not mentioned: thots about the pose finale (it's such a fairytale and i might have teared up some)
happy late birthday amberdreams! your ideas for bigbang art are fabulous. :D also you're just a genuinely talented and nifty human being.
dancing boys: *tango!*
so it's been a week in the new place! and we're not at all unpacked. and it's definitely an adjustment living with another person. (especially since that other person has a tendency to just leave shit lying around instead of a. throwing it out, or b. putting it in the recycling. i've said "is this trash or recycling?" a lot in the past few days.) also something i wouldn't have expected? my new apartment is A LOT darker at night. i used to live on a main road next door to a gas station and across the street from a ball field, and there were a lot of street lights, and i was used to being able to navigate my house at night with the lights off. here, not so much. it's a nice neighborhood, tho. very, uh, neighborhoody. there are dogs. :D
the movers came a half hour early, which was great (and i was ready for them), and they were BABIES. but they kept carrying stuff out of my apartment. and then one of them told me they'd probably have to make two trips, because i have very tall bookcases that would have to go in the truck sideways which takes up a lot of room. i was not excited about this. at no point when i was actually booking them did the guy i talked to ask me what exactly i had - what furniture, how many boxes, that kind of thing. also it took probably an extra hour for the second trip, and i wasn't thrilled about paying for it. and it rained on and off all day! so my dining room table was quite wet when they brought it into the new place. (i wiped it off. the landlady had left us a roll of paper towels, a fresh still-wrapped sponge, a new shower curtain rod, and shiny new shower curtain hooks.) and they had to take the legs off my couch to get it in the door. >.< one of the guys just unscrewed the legs and then screwed them back on. this is why you hire professionals. they have professional tools. they came at 9 and left at 1:45 (which includes the second trip >.< ) and then i just kind of stood in the apartment surrounded by boxes and didn't know what to do with myself. and then farwing and her friends showed up and i had something to do. more or less.
the cable guy came tuesday and hooked up the cable and internet (took him three hours but he had to figure out why we didn't have service), and the plumber had to come to hook up the gas because the landlady had the kitchen walls replastered and whoever did it disconnected the gas and didn't reconnect it, and i couldn't make tea! and the weather was still cold! hmph. i had to text her - "this is probably a dumb question but why can't i turn on the stove?" she came upstairs to check it out and determined that the gas had probably been disconnected. anyway, now it works.
my closet is almost unworkably shallow - altho i did manage to unpack almost everything that hangs - and i'm totally stumped by having to organize the kitchen, by which i mean i haven't unpacked my pots and pans and cookie sheets and cutting boards, but i did unpack enough to bake cookies on friday because friend f had brunch yesterday! for people! in her house! and i made cookies and avocado and three bean salad for a group! instead of just for myself! and it was so nice! and i got to hug people and be hugged in return! and friend f's cats didn't hide from us! so friday night i baked cookies in my half unpacked weirdo kitchen (and had to jerry-rig cooling racks because mine are at the bottom of a box) and it was THE BEST. (also the cookies were really good. these chocolate chip cookies.) and yesterday after brunch i went to the comic shop which is open for browsers! and spent way too much money on comics! and it was also THE BEST. it was almost like the before times.
today we bought useful random shit (a dish drying rack, a shower caddy, other odds and ends) and went to the grocery store and during family zoom i learned that way back in the day my dad's maternal grandfather was a labor organizer for the international ladies garment workers union, and lost his job for it. (and then opened his own store.)
it is ridiculously hot out. ugh. and i really need to finish unpacking the kitchen.
the world's loneliest bus route - it's also north america's most northern bus route. it goes through alaska and i kind of want to travel it now. see a lot of very scenic nothing.
a little old lady in the uk knitted a model of sandringham house, one of the queen's houses. that's a lot of wool. O.O
home or hotel?
have a story about the first female cop in the us (at least she's widely assumed to be the first), and her first major case, which involved infiltrating a cult to find a missing british heiress in la.
