Moving Day Is Over, Sorting Days Have Begun

The move went over pretty smoothly. I got all my junk to the new place. The new place is coming together really nice. This is easily the nicest apartment I've ever had. It actually looks like a home and not a dorm room. I bought a lot of furniture for the living room only cuz it was too cheap to pass up. In my previous apartment, the only thing I owned in the living room were the TV, lamp, and clock. Now the living room is pretty much all my stuff...couches, coffee table, endtable, and the entertainment center. I keep wondering, how did our place look so good all of a sudden? The building is also being renovated on the outside. Originally, we planned on finding an ugly building with the a nice inside. I figured, who cares about the outside, I will hardly ever see that part, so why should I pay for it? All that matters is the place across the street looks nice, cuz that's what you see when you look out the window or leave the place, ha ha. But now they are ripping off the pink wood siding and replacing it with stucco, so the building will actually look pretty good when their done. I'm glad we got the ugly building rent rate. We will also have a backyard when renovation is complete.

So now all the stuff is at the new place, but I still need to sort out all this random stuff and throw away the stuff I don't need. Last time I moved I threw away alot of stuff, but I was surprised just after two years how much more stuff I need to consider throwing away. It's a weird feeling to see all your possessions piled together in one space. Most of this stuff I forgot I had, but I kept it because someone gave it to me or I thought I might need it. I can think of keeping something that someone gave me, but if I thought I needed something and I forgot I had it and I've kept it all these years and never used it, do I really need it? Probably not. Electronics are the worst for this. They still work fine, but they are so old, their use is no longer needed. Who needs an MP3 player with 32MB of RAM? You can hold one CD in there at ok quality I think. It works perfectly fine, but I'll never use it again especially when I'm looking to get an iPod. Or will I ever play a cassette tape again? Do I really need to play things on my tape recorder anymore? I don't think I have in 10 years. I hate to throw away stuff that works, but I sure don't want to be lugging it around either.

I enjoyed visiting a new church alot. I think I'll fit in pretty good there even though I'm one of maybe 3 white people that go there. For some reason I'm more comfortable around Asian people than white people. It's probably cuz of all that time I spent at UCLA, ha ha.