Yummy in my tummy

[thistlechaser]

I feel like I should be sloshing when I walk. Bringing in Cheerios cereal and adding milk at work makes for a really nice breakfast. And I almost never usually drink milk, so that's an added bonus! How great is it to start your day with cereal and then being able to drink the leftover milk from the "bowl" (plastic container)? Wonderful!

My eyes don't want to focus this morning. Sleep last night: two hours. When 11 PM rolled around, my body felt like it was dinner time/early evening. When 12 arrived (lights out time) it still didn't feel anything even close to time to sleep, but I turned out my lights anyway. No sleep.

I think there really is a person living next door to me, which sucks. He clomps around (walks really heavy with some kind of hard shoes) all night. I stayed awake listening to him. And his parking spot is next to mine, and he drives one of those "extended" pickup trucks. Lucky me, he's the biggest vehicle in the lot! It's a pain in the ass getting out around him. Sigh. If this keeps up, I might not bother asking to get my rent lowered and just move out. Whimper. Hate hate hate the thought of moving, but...

...I think my head might already be in a "moving" state. I'm half-collecting boxes and have been going through my things and throwing stuff out. If I do move, I've decided not to bring a lot of my books with me. Yeah, I shipped them across the country when I moved out here, but I haven't read them in ten+ years and I'm not really intending to read them again, so why keep them? I can more than use the shelf space...

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[tersa.livejournal.com]

In the past, I've hated moving. And I still don't like it. But, I'm actually kind of enjoying it this time around, because of the whole cathartic feeling of really going through your stuff and deciding what's important and what's not. Maybe it's my age, too (we're about the same age). When I moved out from college, I was only five years removed from high school and being a kid, and still clung to a lot of those memories. Now, it's been nearly ten years since my last college class, and...things from that time just don't seem so important any more.

And maybe part of it is having the financial security to realize that I don't need to hold on to every little thing "just in case". Even if I haven't even looked at it in two years.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I agree on the first part. And more than that, my tastes have really changed and most of my "collections" (piles, messes) of stuff still reflect those old things.

I'm having a serious ton of trouble with the 'financial security' part of the mental setting. I have no complaints about my current lifestyle (and upon looking at apartment ads and pictures this morning almost find myself willing to overpay to keep my nice doesn't-look-or-feel-like-apartment apartment), and I have a nice bit of money in the bank, but it feels like the ground could drop out from under my feet at any moment. Silly though it may be, I live with the worry that I might be fired at the drop of a hat any day. I know that's not really valid (if something was wrong I'd likely get a warning or something first), but I still worry. And so I hold onto all my old junk, thinking that maybe one day I might be happy I did so that I can sell it on eBay and get a little spending money...

I swear, I'm my own worst enemy. :P

[tersa.livejournal.com]

so that I can sell it on eBay and get a little spending money...

In that case, I would sell it on eBay, anyway, and then put it into savings, where it can interest! And still be there in case you need it.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

True. Part of me is resisting doing the work of that now, but if I did do it now, that'd be a little less clutter (which is a lot better than a little interest!).

[tersa.livejournal.com]

*And* you'd get the interest! Bonus! :)