a teenager in california pushed a bear off a garden wall because it grabbed one of her dogs. you have to watch the video - she just runs up to it and SHOVES. to be fair to the bear, the dogs did go at it first.
dancing boys: *tango!*
so it's been a week in the new place! and we're not at all unpacked. and it's definitely an adjustment living with another person. (especially since that other person has a tendency to just leave shit lying around instead of a. throwing it out, or b. putting it in the recycling. i've said "is this trash or recycling?" a lot in the past few days.) also something i wouldn't have expected? my new apartment is A LOT darker at night. i used to live on a main road next door to a gas station and across the street from a ball field, and there were a lot of street lights, and i was used to being able to navigate my house at night with the lights off. here, not so much. it's a nice neighborhood, tho. very, uh, neighborhoody. there are dogs. :D
the movers came a half hour early, which was great (and i was ready for them), and they were BABIES. but they kept carrying stuff out of my apartment. and then one of them told me they'd probably have to make two trips, because i have very tall bookcases that would have to go in the truck sideways which takes up a lot of room. i was not excited about this. at no point when i was actually booking them did the guy i talked to ask me what exactly i had - what furniture, how many boxes, that kind of thing. also it took probably an extra hour for the second trip, and i wasn't thrilled about paying for it. and it rained on and off all day! so my dining room table was quite wet when they brought it into the new place. (i wiped it off. the landlady had left us a roll of paper towels, a fresh still-wrapped sponge, a new shower curtain rod, and shiny new shower curtain hooks.) and they had to take the legs off my couch to get it in the door. >.< one of the guys just unscrewed the legs and then screwed them back on. this is why you hire professionals. they have professional tools. they came at 9 and left at 1:45 (which includes the second trip >.< ) and then i just kind of stood in the apartment surrounded by boxes and didn't know what to do with myself. and then farwing and her friends showed up and i had something to do. more or less.
the cable guy came tuesday and hooked up the cable and internet (took him three hours but he had to figure out why we didn't have service), and the plumber had to come to hook up the gas because the landlady had the kitchen walls replastered and whoever did it disconnected the gas and didn't reconnect it, and i couldn't make tea! and the weather was still cold! hmph. i had to text her - "this is probably a dumb question but why can't i turn on the stove?" she came upstairs to check it out and determined that the gas had probably been disconnected. anyway, now it works.
my closet is almost unworkably shallow - altho i did manage to unpack almost everything that hangs - and i'm totally stumped by having to organize the kitchen, by which i mean i haven't unpacked my pots and pans and cookie sheets and cutting boards, but i did unpack enough to bake cookies on friday because friend f had brunch yesterday! for people! in her house! and i made cookies and avocado and three bean salad for a group! instead of just for myself! and it was so nice! and i got to hug people and be hugged in return! and friend f's cats didn't hide from us! so friday night i baked cookies in my half unpacked weirdo kitchen (and had to jerry-rig cooling racks because mine are at the bottom of a box) and it was THE BEST. (also the cookies were really good. these chocolate chip cookies.) and yesterday after brunch i went to the comic shop which is open for browsers! and spent way too much money on comics! and it was also THE BEST. it was almost like the before times.
today we bought useful random shit (a dish drying rack, a shower caddy, other odds and ends) and went to the grocery store and during family zoom i learned that way back in the day my dad's maternal grandfather was a labor organizer for the international ladies garment workers union, and lost his job for it. (and then opened his own store.)
it is ridiculously hot out. ugh. and i really need to finish unpacking the kitchen.
the world's loneliest bus route - it's also north america's most northern bus route. it goes through alaska and i kind of want to travel it now. see a lot of very scenic nothing.
a little old lady in the uk knitted a model of sandringham house, one of the queen's houses. that's a lot of wool. O.O
home or hotel?
have a story about the first female cop in the us (at least she's widely assumed to be the first), and her first major case, which involved infiltrating a cult to find a missing british heiress in la.
a teenager in california pushed a bear off a garden wall because it grabbed one of her dogs. you have to watch the video - she just runs up to it and SHOVES. to be fair to the bear, the dogs did go at it first.