Advantages:
We will be living together and not having to negotiate where we are sleeping on any given night.
I will have to drive less.
I will get to have a kitchen of my very own where I don’t have to deal with anyone else’s organizational system. (Control freak much?)
The ability to walk around nekkid and no one can see in and there is no possibility of anyone walking in.
Closer to the Observatory. 🙂
More room to play.
LOTS of closet space.
Lots of space period.
My mom will be crew boss for loading the truck. (She is a GOD when it comes to moving.)
I have wonderful friends who will help with the carrying.
I have access to a projector, so I can have movies on a fairly large screen while I’m packing/unpacking. 🙂
Disadvantages
Me having to do pretty much all of the packing (he’s at work).
Me doing pretty much all of the unpacking (this is partially cause of that control freak bit).
Moving down three floors (there is an elevator) moving up to the second floor (there isn’t an elevator). *sigh*
Taking advantage of my friends. 🙁
Having to clean both apartments that we are moving out of.
Cleaning the apartment we are moving in to.
Not a lot of time to see friends for a while.
Exhaustion.
I am happy about the fact that I will be getting to live with him. I’m a bit nervous about the moving process. *sigh* He is packing the gun stuff. Period. I am so not touching any of it. 🙂
*You are not taking advantage of your friends…*Unless the thought of it turns you on…then go ahead and believe that…*Really, you are giving them the opportunity to show you that they love you and care for you with their actions…*and I am sure you will compensate in kind…
*If you went to the landlord of the the apt. you are moving out of and flat out told them that you really don’t have the time or energy to clean the apt. as it should be done, but are able to get the trash out and such…how much would they keep from the deposit? I’ve used this option before. It’s okay to not clean the apt. it’s just not okay to be silent about it…*can you afford it?
or…hire a friend that needs some cash dollars…*I know you are on a budget, but to save your sanity, strength and the poor souls around you from your bitchiness….you may need to dish out the dough…
I would help you if I were there…*I would love the chance to
I already cleaned the apartment that I am moving out of. 🙂 (Or at least as much as I am going to given that the two current housemates are still there and I am not cleaning the kitchen/common areas.) Now we just have to deal with Puppy’s. And I could just let him do it. Really. I could. I’m not a total control freak. Really. Really.
*sigh*
FWIW
…almost all the disadvantages are short term and many of the advantages are long term and sanity producing !
Re: FWIW
That is a really good point.
🙂 Thank you.
Hey. That’s what friends are for: for to help you move. 😉
Don’t worry about it. Sooner or later you’ll be called on too.
What she said.
It’s one of the ways you know someone *is* your friend, and not merely an acquaintance you get along with well: when they’re willing to do something for you that’s an effort and not necessarily fun. And when the reverse is true too, of course.
And remember: doing things in groups often IS fun, even if the thing you’re doing isn’t particularly. It’s that humanz is social animalz thing.