Florida sucks, Oregon doesn't, need for change of scenery, better job prospects, more agreeable political climate (for the most part).
I've been living in Florida all my 21 years until now, sooo...
I thought I told you all I had moved from Florida to Oregon. Well, we're already settled here (housed and all), it's just that a lot of our personal stuff hasn't made it yet. So WE'VE moved cross-continent, but not all of our nifties.
Also, didn't know you were moving so soon after moving there before. Owie.
edited Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:51:37 by Charlatan
Well, off I go now! I hope I'll get lots of chances to check back on you guys, but I also have to be busy with some other stuff, so... Don't think I'll be wasting away my time when I'm not here!
... I mean, of course I'm wasting away my time when I'm here but- Whatever!
*casts mass effect Hug Power on the whole forum and dissipates*
Snowglobes recalled for being fire hazard.
Irony?
Do you highlight everything looking for secret messages?So, guys! Tell me about your Christmas. I don't feel like reading up on all the stuff I've missed while I'm under time pressure and surrounded by strangers and everything!
So, Christmas! I got a shirt! Aaaaand Spyro The Dragon for the Wii and 150 Euro. Which means I own a crapload of money now and I have to resist the temptation of just straight up buying Pokemon Diamond or Pearl. I have to wait for Platinum! A game like that would distract me far too much right now anyway.
644 gigs of storage, a Wall-E DVD, and an Albert Einstein action figure.
Do you highlight everything looking for secret messages?I went on my first real, honest to goodness date yesterday. It was really awesome. My boyfriend and I went rollerskating, I only fell down twice and he only fell once. There were some really great moments, if I may say so myself. For example, there was a rollerskating race, and he finished fourth, I was last...and so last that the next to last person had already finished before I was rounding the final curve of the skating rink and he (my boyfriend, that is, not the next to last person in the rollerskating race) skated over to me and held my hand for the last part of the race. It was really sweet of him. It was also awesome when we skated to the center of the roller rink and kissed under the giant disco ball. Probably the sweetest, most romantic moment, though was when this one song that my boyfriend knew quite well, but I didn't came on the radio and he started singing it to me (it was a love song and a very nice one, I think). It was like one of those scenes in a movie where the camera focuses on the main characters and the rest of the scene just seems to orbit them (do we have a trope for that?). After we finished skating, we walked across the street and got ice cream and then went to the thrift store (where I had somewhat of a run in with an ill fitting dress).
Anyway...Sorry for gushing, and sorry if I accidentally made anyone feel kind of lonely or anything. And sorry so many of my recent posts have been about my boyfriend...
edited Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:06:37 by RuthieA
Ruthie! *hugs* I, for one, feel happy for you. Though the sweetness of that story somehow managed to worsen my headache. Squeeing has that effect sometimes.
Matrix! *prods* You should feel happy for Ruthie and see hers as a shining example of how a nerd like us can find serious love! You have to look at it, and put your hand on your chest, and say: Yes, we can!
Welcome back, Meta. I've already moved in a while ago, but my room is a total mess. I don't have a desk or a real bed, and there's so much stuff lying around everywhere I don't know where to start with bringing some order into it all. I definitely should do that, though. I've been feeling so uncomfortable lately because of the circumstances that I still haven't touched an instant messenger. I just don't feel enough like I can settle down for an extended time to really start talking to someone.
So... good luck to both of us.
On that note, I want to paint the walls of my room. It currently has a pale yellow, which I find terribly depressing to look at. It also reminds me of my small, old room, which I hate like the plague.
This one's also smaller than the room I had before this one, so I want to make the best out of it. I'm getting a loft bed, which will double as a shelf and a desk, which will stand in the middle of the room, forming a sort of arc, close to the door so there'll be more space in front of the window/door to the balcony.
I want to go for a cave-like look to maximize comfort and coolness at the same time. I got thick, green curtains that are going to look like vines hanging from the ceiling, and as soon as I get some money to spend on such stuff, I'll decorate the room with lots of stuff hanging everywhere to make it feel cluttered, while still giving enough room to move about freely, since I value my freedom of movement.
On the other hand, I also value light. Too much darkness gets me depressed and gives me a headache after a while, and this concept seems like it'd turn out pretty dark. It would be thematically wise (and probably somewhat relaxing) to paint the walls in a sort of brown-ish ochre tone, but wouldn't that make the room a little too dark in the end? My first idea was to just paint them white, because white can always be combined with strong colors to become colorful, but that would ruin the whole effect... Of course, I could just attach a powerful lamp to the bottom of the loft bed, where my computer will be, so maybe the walls don't matter as much... I dunno!
See, Faw, these are the considerations I don't have. I can't give you good advice because these are the sorts of things I don't think about. I am design-challenged. I am retarded in the ways of interior decorating. Though if you ask me, retard that I am, the brown and green sounds nice. Are the windows subtly tinted in any way? That might throw off whatever color scheme you're going for.
My room has always looked like something out of what an emo teenager's impression of a Soviet gulag cell would be. Or perhaps some form of clinical off-white.
I wrote about a fish turning into the moon.
Planescape Hijack
That sounds kind of like how my place is set up. After like three people made this suggestion independently, I went to a fabric store and got a few yards of different colored fabrics and hung them about, it's a pretty nice little effect. Also I have a ?-block, like from Mario, and a Tibetan prayer flag. Oh, and coconuts that I helped make a Guinness world record with thanks to Spamalot (though I'm told it's since been broken).
In other news, in a few hours I'm heading to Montreal for the weekend! I should really probably be sleeping, but, that didn't work, so instead I am troping. But it's exciting, as I've never been to Canada! Will probably spend a significant amount of this time in bars, because two of my friends who are going aren't legal in the US. Hilarity is almost certain to ensue.
edited Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:37:47 by Haven
Productivity is for people without internet connections. -Count DorkuIf said friends are younger than 16, we raised it to such last year. Previous to that it was 14, but it's 16 now. Yeah, conservative government. Though it's not the fact that they're conservative that frightens me, it's the level of secrecy Harper manages to keep up. Bumbling Canadian Parliament-ness aside, his level of cabinet secrecy is like "WTF?" At least they're not a majority though... *shudder*
The family computer is actually in my bedroom, so I hang out a lot in here, surfing the web and posting youtube videos that make the Army of Darkness "boomstick" scene look rather... Freudian
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edited Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:54:49 by darnpenguin
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Charly-boo! *snuggle-hugs* ^-^
Haha, I would whole-heartedly agree with your take on the need for change and everything... except I only just moved here about a year and a half ago from across the country. ^^;
Why are you moving cross-continent, though? =o
edited Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:33:10 by Fawriel