Definitely moving, probably tonight
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
As I type this the bed cover and sheets are drying in the laundry room, and just about everything left that I own in the VOM apartments is packed up and ready to go to the new destination.
Moving has been fun and just a little nerve-fraying. There are many responsibilities and bills I must now manage, and the cost at times seems higher than the return in advantages.
However, when I stop being melodramatic, I realize the benefits are plentiful. I can now walk to work, rather than driving five miles, and I can easily walk to a nearby grocery store if the need arises. I have the house entirely to myself, giving my neurotic tendencies toward cleanliness full reign. There are many other reasons why having a new apartment is great, but I think the above reasons are by far the ones that resonate the most with me.
Work continues to challenge me in various ways, and every day holds the possibility for being interesting in potentially a new way. My coworkers have been very helpful in preparing me with the new move.
My family has been very supportive of my decision to stay in Oklahoma, and have been a big help in keeping me sane while I move. I am excited to see them in the coming month, and their imminent visit has spurred me on to make the apartment look welcoming.
Oklahoma definitely has hotter summers. I thought I knew how hot the days could get based on how the days felt when I visited in September. Everyone told me that I had only felt the cooler autumn weather, but I was fairly certain they were incorrect. I was definitely wrong in that assumption, as the temperature—and humidity—has already jumped quite high. The new apartment did come with an air conditioner, and despite my mindset to use it as little as possible, I suspect I will succumb very quickly to the heat and sit in front of it all the time.
I will certainly miss the wide field of view I enjoyed while I was in the VOM apartments. Thunderstorms down in Tulsa were visible from my bedroom window, and I spent many nights watching the flashes in the distance. Now that I’m moving downtown, I have the back ends of several houses in the way of the horizon, so I won’t be seeing much of the storm clouds any longer. I joked with a neighbor that I might end up coming back to visit at the VOM apartments just to watch the weather and sunset.
For the first week or so I will not have Internet access at the new apartment. I would’ve preferred to have it activated before I arrived, but bills being as they are, I figured it would be better to wait until the next paycheck before I tried to sign up. I’ll still have Internet access at work, so I’ll still be able to check my email and update this site.
Today’s Image is something I saw while I was walking around downtown Bartlesville. I don’t recall exactly where I found the hand print, but I thought it looked potentially interesting. I used Photoshop to tweak the contrast, brightness, and colors, to give it more of the look I had in my head when I shot the photo.