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I started taking pictures:

http://jaypoc.googlepages.com/

So people ask me quite often why, if I own my own place, have I not moved out of my parents yet? Some have even felt that I am afraid of being on my own. I’ve thought about this, and thats not it either. I actually want to move out pretty badly, but I think the biggest thing holding me back is convenience.

All my *Stuff* is still here. Sure, I’m moving it over gradually, but one thing I do fear is moving all my shit there and then having to go through infinite boxes searching for my stuff… Knowing me, and with my busy schedule, I’ll never get around to unpacking everything. The saying, It’s easier to keep it clean than get it clean holds double with me. If I let it get too bad, I’ll lose the drive to keep it, so I’m trying to move everything over in phases…

I packed up my bar, all my stemware, and started putting together some of my computer stuff. Tomorrow, we’re building my workbench so I’ll be able to migrate my computers over finally.

Next week, the couch arrives. I’ll then be able to position and mount the projector. I don’t know how I’m going to get the screen there. Maybe I’ll tie it down to the roof of my car. Maybe I’ll luck out and it’ll fit in dad’s truck. Maybe I’ll call a friend with a bigger truck 🙂

I should be in fully by next week. Once the couch comes, I’ll be able to just chill and relax like I can here now. Thats also a big reason I don’t want to go there now… I’d be confined to my bedroom, as the living room is no more than a workshop for home-repair right now 🙂

I am going to shoot for the weekend of March 17th for my open house. That’s pending I can get all my furniture moved in by then. Need to call on some friends or rent a truck for Friday evening or Saturday. I would love to be in next weekend and have the week to organize, clean and set up.

I wish the furniture store still had that bar!!! I need to find a local retailer that sells the one I want or else pay an arm and a leg to get it shipped here.

I think it looks great… Who wants to break it in with me? 🙂

Sorry to mislead you with the title, but i needed a song with Friday in the title because i’m in a good mood. I feel like singing. Don’t worry, I’ll spare you! Got up early and headed down to Town Hall. I picked up the paperwork to apply for the Star program. I had all the paperwork, I just had to go home to my parents to pick it up.

I swapped cars with dad and brought my night tables with me to my place… I brought clothes to paint in, but somehow, I managed to lose them. I don’t know how. I had them in the car. I carried em in with the pillows. When I got here, they were gone. Nowhere to be found. I don’t have that big of a place, so I really don’t understand how I could lose something in it. Especially now while there’s minimal furniture or places for things to go. There must be a vortex in my place to the land of the missing socks (among other stuff!)

So I headed back to my parents house, picked up what I needed and turned it all in to Town Hall.. Good news, I just saved money on my monthly bills.

I headed back home, and got some more painting done. I really need to do the moldings in the place, I keep putting it off for some reason.. I still havent picked up the paint I need for my hallway either. I’m going shopping with mom tomorrow, so perhaps I’ll pick up the paints I need, as well as other trinkets and do-dads I need in the place 🙂 My wallet is full of gift cards for just about any store I could possibly need to pick stuff up in.

I had an early start today. I had to be at the Radio Station at 9:30 for an event, but once I got home, I finally started my painting project! I started spackeling and painted the closets, then Dave came over and we finished the main part of the bedroom (Painted all the walls, and the closet doors… All thats left is the moldings…Well, and the back of the room door. So, I forgot one small detail. Easy enough and I have plenty of paint left over. The room looks just like the picture I posted. I’ll take some pictures once I clean the room and start to set it up.

The next big project is the kitchen. It’s going to be a challenge because I want to color-wash a portion of the walls and I’ve never done anything like that before. If anybody has any tips, I’m all ears 🙂

I also finished assembling my entertainment center.. I decided to leave off the doors on the end.. Not because I’m lazy, but because it looks better without them. Again, I’ll take pictures eventually.

This snow storm brings back memories of when I worked for United Artists. We had a movie theater in Syosset with a huge 150 foot screen (Hence our name, the Syosset 150). It was located right alongside the entrance ramp from route 135 onto Jericho Turnpike. Myself and another coworker were sent outside to change the marquee as we were getting a new movie. After finishing the marquee, Tony and myself proceeded to build 2 snowmen.. Hmmm I should say a snow man and a snow woman. Both anatomically correct. Both right alongside the road.

This memory brings back another memory. Same day, only an hour later, I realized my beeper was missing. Yes, I had a beeper, didn’t we all though? After plowing the parking lots there were mounds of snow at least 10 feet high. So I walked out to the marquee and proceeded to level the snow. By the time I was done, I had leveled about 5 feet of snow across a 50 foot area. Still no sign of the beeper. Disappointed and upset, I headed back to work, only to find my beeper later in the backseat of my car. It had hooked the seat belt which pulled it off my belt.

One more fond memory, probably around the same time… Since there were always huge mounds of snow after plowing the theater parking lot, I brought in a sled. It was one of those long plastic sleds, orange in color. To my disappointment, while a 10 foot pile of snow looks inviting, there’s not much time to pick up speed while sledding down it. One nice feature of our theater was that it had a balcony. There was a whole second floor of seating, and how did you get up there? You guessed it. a nice loooong staircase… Though I probably didn’t realize it at the time, There’s really nothing funnier than the look on the bosses face when he walks out of the office and sees someone shooting down the staircase on an orange sled! Needless to say (but I’ll say it anyway), he was absolutely pissed!