AWKWARD ZOMBIE

Yunno how it has been summer for the past few months?
I've woken up this morning to find that outside, it is 55 degrees with 98% humidity.

It's sooooooo nice... I wish every morning I woke up to go to school was this nice.

I can tell I'm an adult now because I've been looking at desk organizers and shit on Amazon and getting really excited

Well I bought a nice matching set, one piece for my computer desk at home and two for work. Plus a dress that I really hope will fit me, and some Bluetooth adapters so I can play music from my PC to the soundbar.

Getting nice things makes me pop flyin'. If I can just ignore the cheddar-spending-guilt.

My boss gave me Sunday off and I already had Saturday off so now I get two days in a row off for the first time in months AND it's a weekend! I'm going to sleep the whole time.

I got that desk organizer. My clutter has never been so contained.

Now all I need is to dust off my desk... later

The place that I'm moving to is apparently cloudy on a fairly regular basis (almost half the time). This is good news for me, who adores the dreary weather, as I get headaches/sunburns rather quickly in bright sunlight, even with sunglasses/sunscreen, and the cooler color tones that are emphasized in overcast lighting are just much more energizing for me (at least, I'm guessing it has to do with the lighting tone. Might be something to do with air pressure or idk).
Granted, this is according to a neutral website, while the town's own website boasts "300+ sunny days!" which could actually mean whole days with minimal cloud cover, or it could mean "It didn't rain for more than five minutes, and you could always see blue in at least one corner of the sky. PEOPLE LIKE SUNNY WEATHER, RIGHT? PLS MOVE HERE."

Gross, the sun

I want to live in Bergen or Tromsø for that exact reason - Bergen because of an average of 235 rainy days per year (<3) and it rained every day from 29 October 2006 to 21 January 2007, 85 consecutive days (thanks Wikipedia) and that sounds wonderful!
Tromsø because it's within the arctic circle and has a reasonable climate - I love the snow. So much! More than rain! But 24/7 ice like Barrow, Alaska (for example) would be too much. And too miserable because there is nothing worthwhile in Alaska. I mean Barrow. But it still works for Alaska.
But yeah, north of the Arctic Circle sounds like a magical location to live? And in Tromsø the weather isn't miserable, there are a lot of people, its just a regular booty city but it has midnight sun, endless winter nights (<3), and the winters ARE better than in like, mainland USA. By better I mean snowier and icier.

I JUST REALLY WANT TO MOVE TO NORWAY OKAY

Finland or Norway would both be pretty rad, in different ways. Music educators tend to be all about Finland because of their fucking kickass school system, and it being a sort of composer's pilgrimage (Sibelius, bruh), but Norway seems pretty rad too, and their language is easier to get ahold of as an English speaker. Only thing I'd probably dislike is how expensive I'd imagine a lot of fresh produce is, due to even more limited local growing seasons, and farther import distances for non-native variety.

Could always go native and do a diet change! What is a Norwegian diet, anyway?

Alcohol, fish, and reindeer?


It actually doesn't sound that bad

It does look pretty good, and it appeals to my desire to marinate/add gravy to almost all meat I cook, although I have been going lighter on my meat portions the last four or five years**

I mainly just like having a wider variety of vegetables to pull from, instead of JUST the standard north European roots and cabbages. I wouldn't even miss the fruit variety, since I generally only buy in season, and up there, they have additional local fruits, particularly of the berry variety, and Lakka. Delicious lakka.
Which is virtually impossible to get in the U.S., due to import restrictions and lack of market (because no one knows about it because of import restrictions, which then further cement that there isn't enough market, so no one bothers to change the import restrictions, which means almost no one finds out about it, so that...) Apparently you can find it in most European countries, and sometimes Canada, though. So maybe when my friend and I start taking trips to other countries, I can acquire some for myself. Only reason I've been able to try it already is because my composition professor likes to fuck off to Finland every year or so for sabbatical/composing projects and always brings back several bottles, and lowkey gives everyone a small glass after spring Creative Symposium is done.



**The last few weeks are the exception, since I've been having to clear out the freezer for moving, resulting in most dinner meals being at least 50% meat. I can't carry very much to the new apartment, as it's a 3 hour drive, and I've only got one good cooler to keep stuff cold. I can toss refrigerated condiments into a stuffed cardboard box with ice packs, but anything that's more temperature sensitive or frozen has to fit in a fairly small space.

Where are you moving to, if you don't mind me asking? My one relocation criteria is "more north than Texas"

Tri-Cities area in Washington. Technically still a desert climate, but it's right on a river, and while not as rainy as the coast, it's way milder than the town I have been living in, due to being in a little inversion-prone area. Although I honestly didn't mind Spokane's winters (not quite as harsh as what I hear about from Colorado or North Dakota).

I'd rather it be more foresty, like the west side of the state, but I guess I can't have everything.

Riku wrote:Although I honestly didn't mind Spokane's winters (not quite as harsh as what I hear about from Colorado or North Dakota).

Ha, Colorado winters?
Sometimes winter lasts a daisies month here!
We sometimes don't get snow.
And other times have a bunch of snow days in one school year.

I'm from northeastern US, so I'm familiar with moderate winters

Texas has about 1/8 of one day of winter.

HEY WHOA SURPRISE TWIST

Moving to my CHILDHOOD HOMETOWN OF ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA on SATURDAY. THIS COMING SATURDAY


which means tomorrow is my last day of work

and i haven't given notice because of how soon this is


they're gonna be


so pop flyin'


BUT FUCK THEM

I'LL BE SO pop flyin'

GONNA BE LIVING WITH MY DOG AND FAMILY AGAIN
dog always comes first
IT'S GOING TO BE FANTASTIC OH MY GOD I HAVEN'T LIVED IN PENNSYLVANIA SINCE 2006 IM SO EXCITED HOLY SHIT

After seeing what you were going through with the sad topic I'm just really pop flyin' that things are turning around for you!
Honestly, just reading what you've said here as made me really pop flyin' too.

Took me way too long to figure out how to say that in a way that felt like the right way to put it. You know what I mean haha.

Past bunch of days I've read over the topic but had no idea what I could say.