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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival => Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board => Topic started by: WRITE on August 02, 2007, 11:36:47 PM

Title: I took a new apartment!
Post by: WRITE on August 02, 2007, 11:36:47 PM

it's organised for September 8, so that will give me a less-stress 3 weeks to move.

It's cheaper, so I can afford it without pressure, even if I decide to do the course at Goddard.

And it's close to ex's place which means less driving to see son, which is every day!

I will only have one part of a neighbouring property touching my bedroom so it should be much better for sleep, and it's ina  quiet suburb which I already know well.

Feel much better to have another problem sorted....

 :D

Title: Re: I took a new apartment!
Post by: CB123 on August 02, 2007, 11:48:41 PM

Yay, Write!  I hope this is the perfect nest for you!

As you look into Goddard, will you post what you find?  I am so interested in their philosophy of education.  It would be exciting to see someone I know pursue that.

Love
CB

Title: Re: I took a new apartment!
Post by: Hopalong on August 03, 2007, 12:26:17 AM

How wonderful, Write!
I am so glad you're going to be in a more peaceful nest.

It sounds just perfect.

Joy!  :D

Hops

Title: Re: I took a new apartment!
Post by: debkor on August 03, 2007, 12:33:19 AM

Write,

Thats great!!  Glad your feeling a little less pressured.

Deb

Title: Re: I took a new apartment!
Post by: spyralle on August 03, 2007, 04:36:34 AM

Fantastic Write,

That's great news.  You are so lucky.  I am trying to sell my house at the moment and am desperate to move.  I wish you every happiness.

Spyralle x

Title: Re: I took a new apartment!
Post by: lighter on August 03, 2007, 08:12:58 AM

::Rolling around in bed, thinking about doing the happy dance::

So glad planning a move seemed to work out for ya.

Less pressure and driving are good things.

Taking the course at Goddard without struggling is a good thing.

Ok, awake enough to give ya an official... WOO HOO!

Happy for ya ((Write))

Title: Re: I took a new apartment!
Post by: Gaining Strength on August 03, 2007, 08:52:10 AM

That sounds fantastic WRITE.  I find your good news is encouraging to my heart.  So glad to hear it. - your friend - Gaining Strength

Title: Re: I took a new apartment!
Post by: Ami on August 03, 2007, 08:56:50 AM

I wish you all the best and many,many blessings  , WRITE .                 Love  Ami

Title: Re: I took a new apartment!
Post by: Certain Hope on August 03, 2007, 09:17:22 AM

Dear Write,

I'm tickled for you  :) !!

Practical me says: sounds like a very sensible, well-constructed plan.
The rest of me (lol) says:  Fresh starts are excitingly wonderful!   :D

Enjoy... even the packing... I know that you can make it more than mere drudgery.

Love and hugs,
Hope

Title: Re: I took a new apartment!
Post by: WRITE on August 03, 2007, 07:46:46 PM

Thanks everyone.

Good luck with sellign your house Spyrelle.

I'll let y'all know when I've talked to the people at Goddard and done more research. the cost is $6000 to $7000 and there are two two week residence parts to the courses.
I called for a brochure detailing their courses but I haven't talked to the administrator yet http://www.goddard.edu/
It looks perfect for me; thanks for suggesting it Hops and C

*

I am still a little paranoid though, when I went to sign my lease there was some frisson of something going on between the staff, and I had to tell myself it was almost certainly nothign to do with me!

I fell asleep this afternoon for two hours. The neighbours woke me at 2 am last night...can't wait to leave them behind.

*

Family visit went well, they left today.

We did talk more about religion and my illness and our shared history as the week went on, but I paid a lot of attention to the mood and when things were getting intense tried to lighten up.

Ex and son are very happy, they are chatting away downstairs!

All is okay  :)

Title: Re: I took a new apartment!
Post by: teartracks on August 03, 2007, 08:23:07 PM

WRITE

 


How nice!  I'm very happy for you!

tt

Title: Re: I took a new apartment!
Post by: isittoolate on August 03, 2007, 09:19:04 PM

I'm happy for you, Write.

There is nothing worse than looking for one and finding none!

Iz

Title: Re: I took a new apartment!
Post by: WRITE on August 06, 2007, 05:32:37 PM

Just over a month to be able to move...can't wait.
Thanks everyone!

