The Move

Well, I'm almost completely settled into my new home. My full size bed, my wooden stand and maybe my television and DVD player need to be brought down in a trailor, but everything else I have has been moved and settled in so far. Still organizing the moving things around, but so far so good. Tomorrow makes it a week. I will be traveling to Cambridge tomorrow to complete my last day of work at KFC, then starting at Taco Bell on Thursday most likely. I'm excited for another work opportunity.

Yesterday Jay and I traveled to pick up a few last things, and also what I was fearing the most: Bringing the cat. Murphy put up a massive fight to get into the cat carrier and I am very surprised he didn't scratch me in the process. He meowed a lot the first half hour but did settled down most of the rest of the drive. Other than a peeing insident he did better than I thought he would. Jay drove, and he kept me calm the whole time. I give him massive props. He's so patient even when I am freaking out.

Murphy surprised me a lot. Instead of staying in the carrier or in one room hiding the whole time he began exploring around the house almost instantly. Less than two hour later he was sitting at the end of the couch cleaning himself up while Jay and I watched television. He even curled up with us and purred.

Jay and I are sleep deprived today. The worst of everything has been keeping him from the bedroom. Murphy still thinks he is the king of the house. He cried and pawed at the door all evening long. At 4 this morning he managed to open the door on his own and make his move into the bedroom. I finally came out to the living room and slept on the couch in hopes of giving Jay at least 3 hours of sleep, but that didn't happen at all. He continued to cry until about 10 this morning when I finally got up.

Thankfully he has used the litter box and has ate food and drank water. My big concern has been the fear of him starting to pee around the house, even though he never did it at my parents' house what-so-ever I guess you never know at a newer home. While I did some laundry and made up the spare bed for him in hopes he'd see it as his room (which he has, only he likes to be under the bed instead).

Jay and I went to lunch and I have come back to find him snoozing under the twin bed and very quiet. I never thought I would love the quietness. I'll be spending today buying a few grocery items and doing more laundry. In a week we have accumulated more laundry than I ever thought we would that soon. I'll slow be cleaning here shortly and putting dishes away.

So far I am really liking Chillicothe. Hopefully I make some new friends soon and start enjoying it even more than I already do.

Knitting!

Well, finals are done, school is done, and I am officially doing things for myself again! Tonight, after two days of talking about it, I finally broke out my knitting. I am working on a blanket that will be red, silver and black. I took a design from a book and tweeked the sizes of the panels a little to make something more along the lines of what I want. I cannot wait to post a picture of it when it is all completed. Hopefully after it is done I can either start knitting another blanket (For my friend Jodie, who is having a boy in August!) or start sewing again. I finally realized that I have a lot of started projects but not enough completed ones. Looks like I will be keeping myself busy when I make my big move.

Right now, it is nearly four and I have been running on 4 hours of sleep and up since before 8 this morning. Heading to bed, just wanted to giive a quick update!