2:30 AM and I'm listening to crickets

[thistlechaser]

Move all done! I'm really happy with my new (new-new) apartment. $100 and change more a month than my previous new one, but I have a lot more space (junior bedroom instead of studio), AC, an assigned parking spot (instead of first come, first serve with fewer parking spots than there are apartments), and spiders. Okay, maybe that last one isn't really a feature. I found the biggest one in the bathtub this morning though, and another outside of it. Luckily I don't mind spiders much. But I'm sure the spiders come from the fact that we have nature here. Grass, trees, shade, growing things. Previous-new apartment was nothing but pavement and concrete -- the property (four large apartment buildings) had a grand total of three palm trees growing. This place is right on the border of a river (a creek for those who know the area) and has stuff growing everywhere.

But why am I awake at 2:30 AM? The game I play has a big patch coming out today (due to drop at 3 AM my time) and I did intend to get up for it if I naturally woke up at that time, but my legs were hurting so much all night, I couldn't sleep at all. Dozens of trips up and down the stairs and hours of moving boxes was just too much for me, I guess. For some reason, laying down makes them really, really hurt, but sitting or standing isn't as bad. Seems wacky, but since the game has a big patch coming, I figured I might as well give up on sleeping tonight. zzz I do feel tired, but not sleepy, if that makes sense.

This move went better than the move three weeks ago. That move, moving the same amount of stuff basically the same distance, cost me $440 + $40 tip. It was killing me to pay that much again, but for some reason this move came to $230 + $40. Much much better!

My apartment is currently such a mess. To hopefully avoid bringing silverfish with me from the old apartment, I wanted to unpack and get rid of the boxes as fast as I could. So I unpacked everything and just put it anywhere -- stacks of stuff in random spots.

Unfortunately one box had so many silverfish in it, I threw it all out. It was a box of my drawings and photo albums, so... that was painful to lose. But silverfish lay their eggs in and on things, and there's just no way of cleaning them up. Maybe at some point in my life I'll be sad I lost them, but through my life thus far I haven't wanted physical photos and never looked at them, so... Hopefully I won't feel bad about it later. I would have liked to have kept my drawings (I could actually draw when I was younger!), but paper is the worst thing when it comes to silverfish.

Ugh. I hate silverfish so much. Horrible little bugs.

Comments

[manue7a.livejournal.com]

Congrats on things changing for the best at last!
Sorry about the lost box, but you're right, what you haven't missed before should not be missed later either.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Thanks! And agreed, hopefully I won't miss it at all.

[jeane nevarez (from livejournal.com)]

It sounds like you are in a better place now. I really hate silverfish too. I'm always horrified when i find one, worried they will eat my entire book collection. Never seen more than one or two though, and when I set out bait I don't get any. I'm still crossing my fingers.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

In my previous apartment, I saw maybe 5-10 a day, every day. I didn't even have that many physical books... but they're small bugs, so I guess a few books is enough for them.

[hawk-soaring.livejournal.com]

Yay for the move. UGH -- silverfish.

Yay new apartment! :)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Agreed, in that order! :)

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

Yay to the new apartment!
Hopefully no bugs.
And, hopefully the patch is good!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Patch is! I'm so exhausted, have been all day, but it was pretty fun to skip out on sleep to play! Usually I only do it when there's an expansion, but this time it just lined up right to do it for this patch.

And haven't seen bugs yet, other than spiders (and those don't count to me). Ants, silversish, and worse are the ones I worry about.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

I'm glad the move went well and you ended up where you SHOULD be rather than some random building with empty promises! :P

And I'm sure the spiders will vacate once you are there all the time. I always found that moving in, the bugs were around because humans weren't. Plus, spiders can be helpful.

Bummer about that one box though. :( I had no idea silverfish were quite so evil. Do you still have the negatives for those photos?

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, agreed on the spiders. Let them eat the other bugs! They're not going to hurt me.

Nope, when I packed my boxes, I got rid of all negatives. I suppose I should have kept those, but I didn't even think about maybe getting more prints.

I don't know if it's strange or not, but I really have no desire to have photos of me as a kid, my family back then, plus lots of family I never even met. It's kind of interesting to see the young-me once, but beyond that I don't really care much.