first saturday night in philly.
Nov. 26th, 2005 05:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swingchickiethink i might check out this place i read about called milkboy coffeehouse. supposedly it's run by the folks who own milkboy records, so it's this cool place to have a cup of coffee and listen to live bands. i might just bring my xmas cards along as well... drink good coffee, get some cards done, and listen to some good music... sounds like a decent saturday evening.
i hit target as soon as they opened this morning, so i could finish getting the stuff i needed for the apartment. i was cracking up to myself, hitting the register with a cart full to the brim with stuff, none of it for anyone other than me. *chuckle* got a bunch of cleaners (the ones target sells, called "method", smell so good), lights and a skirt for the xmas tree, and a set of chocolate brown sheets that have to be the softest sheets i've ever felt in my life. i am madly in love with my bed now, i can't wait to sleep in it 'cause it looks and feels so cool (i'll have to post pix at some point). oh, and i got a microwave, which i needed desperately... you forget how much you need one until you don't have one. last night i went to the acme across the street to pick up some popcorn and a pile of magazines... i came back to hunker down for the evening, opened the box of microwave popcorn, and realized i didn't have a microwave yet. *smacks forehead*
i got the bulk of my clothing unpacking done today. looking at it hanging up, i realized my current work wardrobe is woefully lean... i might need to take the couple of hundred dollars i have left from my relocation money, and go buy some pants and skirts. but not too much, because tomorrow i hit the gym again (i love having a gym in my building). i also finished decorating for xmas... the tree is up and lit, my little xmas candles and things are out... it's not a ton of stuff, but it makes me feel a bit more festive and settled. angus's favorite place is now under the xmas tree... every time i look over, he's snoozing contentedly, curled up on the tree skirt. too cute. right now he's next to me on the floor (uncomfortable to be typing on the computer like this, but my ikea desk hasn't come yet), snoring away like an old man. he's taken to this place really well, thank god. i just wish monkey were here too. i'm due for a good cry over her, but it won't come... going through so much transitional stuff right after she died meant that my grief got locked away, pushed aside for the sake of concentrating on my move. and now that i'm moved in, i look at pictures of her, and at the box filled with her ashes, and i feel so distant from her. like, emotionally distant. and that really creeps me out, considering that she was my universe for 11 years. i want to be devastated again and cry, i need to. but i can't, and it's unnerving. i know it'll come, who knows when... probably when i least expect it, like in the middle of the mall or in a meeting at work.
just don't let it come at the coffeehouse tonight... i need to feel like i'm cool for a few hours.
i hit target as soon as they opened this morning, so i could finish getting the stuff i needed for the apartment. i was cracking up to myself, hitting the register with a cart full to the brim with stuff, none of it for anyone other than me. *chuckle* got a bunch of cleaners (the ones target sells, called "method", smell so good), lights and a skirt for the xmas tree, and a set of chocolate brown sheets that have to be the softest sheets i've ever felt in my life. i am madly in love with my bed now, i can't wait to sleep in it 'cause it looks and feels so cool (i'll have to post pix at some point). oh, and i got a microwave, which i needed desperately... you forget how much you need one until you don't have one. last night i went to the acme across the street to pick up some popcorn and a pile of magazines... i came back to hunker down for the evening, opened the box of microwave popcorn, and realized i didn't have a microwave yet. *smacks forehead*
i got the bulk of my clothing unpacking done today. looking at it hanging up, i realized my current work wardrobe is woefully lean... i might need to take the couple of hundred dollars i have left from my relocation money, and go buy some pants and skirts. but not too much, because tomorrow i hit the gym again (i love having a gym in my building). i also finished decorating for xmas... the tree is up and lit, my little xmas candles and things are out... it's not a ton of stuff, but it makes me feel a bit more festive and settled. angus's favorite place is now under the xmas tree... every time i look over, he's snoozing contentedly, curled up on the tree skirt. too cute. right now he's next to me on the floor (uncomfortable to be typing on the computer like this, but my ikea desk hasn't come yet), snoring away like an old man. he's taken to this place really well, thank god. i just wish monkey were here too. i'm due for a good cry over her, but it won't come... going through so much transitional stuff right after she died meant that my grief got locked away, pushed aside for the sake of concentrating on my move. and now that i'm moved in, i look at pictures of her, and at the box filled with her ashes, and i feel so distant from her. like, emotionally distant. and that really creeps me out, considering that she was my universe for 11 years. i want to be devastated again and cry, i need to. but i can't, and it's unnerving. i know it'll come, who knows when... probably when i least expect it, like in the middle of the mall or in a meeting at work.
just don't let it come at the coffeehouse tonight... i need to feel like i'm cool for a few hours.
