My Offline Life is a Mess…
…not in the depressive ‘my husband’s left me, I’m in debt, I think I might be an alcoholic’ kind of way, just in a confusing ‘I don’t know what’s going to happen’ way. This is mainly to do with my ‘big move’. I mentioned previously that I might have been moving in with my brother and his girlfriend, which was the plan. But they broke up a week before I was due to move in, and my brother decided to move out. So I was then going to move in with my brother’s (now) ex-girlfriend and one of her friends—the two of them were going to share a bedroom, with me having the other. So the friend moved in, and on my new moving date I fell ill. I had a (fairly severe) stomach bug and then kind of got cold feet (I’m not entirely sure why) and stayed put for the time being.
I then decided to just go for it this month, having gotten a couple of trips in July out of the way, when my two new ‘roomies’ told me they were going to find a new place—somewhere bigger where they would be allowed to have a couple of dogs. I was invited to join them, but I wouldn’t because I have a dog phobia (anyone who has read my ‘about me’ page would know I have two dogs here at my parents’, but they are smaller than any of my cats so don’t really count).
I decided to move in there for a while anyway, until they moved, just for the ‘experience’, as it were. I have been there for about a week, and it’s OK so far. I have pretty much spent all day here (at my parents’) and gone over there to sleep thus far though, as my computer is here.
But I have just found out (as in, about ten minutes ago) that the friend has given one month’s notice because she goes back to college in September and will no longer be eligible for help with paying the rent—which doesn’t make sense to me, surely now more than ever she’ll need help with the rent. 
So now I have no idea what will be happening. I don’t think either my brother’s ex or I will be able to afford to live there without a third person, unless she decides to move another friend in—if she even has another one who needs/wants somewhere to live and is willing to share a bedroom. It looks like I may be staying put after all. *sigh*
Posted Aug 22, 2010. Filed under . Leave a comment?
It was a few inches bigger, a little thinner and although it looked nothing like an iPod, it was clear it was made by Apple. It was white or a light silver—kind of like a Macbook—and the border was smaller except with a slightly bigger one at the bottom or right (depending on which way you were holding it). And it was actually a computer, rather than a glorified iPod/ebook reader—but it ran on Windows. It was kind of like a netbook, but flat… more like netpaper*. 
