*i do it 'cause i learned it from you. 2001-08-17 9:21 p.m.*

i just woke up from an upside down nap. you know, the kind where you fall from your chair into your bed from sheer exhaustion, and somehow you're feet are on your pillows and your head is where your feet should be and you don't really care. and your mom asks you something from across the house and you can't talk loud enough for her to hear you until she's actually in your room. and it's sort of fitful and you wake up a lot, but it's very much needed. otherwise you might just wind up not caring if you're sleeping on the floor. i've slept on floors and not minded, but this is terrazo and sleeping on that would just be not pretty.

i moved a bunch of stuff into the haus today. last night i packed my dad's van up, and my mom's car, and then this morning went with dad for his methadone dose, and then unloaded the van at the house. i moved stuff upstairs and unpacked kitchen stuff with the muppets take manhattan on, and then put on toy story and after taking the price tags off of every single item in this multipack of, i think, 40 bowls, i fell asleep. but only for about 45 minutes, if that.

i heard the floor creaking upstairs, and yo, it was my husband! we chattered away for a long time about randomness about the house and stuff, and then we both decided we would unpack for a bit. my mom gave me one of my favorite bookshelves in the house and my main task was organizing that. it's sort of divided right now into kid's books, l.m. montgomery books (i can't find emily of new moon, jane of lantern hill, pat of silver bush, anne of green gables, or anne of avonlea... and the journals are still here, but without them that section almost takes up a whole shelf), religion stuff, and miscellaneous. i was starting to regret that i'd told mom that i really didn't need any more bookshelves as much as a cd rack. anyway, then john woke up and we said hello, and he was groggy and i was shy so that was about it. so i unpacked some more.

after awhile i decided to shower, so i did that, even though my bathroom didn't have a shower curtain. and i felt so very much better after i showered. i unpacked until dad came and got me for lunch and we went to the mel-o-dee. it's so weird to me that i spent many mornings going for breakfast at that place.

dad and i have been getting along pretty remarkably of late. he gets really excited when he can buy me things or give me money, and i feel like i deserve it. mom deserves it more really, he owes us both so much. but i dunno, he's getting less traumatic to be around so yay for that. he gave me some grocery money. oh, and last night he brought some sheets and a comforter that his wife got for me. i'd only asked for the sheets, and told her quite a few times that i didn't need the comforter but now that i have it, i enjoy it. the sheets are purple t-shirt sheets, just like i've always wanted, and the comforter is the same shade of purple on one side and grey on the other. i've realized i really really like purple and grey together.

anyway, he took me back and i unpacked some of my clothes. i have a closet in my bathroom, but i don't really have a whole lot of linens, so i'm going to use that as a clothes closet, because most of my stuff doesn't need to be hung up anyway. and it will be oh so convenient to just reach out from the shower and grab clothes. i'll be using my other giant closet space for other things. i have plenty of things.

i finally got ahold of my mom at work, after playing phone tag with her for most of the day, and we decided she would come and pick me up and take me to target and she would run home and watch general hospital. but by the time she got me we realzed there was no way she could get home in time. sadness for her.

but the target run was exhilerating. i like shopping too much, and i was so very on this grey and purple thing. so i'm going to have this very grey and purple themed bathroom. and i have moon and star bathmats as well as a fuzzy grey one, and sheep bookends (yes, when i looked at them, i had to remind myself a bunch of times that i've always liked sheep and it's not weird to own things that coincide with ex-girlfriends' interests), and a really exciting shower curtain with a black and white colorado landscape on it, and one of those purple fuzzy pillows and a grey storage bin to maybe use as a toychest and a cd rack just like john's 'cause when i first saw his i knew i needed something just like that and now i have it and these really exciting wire shelf block things and a fire extinguisher and lots of other wonderful randomnesses. yay for that.

so we came back to mom's house and ate dinner and that was when i fell asleep. i heart sleep!

tomorrow, mom's friend isn't even getting off work to help us move my stuff till 5, so we won't move till then so i'll spend a lot of the day packing. woo-ha.

i'm really excited about the haus. and the boys seem to approve of it. and my husband and i had a good ol' time talking about how very much like a married couple with a teenage son we were. there was this one point where we were conferring about whether he liked us and if we understood him when he started blaring music and we just had to giggle. i think we, all of us, will have fun.

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