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…and tons of planing, its now down to less than a week.

I’ve got all the furniture, and most of the stuff that I will need (after spending almost $2000 to get there), and in less than a week the moving truck shows up and the plan finally goes into action.

The funny thing is, I’m partially sad by this.  I’ve been living at my current residence for about 20 years, give or take a few months here and there.  And it’s been solid the last 4 years.  But, I really think that independance will treat me well and I’m sure the nostalgic sadness I feel will only last a matter of days once I’m in MY first place. 

I’ll be living alone, but at the same time I’ll be in a building with 100 other units.  (All together, I think this complex has 340 or so units).  I’ll be just down the hall from two people that I consider very close friends (even though our schedules haven’t really aligned lately for us to hang out that much).  Hopefully I can build that friendship, while making some new ones and rekindling some old ones.

Overall, I’m excited.  I know, its not that big of a deal, but I’m 27 and finally I have a place that I can call “mine”.  Of course, with that comes my bills, but I am confident that I’ll make it.

Wish me luck.  If you know me outside of this blog (as many of you do) give me a call and come see my new place sometime (or if your available next weekend, I could use help moving, even though I have a half dozen confirmed helpers, each additional one means less work overall for the rest of us!).

You can go to Orbitcast to follow this, but I guess it’s a done deal. 

Time will tell if I need to register ex-mnxmfan.com (haha) but I can’t see how this can be good for the consumer.  But then again, I have seen radio die due to mergers, and XM has been slowly getting worse over the past two years as they also jump on the “lowest common denominator” bandwagon, that 2 billion dollars in debt require.

As I sit here and wait to see what happens, I can honestly say that it has been a fun ride.  I have met so many new people through our passion for this once great service.  I have discovered new music and broadened my taste in music more than ever before.  If this is truely the end, it was worth it.

In the meantime, all us subscribers can do is wait, and as changes come down the pipe we can be smart consumers.  Who knows, maybe us naysayers are wrong.  Guess we’ll have to revisit this post in a year to see what happens.

One thing I can say is that I have never had more choice in how and when I get music.  With an IPod in the car, services like Slacker, Pandora and AOL Radio, and the hundreds of thousands of internet radio stations out there, I’m sure to keep my desire for new music filled.  But as a fan of the general presentation of radio for over 20 years, this change does bring sadness.

Sorry for the lack of an update.  Time is catching up to me now.  I’ve got only about three boxes packed at the moment (but I don’t think I’ll personally have more than 12 total, so thats not so bad).  The nice thing is that I am pretty much starting from scratch.  This means that I don’t have dishes, pots, pans, etc to wrap and pack. 

So, the goal is a box a night for this week, and by Sunday I want everything that I don’t use or need on a daily basis packed up.  Then, the following week, I will start breaking down things like my entertainment center, computers, etc.  Goal is to have everything but the TV and daily needs packed up by that weekend.  Then, on the following Monday and Tuesday, my goal is to go shopping to get things like towels, garbage can, etc.  That Wednesday after work, I do the walkthrough and get the keys (and I’ll probably start bringing over electronics).  Thursday, I hope to bring another load of stuff, and Friday the cable company is coming out.  All leading up to moving day, which is August 2nd.

So, everything has basically been chuggin along here as usual.  Obviously, the move date gets closer every day.  I was going to try to push it up a week, for fear that I wouldn’t have any help on moving day, but now it sounds like I wouldn’t have help on that day, but rather on August 2nd.  I’m sure I’ll pick up the keys the night of the 30th, and probably schedule cable/internet/phone install for the 1st.

I bought a bed, pretty nice one, definitely not top of the line though.  $600.  Also bought a pot and pan set and silverware for around $200.  I think pretty much all that is left now is the little stuff.  Rugs, towels, cooking utensils, etc.  All in all, I have managed to keep it under budget, which makes me happy.  Obviously I’m pretty excited about the whole thing.

In other news, I have about two weeks left on my contract at work, so I’m sure I’ll start hearing something about the process of going permanent here rather shortly.  The guy who trained me in has now unofficially been promoted, so as if I had something to worry about, I certainly don’t now.  The job is working out really well, although with the vacation of one coworker and moving of another, I have been the only one at the help desk for about a week now.  No big deal, I’m thinking thats actually a good sign.

On the social side of life, things have been acceptably quiet as of late.  With the stresses of moving, and work keeping m busy, the last thing I really want to do at the end of the day is hang out these days.  I know for a fact that will change, but for now I don’t really have a place to hang out with friends.  So, when I do hang out, we always end up going somewhere or I go to someone else’s house.  But I am still finding the time and money to go out to eat occasionally, or go drinking, which was the case last weekend.  And I have really started developing a better relationship with my brother lately, so between all of that, I do all the “hanging out” I need.

Once I get moved in, however, I know I am going to start working on “project reconnect”.  There have been several people whom I have simply lost touch with that I would like to reach out to, especially now that I am done with school and somewhat financially stable.  This doesn’t include people who I have disconnected with on bad terms (come to think of it, I can only think of two people that happened with, my ex from 6 years ago and Sara). but I haven’t really talked to a few Chris’s, Jess, Jason, Justin, Pat, my step brother, Brian, Ryan, Todd, and I’m sure I am missing quite a few in addition to those.

So, I guess that’s it for now.  I’ll keep you posted, as I slowly box up my old life and start my new one.