MONDAY 1.17.22

I really wanted to read on the sofa today. But.

Sigh.

I was getting more things ready to list on ebay and it took way longer than it should have cuz I was obsessively checking Discord all throughout the day to see if I was selected for Bangtan Academy (the BTS-Army-run Korean language program). I saw a bunch of people were selected yesterday and I was all ohhhh πŸ™ but then I got a notification that they were still selecting people and I was all OHH!!!

I can go from zero to a hundred like nobody’s business.

TUESDAY 1.18.22

Even at work I’m surrounded by boxes. I should be buried in, literally, a cardboard box. Apparently, it suits me.

I’ve gotten a little behind on the Apartment Therapy January Cure…one day I missed was “cover your bare walls,” by hanging art that you’ve been procrastinating about doing, but…I’m not doing THAT. I’ve made it three years in this apartment without hanging anything on the walls. With so little time left to go here I’m not NOW going to risk not getting Every Penny of my security deposit back!

Although I did JUST put one command hook up this weekend when I finally got myself better set-up for selling on ebay. I needed a more seamless way to take clothing pictures than what I was doing…so I bit the bullet and took the chance.

Today is finish an at-home project. Eh, my only project right now is getting everything OUT. I’m not hanging curtains NOW.

I did get all my passport stuff together and now I just have to go to the PO to hand it in. I got my college transcript (which I need for K university application) and it reminded me that I was not always as stupid as I am now…I put in a request for my high school transcript. I got some of the application done for the Real ID but I hit some roadblock, I don’t remember now what it is…I went through a LOT of paperwork and got some more stuff thrown out, got a couple other little things done and now it’s 9:15pm and I haven’t even changed or eaten yet πŸ™

GOODNIGHT.

WEDNESDAY 1.19.22

Good morning

Apartment Therapy: Day 13 – Make your sofa look new again. No thank you.

I’m sensing a theme.

Last night was EXTREMELY productive in the paperwork/application/registration/scheduling departments. I was like NO FUN TIL THESE THINGS ARE DONE.

Go Me.

PLUS – I might be going back to Florida next weekend to dogsit while Katie and the boy have a weekend away. Stay tuned.

THURSDAY 1.20.22

Last night I hit the wall. I’ve been going pretty hard since the start of the new year…keeping with my evening schedule…getting stuff DONE. But I just…could not do one more thing last night, ha. So went to the sofa with triscuits and cream cheese and pepperoni (don’t knock it til you’ve tried it) and watched TWO episodes of a show.

I’m kinda feeling the same tonight. I might just cut myself some slack again tonight. The weekend’s coming up and I have no plans so I can catch up then.

On the Apartment Therapy Declutter Challenge, I’m kind of amazed I’m still somewhat IN. I still READ them every day. Usually by Day 5 I’m just out. But I’m doing some little bits of things that I can manage. Today is 3 minutes on the clock of clearing horizontal surfaces of Things That Do Not Belong. I’ve got a box, I’m just putting everything in the box I can in 3 minutes.

And in six months when I’m going “where’s my watercolors/vintage pedestal cake stand/light bulbs/student loan bill,” y’all can go IT’S IN THE BOX!!!

Setting timer…hanna, dul, set!

FRIDAY 1.21.22

Is anyone else playing wordle (this was Sunday’s)?

Finally.

SATURDAY 1.22.22

Do. Nothing. Well, take ebay pictures and look at 12,987 apartments in Seoul (my new obsession). I’m starting to get a sense of the different areas within a 30-minute commute of the school…what’s more or less expensive, what’s more walkable, what’s near the river or a park or not, what’s in a “Brooklyn-y” (artsy, young, active, cute shops and cafes) area and what’s in more of a business or residential or more “settled family” area…so my obsession is not without merit. But I can literally spend like 8 hours just going from site to site, checking areas on the map, doing street views, checking for subway accessibility, trying to see the view out the window…ha.

Some of my “wants” in an apartment are mutually exclusive. Like, I probably can’t be in a new high-rise with a giant window and unbroken view of the city with the mountains behind and a sunset every day AND be in a charming, winding narrow streets with interesting things to look at area. And I really want both, ha ha. I can’t be near the school AND be near the river. So my λΆ€λ™μ‚°μ—…μž (boo-dong-san-eobja: realtor) is REALLY gonna have his work cut out for him, That, and cuz I AM NOT PARTICULAR AT ALL. ha ha ha ha ha ha.

SUNDAY 1.23.22

I GOT INTO BANGTAN ACADEMY!!! Oh man, I had to wait til the verrrry last acceptances were made…and I didn’t get February, which I’d hoped…but when I didn’t get February, I didn’t think I was getting ANYTHING and was going to have to repeat the whole apply&wait process again next month, but I’M IN FOR MARCH!!! Yay!!!

This is good cuz I was feeling a little scattered now that I don’t have a class OR a tutor. I’m still memorizing vocabulary and phrases (if anyone asks, I can say, “My younger sister is in high school and is 16 years old” ha ha) every day, but there’s no real structure and learning the grammar rules is confusing by yourself.

I started going through photo albums and pulling out pictures to scan and save digitally. There’s over a dozen big albums from my life (not to mention boxes and files of pictures that AREN’T in albums). Some pictures are duplicative and I don’t need 20 pictures of Katie in the same outfit in almost the same position (sorry, Katie). I have “Russell Family” pictures to send to him or his sisters. I have pictures to send friends. But there’s still a LOT to scan and that is going to be VERY TIME-CONSUMING. I know you can send them to a place for scanning but they’re EXPENSIVE. I still have hundreds of my father’s slides to be scanned.

Man, I have wasted a LOT of time over the years. I know like 90% of my stuff has to go…no matter WHERE I go next. I never want to do another big STUFF move again…and, worst-case scenario, I don’t want to leave a ton of mess for someone else (Katie, I guess) to have to sort through and deal with after I’m gone. So yeah. Bit by bit I’m getting through it now, little bites at a time.

Just keep putting one foot in front of the other.

Stay cool. Or warm. Whichever you prefer.