So packing is coming along. I've got stupid amounts of newspaper, more tape, a marking pen that actually works and a decent supply of boxes.

But not quite enough book boxes.

Thankfully, Eric and I have already started taking stuff over so I can unload some of the books into this wheeled cart the former owner left and bring the empty boxes back to refill. Esp since it seems that none of the local bookstores seem to want to give me any more boxes. Killjoys, I say.

But the apartment is feeling less and less like home and more and more like a place I'm staying. So that's good. And Eric was actually home for dinner on wednesday which was very very good. I think having us all together really made a difference in our moods. At least it did for me. Dylan is still having a pretty hard time with it all and keeping everything straight (as to what's home and where Daddy is) but she's trying. It wasn't too bad for her with Eric not around but now that I'm devoting more and more time to packing and not specifically to her, she's starting to act out a bit. Nothing unexpected or unreasonable, just finally happening. I expect a few more weeks of chaos and then we should be easing back into a normal routine.

A routine that won't involve hearing someone else's taste in music loudly coming through my walls/floor.

Or breathing in cigarette smoke.

Or having my walls shake from slamming doors.

Or feeling the winter air pouring through the unsealed windows and doors.

And will include being able to park in my own damn driveway.

And do laundry whenever I want without worrying about going through someone else's living space.

And having my own backyard.

And colors on my walls.

And pretty new appliances.

And and and and.

Whoot!


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Just Read:
*Use Me by Elissa Schappell
*Children of Gd Go Bowling by Shannon Olson
*Dogs of Babel Carolyn Parkhurst

Reading:
*Do the Blind Dream by Barry Gifford


Going to Read:
*Nameless Witch by A. Lee Martinez
Whatever I next find at the library...