"They fell in love with the memory of old Coke." --Roy Stout

Or fell in love with the Vignette app for Droid.

The parents are coming tomorrow which makes me nostalgic for Coke stuff. Most importantly, though, they're bringing my furniture! And some kitchen stuff! Don't know exactly what they're bringing so that adds to the excitement.

We're getting internet next Tuesday and I can't wait! Even if it only increases the frequency of the use of Justin's nickname for me--"nerd herd."

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"All great achievements require time." --Maya Angelou

Well I'm mostly done. Now all that's left are the bits that I was avoiding anyway. I've even started washing the dishes that I need to pack. Mortimer doesn't look too perked up. There's still hope yet. 

Still have to tackle under the beds. Yuck. I hate being a grown up.

Location : 4201-4299 Providence Pl, New Orleans, LA 70126,

" Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds." --Gordon B. Hinckley

But with no work at all you get a brown aloe plant. Honestly, I forgot he was there until I cleaned off my dresser. Poor Mortimer. He's not dead yet, and he may survive yet. Only time will tell.



Location : 740-798 S Genois St, New Orleans, LA 70119,

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing." --Emo Philips

I think my room is winning. I've taken all of 2 boxes down to my car. Fortunately I remembered that my computer has a TV tuner.  Of course that also give me something to look at rather than pack.

"You must empty a box before you fill it again." --Irish Proverb

Kim gave me ten empty plastic tubs last night.  She apparently was concerned earlier in the day that there were still a few boxes at the church that she could have emptied, but did not.  I think I'll manage.  If I do somehow fill them up, I'll use my eleventy-million and four bags to bring things over.

I took a few boxes and a GI-GAN-TIC bag to Justin and Hayden's last night.  I have now claimed the corner of their dining room.  Of course, that should be fine as they have no dining room table currently.  Dave and Sarra offered theirs to them, which I think they should take, but not until I move in upstairs and they have room for it.  Because the corner is MINE.

I'm thinking of annexing Deb's room.  She's not there, and they've cleaned it, so if the door is still open this weekend, boxes might get slud in there while I'm packing (yes, slud, ala Dizzy Dean).  Though, I am afraid that someone important will come along and throw my stuff away, which would make my heart sad, and eyes cry.  So we'll see what happens.

God a magic box in the mail: it puts my computer on the TV.  When I first tried it out, the image was black&white and cycled so fast I couldn't see what was going on--almost like the old days when they scrambled HBO on cable.  Well I fiddled and fiddled with it, and I searched solutions on my phone (I don't have internet right now), and couldn't figure it out, and was about resolved to believe that I wasn't going to be able to figure it out and was just going to have to go to Dave & Sarra's without figuring it out--but then, lo and behold!  A light descended upon the one inch of the magic box that  I had not inspected closely.  The label underneath it said "1/2 ON NTSC; 1/2 OFF PAL."  I thought, "Surely, they wouldn't ship this set to PAL--I mean I bought it from the states, and therefore, it should be set accordingly."  I decided, however, to leave no stone unturned, so I took my longest nail, and jabbed it into the microscopic recess in the magic box, and flipped the two minuscule switches in the other direction, and as if a gin of old had come through weaving his wondrous powers, the picture suddenly appeared clearly on the surface of the TV.   Wondrous magic box.

Too bad I have no internet, and cannot watch Hulu on my TV right now.  It will come in handy later when we have internet and no cable in our apartment.  We'll be able to watch TV-things on the TV.  Only down-side to the magic box is that it does not have anything for audio.  I happen to have been blessed with amazing speakers, so we will simply have to leave them in the living room.

"It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone." --Marylin Monroe

OK so I'm not exactly unhappy. Just feeling very alone. I have no internet which is never a problem until I'm alone and I want some noise. All of my DVDs annoy me and I am having trouble streaming my favorite videos to my phone. Le sigh.  Fortunately it is still an awesome phone and I can blog from it with relative ease.

Still excited about moving and I just got a msg from Justin saying that I can leave stuff at their place if I want. That will be helpful as I can't move in until Monday. I'll be seeing him tomorrow because we're having dinner at Sarra's.

I know what he and Kim think about us moving in upstairs but I wonder what Hayden thinks. Guess I'll find out soon.

I think I'll stream a book and pack up some more stuff. Hooray?

"There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction." -- Winston Churchill

Change is tough, but change is good.  I will soon be living in Norco, which has been my heart's desire for about 16 months.  Kim and I found a great apartment that is directly above Justin and Hayden's.  This is ideal, not only because we'll be able to share internet, but because it'll be really nice to just be a floor/ceiling away.  Justin is becoming less excited as he realized that it would be who has the bedroom directly above his.  I may have made some mild threats to sing a particularly annoying song at the top of my lungs about a chicken named Theodore at 3:45 in the morning.  It's already Justin's least favorite.

Otherwise, all is well.  Kim and I will almost no furniture at first.  You can tell we're two students moving in together because we're bringing with us two TV's, a mini-fridge, a rocking chair, a mushroom chair, an exer-ball, a fish tank, a PS2 and our computers.  That's pretty much it.  We do actually have some dishes, but not much to cook with.  Between the two of us we have everything to furnish our apartment, they're just several states away.  We'll get them later on, probably next month.  For now, we'll have beds, because Kim is getting hers from our pastor's family, and I'm borrowing a couple mattresses from the church.  The mattress are what's left of the bunk rooms we used to have at the church.  We have turned both bunk rooms into classrooms for Sunday School, so the mattress went up to the attic.

The whole getting setup things is fairly daunting monetarily, but God in his grace has provided, and I shall get through.

More changes: I got my work schedule, and it is pretty sweet.  I will normally have 25 hours, but I will have the option to come in early most days, which will be nice traffic-wise as I will now be driving East instead of West, and driving to Mid-City from the West is not necessarily fun.

I need to go to housing today to straighten things out.  I should maybe jump on that while it's still early.