In the middle of complete change

I know, I know, it's been 4 days since my last post and I am exhausted. Final packing, relocube loading, closing and yard sale.

Thanks again to Erin Haas for her amazing organizational skills and her hip hopping husband, Steve Behnke for loading much of the yard sale stuff into my car, Angela Mitchell for her packing expertise and helping me decide what to pack for the month at Jenny's. And last but not least, Suehyla El-Attar for taking the direction "Just make it go away!" and running. What a godsend especially when I had to deal with the perhaps drunk, perhaps not drunk moving guys.

I really am the luckiest gal in the world.

Eye Scream!

It's been a while since I posted one of these crazy things...

You Are A Chocolate Ice Cream Girl

Dramatic. Powerful. Flirty.

What Flavor Ice Cream Girl Are You?

Gosh, they rock

Many thanks to Erin, Angela, Chris & Suehyla for swinging by and helping me organize and pack my crap. We are not done, but we have accomplished a lot.

They did make me throw away the lovely candle that Jen Denning gave me years ago. It had an unfortunate end at the towtowbitches meeting with Angela and Chris a few weeks back.

And now, of course I have another car load for the yard sale.

Gosh, I smell. Shower time.

Week of June 21

Here's my schedule for the week. Not too much fun stuff, but I promise that will come in the next 4 weeks!

Monday - an evening of packing with Erin, Chris, Angela & Suehyla
Tuesday - hip hop with Steve at LA Fitness Atlantic Station 7pm
Wednesday - I really want to go to Serenbe to see Raiders of the Lost Ark, but I will probably be packing with Erin & Suehyla
Thursday - Grilled Cheese Night at Souper Jenny 5pm - 9pm. It's great! Come in and say hey.
Friday - Mah Jong!

The remainder of the time I will be packing and working.

Gotta go take a shower before my massage at GardenView.

Finally some quiet

I am lying on my bed, dead tired from a very long day. I worked at Souper Jenny this morning, got an oil change and then drove up to Lawrenceville to pick up some moving blankets and then topped it off with ushering for Camelot at Aurora Theatre.

Souper Jenny was uber slow today. That gave me plenty of time to schmooze the customers and fax my application and credit report to the management company of my Davis rental. Yes, indeed Mama's got a place to live! It is very exciting news and much weight is lifted from my shoulders. I am not sure which unit at 212 University I will be living, but Kate Miller will be sending photos on Monday and I believe Dave has some more.

Since I am not able to borrow or rent moving blankets, I found a great deal on craigslist and combined my trip up to Lawrenceville/Snellville to also see the first show in Aurora's new space. I met this dude Vernon at a storage unit and called Erin and Suehyla just so someone knew where I was. Just as I thought, this guy showed up in a big van and I thought for sure that it was going to turn out badly. He told me to drive in first and of course, the area was completely deserted. Um, Suehyla!

Anyway, the guy buys companies and then sells their remains. So I bought a dozen blankets for $36! He asked me if I wanted anything else from his THREE storage units. Um, no thanks. Mama's trying to UNLOAD!

The drive to downtown Lawrenceville was just 5 minutes away and after a few trip around the one-way square, I found the parking deck attached to the theatre. I changed my clothes in the car (big surprise!) and then took a little jaunt around the cute square. My thermometer read 98 so I quickly ducked into a little coffee shop and sat with my iced coffee and read skirt! magazine.

I left to report for usher duty and ran into AC and Tony. We then ran into Nevin and Lily in the parking lot and we all got a grand tour of the beautiful new space. It really is lovely with lots of natural light and remnants from the original church.

While ushering I realized that I am such a good people person. Not to toot my own horn, but I really go out of my way to make people feel welcome and for lack of a better word, educated. I wonder what that means for my future (or continued?) career. We'll just tuck that away for future use.

Anyway, all plans are now set and after lots of change in the last few days, here's where we stand:

6/25 - Big pack day with Angela and Suehyla
6/27 - Relocube is delivered
6/28 - Movers come to load my crap, Move into Jennifer's
6/29 - Closing
6/30 - Yard sale with Michele and Erin
7/15 - Going away party
7/28 - Car gets picked-up for cross country shipping
7/30 - Final day at Souper Jenny
7/31 - Final day at CCCS
8/1 - Meet mom at ATL airport and travel with cats to SAC
8/2 - Relocube arrives, Movers unload crap, mom works magic with organization (oh, Erin!)
8/3 - Dad arrives and I'm sure we'll go out for sushi
8/6 - Start to teach the young'uns how to act (Hopefully!)

Whew! That makes me tired just typing it.

PS

The one scream-worthy thing that I did not mention yesterday is that they cancelled DRA 21A for the first summer session. That's the first of two parts of the Intermediate Acting class that I'm slated to teach. DRA 21B starts August 6, but there's a good chance that my class will also be cancelled. Oh the joys of temping...I can't wait!

For those of you keeping track at home, I have been updating my weekly itinerary on a daily basis and yes, it does change. Now that I have 2 (count 'em, two!) auditions tomorrow, I will have to work at CCCS on Friday. So, Stone Mountain is here by postponed. I hope to do it in two weeks.

This evening I did go to Jai Shanti yoga and took a really great class. I learned a few new poses and really opened my uber tight hips. Go pigeon! -- and my new favorite, FROG!

I ended the night with a little too much reality TV. Dinner and Last Comic Standing and ice cream with Erin and Steve while viewing, So You Think You Can Dance.

Gotta slumber

And everybody SCREAM!

Oooh, italics! Luckily, I had some nutella in my pantry. Mama needed something sweet.

I just got off the phone with my parents and they are trying to convince me to ship the car and fly with the cats instead. I thought the travel was all set and now things are in flux again. I do not have time to research auto shippers and this time I really am trying to hold things together. I didn't expect the crying to start for a bit, but I am ready to let loose.

This means that my mother will fly down to Atlanta and meet me and take one of the cats and my father will probably meet us out there. I really cannot deal. T-minus 10 days to closing, blah, blah, blah. I work 6 days a week and still have to pack up my crap.

Crap!

Erin came over yesterday and we went through and packed more stuff. She really is amazing, folks. If any of you Atlantans need some assistance organizing your stuff, Erin is your gal. erinlhaas@gmail.com We are planning a yard sale with Michele Pearce and gosh, do I have a lot to contribute. Erin and I are toying with having a sale here in the complex this Saturday. I sent a message the management company and got (as expected) a rude message back from the contact. Hopefully I will find out tomorrow if the board will "allow" us to have a sale.

Mother of pearl.

Gosh, my stomach hurts.

Listen to the sound of the rain. Pet the kitties. Deep breath.

Nutella!