The wheel in the sky, it indeed keeps on turnin'

Last night, we celebrated stef-is-super's birthday with a dinner followed by chocolate pie with brownie bits topped with whipped cream and toffee chunks! Yum!

Tonight we're going to a Journey sing-a-long featuring band videos and live accompaniment. It promises to be awesomely bad! Woot! Break out yer mullet wigs and start cryin'!

Tomorrow we turn in our keys to the old place and say goodbye to that haven of silverfish with the outdoor(?) laundry room and the les enfants terribles across the ravine. (Um, we don't care to listen to what you're listening to at 3am.)

Saturday we relax, take in the local Pride parade, and unpack. And unpack. And unpack. Oh, yeah, and unpack some more.

Finally finished

Whew! We spent all day yesterday cleaning the old place, even steam-cleaning the carpets*. The only thing we have left to get is the lawnmower and the rake. Then we're outta there!

We're settling in quite nicely into the new house. Sure, there's a ton of boxes in the garage to be unpacked, but the kitchen is mostly set up and we have cable now. (Thank the gods! I was going through withdrawal!)

Oh, and May is the 2-year anniversary of HN! Congrats to us!

*It's required in our lease. Otherwise, I would have let that ancient shitty carpet go with a good vacuuming instead.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzz

Well the move went fairly well. Nothing broke. No one got hurt. I'm so tired I'm running on autopilot. I still don't know how I drove the 25 miles to work this morning, but I got here, so who cares, right? The new digs are shaping up nicely; unfortunately, the old digs still need to be cleaned and all the remainders of our belongings need to be hauled out (some clothes, a few kitchen items, and the lawnmower).

I want to send a huge shout-out to Steven, Mary, CJ, John and Doug for helping us out. We could have done it without you, but honestly, we'd still be loading that damn truck 2 days later. So, thank you thank you thank you!

In the midnight hour I cried more more more!

Today we rustled up 4 helpers for tomorrow --- and a fifth tonight. Whew! After a week of moving carload after carload of stuff, I'm so looking forward to help.

Well, it's late and I'm zonked. More news Monday.

Brief hiatus

We're moving to new digs, so no new posts until next week. Have a lovely weekend. We will --- moving our stuff all by ourselves. Did I mention we were tough? Cuz we are.

Zonked

Baby G and I spent the weekend running errands and getting ready to move. This morning I am exhausted. School's out so the library is actually quiet.

Daxie has been extra neurotic lately, most likely due to all the new boxes in "his" house. He really didn't like it when I took down all the picture frames. He pouted for two days! He's been stress-eating too. His bowl o' food gets wolfed down the minute I fill it. Of course the incidence of kitty puke has risen. No biggie; I have to steam clean that disgusting carpet before we turn in our keys anyway.

Weekend Wrapup

Blogger ate my original post. (Ahhh, technology...) Anyhoo, here's a brief recap:

• I am glad Paris Hilton is going to jail.
• I'm tired from partying all night Saturday with Mel-a-rific n' pals. (Have fun stormin' the castle!)
• Moving plans are moving right along.

Things I am digging riiiiiiiiiight now!

• Patrick Wolf's The Magic Position. It's poppy, it's sad, it's a hot mess and I can't stop listening!
• Sugar. I think I've eaten 2 rolls of mini-Sprees and 6 Hershey minis. Drool...
• The Office. A new ep shows tonight!
• Moving into new digs. I can't wait to live in a new place; however, I am decidedly not digging the actual moving process.
• CafePress. More info coming soon!
• The Wizard of Oz. I'm currently reading a book of essays about Oz and L. Frank Baum. Very fascinating. Who knew my favorite children's series was so subversive? The books were definitely not about "going home." If anything, they were a call to children everywhere to run away! Wooo!
• Short sleeve shirts and comfy sandals. Summer is coming.
• Cake decorating. I have a feeling it's going to be my next crazy hobby.