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smithereen made Illyria Gets A Job icons. My heart swells with love.


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Sofa So Good...

So I am late for work getting the apartment ready for the Salvation Army to pick up the old sectional and then I finally get to work and the SA calls and says they are picking it up in 30 minutes. So I turn right around and go home and wait on them and then they *finally* get there and look at the sofa and say - No Thank You.

Sigh.

So, I think the thing is still in decent shape - it is worn, but there are no rips or stains and it is still pretty comfortable. The leather is peeling a bit at the edges and under the arm-rests so that is why they passed.

So then I call Goodwill and they would *love* to take the sofa - except they can't pick it up. So I need to either get a buncha burly types and Dawn's truck OR perhaps I can talk 2 Men and a Truck into dropping it off? Hmmm. At the least - this is what I could do... I could have 2 Men and a Truck take the sofa to the new place, but not take it upstairs (moving from one second floor apartment to another). I could then get the Boy to help me load the sofa from the curb to Dawn's truck and take it to Goodwill myself.

Its just that I am on a very severe budget with this move and I am already over-extending myself with paying the movers and they are being paid hourly so I really don't wanna add time for a sofa that I am trying to give away.

So anybody got a better idea? Leaving the sofa on a curb is out because I feel that would bring really bad karma on me - I know this is probably not logical to some of y'all, but trust me - I worked through the scenario at length and it could easily lead to high tragedy.

Devolution is the Name of My Band...

I'm planning. I feel better about things when I plan.

Unfortunately, my natural avoidant nature means I can't actually plan any more about my move or current finances beyond what I have already established. Any more thought beyond "This is what I will do...tommorrow" will result in a stomach ache.

So I am planning what order I will tackle "Sandman" in. I don't know when I will have the time or the energy to start it, but I know I will read this and now I am just trying to decide which book goes first.

I know, I could read them in the order published - but if I did things like that, then I would still have to count "The Train Job" as the first episode of Firefly and that is just insane.

Also - I have a difficult time starting with something from the ground up. TV shows typically need 3 years before I start to get fannishly interested. I think this is part of my problem with "Preacher" - I am starting at the beginning when maybe I should have started around book three or with The Saint of All Killers, cause right now we are just getting to know the characters and it is all set up and really - if I jumped in and the shit was hitting the fan and, yeah, I might be kinda confused, but you can typically figure these things out (hence the wide number of people who did not watch Buffy until season 5) and then you look at everything preceding your starting point as "Cool! Back story!"

My attention span is just not what it used to be. Sadly, I am far from alone in this and I have no idea what to do to fix it. Well, I don't know anyway to fix it that would not require active work on my part. I prefer to be lazy and just bemoan. Actually correcting something is difficult, yo.

I have actually gotten to the point where I don't actually distract myself from stress by reading. No, I distract myself from stress by thinking about reading. This is not an improvement. I feel like Anya and it is the bookstore that became a bookstore/coffee house and is now just a coffee house. Evolution in reverse.

On a bright note - I cannot get enough of these Illyria icons.