So here's all the things currently consuming my life, conveniently ordered.. in no real order. With pictures and links and everything!
Moving to a sweet little house close to NAIT. Renovated kitchen, new windows, new garage, new appliances - the outside is ugly as sin but the yard is lovely. I'm just not a good apartment kind of guy. There's just something
not right about being squished into forced closeness with a bunch of people who you'd rather not have to be around. Speaking of people you'd rather not have around - Condo Board, if you're out there somewhere? Go take a long walk off a short pier, preferably into the sewage infused lake of Lac Ste Anne. Please find something better to do than to watch us as we move things into our car and yell down from a 5th floor balcony to remind us to pick up a packing peanut that just dropped onto the ground.Helping Emily find a job in her field of choice - we're throwing applications everywhere that's good that might be hiring - Transcend Coffee, The Cocoa Room, Bridges Catering, Culina, even Boston Pizza! Due to our connections, getting work at Bridges will be a sure thing, but Em is looking for some full time work experience to have until Sept comes around, so we're still busy running around downtown, dropping off resumes.
Obliterating 20 years of accumulated/inherited clutter. Oh sweet god, does it feel good to throw those bags in the dumpster. My parent were packrats, my sisters are packrats, I'm a packrat too. Now I'm just facing the cold hard truth that no, I do not need to keep 10 computer cases and 3 big CRT monitors and every computer cable you could imagine, on hand for "emergencies". I've even taken the time to go through my old elementary school drawings and throw out the mediocre stuff - although I did make sure to keep the one essay where the English 20 teacher wrote "This essay was so good it made me cry".
Saying goodbye to approximately 1/4 of our book collection + 3/4 of my video game collection, basically a bunch of rare but never played PS1 RPG's that the total trade-in value equaled up to $195 - so I took the $200 X-BOX 360 that Nexwave had sitting behind the glass. Good deal, I'd say! As for the books, I'm going to guess that our total collection between me and Emily numbers somewhere in the 750-1000 range - and we found that there was a LOT of overlap in the books we owned, we just never got around to dealing with all of the duplicates. So we traded in whatever Wee Book Inn would take and Goodwilled the rest!
Selling our 2007 Honda Civic. We can walk everywhere we need to get to downtown. and there's no way we can afford car payments and schooling and paying all the bills at the same time. The car is in great shape though and we love it to death, but since we got a very sweet deal on it, the resale value is still extremely close to what we paid for it and it makes too much sense not to sell.
Trying to sell a sweet ass saxophone.
This one is difficult because Em is pretty emotionally attached to it, but due to how loud it is, there's never any opportunity to play the thing. I promised her that when we're rich and we can afford to build a sound-proof room she can get a new sax.
Trying to find a home for our bunny, Lady Fluffers - one pet only allowed at the new place! :( Lady is an unfortunate victim of circumstance - she's a very friendly well tempered bunny (except when you try to feed her, then she tries to pounce on the food bowl), gets along well with others and certainly puts up with a lot more BS than I would when it comes to doing Easter Bunny photos every year. So we need to find a loving home for her - I know people I could give her to, but they would most likely eat her for dinner and I wouldn't feel right taking her to the SPCA, the last thing I want for her is to be euthanized.
Writing reviews on local stuff on Yelp.ca
I'm kind of a sucker for giving 5 stars to places, I just really love local indie places - the people and the service and the food are just about always great. Emily and I are getting to the point where we have to start considering ourselves foodies. Maybe even locavores.
foodie - a person with a special interest or knowledge of food, a gourmet
locavore - one who tries to eat only locally grown foods
Generally just turning our lives completely upside-down
All this change in a very short time probably makes to seem to be crazy from an external perspective, but we've reasoned this out and we've been thinking about doing everything we're doing now for the last few years - and if we want to accomplish the things we want to accomplish, this seems to be best path for us to take. We might take flak, things might not go exactly how we plan them to go, but we want to follow our dreams and there's no point waiting around for a better time to try, because there never is going to be a better time than right now.
Next year, if things work out, we might just find ourselves in Australia! *fingers crossed*
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