Moving Tip: Avoid Moving in an Ice Storm

February 6, 2008 · Filed Under Life ·

Menstrual Poetry Headquarters has officially been moved!

The boyfriend and I moved on February first, and it was definitely an exciting time for me. I have a great love of moving and new surroundings and the fact that being in the same place for two years was getting to me, not to mention he had been in our old apartment for nine years prior to my moving in with him, we probably shouldn’t have made the move in February. Our move was quite spontaneous; our old apartment’s roof was leaking in several spots and looked as if it were about to cave in at the next rain or snow fall and our landlord was completely disinterested in the entire fact that not only was our roof in horrible shape, but other things around the house that he had “fixed” were not indeed as fixed as he may have been under the impression they were. Within just a day of my incessant bitching about the state of the building that I believe needs to be condemned, we found a new place with a kick ass landlord and moved in as soon as possible.

February is by far the worst month weather-wise in Pennsylvania. February is when the extremely large snow falls happen, which I’ve been used to, living in the same area all my life, but little did we know, freak ice storms also happen to occur in February!

While moving the majority of our belongings from our old apartment and into the uHaul sitting outside, it looked as if it were raining. The steps were wet, but as I was carrying a heavy box down the two flights of very rickety steps outside to get to the front of our apartment building, I slid down one and then another and then, at 5am, all that could be heard was “Holy shit! Not rain, not rain.”

After a few hours, we finally had all of our stuff in the uHaul outside and we drove from our old, should be condemned apartment and an hour north of where we were, where the weather only got worse and the streets only got icier along with the porch of our new apartment completely covered in several sheets of ice.

12 hours later, we were completely moved in but the ice still wasn’t letting up. 6 days later, most of the boxes are unpacked, the apartment is looking great, and our office is gorgeous and much roomier than our last. Good choice to move, absolutely wonderful new apartment, never moving in February again.

Tags: moving, Pennsylvania, weather

New Theme to Match the New Apartment

February 6, 2008 · Filed Under Menstrual Poetry News ·

I figured that it was only logical that while my daily surroundings have changed drastically, this website’s look should be spruced up a bit as well. I went back to the old colors that Menstrual Poetry had towards the beginning and also went a bit simpler with the colors and the design in general.

I feel as if more websites need to go back to the simpler designs and avoid the designs with the black backgrounds and neon green and pink text colors. Simple pays off, simple puts people at ease, or at the very least makes what you have to say a lot easier to read. Outrageous neon colors on black backgrounds makes eyes bleed.

Hope you enjoy the new theme!

Tags: moving, updates, web design, Wordpress, Wordpress theme

Menstrual Poetry Headquarters is Moving!

January 28, 2008 · Filed Under Menstrual Poetry News ·

The lack of updates, along with the missing week of Feminism at its Finest is due to packing up the last 2 years of material possessions I have accumulated along with the boyfriend’s past 9 years of accumulated junk into boxes and moving!

Moving is, of course, a very exciting (especially if you’re leaving Scranton, Pennsylvania, which I cannot even begin to stress how happy it makes me to say that I am) but also a very hectic time with very little else left in the day to do but eat and sleep. However, within a few days we shall be completely moved into our new place, internet will hopefully be set up soon after, and Menstrual Poetry will be back not only in full swing, but better (and more frequent) than before!

Tags: moving, updates