Yes, I'm still around. I've gotten so caught up in house stuff and writing and cooking and being all social and shit that I've hardly had time to sleep, much less poke my head in here and say "hi." The only reason I'm sitting down now to update is pure foolery: I got a new phone this week, and I was testing the camera this afternoon by snapping ( Read more... )

Over the last 2 weeks, I have bought:

• 2.5 lbs of chicken cutlets for $7.00
• 1 lb of garlic sausage for $3.00
• 1 lb of bratwurst for $3.00
• 1 lb of tomatoes for $1.50
• 1 dozen bagels for $4.00

• 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.

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Yesterday's mini-reunion at WAC for the Neil Gaiman reading was leagues more incredible than I could have hoped for, and I'll gush and babble about that once I've had a chance to recover.  All I'll say for the time being is that I'm very proud of the fact I managed to make it through the event and the subsequent signing and photo op without crying ( Read more... )

I'm exhausted, and my schedule as of late seems to indicate I have no concept of self preservation.

• Saturday: spent 7 hours cleaning my house and unpacking random items.  Started to clean bathroom sink and was shocked to discover the brilliant gleam of the bright copper basin (I'd thought it was supposed to be a rustic "tarnished" dark copper, but ( Read more... )

Did the property inspection today. My god, I love that house even more than I did the first time I saw it. I was there for 3 hours this morning with the realtor, the inspector, the FHA appraiser, and two very dear family friends (standing in for Mom and Steve since they're on vacation this week). I took a ton of pictures since most of the ( Read more... )

April looks like it will turn out to be quite the exciting month indeed. I will be visiting my alma mater at the same time as Neil Gaiman, I will (hopefully) close on the house (yes, Neil Gaiman absolutely trumps buying my first house), and I will spend the night at Barnes & Nobel the night of 07 April so I can get my hands on this.

Okay, I lied ( Read more... )

So today was the day ( Read more... )

Okay. So.  Saw the contender house today.  For the past few weeks, I've been fixated on that other house, the one that had its claws in me so deep, the one that was extraordinary and perfect but cursed with on street parking and an unreasonable price.  I was fully prepared to jump on it anyway and worry about parking later because I was so in love ( Read more... )

I found my house ( Read more... )