I would like to note that while homemade cleaning solutions may be a nice, environmentally friendly, cheap thought, there is something to be said for commercial products that workThis message brought to you by the oil and lemon juice concoction I used to attempt to remove visible scratches from my dining room table (but which instead left the table ( Read more... )

With a couple LJ-cuts, because this got long.

***Comic Shop Sales***

On Saturday, tartary_lamb, maiea, and I went to the closing sale of a comic shop to see if we could score any deals, despite having checked it out already earlier in the sale. maiea got several things, tartary_lamb got a trade, and despite my budget restrictions, I allowed myself to be talked into using $7 of my ( Read more... )

Yesterday, just ten days before I will have lived here for 1 year, we got our smoke detector replaced. I could have done it myself, but waiting means the Strata paid for it. Anyway, new smoke detector!

For those of you going, "OMG, she waited to replace such an essential piece of safety equipment because of money?", I was never in danger of ( Read more... )

You know, I think Life decided that the post I made saying that nothing much was happening was an invitation to make life interesting very abruptly. *g ( Read more... )

It is time for you to laugh at me. Laugh very hard.

I have locked myself out of my condo. Fortunately for me, aureliapriscus is not home and asleep, as I had feared, but it as her parents place doing a computer thing for them. This is very good, because if she had been asleep, I'd be out here in the hallway (I followed someone into the building) all night. ( Read more... )

I promised folks pictures of the condo once it was looking more like a home and less like a storage room. *g* So here they are. 18 pics this time (taken with my iPhone again), because I felt like there was more worth seeing, if you're interested.

( lots of medium-large photos under the cut )

The weekend after the move, we did some exploring of our new neighbourhood.

( not that long, but cut for consistency with previous posts *g* )

After coming back from MediaWest on May 25th, I was plunged directly into condo stuff. May 27th was the closing date, so I met with my lawyer on May 26th and signed quite a bit of paperwork. Signature, initial, initial, initial, signature, signature...all in duplicate. That went smoothly ( Read more... )

I am all moved into my new home! My new home that I own. If I never want to move again, I never have to. It's all my choice.

\o/

Today went very smoothly, but there was some condo drama Wednesday night and Thursday all day. I'll post about it later - I'm just enjoying being moved now. That and the drama I'd too long to write out on my iPhone. *g*

Now ( Read more... )

I am so tense and nervous over this condo closing that I'm ready to scream. I'm actually periodically rocking back and forth in my chair ( Read more... )