moving day.

[swingchickie]

today's the ex's moving day. should be an absolute whirlwind, considering that he's only half packed so far. he didn't start until about 10pm last night, and then had to tear around until he was too exhausted to do anymore. i went out dancing to give him some space... came home around 11:15 to find boxes everywhere and 2 very freaked-out cats. (monkey really, REALLY gets nervous when she sees anyone packing, even just a suitcase. i had to sit with her on my lap and coo at her to calm her down.)

so, i went to bed at midnight, but didn't fall asleep until about 3am because my ears were filled with the sounds of boxes being dragged across the floor, packing tape screeching out of the roll, the tv blaring in the background. then monkey, still freaked out, decided at 4am to pee all over the ex's clothes (i've told him for a year not to leave them on the floor, but he always does). so now i'll have to do the laundry this morning, so he's not packing clothes soaked in urine. *sigh*.

so i'm running on 2 hours of sleep. hopefully i'll be able to get a nap in before i go out tonight, assuming his move is done at a decent hour. one of my girlfriends is going out with me to karaoke night, so that we can toast the official start of my new life. but i have to say first, that in the scheme of breakups, this had to be the best one ever. seriously, i think we are the poster children for what an adult breakup should look like -- civil, even friendly, with lots of support and understanding. we should write a book.

dancing was PHENOMENAL last night. we westie-bombed a club in south boston... for the non-dancers out there, swing dance "bombing" (in this case, "westie" = west coast swing) is when a bunch of dancers go to a non-swing venue and dance. it's a fun change for the dancers, and it gets a lot of new people interested in learning. the guy who organizes the monday night dance arranged with the club's owner to play a lot of west coast swing-y music* last night... this way, we had a friday night place to go dancing (most of the dances are during the week), and then the club crowd could see what it looked like and maybe a few people would start coming to the club on mondays to take classes.

so there were a bunch of dancers there, some people i hadn't seen in a while. i danced my ass off. and it was so much fun to dance in more of a club setting, with flashing lights and video screens going and all. (most swing dances in boston are in knights of columbus halls and such.) there was a girl there who was AMAZING... just a fantastic dancer, elegant and sexy and fun to watch. plus she had an ass like a freakin' peach, what an incentive to get back to the gym. turns out she's a national champion who just moved here from san diego... i'm going to contact her for some private lessons, because i wanna be just like her when i grow up. *grin*

the ex will be up soon to finish packing. i should shower before all hell breaks loose here.

* west coast swing music = mostly funked-up stuff. think Prince, Beyonce, Anastacia, some J-Lo.

Comments

[thetech.livejournal.com]

I loathe moving day, even though I've done it enough times in my life. That's why, during my last one, I vowed not to move again for many, many, many years. So far, I'm up to over 4½.

It'll be many more, too, since I'm nowhere near finishing the renovations... LOL :)

[swingchickie.livejournal.com]

i hate moving too. HATE it. that's why i've been looking around this place lately... one the ex is out, i think i'm going to go through it with a fine-toothed comb and give a LOT of stuff to the salvation army. if i get promoted next year, i don't want to be packing 400 cartons of crap to move to philly.

[thetech.livejournal.com]

Good plan. I think everyone should do a little purging once in a while. I'm sure there are things out in my garage that do absolutely nothing for me and should probably be chucked. Lots of things.

I should seize this [brief] moment of enthusiasm and spend a half hour doing just that! :)