High School Reunion
My friend Kelly emailed me yesterday to inform me that she is considering a move to Portland. I told her no teasing -- either she's coming or she's not, and if she's going to dangle that carrot in front of me, she'd best prepare to follow through. She gets here in ten days, and will be staying in my new place while she finds a job! Shanon and Kelly know each other from high school, too. As far as I know, we're the only AHS alumni from our general era (Kelly and I were '01 and Shanon was '02) in Portland, but to have two of my high school besties in my town, 3000 miles away from our hometown, is pretty awesome.
Speaking of the new place...we signed the paperwork today and handed over payment, but closing doesn't officially happen until Thursday morning. The inspection is tomorrow, so if something's off on that, we can still back out, but I'm so excited about it that you'd basically have to tell me it's highly radioactive and situated on top of a Native American burial ground and is haunted by hostile spirits. I can live with most anything short of that :)
We picked out floors today, and then I called my parents to tell them that we have a move-in date and also to ask for one of their spare oriental rugs. We're going to put down laminate floors (looks like hardwood, costs like plastic) on the first floor, but I think we'll want a rug for the living room space. My mom has a bit of a problem saying no to a good deal on oriental rugs, and was buying them left and right for a while when I was in high school and college. I think every room in their house is currently sporting a full-sized oriental rug. So I figured maybe she'd have an extra she'd be willing to part with. Apparently my brothers got the last of the spares, because she said she didn't have one, but then told me to tell her how much we were spending on the floors so she could help out with it. I was floored (heh, get it?). I told her that I wasn't calling to hit her up for money (especially since my parents gave us a fairly sizable loan to buy the house in the first place!), and I honestly didn't need her help, just wanted an extra rug if she had one. She insisted that it was a housewarming gift from her personal funds and she wanted to do it. Well, shit! She can certainly afford it, so I'm not going to say no to her generosity. Thanks, Mom! Since we're not getting one of her superfancy oriental rugs, I think it'd be fun to go with something whimsical like a world map. I'll probably spend most of my downtime at work tomorrow shopping for rugs and other householdy things. If anyone has links to good places to shop for fun, inexpensive area rugs, hook me up!
Thursday is moving day! (And so is Friday, and Saturday, and Sunday...)
Speaking of the new place...we signed the paperwork today and handed over payment, but closing doesn't officially happen until Thursday morning. The inspection is tomorrow, so if something's off on that, we can still back out, but I'm so excited about it that you'd basically have to tell me it's highly radioactive and situated on top of a Native American burial ground and is haunted by hostile spirits. I can live with most anything short of that :)
We picked out floors today, and then I called my parents to tell them that we have a move-in date and also to ask for one of their spare oriental rugs. We're going to put down laminate floors (looks like hardwood, costs like plastic) on the first floor, but I think we'll want a rug for the living room space. My mom has a bit of a problem saying no to a good deal on oriental rugs, and was buying them left and right for a while when I was in high school and college. I think every room in their house is currently sporting a full-sized oriental rug. So I figured maybe she'd have an extra she'd be willing to part with. Apparently my brothers got the last of the spares, because she said she didn't have one, but then told me to tell her how much we were spending on the floors so she could help out with it. I was floored (heh, get it?). I told her that I wasn't calling to hit her up for money (especially since my parents gave us a fairly sizable loan to buy the house in the first place!), and I honestly didn't need her help, just wanted an extra rug if she had one. She insisted that it was a housewarming gift from her personal funds and she wanted to do it. Well, shit! She can certainly afford it, so I'm not going to say no to her generosity. Thanks, Mom! Since we're not getting one of her superfancy oriental rugs, I think it'd be fun to go with something whimsical like a world map. I'll probably spend most of my downtime at work tomorrow shopping for rugs and other householdy things. If anyone has links to good places to shop for fun, inexpensive area rugs, hook me up!
Thursday is moving day! (And so is Friday, and Saturday, and Sunday...)