Okay, so I've been away from this site for too long (and don't even get me going on commenting) and I have much to post (2 interviews, a meme) and write and now, after 25 minutes on the phone with nice guy George from Comcast this morning, I have Internet for the first time in about a week.
Let me just say, "HURRAY, INTERNET!"
The only excuse for my absence (of which there are many) that may be of remote interest can be explained by the Jefferson's theme song. Yes, I did move on up, to the deluxe apartment (well, it has a eat-in kitchen, a fireplace, a view of the Pru, and a bedroom closet that doesn't make me want to slit my wrists, so deluxe to me) in the sky-y-y (2nd floor).
The genesis of this moved actually came from 2 bathroom tiles, if you can believe it. Two located in the shower that landed squarely on Mike's man-of-steel foot. Mike did his best to patch up the wall and we called the management company.
My guess is that when the looked behind a few more of the tiles in the fix-it process, they didn't like what they saw because, um...:
I mean, I'm no "contractor" or "wall" "expert" or anything but that looks pretty bad, right? Later I'd see they had to rip the ENTIRE bathroom apart (and "Hi! toilet in the hallway and good day, Mr. Sink in my old bedroom!"), not just the walls within the shower.
This naturally left us without a shower, however, there was an open apartment upstairs which we could use the shower while they fixed it. Let me tell you, nothing like walking throughout a building in your towel/bathrobe/pj's to take a shower. But silver lining here, they said we could have the nicer apartment if we wanted it. Surprise, surprise, we took it.
So, it has been 2 weeks of packing and unpacking, throwing shit out by 11 units' refuse containers-full (oops, our bad), going up the stairs and down the stairs eleventeen billion times and transporting items what we couldn't fit here like 2 air conditioners and sofa tables down the street at our friends, Steve & Heather's. (thanks, guys! I think there is only one more blue tub to come and that's it. I swear). I have been exhausted.
Other than streamlining all the crap you've accumulated in the past few years which is always good idea (I found an old college textbook I've hung onto for far too long in which a 19 year old me wrote on the stacked pages side of the book, "I will NOT expose the ignorance of my teachers" - B. Simpson." In calligraphy, because I roll classy) but my true feelings on moving can be best be summed up as dramatized here by Libs:
I don't see why we just can't PAY someone to do it.
But we're in, the boxes are unloaded, and now comes the "fun" part of hanging stuff back up and finding homes for the rest of the stuff.
Now I get to make the place Home.
(p.s. does anybody know where I put the cord to my battery charger for my digital camera? )
Is that really your new place? It's beautiful! Talk about finally getting a piece of the pie!
But wait-- Does it have closets? I hope it has closets!
Posted by: roo | October 14, 2006 at 02:11 PM
closets? yeah (I linked the bedroom one) tho the place is just configured differently, so some space (bathroom) is much less where others (kitchen has a pantry-like one, bedroom) are improved. I put a few more on my flickr pages...
Posted by: jen | October 14, 2006 at 02:36 PM
I feel your pain about moving. I am still recovering. Your new place looks fab.
You live across the street from a dog park!? Oh my god. Spa day looked wonderful! You have been seriously busy.
Posted by: marnie | October 14, 2006 at 02:42 PM
Moving sucks. I couldn't believe all the expired FOOD I had hanging out in my cabinets. 5 year old Campbells Soup,anyone? Not to mention the 6 gallons of expired infant cold medicine I poured out.
New place looks awesome, though!
Posted by: Amy | October 14, 2006 at 07:17 PM
Wow, looks spacious. I am happy for you that you finally have a real closet. That's got to help with respect to your space issues.
And geez, judging from the pics, you're more unpacked and decorated than I am -- even though I've been here for almost 4 yrs now. Sigh.
Posted by: Nancy | October 14, 2006 at 09:04 PM
Oh my GOD! This fireplace looks like something out of a Nora Ephron movie. I am suffering from unadulterated envy at this moment. And it's killing me.
Posted by: wordgirl | October 16, 2006 at 10:11 AM
Moving sucks donkey balls, but it does force you to get rid of the useless shit you've been saving for years.
Also your new place is so pretty!
Posted by: TB | October 16, 2006 at 07:59 PM
Kudos on the move and the fireplace! Even though I love my house and never want to move again ever ever, seeing a shiny clean new place like yours always makes me want to move. Also, I've never seen a closet like that before, either in Ohio or out here in Seattle--interesting!
Posted by: Shannon | October 17, 2006 at 11:59 AM
A Big closet? Ooooooooo. Heaven.
And sistah, I feel ya on the whole "throwing shit away that should have been dumped years ago, but You just never got around it it...."
Posted by: Dawn | October 17, 2006 at 02:43 PM
New closet! HURRAY!
That place looks gorgeous! So are you throwing a blogging party at your new joint?
Posted by: halloweenlover | October 18, 2006 at 03:41 PM
I'll help you look for your camera charger, if you'll help me find that other shoe to the pair I love best in the world.
Deal?
(Congrats on the new place. It looks loverly!!)
Posted by: Contrary | October 18, 2006 at 04:49 PM