2010-10-31
All 3 kitties
I was taking a nap on J's lap, 'cos it looked super comfy. Apparently the kitties decided I looked super comfy too, 'cos one after another, they all piled onto me. :D
2010-09-23
At last
An office! With a door and everything! Only... the walls don't go all the way up to the ceiling, so aside from visual privacy, the overall privacy is still quite poor. Plus the doors don't lock anyway. But I shouldn't complain. I have all my crap that I need, plus a bonus door I can close, and bonus lights I can choose to turn on or off. Good enough! :)
2010-09-06
The Tyranny of Stuff
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jadia
Our stuff finally arrived, after going AWOL for a solid month. Yep, all 7,000 lbs of it, sitting boxed up and stacked 4 high in our living room, kitchen, and bedroom. It arrived in an 18-wheeler, and took 3 dudes 4 hours to unload. If ever there were 18 wheels of pain, this would have been it. Happily, all our stuff does in fact fit into our new apartment (at least, by volume).
To make matters worse, the landlord and his plumber chose that same day to work on installing the dishwasher, and moving the drain pipe to make our washer/dryer sit better, so the kitchen looked like a bomb went off in it, and smelled alternately of burning metal, scorched wood, and solder.
We started unpacking today, and the bedroom is approaching completion. We have to wash the bed linens before we can actually sleep in that room... and probably buying some curtains would be nice too. There are three large windows in the bedroom, 1 facing east, 2 facing south, and all of them facing some combination of the street, and our neighbors. Oh well, at least we get fabulous light in that room. :)
We've successfully deployed 4 of 5 bookcases, but because they're all boxed in (haha, literally), we haven't been able to actually use them as crash space for unpacking. The 5th bookcase is leaning against the wall in its component parts, but at least it's in its final location.
The bicycles have found their ways to the porch. The motorcycles are locked up in the driveway, tucked well back from the street. Our car has 2 more days of out-of-state permit parking before we need to find some other place to stash it. We need to get it insured and registered, then we'll have more permanent resident parking.
Things appear to be moving right along. Hopefully we'll have a housewarming sometime before the end of the year. Last time we moved, it took about 4 months before the house was in good enough shape to throw a housewarming. Hopefully this time we'll be a bit faster about it.
jadiaOur stuff finally arrived, after going AWOL for a solid month. Yep, all 7,000 lbs of it, sitting boxed up and stacked 4 high in our living room, kitchen, and bedroom. It arrived in an 18-wheeler, and took 3 dudes 4 hours to unload. If ever there were 18 wheels of pain, this would have been it. Happily, all our stuff does in fact fit into our new apartment (at least, by volume).
To make matters worse, the landlord and his plumber chose that same day to work on installing the dishwasher, and moving the drain pipe to make our washer/dryer sit better, so the kitchen looked like a bomb went off in it, and smelled alternately of burning metal, scorched wood, and solder.
We started unpacking today, and the bedroom is approaching completion. We have to wash the bed linens before we can actually sleep in that room... and probably buying some curtains would be nice too. There are three large windows in the bedroom, 1 facing east, 2 facing south, and all of them facing some combination of the street, and our neighbors. Oh well, at least we get fabulous light in that room. :)
We've successfully deployed 4 of 5 bookcases, but because they're all boxed in (haha, literally), we haven't been able to actually use them as crash space for unpacking. The 5th bookcase is leaning against the wall in its component parts, but at least it's in its final location.
The bicycles have found their ways to the porch. The motorcycles are locked up in the driveway, tucked well back from the street. Our car has 2 more days of out-of-state permit parking before we need to find some other place to stash it. We need to get it insured and registered, then we'll have more permanent resident parking.
Things appear to be moving right along. Hopefully we'll have a housewarming sometime before the end of the year. Last time we moved, it took about 4 months before the house was in good enough shape to throw a housewarming. Hopefully this time we'll be a bit faster about it.
2010-08-08
Moving to the right coast
J and I have arrived in our new town.... We're in a bizarre state of limbo where I have to work, but have no office; and we can paint the walls in the new apartment, but can't move in. Intellectually, I know that this would happen, but from an emotive / instinctive level, I still find it oddly upsetting to be so rootless.
We are staying at a friend's house, and he has basically rented us a room for the time being. It won't be much longer now before we will be allowed to actually occupy our new place, except for the fact that all our furniture and other worldly possessions are... somewhere in a truck, toodling along across the country at a nice, leisurely pace (in short, I have no idea where it is).
Then there is the matter of my cats, which are bumping along in their individual kennels, riding in my car with J's dad and brother, somewhere in the vasty wildernesses. I miss them a lot, and I hope they make it across safely.
2010-07-06
The Secret in Their Eyes (El secreto de sus ojos)
I was utterly enthralled by the story, both the past and the present. We debated the events depicted in the film the whole ride home. The Secret in Their Eyes leaves you with countless implications, and lets you sift through them until you, like the main character, arrive at the inescapable truth (although ymmv).
In short, it's good. It's complicated. Go see it. :)
2010-07-05
Avatar: The Last Airbender
M. Night Shyamalan EPIC FAIL.
The actors were atrocious, the CG removed from reality, the plot line divorced from all sense of plausibility.... Need I go on? Give this movie a pass if you value your hard-earned cash.
The only upside to this movie was that it got us out of 4th of July post-fireworks traffic.
2010-06-25
Karate Kid
Having immigrated from Beijing to the US when I was roughly the age of the boy, I really empathized deeply with the character. Children can be so cruel.
Jackie Chan plays a creepy old dude pretty well. I wasn't entirely convinced by the car scene, but overall I thought the movie did a fair, faithful adaptation of the original.
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