Pre-Cross Country Road Trip - East to West - Preparation

8/23: Apparently I can still even surprise myself. This morning I went to Wal-Mart and actually paid someone to install the car battery that I bought at Costco earlier this week. I don't think I've ever paid anyone to install a car battery or air filter. I took in consideration the condition of my neck and decided it was worth the cost not to have to lift the new battery from the rear of the car and then the old battery from the front to the rear. I know I tweaked my neck just a bit getting it from the cart to the car (I was able to get someone to help to load the cart).

Yesterday I was able to get Moo Moo a health certificate. I'm still working on getting her the right crate for the trip. I started getting the bed dismantled but it was about 9pm when I got to needing a hammer to get the frame apart so with my crazy lady neighbor, I decided to hold off till today. I didn't get much else done since my neck was really bothering me so I had to ice it most of the afternoon after Moo Moos appointment. I ran errands most of the morning. I feel like it's horrible I can't even remember which errands, with the headaches my brain isn't functioning even at 75%. ..... oh yeah, I went to REI to replace my broken sleep mat, return some of the items that I picked up last time and picked up some new items. I got myself a mini cutting board as well as a mini spatula to go with the mini 2 egg cast iron pan my buddy gave me.

Then I got a text about the closet organizer I posted on craigslist so I had to run home pack it into car to run down to the Applebees (i try not to have anyone meet me at my apt anymore unless I have to cause I can't load the item into the car). Then I had to run home to pick up Moo Moo for her very appt.

Moo Moo's visit want well minus she had an accident in the carrier. I guess since she's so acclimated to using the bathroom outside now, when I locked her in the apt for the appt, even though she had access to the box and even though she played in it, she didn't want to use it so she must have gotten too scared during the trip to the vet that she couldn't hold it anymore. It had been almost 24 hours she was in the apt, if not more.

Today after Wal-mart, I finished taking the bed apart, went to Dim Sum with my old report from the job that brought me out to Delaware. Ran to Best Buy to have the Samsung guys try to fix my phone, then had to run home to pick up Weeze to take her to the groomers. Ran home to get in a quick nap before grabbing an early dinner, stopping by Costco to drop off the old battery so I could get my core refund and picking up a furniture

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8/23: I'm still capable of even surprising myself!

August 22, 2015

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Newark, DE

8/23: Apparently I can still even surprise myself. This morning I went to Wal-Mart and actually paid someone to install the car battery that I bought at Costco earlier this week. I don't think I've ever paid anyone to install a car battery or air filter. I took in consideration the condition of my neck and decided it was worth the cost not to have to lift the new battery from the rear of the car and then the old battery from the front to the rear. I know I tweaked my neck just a bit getting it from the cart to the car (I was able to get someone to help to load the cart).

Yesterday I was able to get Moo Moo a health certificate. I'm still working on getting her the right crate for the trip. I started getting the bed dismantled but it was about 9pm when I got to needing a hammer to get the frame apart so with my crazy lady neighbor, I decided to hold off till today. I didn't get much else done since my neck was really bothering me so I had to ice it most of the afternoon after Moo Moos appointment. I ran errands most of the morning. I feel like it's horrible I can't even remember which errands, with the headaches my brain isn't functioning even at 75%. ..... oh yeah, I went to REI to replace my broken sleep mat, return some of the items that I picked up last time and picked up some new items. I got myself a mini cutting board as well as a mini spatula to go with the mini 2 egg cast iron pan my buddy gave me.

Then I got a text about the closet organizer I posted on craigslist so I had to run home pack it into car to run down to the Applebees (i try not to have anyone meet me at my apt anymore unless I have to cause I can't load the item into the car). Then I had to run home to pick up Moo Moo for her very appt.

Moo Moo's visit want well minus she had an accident in the carrier. I guess since she's so acclimated to using the bathroom outside now, when I locked her in the apt for the appt, even though she had access to the box and even though she played in it, she didn't want to use it so she must have gotten too scared during the trip to the vet that she couldn't hold it anymore. It had been almost 24 hours she was in the apt, if not more.

Today after Wal-mart, I finished taking the bed apart, went to Dim Sum with my old report from the job that brought me out to Delaware. Ran to Best Buy to have the Samsung guys try to fix my phone, then had to run home to pick up Weeze to take her to the groomers. Ran home to get in a quick nap before grabbing an early dinner, stopping by Costco to drop off the old battery so I could get my core refund and picking up a furniture

dolly from Habor Freight to help me with my moving and then back to pick up Weeze. Apparently all of her scratching has to do with the new food that I switched her over from. Since she is moving Wed, I didn't want to pick up a whole 25 lb bag of food from Costco, so I ran to the grocery store and picked up the best quality food I could and she;s been eating that for a week or two now and she's been scratching like crazy. So today while I was at Petco, I bought here some more different new food to try to mix to see if she gets better. I might give her some Benedryl tonight to help with her night itching.

I also started working on the insulative black out blinds tonight.

I've been kind of distracted cause there's this truck with trailer double parked outside my apartment with someone sitting in there for about 3 hours now. I remember seeing that some truck the morning I discovered that my car was broken into. I think it's weird that they've been sitting out there for so long. My apartment is now dark (they used to have building lights but now they are all out). It would be easy for someone to break into my car and no one to see anything since it is so dark, I made extra sure that my car is locked and the alarm is set, but I know the guy has seen me walk out there a million times working on my black out blinds. The last time I went out there, "to get something from my car," he turned his headlights on......was that so I couldn't see in at who he was? I'm skeeved out worried that my car is going to get broken into again. I don;t have much of value in there anymore except for the solar battery and the solar panel itself and my car. If they take my car, I don't know what I'd do for this road trip.

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