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May 29, 2003

Forecast for May - Cloudy with 60% Chance of Rain

The entire month of May of has been rainy and cloudy in the DC area. Yesterday afternoon I experienced a strange sensation. When my eyes started burning from the bright light in the sky, it took me a while to realize that it was the sun. I removed my sweater, and I was still warm. My feet started sweating in my black leather boots. Finally, after almost a month of completely dreary weather, I experienced spring, the season that transitions us from cold weather to warm weather. Only this year that transition has been long and drawn out. And while I am not a huge fan of 90 degree days, even I am ready for warmer weather. I've got shorts and halter tops waiting impatiently in the closet. The forecast for next week is looking good though, calling for sunshine 4 days out of 7.

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May 27, 2003

Glad to be back

I felt a need to go into a short hibernation while I figured some things out. During the first two weeks of May I was in quite a funk. Nothing seemed to be going right for me and I have been trying to figure out why. Well, aside from a very rough transition period, I don't think there really was a why, it was simply a rough transition. Now that I have shaken loose most of my old garbage- literal, emotional and figurative, I am feeling soooo much better. I gave about 60 items to the Salvation Army, got rid of extra furniture and cleared out alot of junk in my life that was weighing me down. Now with clean apartment and clear mind, I am already moving on.

I have exciting activities lined up for the summer which include lots of trips. Right now I making arrangements for my trip to London and France. Hopefully before the year is over I will make it New York and San Francisco as well. White water rafting is also on my list, something I couldn't do last year because of the drought. More to come. Glad to be back.

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May 19, 2003

Love, Honor and Obey

Okay, when I heard those three words spoken at my friend's wedding, my jaw dropped. It was so unexpected. So not modern. It was understood that the ceremony would be traditional; I just never thought in the 21st century I would witness a woman vow to obey her husband.

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May 15, 2003

Day 13 of Bad Luck

My string of bad luck persists. Apparently I share a phone line with my neighbor. We had a conference call with a friend of mine last night. Another call to the phone company is in order and I must remember to limit private conversations to my cell phone. And my student loan company just informed me that due to their error, I have been paying too little each month. So now my monthly payments will increase. That's a pretty big mistake considering my new amount is the most I have ever paid towards my student loan. I am beginning to believe that the bad luck is linked to my new abode. I'll have to monitor this over the next month. I'm having difficulty adjusting to so many things going wrong. Nothing extremely terrible has happened (yet), I just don't care for so much drama.

On the flip side, my new location is great. Even in rush hour traffic I can get downtown in under 10 minutes. I'm looking forward to my friend's wedding this weekend and I am also excited about dedicating more time to my photography. Yesterday I set up the photo printer. Now all I need to do is explore the neighborhood.

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May 14, 2003

Phone Home

If you have to make a phone call to get phone service and you don't have a phone, then how do you get phone service? I ordered local phone service online over a month ago. I have since spoken to no less than 7 different customer service reps who all contacted me by phone. And guess what? I still don't have my phone service set up! I knew the inherent risks of ordering service online since I played a very, very small part in designing part of the online application. But things were going so well. I picked my phone number. I generously gave it to friends and family. But whenever my phone would ring (because it does ring) I knew it was for someone named Heather, who generously and unknowingly has been sharing her phone number with me. I learned to simply keep the phone disconnected until my real service gets turned on.

Today, my hope is that the technician will call me on my cell phone to announce his/her arrival. Not call my cancelled and disconnected line, which the previous 3 technicians had attempted to call to gain entry to my building. My question is, how does the same phone company who disconnected the phone, continously call that same phone number, and not my cell phone, the number I gave as a daytime contact number? I digress, for today I am confident that they will show up promptly and switch on my phone service. hahahahahaha!

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May 10, 2003

Door Closed

Yesterday I closed another chapter in my life. I know I am better off without him. Today I will decorate the apartment, watch movies and buy some stuff for my new place.

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May 04, 2003

Lady Luck! Where are you?

Ha! I thought that Wednesday was bad. Who knew it could get worse? I suspected, but never ever could imagine this:

I have never been the driver in an accident, fender-bender, whatever until Saturday morning at 10:30am. My moving day. It happened in the driveway/parking lot of the building I was moving out of. It happened 20 yards from my apartment. So while my boyfriend, mom, brother and brother's friends were helping me move, I was on the phone with my insurance company.

I was moving to the third floor of a small building in DC. I had lots of heavy things. Thank goodness I had 5 additional bodies to help me move up the three flights of stairs. And an occasional 6th body, because my new neighbors are friendly.

The move itself went very smoothly. I ended donating a couch to the Salvation Army and got the rental truck back with 5 minutes to spare, running into my old roommate's new roommate along the way.

Once everyone left and it was just me and Kevin, I realized that I was not only a little sore, but I had a toothache and a headache, and I am not accustomed to having either. Luckily, amongst my boxes and bags full of mystery items, I was able to locate a random package of Tylenol. Since there was no place to put a bed down (because of all of the boxes), I slept first in a chair, then on some pillows on the floor, and finally on the floor in a small corner.

Monday morning I discovered couple of things: I needed to see a dentist ASAP and the phone number I had requested had not yet been set up . I kept getting really random phone calls for different people all weekend. Finally I called my cell phone from my new phone and yep, my current phone number does belong to someone else. Whatever.

At least my new place is quaint and my neighbors are friendly. I ran into one neighbor at the grocery store and another invited me the community garden in the courtyard behind my apartment. It looks like there are at least 3 garden plots in the back. The last house I lived in had a raspberry bush, fig tree, grape vines, wild strawberries and all kinds of vegetables growing in the backyard. So looking out my window and seeing the gardens makes my place feel more like home.

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May 02, 2003

Bad House Karma

Seems like I have some bad Karma. It started with the front door of my new apartment building. I couldn't get the front door key to work. I could insert the key, but I couldn't get it out. Then I couldn't open my apartment door, it seemed like the door was a little loose, which is never a good thing. It took me a good 5 minutes to get inside. Once inside, I opened the windows, since it was nearly 80 degrees outside yesterday and I was hot. As I was putting away my dishes, I heard a door slam, but I didn't think anything of it. Well, I guess I should have, because when I went to clean the bathroom, I found myself locked out. Good thing I didn't need to use the bathroom because I didn't have a key. I figured I could pick the lock, but I didn't even have a coat hanger with me.

So I decided to go outside to get more things from the car. When I returned to the building and tried again to open the door, I broke my keychain which separated all of my keys. It wasn't until I had reached my floor when I realized that my house key was missing. It wasn't missing though, it had fallen to the very bottom of my pocket. And I was still struggling to get into my apartment because of this crazy messed up door lock. When I finally got inside, I was able to fix the door with a little ingenuity. But I still can't get into the bathroom.

I wish I could say that was the end. But it isn't. By the time I got back to the old apartment it was getting dark, I was hot and wanted a shower. So I walked into my bedroom, flipped the switch to turn on the light, and blew a fuse. During the 2 years I lived there I never once blew a fuse. I am not sure what to make of my new bad Karma. Except that I hope that it is over. I need all the luck I can get because I don't want to move in the cold rain tomorrow. But it's not looking good.

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