So I really do like my neighbors. One of them, at least. Haven't met the other ones, just seen them at a distance. Which, now that I think about it, is a generally good thing. Amendment: I like my neighbors ( Read more... )

A visit from Dad last week, and my house has made leaps and bounds. We got the washer/dryer installed, and dryer vent extended, for one. I cannot express my glee at having a washer/dryer IN MY HOUSE and not having to treck up and down four flights of stairs, keep a card or pocketful of quarters, deal with broken machines or people who leave their ( Read more... )

As of Friday, I'm (more or less) officially out of the apartment. I still have a bike to pick up and keys to drop off, but I'm foregoing the walkthrough for the sake of being done. I would probably have been more sentimental upon leaving the last time, but I was so dirty from cleaning and hauling crap and my feet hurt (note to self, flip-flops are ( Read more... )

I'd actually hoped to post about my Amazingly Bad Day at work tonight, but, in keeping with my Amazingly Bad Day, work was insane. Rife with ego and annoying nitpicky stories ( Read more... )

Durga is Displeased with all this moving nonsense. I can't say that I blame her. I'm none too pleased with it myself. But she doesn't like all the things disappearing, and the steady loss of her favorite places to lay and hide. She keeps wandering about the boxes looking quite perplexed, then looking back at me and just meowing at the top of her ( Read more... )

The closer I get to moving out of the apartment, the more I'm really looking forward to it. I'm sure house-living will come with its own set of irritants, but all of a sudden all the things I took as a matter of course about apartments is now driving me nuts.

Most notably, all the other peopleI never really noticed before how many people tromp ( Read more... )

...or, Potentially Deadly Encounter With An Avocado ( Read more... )

My name has been signed roughly a thousand times, there is reams of paperwork making sure I will pay off my Giant Debt, and at last... the house is mine ( Read more... )

I really can't put it any better than bamfchickie did, so I won't try, but indeed it is true... though it never precisely went away, Left Turn is back. Whether you're a new player, old player, or just want to read along and be a part of our beautiful little dysfunctional family, please stop by and don't be shy! :)

There really is no place like home... :p

This house-buying thing involves a lot of money! And phone calls! Why did no one TELL me?! ;)