Reason Breeds Insanity

Moving and working full time and trying to finish my research paper (I am just editing and revising) is getting old. I am so burnt out I can hardly stand it. My library is in a shambles, and I really just want to leave it and watch television. I think I will for today, just sit and do nothing for a change. Well, I have to work tonight, but untilo then, I will just leave it alone. And I think I am going to take the dogs to play in the river. I really just need a vacation!

Well, everything is in the new house. We worked from about 1PM yesterday until 12AM today moving furniture and my books. If I ever move again, I think we will just use them as kindling. They were worse to move than the furniture. I am pretty sure I have enough to fill two rooms! What I know for sure is that I worked at 4:30AM and I am going back to bed.

The cats are currently having a blast in the empty house playing in the curtains and generally being cat-like. Spaz and Pudge are fighting now in the middle of the room and Pudge’s hair is coming out in chunks. Mimi is just sitting calmly in the window watching the birds. I can hardly wait to add Kermit and Mr. Mojo Risin to the mix.

I am going to move my motocycle to our new house today. I am sure the neighbors will love it when they see a bike parked behind the house. You know everyone loves motorcyclists. I am going to put it in the garage, though, so that no one steals it.

Finally, I hope to have a second draft of my paper finished by Friday and some research for Kecia done by Wednesday so Jamie can do with it what she needs to. I am pretty excited about this VBC seminar that Kecia is doing. I just wish I could be involved in some aspect once school starts, but I am sure I will be covered up with classes.

The realtor, Tina Morris, who is amazing if you are ever looking for a house in Muncie, called me today and David and I went and got the keys to our house. BUT BECKY DOESN’T KNOW WE HAVE THEM!!! Tomorrow afternoon we, Becs and I, are taking the Jeep in for a tire rotation, oil change, and headlight and windshield wiper replacement, and the Jeep dealership is like half a mile from our house. We are going to take a picnic lunch, or pick up carry out from somewhere, and “eat on the porch” while we wait for the Jeep to get finished. Little does she know that David and I got flowers and they are already on the counter inside the house, so we are going to eat inside our new house, and I will give her the keys then so we can move this weekend. I’m so excited!

Hopefully, now that the paper is at least in written form, I can start actually posting some meaningful reflections about life instead fo the angst ridden bullshit that I have been writing about. There is so much to life. Sometimes I look so inwardly that I miss much of what is going on around me.

I’m pretty sure that when we move, and I quit at the BUX, or at least cut down to one or two days a week, I am selling the Jeep. I have chosen my new ride. Yes, she is pink, and I love the whitewall tires and fenders! Check out the fat-girl seat, too.

I am also looking forward to feeling at home in my home. We visited the flowers today, and I just feel like we belong there. The big wrap around porch, the pine tree, the flower bed, and of course the river across the street all embrace us, and make us feel welcome.

We adopted the cats yesterday and decided to name them Kermit (the one with more white, Becky’s) and Mr. Mojo Risin (the one with less white, mine). Truth be told, we are crazy.

I met with Kecia and the paper needs lots of work, as I assumed it would, but I have to be finished by July 27th, and I am going to try to be finished by the 16th.

Finally, I am so looking forward to MOVING!

I assume that we won’t get the keys until July 5th. I assume this because I think Muncie’s Coldwell Banker Realtors cut the heads off of live chickens in the light of the full moon. I say this because the woman who still has stuff in the house said she would have it out by Friday, but she also said that she wanted to spend July 4th at the house. We invited her to join us. I was thinking a cookout would be in order. We would be celebrating, they would be mourning, but it would be a nice transition for both of us. However, we talked about it in front of the realtor, and since she was sort of snakey the entire time we were dealing with her, and since she still hasn’t put up a sold sign, I assume that she encouraged them to keep the keys. Because they still technically have possession of it until July 14th, there isn’t a damned thing we can do about it. We are getting very antsy, though, I can assure you.

Also, for those of you who don’t already know this, we are going to get two new cats once we move in. I figure five bedrooms, cat for each one. Their names are “Thing 1” and “Thing 2,” or as I have already started to call them “The” and “Hooligans.” We need them like we need holes in our heads, but they are only willing to adopt them out together and they’ve been waiting for a while. They are neutered brothers whose pregnant mother was dumped. They are black, and basically look like Mimi, but with short hair. I figure we’ll survive, and, hey, they were two for one! And I decided not to get a new dog. I miss Pippin, but I don’t want to try to find a dog to take his place. There isn’t one. And Lily and Sydney are fun, so it’ll be good.

Back to the cats, though. Mimi did an amazing thing today. She jumped up on the mantle and went fishing. I was in the bathroom brushing my teeth when I heard a LOUD crash. I ran into the other room because I thought Becs had hurt herself, but I found the fish vase lying in pieces on the hearth and Becs dumping her fish, Al, who may not survive, into the vase with Mr. Tibbs, my fish. Mr. Tibbs was a bit pissed about his very temporary roommate, so we found a new vase, which was already packed, and put him into it. Have you ever tried to vacuum up glass, and a gallon of water with a vacuum that is not a shop vac? Try it sometime. I bet you cuss!

Finally, I am finishing the draft of my paper today. The library closes at 3AM, so I am going to leave here and put the paper in Kecia’s mailbox, go home, change, and then go to work. Should be interesting. I feel sorry for my co-workers. And anyone else I contact tomorrow.