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Portland Proper

Mon, 19 Mar 2018 07:59:33 GMT

Okay, I agree to switch posts with Val and this time, I thought I'd post a few pictures from my new living situation! Only took a little less than three months to post pictures of my arrival so by the time I move out, I should have my apartment pictures up. 😉

To start, driving into the Columbia River Gorge was breathtaking itself, only having visited the Pacific Northwest once before (and um, briefly and ten years ago)!

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I need to try and remember to take more pictures in my every day life, lol. Give you an impression of what it's like to be on the bus and the giant backpack I use to ferry home my groceries, that would be the most honest representation. 😉

I'm going to try and do a part two post of what my room looks like now that it's decorated. I mean, soon, not wait until next December. 💗

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I'm here!!

Wed, 03 Jan 2018 02:09:59 GMT

So once again, Val is encouraging me to post about my life! This time there is a big update though, I'm officially in Portland, Oregon for a year! It was a loooong process to figure out that much. For a while, my family thought about trying out Statesville, NC temporarily but in the end... no one really wanted to be there, y'know? So, at least now we'll be somewhere we wanted to be for a year though idk if it'll wind up being too expensive to stay here any longer than that. It's good to have this much settled, honestly this process was a drain on my life for a solid six months.

Notes!!

☁ I'd take pictures but I've only gotten as far as having a bed frame and boxes in my room so far. I'm actually currently stressing over trying to acquire some furniture on craigslist: I get too easily attached! And then stress over ever single interaction with someone, trying to figure out how to be the most lowkey buyer, hahaha! Hopefully I'll eventually have some more furniture though in the meantime, I'm a little proud that I was able to resemble my ikea furniture both single-handedly and without instructions. 👍

☁ We're staying in an apartment that is just too small for us technically (two bedrooms when we should have three) so fingers crossed that no one snaps. It won't be me, hahaha, I have the smaller bedroom to myself and that's all I need!

☁ Speaking of, the reason people might snap is that my dad is a beginner fiddle player. This wasn't an issue in a house, where you could get farther away but in an apartment... it's super funny though because we've met a couple neighbors now and apologized for the potential noise of that and their response was always "Did you overlap with the neighbors moving out above you?" ("only for a day or two" is the answer) "Well, it's nothing compared to having several screaming small children in the building!" lololol, as I've told my dad, the volume of those children is the best thing that could have ever happened to his fiddle practice.

☁ As far as the practicalities, they were sold out of my bus pass at the grocery store so I haven't gotten one yet and I'm just not sure if I'll be able to get a job here. It seems like the have enough people like me here, I only feel like I'm possibly hireable when I'm in an area really desperate for plain ol' vaguely competent, well-spoken people.

☁ It's soooooo cool though, we only live a block away from a park entrance that then connects into Forest Park which is huuuuge. It really makes living in a city much more livable, coming the suburbs especially. You just need that green to be able to escape into~ This particularly corner of the city is much more lowkey though. And I'm shocked by how considerate the cars are here of pedestrians, like I actually feel like I'm inconveniencing them by stopping to make sure they'll let me go without hitting me. Being able to travel on foot is definitely the best part about this apartment for me, I just haven't fully taken advantage of it yet~ It's kind of amazing, never having lived in a city before. Things are so different here, transportation-wise especially.

☁ Other than that, things are pretty chill. I've been getting into drama watching again, with Jimi ni Sugoi! and Ashi Girl. I watched Kouhaku live here, even though it was at 2am-7am, and thought it was really good this year!! The pacing of the second half was better than usual, I thought! Though the Arashi medley could have used a longer interlude or something imho, I'm used to be spoiled there. 😉 And I've been getting into BTS more again lately, I felt like I beat the curve getting into them back during the I NEED U era but then I took a break from keeping up with kpop at all and now everyone is into them, I swear! :D

Happy New Year, everyone! Hope you're well! ❤

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rolling, rolling days

Tue, 12 Sep 2017 06:07:23 GMT

So, I am still mid-everything but since dear Val wanted to trade posts, a quick update from me here:

I'm moving!! It's a big move for me in a lot of ways: my childhood home of twenty years is the one being sold, this is the first time I need to go through alllll my stuff and throw things away (instead of keeping every item I have ever touched since 1994…), going into a much smaller space, moving across the country, moving into an unconventional floating home, it being a really weird sale even for that weird thing… it's a LOT.

CURRENTLY: we have our moving trailer to load for two more days and our dumpster for three and then our closing on Friday so I'm just trying to focus on getting out of this house… even though it feels kind of terrifyingly like our deal for our new house could a) fall through at the last minute and b) might be a bad decision so I almost wish it would fall through so there would be a redo.

COPING METHODS: a ration of flourless chocolate cake, rewatching Outlander and first season BSG, GnA (for the first time?? amazing)

Hopefully I will come back and update this in a few weeks with a picture of me in my new home saying how it all worked out somehow????? Let's just put that image out into the universe, shall we.

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quick update and hello!

Sat, 06 May 2017 04:33:10 GMT

So! Though I've had it for years, I finally set up my journal on dreamwidth and thought I'd try out this crossposting thing for myself! ♥ So, a few Recent Happenings:

My dad injured his knee on Monday while climbing and it might be bad. He's been foolishly using it all this week (including belaying my brother! while he campused the hardest lead climb in the gym! which no one has done! so of course, he DID fall! and my dad, of course, then had to throw all his weight onto his injured knee! if you know anything about climbing... this was a bad idea and should have been avoided in the first place!) and it's only gotten worse now. He was hoping it was going to be a minor tear that would heal on it's own... the only other scary possibility is knee surgery. :(
All of this is happening when we're supposed to be working on moving... I don't want to talk about it, asjjdkfhg
Skam is breaking my heart by currently airing it's LAST season when we thought we'd get two more after this and have a whole additional YEAR of it running. So while I'm very engaged, everything is so bittersweet already! Especially when we can't help but imagine the current plotlines strung out over three separate seasons and done from three separate perspectives. It's hard to be still in the middle of something and already have your heart broken about the way things could have gone. It's not even over and I'm already like "thirty years from now, I'm going to be mourning the Skam seasons that weren't". At the same time, we've just got to try to enjoy what we do have, y'know??? We only have 6~7 more weeks of Skam at ALL~
Speaking of... I'm going to be desolate when the fandom starts dispersing after it ends. I've really moved there, it's my home, I've made friends. I've gotten back into editing/gifing occasionally and even though it's a sideblog, I have more followers there than I've ever had anywhere... gah, it's gonna suck to have to move on! But I know it can only hold together for so long after it's a closed canon...
And then it's going to dump me back out into this ongoing moving process, now with far less comfort and distraction.
Hold me.

Also, my birthday is in five days and I have nothing planned! My present to myself is that I got the bundled LE and RE of the Are You Happy? blurays... but unfortunately, I still have to wait. I will at least have the future arrival of them to buoy my spirits but that doesn't really solve my how-to-make-my-birthday-less-depressing... I can only hope that Skam will do a thing, the wily minx. ❤

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