Monday, April 03, 2006

Apartment hunting worries, interview worries and a bunch of shit I have to do!

I'm starting to get really nervous and freaked out about finding an apartment!!!!! Because I called my current apartment building this morning and confirmed that I'm not renewing. And because when I called this afternoon on one apartment building with two available apartments, they were both already gone. And there are hardly any out there as it is! Tomorrow night at 6:00 I'm going to see one place. There are pictures online and with paint and decorations I could make it look really cool. Although the kitchen is seriously lacking and pretty awful. If I like that place and get it, I'd really consider hanging some sort of decorative curtain between the kitchen and dining room to hide the ugliness. But what if I don't like it? Or worse, what if I sort of like it but don't love it? Do I take it because there aren't many out there or do I hold out and risk there not being anything else? Oh it's just too stressful! (Yes, I know I'm being a bit overdramatic and it's not all that bad, and things could be far worse, but I'm just whining for a bit right now.)

I also have my interview tomorrow afternoon for the possible job. I really haven't even let myself hardly think about it yet. Because every time I do, my thought process jumps to possibly being offered the job, and then to having to leave my current job, and I burst into tears. Regardless of where I am - street, bus, breakfast, office, couch, anywhere. But I'm really telling myself now that this is just the interview. There are more qualified people who applied, so there's no guarantee that I'd even get an offer. So I'll just go there and be my normally fabulous self! But tonight I better try on my only suit to make sure it looks good, and I also need to review some stuff that I printed off the internet.

But first, I need to clean my apartment! And it's already after 11 p.m. I am so fucking lazy sometimes!!! It needs to be cleaned because my apartment manager is bringing a girl to see it tomorrow, and so I need to 1) straighten the living room, 2) clean the kitchen, 3) clean the bathroom, 4) straighten the bedroom and hang up clothes on my dresser, 5) hide some of the crap that I leave sitting around my door, and 6) close my armoire doors to hide the clutter (that will be the first thing I do cause it's the easiest and I can check something off my list!).

I also need to finish reviewing a complaint by tomorrow morning (I've already looked over the motion but need to think about a couple things). I wish I had started actually being productive as soon as I came home so I wouldn't be sitting here now with so much to do!

I also was bad this morning and didn't get to work until 11:00 a.m. And that was only because The German called me this morning to make sure I woke up, and he didn't let me off the phone until he heard me in the kitchen feeding the babies. Which is a really good thing and I thanked him later, because even while I was sitting up in bed talking to him and knowing that I needed to get up because I was so late, I was 50% going to go back to sleep. Tomorrow, I need absolutely to be there by 9:30 at the latest. I think I'll set one of my alarm clocks out in the hallway.

I'm going to get started with my list of things to do - my huge list of things, in one more minute. But one more thing - The Meat was back at work today after being on vacation last week, and it was so so so good to have him back. It had been really quiet last week and the office lacked its normal sparkle which is The Meat. So I feel so relieved and happy that he's back!

Oh - and The Coach called me tonight and we talked for awhile. It was pretty good and I'm feeling confident enough now to be more of myself. Also, since I've actually met him now, it's much easier to talk on the phone. We talked about his stuff for a long time and then I talked about my stuff - basically what I just wrote about here - and he listened all the while I was talking and responded, but I'm not sure he responded enough or was paying enough attention. Hmmmm. If he's selfish he'll be back at the curb! But he said he would call me tomorrow to find out how my interview went and how I liked the apartment. I like him so far but have worries as well, but at the very least, it's nice to have a fun distraction!

And now, I'm going to go get started on my list of things to do! Wish me luck on my interview tomorrow, and also that the apartment will be so super-cool or else really, really suck!

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

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Written by Caterpillar :: 4/03/2006 11:35:00 PM :: ::


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I'm a 30-year-old sometimes girl and sometimes woman living in Chicago. Over the past year I have faced my biggest demon and won, and as a result I have hope again for wonderful and fabulous things to happen! I'm still learning, growing and always trying to improve myself, but I absolutely love life and think I'm very close to becoming a real butterfly!!!
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♥ I think that the most beautiful women I've ever met are the ones that know who they are, have stories to tell, ideas to share, wisdom to impart and love the skin they're in. No one can love us as we love ourselves. No one can take away our beauty and our dignity when we own those things. To me confident=beautiful. :: CeeCi

♥ I'd been feeling a little blue (for no particular reason) when I began thinking about things like attention, age and body image. Suddenly, it washed over me. I see people looking at me and I see them reacting. I began thinking about the times I notice the attention and realized its the days I'm strutting, the days I'm open and holding my head up. This got me to thinking further. How I perceive myself is what I show to others...People don't realize it, but they show the world everything about themselves in the way they move and act, in the words they say and the way they say them. A little confidence can lead to a lot of confidence. :: CeeCi

♥ When we believe in ourselves the world is an entirely different place and our place in it feels right and happy and healthy. :: CeeCi

♥ Remember that something incredibly wonderful is always possible!

