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[geminigirl]

Busy, busy day...

I woke up, and sorted through the to do list for before my trip. Went to the post office to have them hold mail, Michael's to get scroll bars for my canvas, returned a DVD, went to Target for bras and t-shirts and then home. Lunch and cleaned the fridge out...wow is it empty now, which lead to mopping the floor today cause I spilled some soy sauce or something on it when I took out the trash. Then cleaned the bathroom, and wrote two cover letters for jobs that have closing dates while I'm on vacation. And, I hauled my recycling down to the dumpsters. I managed to cross off a bunch of things on the pre-trip list. I also dug out a copy of my birth certificate, since I still haven't renewed my passport, which I really should do sooner, rather than later. I also took care of some student loan paperwork, and paid some of the bills. Will do the rest before I go, just waiting for a check to hit my account first. Tomorrow, I'll finish the bathroom, get some quarters and do laundry, grocery shop, and maybe fax out these letters. I want to bake a batch of lemon cookies at some point too, and it's supposed to be cool and rainy tomorrow, which might make a good time to do that. The plants also need food too. Spending an extra day in Pennslyvania last weekend really threw me off.

I feel bad about not doing any of the social things I was invited to do tonight...a party, a birthday outing for messyjessy which I hope will be made up for tomorrow with an ice cream adventure, and the TMBG concert, which would have let me see dindin who I haven't seen in a long time. But I'd also been very social this week, and probably benefitted from the evening at home. And it meant I got cover letters written.


In my continuing quest to deal with moving, I made a list of things that will not suck about living here anymore: Not having to find quarters and fight for washer/dryer time will not suck. No noisy upstairs neighbors will not suck. A place other than the bathtub to wash out litter boxes and trash cans will not suck.

I know that New Jersey gets trashed a lot...and I know I have a number of friends who are in or have experience with New Jersey, so tell me some of the things about NJ that don't suck, and that you love. Tell me about your favorite places to go, to shop, to eat, to hang out. Please?

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[posthaste.livejournal.com]

I didn't know you liked TMBG, awesome! :D

[geminigirl]

Love them. They used to play once or twice a year at GW when I was in college, and I worked crew for them, so I'd get to watch some of the shows from backstage. I worked security for some of the shows too, so I got to hang around the green room and chat with the band a few times too. They're just always a lot of fun live, and they make me smile almost everytime.

(I had a ball and chain earworm the other day too, which was painful.)

I'm disappointed that I didn't get to see them today, but I'm sure that moving back up north will provide plenty of opportunities.

Did you hear them on Fresh Air last year?

[bitty.livejournal.com]

New Jersey's Not Connecticut.

[barking-iguana.livejournal.com]

THe thing about NJ is that (like a lot of places in the Northeast) it varies alot depending on which part of which county you're in. IIRC you don't know where you'll be, so I'm kind of at a loss.

But in the general poart of the state where you know folks, it's dense enough so that you can find any kind of store that exists outside major cities, while NY and Philly are close enough for outings. If you travel 40 miutes NW, you're in beatutiful (albeit small) mountains. In the other direction, you're an hour from the shore.

Oh, and unless you adpated to DC more thouroughly than I did, you'll be relieved to no longer have to wait 5 minutes per customer at checkout isles while the cashier practices southern hospitality on each person ahead of you on line.

If you don't like humidity, the weather bites, but not as badly as it does where you are now.

People here tend to be smart, or, rather, to use whatever smarts they have instead of considering it polite of canny to pretend to be stupid, as I've encountered some other places.

And I'm guessing it will be just about the right distance from Long Island for you. Far enough so that you'll neither be dropped in on nor expected to pay constant homage, but close enough so that visits are easy enough when planned.

[wait.livejournal.com]

One word: IKEA

[geminigirl]

I have two Ikea stores, including one of the biggest in the US within 45 minutes of where I live now. (College Park and Woodbridge)

[geeksdoitbetter.livejournal.com]

game night at the Chocolate's house!

(where i hope to continue my year's long tradition of molesting your fiance *grin*)

[geminigirl]

Game night, of course sucks not.

As for the fiance-molesting...that alone is almost entirely worth leaving Virginia for. Well-my getting to snuggle him like that. You don't need to leave Virginia to do it-you're much closer.