life hereafter

As part of working for “The Bank” employees must complete four hours of community service. Our chosen service was Habitat for Humanity. My greatest fear was that they were going to let me build something unsupervised and that someone would get hurt later because I had no idea what I was doing. Thank goodness it was a little different then that.

As part of the paperwork habitat sends you before you work, they say you must wear pants even if it is hot outside. It was over 100 degrees today, I figured that pants clause didn’t apply anymore and took my chances with shorts. No one said anything. Basically I figured out who does most of the habitat work. It’s basically all retired old men who I guess have found a pretty good hobby. Their all crazy strong though, they have that old man strength. For my efforts I got to build a scaffolding above some stairs, and hang some drywall. I learned that I’m not that good at hammering things, and that drywall makes me itch. Other than that it was a pretty good time, overall much better than sitting at a desk all day.

well… all my “stuff” is here at least. I still have plenty of unpacking to do, and then the cleaning that follows. This should keep me busy for most of the week.

Friday night Dad came down to DE to move up my small bed and psuduo desk. I decided to spend the night in the living room on the floor as I did not think it made too much sense to drive back to NJ that night only to wake up and drive back here in the morning. Needless to say I did not have any food in the apartment yet, so I basically had to hunt for a supermarket in the AM. Exploring new places is always fun, but not when your hungry… then your on a mission and you have to find something quickly. Luckly there is an ACME down the street, so all was well there.

Mom and Kevin came down Saturday with the rest of my stuff, including my amazing bed. The rest of the day was spent unloading and shopping. Sunday was more shopping and unpacking. My bedroom is pretty much 99.9% done. I just have some pictures to hang and organize. Somehow in the process I managed to lose my birth certificate, which I need to travel in two weeks. Once again I get to worry that someone is going to try and pass themselves off as me and do who knows what. Hopefully its just at the bottom of some box hidden away only to be found ten years later.

The plan for the current week was to stay over in Delaware Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday night. I was just trying to save the commute and drop it from 80 miles to only 30. However after work today I got to Jessies and found no one to be there. I then realized that the place had no food, no TV, no internet, no books, no AC and no bed for me to sleep on. I promptly packed up the rest of my things and loaded them into the car. I’m not back in my apartment. I figured if I was going to be lonely I might as well be comfortable. I can deal with the commute for three more days.

Tomorrow is the big day, the start of the move to Philly. I say start becuase its going to take almost a week for me to be fully settled there. I’m going up tomorrow evening with Dad to move all my stuff from Delaware. That night I’m going back to Jersey to wake up early Saturday to bring my awesome bed and everything else to Philly. At that point all my stuff will be there, but I’m still working at ‘The Bank’ until the 3rd. So I’m going to stay in Delaware for three more days (with nothing but an overnight bag.) Finally on the 3rd I’m back in Philly and I have a week before I have to leave for my month long training in Florida…

Maybe I made a mistake and I should just live in a car. I spend most of my time there anyway.

:)!