♥ There are moments that are wonderful, if you let them be.

♥ Being distrustful put me in a very lonely place, a place filled with doubt and hypervigilance. I'm grateful I've learned to trust again, because in learning to do it, I learned to trust myself. :: CeeCi

♥ We're all a work in progress. I believe we will be until the day our lives end. Why fight it? I love the changes I experience. Some are certainly easier and more enjoyable than others, yet I wouldn't stop the process for any thing in the world. :: CeeCi

♥ We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss the chance to see a rainbow on the way :: Gloria Gaither

♥ Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed :: Storm Jameson

♥ Love is everything. It is the reason we are here, and the wonder we take with us wherever we go.

♥ Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow :: Mary Anne Radmacher

♥ Just live in the moment, the moment you're in. Don't live two days from now. Don't live two hours in advance. Live now. And appreciate what you have now. Don't go any further. You have this moment. This second. Breathe it. Enjoy it. Live in it. :: Open Eyes

♥ Leap, and the net will appear.

♥ I've learnt that when we express our deepest feelings, even though we may stammer or be unable to find the right words, it always pays. It pays to be authentic.

♥ There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness :: Carl Jung

♥ I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge, myth is more potent than history, dreams are more powerful than facts, hope always triumphs over experience, laughter is the cure for grief, love is stronger than death :: Robert Fulghum

♥ You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens. :: Ethel Barrymore

♥ Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. :: Carl Jung

♥ I will try to be as honest as I can with myself. That is all that is required of me. I'll keep admitting and opening my hidden box of fears, hurts and insecurities, again and again, until I know each one of them by their first name. :: Anu

♥ It struck me that there is amazing beauty everywhere. Does it matter where you are or who we're encountering? There is magic all around us. The fact that we're alive, the fact that we're living in this place and time. The fact that we've met the people we've met, all of it, every bit of it, only contributes to the wonder that is life. :: CeeCi

♥ No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the starts, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. :: Helen Keller

♥ Half of doing anything is believing that you can.

♥ Often God has to shut a door in our face, so that he can subsequently open the door through which he wants us to go. :: Catherine Marshall

♥ Even if it burns a little low at times, the secret of life is to always keep the flame of hope alive.

♥ The three grand essentials of happiness are something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for.

♥ Some people will say that you are going the wrong way, when it is simply a way of your own.

♥ Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion. :: Martha Graham

♥ Life is a series of new beginnings, and in every ordinary moment there are a thousand miracles to behold.

♥ Don't let the approval of others determine your belief in yourself.

♥ When it's all said and done, when all the opinions have been uttered, preached, shouted, and shared, there is only one thing we can do: From this moment on...love.

♥ When you're stuck in a spiral, to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing. :: Christina Baldwin

♥ You have to look for the joy. Look for the light of God that is hitting your life, and you will find sparkles you didn't know were there.

♥ Be the change you wish to see in the world... :: Gandhi

♥ Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

♥ We each have only a limited amount of time here. We have to do more with it - pay attention, explore, be open to all of life. Because we have only one chance, we have to make life seem longer than it really is. :: Viggo Mortensen

♥ Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible. :: Cadet Maxim

♥ Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore! Dream! Discover!

♥ What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? :: Unknown

♥ To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. :: David Viscott, M.D

♥ Right now it feels like:...no dream will ever remain unfulfilled...no desire will ever remain unanswered...no tear goes unnoticed and no effort wasted...the hills are alive and so are we...each moment is fresh and waiting to happen...and there will be garbage like situations all around...but it is upto us to light mud lamps in it...and glow in our own acceptance and appreciations... :: Anu

♥ I struggle with not feeling like I'm good enough at times. Usually, its because I'm pushing it too hard and have depleted my reserve. Yet, I know without a shadow of a doubt that no matter how heavy or thin, how young or old I appear to others it's what I feel on the inside that glows through. If I could give every person on this planet just one gift it would be the unwavering knowledge that they are beautiful and worthy of every good thing the universe holds. :: CeeCi

♥ It's easier to buy into the negative things we conjure about ourselves than the positive things. Knowing that is the first step towards changing the thoughts that keep us unhappy. With time moving forward, why stay trapped in the past? All we have is right here and right now, I intend to make the most of it! :: CeeCi