restless

I'm having a sort of depressed day where I feel like I want to run everywhere and do everything at once and at the same time I have no energy or will to. It's like a sort of itch, but I don't quite know where to scratch. Maybe I could take this as a planning day and make some lists of things to do or look at. I stayed up late last night (mainly due to reading Deathly Hallows, of which I have read 388/759 pages) to find a countdown widget. I ended up getting one off the Windows Sidebar thing. I have it set for 12:00AM May 28th.

We looked at cement blocks at Lowes, but we still need to look at Home Depot, and we still need to wander into Habitat for Humanity some day and then repeatedly go back to see what we might find. While there we looked at generators. There was a 400 dollar one that puts out 3,000-something and can run for something like 13-16 hours. Victor says he's seen cheaper ones at thrift stores that put out 5,000.

I think I'll clear out behind the couch for us to start putting stuff in. and I think I'll get a crate to put my loose fabric stuff in so they're not in bags on the floor. Maybe. Maybe I'll see about stuffing them into buckets. That might be nice. At the same time I want to just start organizing and packing I know I shouldn't because I'll need some of this stuff before May. I do have a box going with stuff in it like all that tang mix I got when it was on sale, and those teas I got on markdown. I would say that I can safely pack up my halloween stuff except I keep it stored in a crate anyway.

We do have to start acquiring stuff. Probably tomorrow I'll ask Zhaun what he thinks he'll schedule me for Thanksgiving week, see if I can get Friday off so we can go shopping. Not sure what all we might want that might be on sale, but I'm sure something will be bound to be on sale. I think probably in January we'll start buying the more expensive stuff cause then I'll have had all my overtime and holiday pay saved up. Cause I'll probably work Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, New Years Eve, and New Years Day, all of which give holiday pay.

Then sometime in late April or early May I'll take my vacation, in which we'll set up the foundation and do anything else, like start setting up the solar or whatever.

When I get back from my vacation I will start bringing home egg boxes (seriously, best boxes to pack in, they take a ton of weight and they have handles) and start packing. I'm not sure where to start first, but I'll figure it out later. Maybe I'll go through my desk first. Or pack the books. Pans, dishes, and clothes will be last. And of course anything really perishable like milk will be very last. My sewing stuff, as I already said, will be somewhat packed from my stuffing my loose bits of fabric into buckets or whatever. I guess movies will be packed around the same time as books. Video games will come a little later.

Also when I get back from my vacation I'll have a talk with Zhaun and let him know I'll be quitting, also probably put up my notice too. Or I might wait till closer. I'm not sure. Maybe I'll ask Bonnie as it gets closer to time. (Bonnie's known since August)

May 15th will be my anniversary date at work, and that is a Sunday. So I'll get the paycheck from that on May 27th. I figure also sometime in May we'll place our order for our stuff at Home Depot or someplace. I don't know if we'll get the stuff delivered on the 27th or the 28th, probably the 27th, and then we'll go up ourselves on the 27th or 28th. Probably I'll take one last shower here, we'll have dinner, and then head out. Maybe? I wonder what the payment is, like, can we pay them on the 27th with my vacation cashout check? Or do we save, save, save, and use that to pay for our building materials and then just keep my vacation cashout for ourselves, for stuff later on? hm.

Then we will spend the next months building our house. I know it will probably take a while for my sleep to normalize. I fully intent to stay up till I'm tired and then sleep, with no real set bedtime. No set wake-up time.

Here is my floorplan, which I changed a little. I swapped the kitchen and livingroom areas.