when in doubt, nap.

weeeeee got the house!

we're moving in sometime between now and tuesday. it's cheaper to keep the hotel room until tuesday than to move out before then, because we get a big discount for staying three weeks, a couple hundred dollars. since the earliest we'd move out anyway is sunday or monday, we actually save like $150 by spending an extra night.

I slept a lot today. Put on some MP3s and completely zoned out, when I should have been getting ready. I blame Mirah and Future Sound of London. Uncle Spanky came by between Lexington KY (where he lives) and Cleveland (where the relatives live), so I hung out with him briefly, showed him the VAIO. Need to name the VAIO in a continuing Atomic Bomb theme; thinking of either Priscilla or Trinity II. Also, arwen_isobel finally had a bath today; she was taken to the grooming salon at Petsmart. She smelled really bad after not being bathed for almost four weeks, but now she's smelling good and looking pretty, and I'm very impressed that she behaved herself for the groomer.

I'm gonna play AOE for a while, then I'm going to sleep. Again. Rock.

Tomorrow I need to get:
- a vacuum cleaner
- a library card
- a house key

also, happy birthday to misshell and shrijani! :)

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This is me, still very awake. Though soon I'll catch at least a few hours of sleep (probably like 8-1).

My legs hurt! I don't know what I did to them, but they're acting up again, and I am having back problems.

Thinking of all the things I need to do. Looking at decorating sites - not that I'll be doing a lot of decorating, but there are a handful of things needed for the house. A dining table, an area rug for the living room, bookshelves, curtains. I really want the Birdy curtains from Urbn.com - I saw them in a store this spring and really liked them, but they've taken this long to show up online. I also want to paint the wall behind my bed, lease be damned. But if I can't I might mount a curtain rod (just four little holes!) and hang some fabric. I'm trying to have a "grown-up" room, not so cluttered and stylistically confused.

There are some issues with bedroom arrangement... the momster is now trying to make me take the other bedroom, the one she initially wanted, because it "faces west" and will be "hot in the afternoon". I think this is basically absurd because, first of all, she will rarely be in it in the actual afternoon (hello! job!) and because this is not florida - how hot can it possibly get in February? Furthermore, for fifteen years I had a bedroom that also faced west AND stuck out on the north end of the house, so it was poorly insulated, freezing in the winter and overheated during the summer. I'm going to be paying rent, so give me a break, mom....

Anyway, I finally got my mailbox working, so I can get mail on this account again. I did not, however, actually read anything or play any games while being up all night. Just looked at house-related sites. & looked for a big-key keyboard for my grandfather (who has Parkinson's & likes to tinker on his computer, but has problems hitting keys accurately), but the one I found was $450... there has to be something easier than that! maybe just a keyguard on a more normal keyboard.