Waking Up

So, I've arrived NYC after four days of packing, two days of saying good-bye, and three hours of crying. It was tough to leave the little comfortable home I'd made with P and the cat. My cozy, lazy routine has been thrown out the window and now on day three I've already cleaned out a closet, excommunicated all the dust and grime from the bathroom, and did more laundry than I thought humanly possible. I wonder if there's a way to wash these curtain shades?

For those of you that don't know, I've moved into a studio apartment in Gramercy Park. It's about 400sqft of dust bunnies. My aunt Mimi lived here for years and since she passed away two years ago no one's really come in to clean out the place or update it at all. Until now. So, in helping out my cousins for a month or two of free rent, that's what I'm doing. I'm thinking of tackling two big projects first. (Packing up all the things my cousin wants me to send to her from the place, and painting.) Or...now that it's light I'm looking at the floor...the parquet could use a deep cleaning.

So, that's the home stuff. What else have I been doing you ask? Well, reading two books for school: Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds, and The Presenter's Fieldbook by Robert Garmston. Both having to do with this month's class which is Training and Motivational Development. Lots of videoing myself doing interviews and presenting things.

So, today is Thursday, blogging day, Action Research Project organization day. Parquet floor cleaning day and a bit of grocery shopping later. So much for my glamorous life in New York City.