An Illinois native, I just moved to Marin County, California for an 11 month AmeriCorps internship with SPAWN, a watershed protection non-profit. I've lived my whole life in Illinois and am absolutely a midwesterner, so this is a new phase of my life and a huge adventure for me. Read on!

Saturday, November 04, 2006

a dresser!

I hate living out of boxes and suitcases. It's been over a month and I still haven't unpacked - I basically do the same load of laundry over and over. Just the past week I moved back into Mitch and Julie's though, expecting to soon be able to find many of my missing items (somewhere near the bottoms of boxes).

Unfortunately, the free dresser I got from Marin FreeCycle had clearly been kept outside for a number of years and needed a lot of cleaning. Because of daylight savings time, it's dark by the time I get home from work, so I can't take the drawers outside to give them the scrubbing they need.

And at work, this week has been busier than most (preparing for a really busy season), so it wasn't until Thursday that I was able to take an afternoon off (a rainy, rainy afternoon) to get the dresser cleaned.

It wasn't until today that the drawers were dry and ready to get stuffed with clothes.

It's so nice to be finding things now that I can unpack - stuff I need to mail to IL, floss, shoes, etc.

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