#nattleboro

[heidiamalia]

T-minus 4 days

until i hop on a plane and discover new places.

it’s going to be a whole different world living 1400 miles away from what i right now call home. i’ve never lived anywhere outside of the state of massachusetts and i’ve never been too far away from family, short drive to anyone in a 45 minute radius, max.

st petersburg is seriously a huge difference, even in thought. i looked it up, and the last time it snowed in the area was 1977 and we’re about to be slammed with probably a foot in a day or so here in nattleboro. i’m so used to the mood swings that is our local temperature, but i’m in for nonstop sun and blaring heat and a self-proclaimed glow-in-the-dark girl isn’t usually the first person you’d think of when you think “florida”.

the whole point of this trip is going to be to find myself a new place to live - have to find something in the 4 days that me and mom are there for. we made a list of like thirty complexes to look into and only a handful have actually reached back out to us. -_- let’s hope this changes in the next couple of days. s’kinda important.

in the list of priorities when it comes down to living arrangements, obviously something affordable comes to mind, but i also need to know that there’s a local yarn shop, and a 24hr diner that gives me waffles at 3am. priorities, haha.

also disney weekends are going to be a thing, so there’s that. first time for everything i guess.

[thekidwantsmore78-blog]

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[heidiamalia]

i’m in MA for another 33 hours;

need to sleep for at least a max of 16 hours ish over the course of it, if i’m lucky.

tonight is the last night i’m essentially bundling up in my blankets because after my crew packs me up, i’m technically homeless when i leave work. i don’t even have a proper place to sleep at my mom’s.

i still have glasses in the cabinets that need to be boxed up, and dishes she’s left in the sink, silverware that needs to be packed.

[heidiamalia]

why is it so hard to pick furniture

i’ve been staring at the same three dressers for like an hour online trying to decide which would be better to spend the money on. turns out the one i really was interested in getting is sold out until like the beginning of june. nope! can’t take the one i have currently because it’s older than my mom and it’s been falling apart in the first move from brokevegas to nattleboro, so that’s definitely out of the question.

and then here’s me, starting to warm to the idea of getting an actual nightstand and it’s a joke to even think how expensive these things are. have you ever actually looked to see how much the little shit really costs? i have a raised mattress so it’s pretty high off the ground and then i have had the luxury of living with an upside-down milk crate as my night table for maybe my whole life. it’s a new place so there’s new territory and new things to get. 

in the midst of jotting it all down and searching through other furniture websites, i ordered the $183 dresser and i know i’ll pick up the ikea nightstand, because i enjoy the thought of having a drawer and being classy. also not everything will be a flight risk if i try to set something down like i chance on the holey surface. so that’s a plus.

im still fighting the thought process of bringing the couch and chair though - it took two brothers to get it all up the stairs and the chair was small enough to fit through the door and around the corner in the kitchen but the couch ended up going all the way down the hall and out onto the fire escape to get through the window. we were so lucky it fit but i don’t want to find out in st pete that we lugged that beast down to the truck to get it to florida and not have it fit through the front door.

[heidiamalia]

it’s so close;

so today was here to make a big dent in this move - packing up everything and sorting what was to go, what was to stay at my mother’s, what was to be thrown out.

so far i have four boxes full, and thats mostly the stuff from the closet and the night clothes and bed linens i’m not currently using. this afternoon we tackled the yarn and all of its hiding places around the apartment. mom had managed to find a really thick, really tall black bag probably for yard work and i filled that sucker with all the yarn i’m taking with me.

we emptied out the living room closet, which was a big deal because it held a bunch of stuff that i actually haven’t touched since maybe i moved in. most of that went to mom’s but i did pack the mini crockpot and the iron so there’s that. I ended up using the christmas box from fcs i’ve been saving to put literally everything soap-related i’ve ever owned in. i own a lot of soap.

the landlord hasn’t called me in a week or so and that only really tells me that they might have found someone to take the apartment. i’m happy they might’ve got someone but i really hope that when i decide to come back later that they may consider me if they have an empty spot.

it’s slowly becoming the shell of a place i came into, and i’m slightly heartbroken i’m leaving it. this is my first place - i’ve never had any issues, it’s been an easy commute, and it’s literally across the street from the best breakfast place in town. priorities, adulting, but let’s be real here. 

i leave in 11 days.