Did some unpacking.

Moved my stereo from my office to my living room. I've got space under a kitchen counter that is open to my living room. I took a bookshelf and modified it as a storage/display shelf for my living room. I placed my stereo on top, speakers in each corner. It looks COOL. Got to take some photos sometime. I'm wanting to finish the rest of the apartment before I take photos but probably won't

My office is still unfinished.

Hopefully my stereo now won't wake up my neighbor

It's Thursday and I am wishing it were Friday.

I miss Joe. He did so much for me this past weekend when he visited. He helped me get motivated to unpack and assemble quite a few things. He's such a good guy and I feel awful for leaving him in Aurora. But I feel awesome with this great apartment and career opportunity. I don't know how long all this will last or how life will turn out 1 year, 5 yrs from now but I hope I'm alive. healthy, and happy. There are going to be sometimes that I feel lonely.

I'm going to orientation for a church in a few weeks. I hope this works out for me and I meet some nice people and a community to worship with.

Tonight I assembled my CD/cassette stereo set. The volume was set on medium but I think because of the speakers and location near the window it disturbed my neighbor and she knocked on my door to politely ask me to turn it down. I am going to have to find a new location for the stereo because I was not blasting it. Sound can travel down the window area, and it was at a corner area of the wall.

My new office is starting to turn out ok. I'm still unpacking it...

Ok, it is time to go to bed now!

Oh why must my weekend end...

I feel like I have accomplished so much this weekend. I removed most of the boxes and bags of paper from my balcony to the trash compactor. I am currently down to two boxes on my balcony, these were orginally in my storage closet. I went through my storage closet.

Still haven't found the part needed for the charger for my drill. My guess if that it is in the last boxed labeled storage in my closet.
I was looking for my lifetime fitness workout bag for the past 1 1/2 weeks. It happened to be in one of the last major boxes in my balcony storage closet on the bottom of the box marked christmas stuff. LOL

The Carmel, IN weather warmed up this late morning and it was beautiful working outside with the boxes. Then it turned really cold later in the afternoon.

This morning I made some cinnamon rolls for breakfast. I did some stuff around the apartment and then I drove to McDonalds on rangeline road to get a lite lunch before I went grocery shopping. I then went to the Marsh to get some groceries, a lot was healthy food.

Today I have done a lot of cleaning around the apartment. I cooked tacos for an early dinner. I tackled all the work on my balcony. I added a storage shelf to my garage. I vacuumed. I put away most of the laundry. I did good I think.

It's getting there, slowly but surely my apartment is coming together well. I just want to have my balcony, office, and garage organized and complete!

I'm still working off my laptop.. I will probably be doing this for another few weeks.

Next Friday I get my first paychecks :) Looking forward to that.

I'm kind of tired now!

Saturday I got my hair one at this salon called Bekah's. It was nice but a little pricey than what I'm used too. I'm not used to getting my hair done in the salon but I guess it's worth the price for the service you get. I felt all pampered with my hair. :) They gave me a diet coke to sip on during the hair cut :). I ate lunch at this over priced sandwich place called Rolly Polly. LOL, never again. It gave me some ideas on how to make my own lunch for work next week. After lunch I went clothes shopping at the Lane Bryant. I had a coupon, spend $75 get $25 off. I got a lot of cool stuff for little $$, more importantly I got a new comfy bra. After I went clothes shopping I did something else which I forgot. I then decided to try this little restauarnt in a strip mall near me called "Thai Castle". I had them custom make something for me. I had yellow-curry flavored chicken with stir fry vegetables and steamed rice. It was delciious! I didn't see them having any other customers. I'm afraid that place is not going to last.... :(

this week is going by fast for me :0

I got off my butt an unpacked about 7 boxes. All the junk is unpacked but not put away. The boxes and garbage bags are on my balcony. Tomorrow or some time next week I will stomp on the boxes and take them to the compactor.
I will be starting to recycle. I found there is a drop off location for cans and paper. The funds benefit seniors in the community.

I'm now faced with the difficult decision on how to arrange my furniture and where to put all this stuff!!!!!

I'd like to buy a media storage to put in my living room to sotre all my media.



I e-mailed BestBuy to have them tell me which stores in my area have this.

I must find the charger to my drill because I need my drill!!!

The rate I am going I am honestly going to be unpacking until like end of April. Thank goodness my parents came over last weekend to unpack the essentials and get me going. When I mean essentials

* The kitchen stuff is unpacked
* My bedroom stuff including clothes and shoes are unpacked
* Bathroom stuff is unpacked
* TV is unpacked and operating



So I have all the essentials unpacked, well most of them. I am using my laptop for Internet.

I unpacked a few boxes in my "office room". Unpack in the word.. not put away. My goal is to unpack everything including all the computer stuff. This office stuff includes essential and nonesstential junk!

All those ikea boxes I got 2 years ago I have to trash because the tape damaged them. I am going to have to find a store that sells nice organization boxes.

Things I'd like to do in my new office.

Get an extra book shelf.
Get an actual table or desk for projects
Organize eveything into pretty little boxes
Keep the cat toys in here.

Organize! Organize!

This will be my office and cat room. I had an orange accent wall painted. It's going to look Ikea like cool. Too bad there isn't an Ikea in Indianapolis. :(

I better get my lazy butt up and start dinner and focus on keeping the rest of the apartment tidy and organized. The office room is like the forgotten room right now.

Tonight I need to:

• Go grocery shopping @ Marsh, it is like the "Jewel" (chicago chain) of Indy area except BETTER and twice as big. They have a whole section of organic foods. Prices are about the same as the Chicago Jewel. There are a few other grocery chains I want to check out around here. I have to get some items for my lunches for work this week.




• Iron clothes!




• Take out some things I unpacked to the trash!




• Clean and organize




• Unpack




• Read

My weekend went by too fast, seriously. I think it was watching too much TV.

I'm at home.

Right now... I feel empty.. without purpose.

I wrote down some goals at work for my weekend plans. They're currently in my car with a bunch of other stuff that I need to clean out because I was too lazy to do that yet.

I think I just need to sleep in tomorrow, take a shower, do some reading, and cleaning, and unpacking. I am cleaning and re-organizing the stuff I already have in the apartment.. avoiding the stuff I need to unpack.

My fitness stuff... is in the boxes. I can still play DDR but I feel so incredibly lazy right now. What is wrong with me? *Yawn* I gained a few pounds that I had lost. This has got to change.