I'm taking mostly clothes and basic essentials for the initial flight out to Phoenix. I originally thought that I would have to pay out the ass for extra checked bags but now I really wonder. I've went through all of my clothes and quite honestly, I don't have that many after I've weeded out the stuff that doesn't fit. (I'm trying to decide if I want to have a yard sell and make a little extra cash or just give it all to Goodwill) Its aggravating that I don't have many clothes but I can't be too pissed about it. They're all too BIG! Most women do not get pissed when their clothes become too big! ;) I'm wearing anywhere from a 4-8 in pant size. (Stupid how clothes makers vary so widely in sizes) I must have that body dysmorphic thing because I honestly feel like I'm still chubby. Maybe its because I'm so out of shape, have virtually no muscle tone and a LOT of excess skin. (My goal is to work on that and tone up)
Anyway, where was I? I get so easily distracted. Oh yeah, the moving. Like I said, I'm boxing up a lot of the other stuff so that it will be ready for when I come back to move ALL of my stuff. My tentative plan is to fly out there, get settled in at Kim and Rob's & hit the pavement looking for a job. Once I have a job I'm going to sock away every penny I can into savings. I'll be going out there with some money but I want to build up as much as I can in savings "just in case." Ya never know what may come up. Plus it will be just me out there-nobody to bail my ass out financially. But that's a good thing. Its about time that I become financially independent. Actually independent in general. I just realized that I have always lived with someone-save a couple of months when my daughter was little. (I had split up with her father and it was before I had gotten with my now-ex-husband. She and I had our own little 2-bedroom apt for a little while.)
Once I have the job and savings, I'll get an apartment. I've already been checking them out online. Here's where the "tentative" part is. My plan is to fly back to Ohio, rent a U-haul and load everything up. I'm hoping that this is July or August when my boys are on break from school. I hope to have them drive back to Arizona with me. I figure it would make the trip and moving much, much more enjoyable. I'll get to spend time with the boys & we'll get to see several states that we've never been to. It takes 30 hours to drive it straight. More realistically though, I've heard that it takes two-two and a half days to drive it. Probably wouldn't drive it straight through because even with us taking turns driving, we're still not going to get good sleep unless we stop somewhere. I figure we could do it in two days easily.
Then they can help me move all of the stuff into my apartment and hang out with me for a week or so. If they can stay long enough and I have the money to do it, I want to take them to the Grand Canyon while they're there.
I was at the Fashion Square mall back in February with my friend. Unfortunately I was broke at the time and just not feeling it. That mall does have some awesome stores! A Godiva, Louis Vuitton, Coach, Armani, BCBGMAXARIZA, Cartier, Jimmy Choo, Lush, Michael Kors, Neiman Marcus, Nordstroms, Prada, Swarovski, Tiffany & Co. and of course the standard stores that you find in most malls. When my boys have to go back to home to start back up school, I'll just fly them home. (One will be a junior in high school and one will be a junior in college) This is the plan, anyway. The timing will have to be just right for everything to work. Of course the sticky part will be trying to figure out a date to do all of this so that I can tell my future employer that I will need the time off. A full week would be nice but I could get away with only taking 3-4 days off. That's usually not a problem as long as you tell them beforehand. This is, of course AFTER I'm offered the job! ;)
36 days...let the countdown begin!
Tootles!
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