Whirling, whirling towards freedom!

[trinityvixen]

Some more updates on the fly:
-My dearest former roommate, Ms. Lisa Beans got married. It's been a long time since I've seen any bride both so incandescently beautiful. My friends have all been gorgeous brides, viridian and jethrien this means you (keep on keeping on, you fabulous ladies). Lisa was just striking in white, with her darker skin, and the dress she chose made her look like a model--dye it another color, it could have been a Oscar dress on a movie star. This is where I wish that any of my pictures had come out so I could show you all. Alas, the venue didn't have the best lighting in the world. I've seen some of the professional photos online, and she DOES look like a model. I'm a lousy photographer, so I'm easily impressed by good photo work, but even still! I will totally buy some prints to show people. The photographer got both pretty and emotional shots that captures Lisa and her husband (!) to a T.

-In the interest of saving money and getting back into exercising again, I took a trial bike ride to work. The trip is just about perfect. It's the right length, about 30 minutes, challenging but not impossible. It even starts off easy, scaling up in difficulty before ramping back down, so I get a good work out--warm-up, heavy exercise, and a cool down period. So I went ahead and bought a bike so I can do it every day. It's a full-sized folding bike, which is expensive but ideal--I don't have to leave outside where it might get ripped off and it stores neatly inside my room. As soon as it arrives, I'm going to be riding it all over the place. So excited!!

-In other purchasing news, I am also swapping out mattresses on my loft. The queen is manageable, but a full really fits my platform bed better. Without the mattress hanging off the edge of the platform, I get about 5-10 inches of space back. It's not much, but it would open up the space enough so that it's less of a squeeze. I also won't have to grope blindly around for the ladder I can't see nor risk banging my head on the ceiling (the new bed is less deep, too). I also bought cute sheets for it, which was fun because there are almost no fun sheets for bigger beds. Bah-humbug to that.

-With those last two purchases in hand, and with feiran gone now for longer than a week, it's finally settling for me that I'm in my new place for good. Through no fault of my excellent new roommates, I've felt almost like I was still a guest in the place. It's not easy to shake the idea of home being uptown, after living there for four years. I'm having the same trouble with work, actually. My boss left for a week, and I was anticipating her return, but I was still taken aback when she did come back and wasn't my old boss. It was like I'd forgotten whom I was expecting. It didn't help that she left so soon after I started. I think I repressed a little to my mindset of the last year where my old boss was gone more than she was around. But I'm starting to come around.

Doesn't mean I'm not still working for the weekend, as the song goes.(Point of fact, I made that my ringtone for my lab members.)

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Comments

[fairest.livejournal.com]

I have the same sense of disorientation. I keep thinking that I'm going to get to go home any day now, like the dedicated little mars rover. I think it's partially because I'm so used to TP being a weekend or holiday destination; my internal clock is telling me that Christmas vacation should really be wrapping up by now, and why am I still here when I should be returning to real life?

Yay for bike and mattress, though! Where did you end up ordering the bike from?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I got the bike online. I'll have to put it together myself and take it in for a tune-up, but I'll still have saved close to $100 for all that. It was just so much cheaper, and I found a site without taxes, to buy online than having it sent to a store to buy there.