finally, some breathing space.
why so busy? having baby + buying house + moving + leading an andc = busy busy busy.
but now that’s all over, and i can get some stuff done. phew! oh wait, did we have that baby yet? shoot. the baby we did have was the andc that w and i co-lead on friday. it was all fracked up, man. but in a good way. basically we just tried to break everything so we could put it back together all funny. everything was darker, moody, with lots of art and different kinds of music, and things unexpected. and no one died.
as an added bonus paula came up from lost angels and even roo came out from chicago to come see our hijinks!
it was great having them out to visit us and the new house, which roo helped shape up even further: the kitchen is now (mostly) vanquished! she had me bring up the shelves out of the office and use them to solve the liquor/cookbook/microwave problem. now the spices are up back in their rack instead of in a box in the floor. and no more pile-‘o-knives™!
as for the rest of the house, it’s sloowly coming together. boxes everywhere, but they haven’t spread back into the “clean” rooms. we’re determined to not put in any ugly furniture in our new house. however, that leaves us with more things than storage. thus, things remain in boxes. and it occurs to me that we’ve got 2½ months to figure this out.
i do wish that things could just STOP BREAKING for a while. i’ve already got my big list of things that i need to fix/install already, so i would appreciate it if the things that are already working would NOT DIE on me. at least just yet. for example, in the last month i’ve lost the roku soundbridge music server, hmc’s car cd player, and the clothes washer (which seems to be trying to eat our clothes). and now just this weekend the modem on the tivo died (are you kidding?). and then toilet exploded. almost literally. well, the fill valve inside the toilet tank, anyway. just when i figured out how to fix that, the toilet tank gasket chose that exact moment to also disintegrate before my very eyes. which was sort of weird and creepy, because it caused blue water to drip everywhere. why blue? WHY INDEED. i finally figured out that the gasket it was probably dyed deep blue from years of hockey puck toilet bowl cleaners, turning the water blue and staining my bathroom tile. thanks!
i can now say that i more or less completely understand how to fix a toilet. i can also now say that my hands are dyed deep blue like thing one (or thing two).
Posted at June 21, 2007 9:15 PM | TrackBackYou asked me for mortgage advice. I forgot to add the home ownership is a royal pain in the ass. Sorry. I will try and remember next time.
Posted by: ohbejuan at June 22, 2007 6:32 PM