now.

I'll probably be around the rest of the week, but not likely much longer. I have to get my shit in order here. Let work know what's going on. Get the shit we're not taking over to the apartment. Rehome the kittens. Rehome the rabbit. Possibly rehome the littlest girl rats we took in.

It's a lot. But I can't bring myself to put up with this anymore. I actually THREW UP today from a combination of the stress (and maybe that Wendy's I had earlier...). I still feel sick and gross and when it gets THAT BAD, it's time to ditch this place.

Upside, it's not like I haven't loaded up the car before!

Is there anyone local who might want a rabbit? Or two young, friendly girl rats? Or two kittens? I called the local shelter about the kittens, but I'm on a waiting list, so I don't know how long that'll take...

In short: UGH.

Well, there's our silver lining.

It's by no means set in stone, but it's a possibility.

We were down at the comic store today on a whim and talking to Greg, who owns the building (about three stories, the comic shop is the first floor + the basement). He was telling us about his cat and having to go to the vet (this is going somewhere, I swear). He said that the cat was staying in the empty apartment upstairs so his two other cats wouldn't bother him (he just had surgery). This sparked something in my head and I waited until he had a moment alone to inquire about said apartment.

Five minutes later and we're being shown around a really nice studio apartment. Newly redone in the last year (the buildings downtown are OOOOLD and not in the best looking condition inside for the most part).

He has someone who's been saying they're going to move in for the last two months. He's waiting until the end of the month before he offers it to us officially.

It's $500/mo. Everything included. Rent, utilities, cable, internet. Free use of the washer and dryer, as well. Comfortable, safe, secure. Downtown (literally, right across the street from the courthouse), easy to get to everything, walking distance from plenty of places including food and (vauge) entertainment. No issues with our animals at all.

(plus living ABOVE THE COMIC BOOK STORE HELL YEAH)

This is a REALLY GOOD deal. This would be GREAT for us. We'd be out of this shithole and our from under the thumb of Al and TJ's mother.

The downside? At the moment, I'm only making, like, $500 a month. That's IT. I'm planning on getting a second job, so that would help. I'm willing to bust ass for this place because it's such a fabulous deal and location and alsrkhgkldfhg everything that It'd be so wonderful for us. If I could find something downtown, even, that'd be better. I could walk to work and wouldn't waste gas for a second job.

So, we'll see. I'm trying not to get hyped about it because, well, I don't want to be let down. But, until then, I'm going to save as much as possible and think positive.

For fuck's sake. I cannot find the damn cassette thing for the radio in the car so I can play my damn MP3 player. God, I am pissed. I'm POSITIVE it didn't fall out at one of the places we stopped, but, fuck, I could be wrong. I really don't want to have to buy another one. I HAVE ONE, damnit.

Still hanging at Squeeji's. We'll probably be heading home around Tuesday or Wednesday. We went down to Sioux Falls today and I picked up some random bullshit. Finally found Eternal Darkness!

Tax money came through yesterday, so we're good for money to get back home. Barring unforeseen circumstances, of course.

We're going to see Iron Man tomorrow, which should be fun.

It's been pretty nice. I need to call some places back home and call Target in Silverdale to see about my transfer and such.

Heading out of Livingston, MT (I should really check and see if that IS the city we're in!). Had a decent night's sleep.

The critters are well, if confused. Our cargo (read: the roof rack) is doing well. But we got most of our wer and tear on the tarp out on the prairie, sooo...

But I'm well-prepared.

The fucking iriver WOULD NOT COOPERATE last night. I needed and internet connection from my computer (which I didn't have) and the complimentary computer wouldn't recognize it in the firmware updater. So, I'll have to see what I can do with it at Squeejis.

Speaking of, we should be at your place, Squeeji, around 10PM-11PM-ish. Barring unforeseen circumstances. It's another 10-12 hours from here, sooooo...

But it's gorgeous out, and nice and warm. Should be a good drive today.

Oooooookay.

Krispy and her creature came by and picked up her stuff (TV, ratlings, miscellaney). Ash did a quick check of the car and said it should be cool. If we really want, we can throw a quart of oil in, but it should be okay. Bob pointed out that, if most of our mileage on it was highway miles, we'll be good.

I loaded up the roof rack. I need to do some ghetto taping, but it's good otherwise.

Broke down the rat cages, moved most of 'em to carriers. They'll hate me, but they'll be fine.

I need to gather up the rest of the miscellaneous stuff lying about. Bob bought the little dresser and TJ's computer desk from us. Extra $20 is nice.

I need to get myself something to drink in the car. I totally forgot that when we went up to Walmart.

I don't know if I'll make a post before I break down the computers. But if I don't, I'll keep things updated via my Twitter (which posts to my journal anyhow). Those who need my phone number have it.

Anyone who is waiting on commissions: keep waiting! I can't do much while I'm on the road, or while I wait to get internet hooked up!