A Legal Alien

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16 August 2005

I guess I'm feeling a bit sad over moving out of this flat. I've loved living here, even with Jam Master DJ downstairs and the chav-tastic family next door that starts DIY at 10:30pm. Yes, 10:30PM.

I'm tired. I left a lot of stuff to pack until today. Maybe I've been in denial. Tonight will be that last time I sleep here. It seems like just yesterday that I spent that first night here. It was raining when I moved and the removal guy didn't know where to go. And neither did I! We got ourselves sorted and by mid-day, I was in my flat. I remember being antsy and a bit afraid to settle in. My boxes had arrived at Anne's but I didn't open any of them until that afternoon. I also remember hopping online and realizing I had no food to eat. My first Tesco order never showed up because my CC was over the limit. I wandered down to the Liondis up the road and bought bread, peanut butter, raspberry jam and Diet Pepsi. I could've done without everything but the Diet Pepsi. Everyone knows I'm a bitch without it.
That night, I sat in silence because when my TV was delivered, I didn't know that TVs here are sold without the cable connecting it to the wall. And no one leaves those cables behind because the TV doesn't come with one! At bedtime, I realized I had no lamp beside my bed so I could read. And I didn't have bed pillows. These were things I should've realized when I was sitting around Anne's doing nothing for 3 weeks. I slept with couch pillows until I could get proper ones. Feels like a long time ago that I got lost every time I drove. Now I can wing it and get where I need to pretty well.

I've had some good times, some miserable times. I've had my heart broken and been hurt. But I've managed to land on my feet, again.

"Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag."
--Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home."
--John Howard Payne

There's no place like home.

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