I ♥ Etsy! The Halloween Edition

   
Shit. When was the last time I did an I ♥ Etsy! post? Oh, right. Back in July. Damn, I'm due. In honor of October, here's a Halloween edition. Or maybe I should call it the Zombie Edition. I do love me some zombies.

With a black licorice scent, these soaps are almost good

enough to eat. By sunbasilgarden

I'm sure it is beyond gross how much I want this shirt.

By sadjacktshirts

Pretty much a no-brainer. Heh. Get it?

By CountryWorkshop

I'm adding this to my Christmas list

as we speak. By xarata

Yes, please.

By zedszombieranch

And there will be candy corn.

 

So, there's this thing this weekend at this place and these people will be there...

...and I guess I will be too. Will you?

(p.s. hitting up H Street after wards! Email me if you'll be out and about!)

RST: The one without pictures. In other words, it's visually unappealing.

    

        

It's Tuesday, which means, time again for another Random Shit Tuesday! 

My randomness...

So, in case you've been hiding away and didn't hear earlier, I've moved. Again. If you're keeping track, that would be 3 moves in the past year. 5 in the past two. Here's hoping this one sticks.

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Not random at all and totally connected to the above... I'm loving the new place so far. Yeah, it's not at all what I remembered/expected, but that's a good thing. And now I only have a 10-15 minute commute opposed to a 60-90 minute commute. And there is absolutely everything I could possibly need/want right down the road. So when are you coming to visit?

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I'm watching Frida right now. This movie A) makes me wish I was a better artist/had more free time to become a better artist 2) Makes me wish I was Mexican (the good kind. If you recall, I'm racist now.) 3. makes me miss being passionate about things. Assuming, of course, that I've ever been passionate about anything

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Is it wrong that I envy eccentric artists?

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The new place has better lighting. Which means, time to bust out the tweezers. Yowzer.

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The weather lately has been GORGEOUS. We're talking 70+ degrees and sunshiny. This, in my opinion, really, truly is fall weather. 

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 And that's it for today. Hope you're having a wonderful week.

Why I'm a good person to move with.

     

Note I didn't say move in with. I would never dare to make such a highly debatable and outlandish claim.

• I'm highly organized. Which means I label boxes and containers clearly so there's no confusion as to which room they belong (it is not my fault, however, if you don't actually read the labels on the boxes).
• I kick ass at Tetris. Which means I kick ass at packing. I can fit boxes, bags and ski boots into every nook and cranny in order to maximize space.
• I never complain about being hungry. Which means you can put me to work all day, and I won't beg that we stop for a lunch break (although you might want to be on the lookout for signs of faintness).
• I'm a night owl. Which means even though you're passed out on the couch at 8pm, I'll still be unpacking and organizing until 1am (and drinking the beer).
• I love putting furniture together. Which means I'll have the IKEA TV stand assembled by the time you've caught up on the last two episodes of The Event on Hulu while sprawled out on the couch (or maybe the loveseat because you weren't able to fit the couch up the stairs and it's still chilling in the garage along with the queen-sized guest bed).
• I can drive a stick shift. Which means I can drive the standard vehicle while you drive the 24' moving truck (thank god, because somebody had to drive my stick shift car).
• I'm have a great internal clock and concept of time. Which means I'm more realistic when it comes to estimating time frames (like when you say we'll be unpacking at the new place at 2:30pm and we're actually unpacking at 4:30pm, like I predicted).

In short, the move went really well. In fact, it was the smoothest move to-date (aside from being unable to get the couch and bed up the stairs. We were planning on getting rid of those eventually anyway). 

I'm loving the new place so far. And the best part? My commute in to work has been reduced from 60 minutes to 10 and the drive home has gone from 90 to 15 minutes. Lovely.

Who am I kidding?

I wasn't packing the past few days. I was relaxing before I have to do crazy insane packing because my stuff? Yeah, it's been packed up since June because I never unpacked from my last move. And last night I was probably busy watching Fringe and/or Project Runway. Right? Last night was Thursday night? (In present time it is actually Monday night because I'm pre-blogging. Because apparently I'm too busy to blog in present time. What with all the non-packing). All that said, this weekend I will be too busy moving to post, but no one reads on the weekends any ways, right? Right. Check out this moving schedule the G-Man made for us (assuming I can figure out how to copy and paste from Excel):

5:15 AM         Wake Up & Shower

6:00 AM         Eat Big Hearty Breakfast

6:45 AM         Leave for Budget Rental

8:00 AM         Pick up truck from Budget

8:45 AM         Drop Off Car At TH

10:00 AM       Pick Up Stuff from Haddon Ln

11:30 AM       Pick up Mattress from M.D.

12:15 PM       Pick Up stuff From Storage

1:30 PM         Get Lunch to Go

2:30 PM         Start Unloading at New TH!!

Crazy, right? The best part is that I can totally stick to this schedule, but guess who won't be able to? Yeah, the G-Man. I laughed when he emailed me this. This schedule, in my opinion, is very delusional optimistic on the G-Man's part. I'm guessing we'll be unloading around 4:00-4:30pm.
   

Anyone wanna place some bets?

(FYI- I have no idea what that comic says, but I'm pretty sure by the end of the day, the G-Man and I will be speaking some sort of version of this German.)

If you can... whatever, you get the idea.

       

Whoops. I knew I forgot to do something before I got ready to move (see photo).

A few things I'm going to miss when I move out of this god awful suburbia-hell house: 1) the maid service. For real. Granted, it only came twice a month, and they did kind of a shitty job, but damn, I hate cleaning the bathroom. I would be tempted to hire someone JUST to clean my bathrooms. 2) the dog. But not when she needs to go out at 3:30am and I'm the only one home to let her out. 3) Rock Band.

And that's about it. I'd make a list of things I won't miss, but that would take more time than I can spare. Because I'm packing and all, remember?

If you can read THIS post...

   

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... yeah, same deal as before. Drunk. I mean, lazy. I mean, busy. Yeah, that's the ticket. Busy. Moving. Er, packing. Moving is this Saturday. Wait, what's today? Is there anything good on TV tonight? Maybe I'm watching TV and not actually packing. Hard to say.

Incidentally, I wish my suitcase was this cool. As it is I just have a lousy duffle bag I picked up at Walmart once upon a time. Back when I used to shop there. Back when I was all sorts of young and stupid. And broke.