Familial love does not extend to body art
May. 24th, 2009 09:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magicalmarthaMoving was an ADVENTURE. Well, the real adventure was suffering the intense disapproval of my parents re: The Tattoo, but I love it and they don't love me less for having it, so whatev. I knew they'd react in this fashion and I'm over it now.
It took us about two hours to load everything into the UHaul truck. It's weird, I don't know if I packed more efficiently or if I left behind more stuff than I realized, but I definitely took up a whole truck moving out and had space left over coming home. Maybe I am just a ninja packer and don't know it. My room was very empty and desolate when I left, much more so after I vacuumed up a year's worth of dust from where my bed used to be. Now my room at home is FULL OF BOXES, and I don't quite know how to unpack and mesh what I've brought with what was already here. I appreciate the fact that my parents kept my room as my room quite a bit, but when I left in August everything got reshuffled to fill in the gaps of the things I took, and now I essentially have two rooms worth of stuff in one space. I'll figure it out eventually...
Last night was tons of fun, I went out with some folks from home. We hit up the Map Room, a bar over in Bucktown which is quickly becoming one of my very favorite places to go in the city. It carries a whole mess of exotic beers - I especially like a Lambic Frambois which goes for $6 a glass and makes me realize I'm not in Iowa anymore. It's a very sweet raspberry-flavored beer which doesn't taste a whole lot like beer. Brian got some kind of Belgian wheat that tasted like banana bread, which was also pretty enjoyable.
I'm just so glad to be back in the city... I love Iowa City, and I miss everyone there (this feeling is only going to get worse, I feel), but I'm a definite city girl at heart.
It took us about two hours to load everything into the UHaul truck. It's weird, I don't know if I packed more efficiently or if I left behind more stuff than I realized, but I definitely took up a whole truck moving out and had space left over coming home. Maybe I am just a ninja packer and don't know it. My room was very empty and desolate when I left, much more so after I vacuumed up a year's worth of dust from where my bed used to be. Now my room at home is FULL OF BOXES, and I don't quite know how to unpack and mesh what I've brought with what was already here. I appreciate the fact that my parents kept my room as my room quite a bit, but when I left in August everything got reshuffled to fill in the gaps of the things I took, and now I essentially have two rooms worth of stuff in one space. I'll figure it out eventually...
Last night was tons of fun, I went out with some folks from home. We hit up the Map Room, a bar over in Bucktown which is quickly becoming one of my very favorite places to go in the city. It carries a whole mess of exotic beers - I especially like a Lambic Frambois which goes for $6 a glass and makes me realize I'm not in Iowa anymore. It's a very sweet raspberry-flavored beer which doesn't taste a whole lot like beer. Brian got some kind of Belgian wheat that tasted like banana bread, which was also pretty enjoyable.
I'm just so glad to be back in the city... I love Iowa City, and I miss everyone there (this feeling is only going to get worse, I feel), but I'm a definite city girl at heart.
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Date: 2009-05-24 05:28 pm (UTC)That Lambic Frambois is what your were briefly wearing at Amanda's party last week. XD I love it.
And it is expensive by the glass everywhere, highly recommend buying a whole bottle for $10. :)
We miss you too! :D
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Date: 2009-05-24 09:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-05-24 07:57 pm (UTC)Secondly, as someone who has moved every three years his entire life, its fun as hell! Always fun to make new friends and rearrange a room to do some kind of crazy stuff with it. Without actually having to move everything thats already set up.
:)
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