I should really get back to updating regularly. First, though, might as well give a quick synopsis of the last couple weeks, including The Big Move and the first week in Maryland.
Quincy got in on Monday the 24th, and the whole week was spent doing one of two things - visiting friends, or packing. I was woefully behind in packing, as I mentioned at the time, so I spent almost every night getting little sleep while staying up packing (Quincy, fortunately, gets by regularly on 4-6 hours a night anyway), including staying up all night the night before leaving.
But the other half was much more fun - seeing people! He got in earlier than expected Monday afternoon, and he beat his luggage, so we had food at Brians', went back for his luggage, picked up my new glasses that were finally ready, then went back to the house. After a little nap, we had dinner at Mimi's.
Tuesday was lunch with
Wednesday afternoon we went back to UCSD for my goodbye party, which was nice, although I still feel it was kind of anticlimactic. Ah, well. Had a nice chat with friends, and my replacement asked me a lot of good questions. From there we had some food at the UTC mall food court, then back to the house (for more packing, of course). That night the gamers came over for one last night of fun, and we even got Q in on a few games, plus
Thursday was more packing, and we hit the Darkstar dinner up in north county. Got to see a bunch of folks, including
Friday we knew I didn't have enough packed, so we sadly had to skip one last trip to Disneyland, plus I'd planned a big dinner out at Downtown Disney and had hoped to see Glenn and Bob, Stanton and James, Sean-Z,
Saturday morning I drove up to the AAA in Encinitas so I could transfer the title over to
Sunday was a busy day. Up early, drove the truck to the Amtrak station and unloaded 37 boxes worth of stuff to ship. Then it was off to my storage unit, where we upgraded to a 5'x10', and put the rest of the stuff in there (with room to spare). Then it was drop off the truck, back to the house, a quick shower and change, and then off to the LYC pot luck being thrown in our honor. There was lots of food, a yummy Cheesecake Factory cheesecake, and lots of friends, including
Lazy, uneventful flight to DC, and Q's friend Edward (who was watching his car for him) picked us up. We had a Thai dinner, then I drove us home to Lexington Park. Q was back at work on Tuesday morning.
Much of last week was spent settling in, waiting for his housemates/landlords to come home so we could find out for sure if I was able to stay (and come up with contingency plans if they didn't, but they agreed - they're a very nice Filipino couple), me finding my way around and figuring out what was where, job hunting (unsuccessful so far, but with some keen ideas, and filed for unemployment anyway), taking care of leftover stuff from the move, figuring out my finances for the short term, and of course fighting with Q over a myriad of things (how much stuff I have, how unprepared I was for the move, how sloppy I am, how late I sleep, etc. :) (I kid - he is more of a fussbudget about things than I am, but he'll loosen up and we'll both get used to living with a full-time lover for the first time.) Wednesday night I even called the gamers. Foo. Gonna miss them. :(
Friday night we met up with his friends Steve and Sylvia, had dinner at Applebe's, and went to see Jarhead, complete with running commentary from some real jarheads behind us in the theater. LOTS of military people there to see it, and it was engaging for what it was, but I would have rather have seen Chicken Little. :) Saturday we went shopping, then Edward came down and we rented Eating Out, a cute little gay indie flick.
Sunday was quite eventful. Q had to work briefly in the morning, then we hit the road and drove up to DC. Amtrak had called on Wednesday and told us my stuff had arrived, and we had until Sunday to pick it up or they started charging. So I found a U-Haul rental and storage place close to Union Station, and we went there. Not exactly in the nicest part of town, but it was fine. Got a cargo van, spent way too much time riding around trying to figure out where Union Station was (finally stopped and bought a map - you'd think something that big wouldn't be so hard to find!), loaded up the truck, went back to the storage unit, filled it up, and took home about 5 boxes of mine plus 3 of his stuff. We were tired, dirty and hungry at that point, so we stopped about halfway home to get something to eat... only to discover that the U-Haul place still had Q's military ID. So it was a rush back before they closed (he absolutely could not let them keep it even overnight), then back to the same restaurant to finally sit down to eat. Ugh. We had to skip what would have been his first MCC service since he got back from Iraq, but we'll make up for it later (there are some really nice people there that I'd like to see again and maybe make friends with). It was home and crash after that.
So, now we're up to today. Yay! I slept in a bit, did some more job hunting online, and when he got home we went downstairs and I finally talked to Ed and Mahalia and thanked them for letting me stay (we'd all been in and out all weekend and never seemed to run into each other). After that we went to KFC for dinner, did a little shopping at Target, and he's sleeping while I finish this up.
This weekend he has off on Friday for Veterans' Day, so we're going to head up to Mom's on Thursday night, maybe meet up with folks on Friday night (
So, um, there it is. :)
In the final wash, the move was stressful, but that's to be expected. We're having little squabbles, but nothing profound, and that's also to be expected. Also missing my ALL my friends, especially