Leaving Las Kewgas?

So we are in the new place now and its coming along. We are still ankle deep in boxes but at least it ain't knee deep or thigh deep anymore. I really like the new place. It's taken me less time to feel at home here than it did at the original Las Kewgas - but I dunno if that is a function of relief after such a terrible time finding a place and then the hellacious moving process or if it is some innate homeyness having to do with this space. Either way, being here feels good. I wish our move had not been so heartrendingly, pocketrendingly bad ... oh ... I never did write about that here ... well I don't want to get into it now. Suffice to say the BBB had to become involved and I ain't talking bout the Bed and Breakfast Board. Anyway, a little lighter in the bank account and trust factor, we are here now. I am suffering from bronchitis at the moment and feeling guilty about missing work but -- try getting the attention of 35 kids at a time when you can barely croak out a full sentence. Not to mention the goop I am coughing up (nice image, i know).

Off to unpack a box ...

Tonight's the last night in our place ... sigh.

Signed our lease tonight for the new digs; our landlord seems to be an incredibly nice man. Gave him our check for two grand and signed a lease wherein "aforementioned whippet" (AKA Lola) is accounted for much to my relief altho I felt funny what with her being leasically paraded as a purey when I know my girl's a mutt! Its just when people say "what kinda dog is she?" we say "whippet" cuz she's partly that and looks more like that face and sizewise than any other part.

Ah so ........ only a few more days til normalcy but I already have misgivings about the move on Friday. Nagging feelings tell me its gonna be a steam hissing stressor. Once more into the breach ...

Sooooooo tired ... so wishing we were moved instead of moving, packed instead of packing, home instead of relocating ...

Boy am I getting undependable with this blogging - what about all my faithful readers?? What of them?? LOL.

Anyway, its only fitting that I be an undependable blogger since I am an undependable everything else as well. I am an undependable teacher who does not have time to grade all the work I collect in any kind of timely manner. I am an undependable tenant who will not be around to show prospective renters the apartment and who will not allow it to be shown while we are not home. I am an undependable sister whose dat-gum cell phone kicked the bucket and so I did not receive or return two phone calls from Eileen over the weekend when she was having a shitty time.

I am staying with the Lo at my Mom's house (Nick and I have traded shore leaves) and although staying here is quite fine and cozy, my life is splintering around me. For example - I completely and totally forgot to go to class last night. Forgot. Like as in - forgot it was Tuesday, forgot I had class, and so on. I am aware that somewhere, to someone, this happens but this does not happen to me. I did not finish two and a half college degrees by forgetting when I am scheduled to attend class. Very frustrating. I am going to have so much work to make up, not that I have any idea how I will do that considering that first quarter grades are due to the adminstration in 2 weeks for my 150 students, we are moving to our new place in 8 days, I need to schedule a moving company to help us, Lola has a skin rash that the vet insurance company wont pay to have treated, we have 4 rooms of crap to pack up, I have 6 papers due over the next 2 weeks for only 3 classes, I am craving cigarettes like I have not done in years and years, and to top it all off the miserable Yankees are playing the who-cares Florida Marlins in the World Series, effectively alientaing me from baseball two weeks earlier than might have otherwise been possible.

So things are as tumultuous as ever and we are so tired ... so very tired of being nomads, vagabonds, apartment seekers. Nico is staying at his folks' this week with the Lo and I am at our place (so soon to not be our place) feeling sad and lonely, at the very end tip of the rope that has played out into our domestic sitch.

I sure do wish I knew where we would be living in 15 days. Alls I know is our lease is up here on Halloween and there better be somewhere else for us and our things and our canine compadre to go and live in. I don't like this not living with Nick and Lola and no one likes the fact that we have slept in 4 different places over the past 7 days.

On the good tip - Ian and Heidi's wedding and Nick and my trip to Canton this past weekend was superb, sublime and good old plain fun. Sometimes I still do love my life.

Went to watch Naz play St. Joe's by the Sea in Staten this afternoon. We got blown out in ugly fashion - 70 to 6, but ... it was one of those days where I couldn't stop smiling, can't stop thinking how I have the greatest job in the world.

We have a hot lead on a new place ... saw it on Monday night and told the dude we were interested. He's a subletter and its a co-op so he had to pass the inquiry on to his landlord, the apt owner and we had to wait. In the interim we looked at two other pads - one dank and the other showed by a shady super. The Co-op place is a beauty in a very nice building and directly across the street from Las Kewgas, which is a moving key. The rooms are a nice size - big ol sunny bedroom and nice sized living area plus the clutch eat in kitchen as big as ours now but shaped differently. The subletter called us back last evening to say we could have it as long as we get letters of reference from work and from our current building management (saying we always paid on time and such) which should be no problem. We have to get our paperwork together next week and sort it out. It's tough to get excited when so much has gone wrong recently and also, when you don't really want to move in the first place. But if we gotta move, this place is a nice alternative to dank and shady ;)

In happy and lucky news, Nick's hard work over the past few months paid off in a nice promotion at work where he is now the High Speed Online Project Administrator. Lots more responsibilty and a happy and proud boyfriend. Cool beans.