6.08.2006

My Achy Breaky [Lower Back]

The remainder of my personal possessions have been transported home from the apartment (minus the big furniture). I have been carting books, pots and pans, and other random things to and fro all day... hence the reason my back is slightly unforgiving. Oh what a day. Not only am I tired from the heavy duty work, but emotionally tired as my catastrophic grad school year #1 comes to an end. Mucho thanks to Mom for all her help! And to Baby M, who kept us entertained with her "oooohs" as she thoroughly enjoyed removing just-packed books from their boxes.

Words from the wise:
1. If someone lets you use a kitchen item, pots and pans in particular, don't return it with enormous amounts of burnt food and grease still visible. Cleaning it takes three hours of scrubbing and lots of Bar Keeper's Friend.

2. Always double-check the safety of that "breakables" box. Or else you might end up short one really cool teapot and a souvenir from that trip to Germany.

3. Flee from all apartment endeavors that smell of cigarette smoke, yappy dogs, and saran wrapped windows.

4. Sometimes you just have to chalk mishaps up to "life-experiences" and call it a day. As long as you're doing what's right and have no regrets, you'll always find growth and emerge the better, wiser person. At least that's the plan. You'll also find that perfection isn't always attainable or desirable.

1 Comments:

At Friday, June 09, 2006 8:41:00 AM, Blogger Catherine said...

I would also add (from personal experience) that extreme caution should be exercised in making decisions to live in apartments with pepto paradiso colored walls, lots and lots of hair in the hallway, and 4 inch long roach infestations. In some cases you do get what you pay for...

 

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