Continuing my abuse of the bullet point feature...
- I am now officially settled into my house for real now that Verizon finally came out and fixed my phone line. So now I get to use my own wireless connection and not steal the internet hop onto the local unsecured network. I'm greedy, so my network is locked tight.
- I went nuts at the Farmer's Market yesterday and bought a few pounds of produce. Maybe it was because I was overly excited to have fresh food, maybe it was because I was a panicky, frazzled mess, but I became a woman possessed and spent $20+ on fruit and veggies in about 3 minutes flat. That's a lot of produce. But it makes for a lot of home cooked meals, at long last!
- As such, I'm quite eager for dinner tonight. Spicy Thai chicken, forbidden rice, and steamed asparagus finished with garlic bernaise. Kind of an eclectic menu, but I've been hungry for each of those things separately, and am just drunk with glee at present.
- My grandfather is the master of growing tomatoes, and he's got the best dirt EVER for doing just that. He brought a few buckets of his dirt out today for my container garden, which is home now to my very own German Johnson tomato plant. I know nothing about gardening or keeping plants alive, so this ought to be interesting.
- Mina is literally drooling at the sight of the birds hanging out on my balcony right now. This is equal parts hilarious and horrifying. I'm fighting the urge to tie a towel around her neck to catch the drool. Yick.
- I should do something productive like laundry and unpacking, but I'm so blissed out in my office right now that I can't bring myself to leave this room.
- In the last two weeks, I've had more social engagements than I've had in the last two years combined. I definitely like living closer to civilization and to the friends who live in said civilization.
- This is an excruciatingly boring update, but I'm mellow and happy and still have the big, dopey grin plastered to my face, so I'll not apologize.
- All of the signs pictured will be obtained for my basement once I have money for frivolous spending. I'm being overly cautious at present (well, other than the Farmer's Market spree) until I see what my monthly expenses really look like. I don't like having to guess at what my electric and gas and water bills will look like. So until I see some actual numbers, I'm just going to have to be all miserly and dream of the day when I can buy these safety signs.
