Joan Rivers died and a jury found the former governor of Virginia and his wife guilty of a whole mess of corruption charges ( Read more... )

I did another blind. They are a genuine pain in the ass in the present window frames, so one a day isn't a bad pace. Better do a box before I go to bed, or at this rate we'll be unpacking until next spring.

Moving is so awful ( Read more... )

( So, um ... we bought a house! )

So holy crap: I got married. Every day I see the rings on my left hand and am surprised again how different they look than the engagement ring by itself. I am becoming accustomed to not just thinking of him, but also actually referring to him, as my husband - and other people aren't even blinking when I say it. And why should they - a husband ( Read more... )

Things I want to accomplish sooner rather than later:

• bookshelves
  
• DVD racks

Things I need to find before much more time goes by:

• tweezers
  
• the rest of my shoes
  
• that last box with the rest of the medicine cabinet in it, which contains two more months' worth of birth control pills

• Moved. Packing crew Wednesday, moving crew Thursday, Himself's folks brought over dinner on Thursday evening because we were surrounded by, you know, Boxhenge and couldn't possibly have fended for ourselves. We began the unpacking and have made decent dents in it. The kitchen is now functional. (Himself made dinner for himself last night while ( Read more... )

This morning some guys came to my apartment and in slightly less than two and a half hours accomplished an amount of packing that would have taken me whole weeks. Not long after they arrived I was felled with a splitting headache, which is pretty much gone now that they've been over at Himself's place for a couple of hours; I credit a prescription ( Read more... )

I have made a deposit to get the movers to come move our stuff!

By three weeks from today the moving should be finished and Himself and myself should be living in our new place!

Aaaaaa!

So the people who own the Friedrich house decided to go with a couple who were first to respond to their ad, which - since it's what I wish the people who own the original OMG HOUSE had done - I can't really argue with ( Read more... )