Emmmiiiiiii
baked goods cure almost all my moods. i totally get it.
is it weird
im super pumped that its the last payment on my phone. more pumped about this than the four day weekend i have coming up.
going to see how long I can stretch this iPhone 7. it’s still in pretty new condition.
i think i knew its starting to feel a little bit like home because i had the push to bake something. it means our place is finally clean enough, the kitchen organized and nothing imperative to unpack.
out came raspberry + blueberry muffins.
my favorite benefit so far
is that my new job comes with a discount for cable and internet where it only costs us $10 a month. it includes all of their premium channels and fastest internet.
scruffy is lit up about it since it meant we could watch all the christmas movies and episodes.
i’m counting this as a $2000 raise from what it used to cost us.
the holidays came at a really good time.
starting a new job two weeks before the holidays is weird but it’s good. people are winding down on work, so there’s more opportunity to learn and ease in. and then after you meet 1000 people at once, you have some days off to unwind from all the people.
honestly besides being a little meeting-heavy, they’re pretty cool. obvy i’m only two weeks in so i’m not actually useful yet but it seems like the part of the business i’m directing is going to be a major initiative this year. wee. also, it seems like they give product a good amount of autonomy so i can research the new things i think are good ideas with a bit of freedom.
we technically already moved 2x in denver.
when we arrived, it was already pretty dark so we just stopped in to the leasing office and picked up some keys and signed some docs. brought up just enough to get through the night. but oh jeez immediately the things we noticed:
- every time someone walked over us, the lamp attached to the ceiling in the kitchen rattled
- any water running, dishwasher and i’m guessing laundry machine could be heard as if you were in the apartment
- there was no fireplace. one that was definitely in the floorplans.
i know enough that noises like that drive scruffy nuts. i heard enough of it in LA with our upstairs neighbors. and tbh it was much worse here. there’s definitely no insulation in the floors above us, or at least not enough.
so the next morning i called the leasing office and explained to them that half the reason we took this apartment was for the fireplace. (eh..) they explained to ME that the fireplaces are only on the third floor. i explained back to them that there was no way for us to know that since it isn’t notated anywhere, the pictures don’t show this wall and we signed this lease from from LA.
in any case, they were super nice about it and we moved to a different building on the third floor that same day for the same rent. with the fireplace also came vaulted ceilings and now we’re the noise that im sure the people below us will hear but at least we won’t.
im driving an hour and 15 minutes to pick up a lamp tomorrow. A LAMP.
but LOOK AT HOW CUTE HE IS.
our place is devoid of overhead lighting and I’ve been thinking through the past week of exactly the type of lighting i want.
apparently i have decided i want industrial with a side of robot.
I feel incredibly lucky.
the majority of our moving expenses were covered by the relocation bonus from my new job. movers, shipping my car, hotel stays, eating out on the road. they just dropped me a lump sum without having to prove any expenses.
i didn’t really realize how expensive an interstate move is because when i moved from NY to LA i only had two suitcases and about $500 dollars.
i could’ve covered us if i really had to out of my emergency savings but even that, i feel weirdly lucky because like… at any other point in my life i can’t even say i would’ve been able to do that either.
i just didn’t want to start a life here in the red. i just wanted to start. so i guess I am.
