Tag: apartment fire

So many people have been so generous to us. Thanks to the kindness of Sean’s parents in allowing us to stay with them, we are able to save the majority of our salaries, as well as all the money we’ve been given by our wonderful friends and families. This means that we should have enough money in a few months to get a place to live and replace most of the things we lost. It’s not perfect, but it’s far better than it could have been.

We currently have laptops and an Internet connection, and some of our friends have ordered replacement goodies from the Amazon list. We’re planning to get me a new bicycle at the end of the month. Several people have offered us furniture, and many of them are able to hold on to the pieces until we get a place to live. At this point, due to kind donations and gift cards, we no longer have need of clothes.

If there’s anyone out there who still wants to help in some way (though I really can’t imagine that–we’ve already been given so much), money is probably the best option at this point, because it takes up the least amount of space. However, I still feel funny asking people for money, so the other thing you can do is just wait until we get a house and then buy something from the Amazon list.

We want to thank everyone who has given us gifts. You’ve helped us more than we could ever express. We have just been overwhelmed by the amazing outpouring of love and generosity. Thank you all so much.

You know “the zone”? I’m not there. :>

I’ve been having trouble concentrating all day. I’d much rather be at home (and by “home” now I mean Cheryl and Reid’s house–the place where what little stuff I own currently resides). I’d like to be doing fun stuff, like watching TV. Or maybe messing around online, since the laptops arrived Wednesday and the Internet should be working tonight. I’d like to get started working on house hunting–that house I mentioned before is okay in many ways, but ultimately the location is far from my friends and the front of the house is just butt-ugly, and I’m not going to get over those things, even if I can deal with only having two bedrooms. And I’d like to start working on listing all the anime I lost–while there were a few files on hard drives that might possibly maybe be recovered (though who knows–we haven’t heard a thing about hard drives yet), the majority of my anime was burned to DVD, so that’s gone. (And I had finally almost finished d/ling Tenshi na Konamaiki, too…)

I guess I’m distracted because there are things I’d rather be doing, which is annoying. I want to put my life in order, and that’s taking precedence in my head over silly things like work that puts food on the table (and possessions in our…possession). I want to be able to shut that off and focus on the things I need to do now.

Papermate used to make these blue pens, they were perfect. The body was kind of rubbery and slender, and the ink just rolled right out of the ball point. Comfortable and easy to use. I loved those pens and I always bought them.

Well, they don’t make those pens anymore, and out of all the ones I’d bought, I only had one left. It was my prized pen, I used it all the time.

It was sitting in my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles tin with the rest of my pens and pencils.

Sean says our laptops shipped, so hopefully we’ll get them soon. I’m going a little stir-crazy without internet access at home.

Yesterday we looked at a house, and (somehow) I didn’t take any pictures of it. It is actually quite a nice house. The downsides: it’s one of those horrible “let’s jut the garage out front so it’s all you see from the road” styles, it only has two bedrooms, and it’s pretty far out in Columbia County, meaning it’s not convenient to lots of the places I like to go, including shopping and friends’ houses. The upsides: it’s very convenient to our jobs, the backyard is beautiful, it’s on a pond with a walking trail around it, the deck is spacious and multi-level, there’s a lovely sunroom, the kitchen has all-new appliances, the house itself is only 2 years old, there are actual stairs to the attic instead of a pull-down ladder, the great room is of a very nice size, the master bedroom is huge, and the master bath is spacious and has a jacuzzi tub.

The two bedrooms thing really is a problem, though, because we’d like to have a place for guests to sleep. There has been talk of using the sunroom for one of the purposes (either a guest bedroom or the office), but we’re still not sure what we think of that.

Off to the in-laws’.

I had the best dream last night.

We went back into the apartment to see if we could salvage anything, and it turned out that all our stuff was fine. The fire had just eaten the apartment around it, leaving rafters overhead that looked like a beautiful arbor. Vines had grown up all around everything (kudzu probably, but it was pretty), and somehow a river had sprung up and was running through the apartment. I was busy taking pictures of everything when my alarm went off.

People keep saying that I’m dealing with it really well, that I have a good attitude, that I’m in good spirits, etc. I think I’m pretty cheerful when I’m not thinking about it, but some days I’m very strongly reminded that I don’t have a home, I don’t have my own space, I don’t have my own things, and I’m not in control of anything, and that feeling overwhelms me.