New job = new rhythms
I am trying to figure some shit out right now, okay, as usual, but the former travel plan of washing my sheets towels and all before I go on a trip isn’t sustainable. I got in yesterday and leave again on Monday meaning my stuff is getting three nights of light use. No matter how much I love coming back to clean sheets I think I need to dial back the OCD just a bit. Cleaning the apartment still feels right and isn’t that hard because there isn’t (its time to make an effort to not use isn’t anymore this post. aaannnddd shit I should have just kept that thought in my head…) a whole lot of space but the other laundry related stuff gets a bit labor intensive.
Also, buying supplies is a whole new puzzle to put together. I might have to shift into a premade or order in food scenario. Not sure but I was really hungry when I got back and was sadly denied sustenance. Heading out today to stock up on some non perishables post storm. It finally snowed like it meant it here and the temps are going to drop to what I consider normal for this place.
Update: I was starving (dramatic, I could live on my internal bulk fat storage for a solid week minimum) while starting this so I had to get out and but some things. I guess I missed the memo about buying everything off of the shelves. I was creepy the lack of different foods. Yes it is why-in-the-hell-do-I-live-here cold but Holy HeyZeus it’s just snow and we are in the land of said same. I actually surrendered my eggs to a dude in one of the store’s Little Rascals because he couldn’t see to the back of the top shelf from the cockpit.
*pro elderly tip: get yourself a USS something or other hat and a pin or two. I just assumed this dude was a veteran and I’m sure he is but I didn’t make him prove it before surrendering my liquid chickens.
Shifting gears, I think I mentioned a possible roommate the last time I wrote and the more I think about it the more sense it makes. Chicagoland is not cheap especially when you are existing on your own and it turns out I know quite a few people in similar situations as my own. I know for sure I could live with one of them and he and I talked last week. We will both be looking for a place around the same time so it kind of makes sense.
I would be more than happy in a modern Sherlock Holmes situation. Renting two rooms in a house and sharing all the other services. Hard to find a spot where everyone would get a bedroom and a sitting room however. Plus modern folk bathe every day so a bathroom to myself would be nice. Right now we are looking to see if any two bedroom two and a half bath arrangements are even a thing. It would be nice to have a bunch of my bills hacked in half especially with the amount of travel I will be doing with this new gig.
The alternative would be to find some land with favorable zoning where I could plop a couple Boxabl Casita’s would be about perfect. Two Master bedroom units and a combo kitchen living room in the middle. I really need to see where it might even be possible to build such a commune near where I want to live… Okay I’m distracted now so I’ve got to go.