{"id":30,"date":"2008-07-10T09:56:57","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T13:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/?p=30"},"modified":"2008-07-10T09:56:57","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T13:56:57","slug":"packrat-tendencies-perhaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/10\/packrat-tendencies-perhaps\/","title":{"rendered":"Packrat tendencies, perhaps?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent four hours last night writing css code.\u00a0 That no one will ever see but me.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because I realized I could do it, so I did it.\u00a0 Rest assured, the\u00a0admin area\u00a0of this site is very pretty.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, I did not go running last night.\u00a0 I did go on Tuesday night, however, and it absolutely amazes me how awful\u00a0I have gotten at running.\u00a0 Taking a month (well, probably closer to two months) off does not really help the training.\u00a0 But it gives me a goal to work towards, and hey, it means my training runs are shorter!\u00a0 Those two hour runs on the weekend were getting to be a bit much.\u00a0 Perhaps I will not train up to those again anytime soon, seeing as I probably won&#8217;t run another race until the Cherry Blossom 10 Mile next spring.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m seriously debating getting a roommate.\u00a0 I fear the unknown, however, and so I&#8217;m absolutely not doing the random roommate thing.\u00a0 At one point, I said I&#8217;d let a friend of a friend move in, but I&#8217;m not even sure about that one.\u00a0 I do have one friend who&#8217;s looking for a place, so it&#8217;s entirely possible things will work out for both of us.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t absolutely need a roommate, but given that I&#8217;m no longer getting my promised raise in September, a bit of extra money would be nice.\u00a0\u00a0 And it would be fun to have a friend around!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I am not looking forward to cleaning out that room though.\u00a0 Having lived in various two bedroom places for the past four years means that I&#8217;ve accumulated a lot of stuff because I have places to put it.\u00a0\u00a0I am well aware that much of the stuff is stuff that I really don&#8217;t need and haven&#8217;t needed in years.\u00a0 Of course, while unpacking after my move, all the stuff I didn&#8217;t know what to do with ended up in that room.\u00a0 Or in the closet of doom, which also probably needs to be cleaned out.<\/p>\n<p>When I moved, I paid the movers to pack.\u00a0 Given the distance of the move and my fear that my truck would go off a cliff or something (if you had met the driver I was assigned, you would have been worried too).\u00a0 Having the movers pack meant that I got way better insurance, and it meant I didn&#8217;t have to pack while worrying about the bar exam.\u00a0 But it also meant that I didn&#8217;t do the traditional &#8220;Pack or toss&#8221; routine when I moved.\u00a0 Everything moved!\u00a0 And then when moving in, I didn&#8217;t want to have to deal with that dilemma &#8211; I just wanted everything put away.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I think that no matter what happens with the roommate situation, by the end of the summer, I want to have that room cleaned out.\u00a0 I want to be sure that I&#8217;m only keeping things I really want or need to keep, and everything else is getting tossed, donated, or sold.\u00a0 I&#8217;m a little bit afraid of what&#8217;s all stashed in the closet, to be honest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent four hours last night writing css code.\u00a0 That no one will ever see but me.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because I realized I could do it, so I did it.\u00a0 Rest assured, the\u00a0admin area\u00a0of this site is very pretty.\u00a0 Needless to say, I did not go running last night.\u00a0 I did go on Tuesday night, however, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Packrat tendencies, perhaps? 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