Title: Re: I took a new apartment!
Post by: Hopalong on August 06, 2007, 07:27:42 PM

Write...
Want us to Hold The Houseplants?  :D

Be nice to yourself, sweetie.
Moving's stressful even when it's for good reasons.

Tap-dancing babies.  :lol:

love
Hops

Title: Re: I took a new apartment!
Post by: WRITE on August 06, 2007, 09:45:29 PM

I don't have any houseplants, but the little balcony garden is doing well, my $5 ferns are huge now and even the petunia which I was going to throw away resprouted and looks lovely again!

I sit out there a few minutes first thing each day.

In my new place I'll be looking down into palm trees and a crepe myrtle too!

Title: Re: I took a new apartment!
Post by: Certain Hope on August 07, 2007, 08:43:50 AM

Dear Write,

Sounds so restful :)

No palms here, but we have a crapemyrtle. Deep pink.
I'd never seen one before. Picked one up at a nursery shortly after moving here and planted it just at the back of the house, out my "office" window here. I expected it would grow bushy, more like an azalea... haha - I got a surprise!
The birds love it, though... and I enjoy the blossoms as they last a good, long while and really brighten up the view.
So I sit here in the mornings, generally... and watch the activity in that 8' tall "bush"   lol

I can picture you with a little waterfall on your balcony... one of those with mini ledges and a small collection of stones in the small pool.
Had one once... put blue food coloring into the water just to spice it up :) very pretty and relaxing.

Thank you for keeping the news coming!

Love,
Hope

Title: Re: I took a new apartment!
Post by: WRITE on August 07, 2007, 09:17:48 PM

Thank you for keeping the news coming!

Thanks Ch for reading!

I think my news is going to get better hereon, we've rounded a corner and I'm back to being myself, not entirely, but more than in years.

I'll look for a little waterfall thingy.
No blue food colouring though! I draw a line there  :)

Crepe Myrtles are asian trees, very exotic like so much in Houston, surprisingly!

Title: Re: I took a new apartment!
Post by: Hopalong on August 07, 2007, 10:50:01 PM

Hi Write,
Here's how to make one. Find a pottery or glass bowl you like. Buy an aquarium pump at a fish store. Lay the pump in the bowl and pile rocks you like around just to the tip of the tube. Screen the cord going under the rocks and up over the edge of the bowl with a larger rock sticking up. Fill with water and plug in. Add an air plant for greenery...

iT'S FUN.

hugs
Hops

Title: Re: I took a new apartment!
Post by: Certain Hope on August 07, 2007, 10:58:21 PM

((((((Write))))))

I think I'm gonna pull an Izzy and not talk NPD anymore. Waterfalls are much more satisfying... even when they're not blue  :)

((((((Hops)))))))

... just because.

Love,
Hope

Title: Re: I took a new apartment!
Post by: Hopalong on August 08, 2007, 06:17:45 AM

Thanks, ((((((Hope)))))))  :)

I got my rocks out of a beautiful stream in the mountains.
I put some nylon mesh crumpled up around the pump first, forgot to say.
It takes up space and gives the pump room to gurgle.

Then it's all covered with rocks.

I made one in a little red bowl once with shiny hematite pebbles,
with a little dinky pump from a craft store. It was a Valentine gift for a
...(sigh, you can gueNbfss). But it was nice!

Hops

Title: Re: I took a new apartment!
Post by: WRITE on August 08, 2007, 02:33:54 PM

I made one in a little red bowl once with shiny hematite pebbles,
with a little dinky pump from a craft store. It was a Valentine gift

sounds lovely. Do you still have one? Or maybe you could make another?

I'll make it as a gift for ME!

Title: Re: I took a new apartment!
Post by: Hopalong on August 08, 2007, 06:35:49 PM

It was nice, just right for a desk.

I do have one I made for my D that she wasn't interested in...it's in a pottery bowl I made myself, with rocks from some of my favorite places.

 :)

Hops

Title: Re: I took a new apartment!
Post by: WRITE on August 08, 2007, 08:16:44 PM

I am really looking forward to moving, I've taken to driving past the new place at night.
It's opposite a park where I often walk the dog.
You can go down to the creek behind there and see tortoises and sometimes snakes.

My friend I met at the gym lives close by too.

Pottery, another of your talents  :D