| My first glimpse of Percy! |
[May. 17th, 2008|08:37 pm] |
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He's adorable!!!!!! Cat emailed me these pictures of my soon-to-be adopted kitty!
He looks a lot like Brit, one of Tedford's cats that I was watching while they were in Georgia.
Sounds like Cat doesn't mind making the drive out to Boston once she's done with all the craziness of graduation and moving. On my way home today, I stopped at Petco and spent almost $80 on stuff for Percy... a super fluffy bed to sit in the window, an adorable catnip mouse, a kitty harness and leash (so I can gradually train him to take little walks out in the grass), a set of bowls that sit in a raised tray, a brush, and claw clippers. Tomorrow I'll probably go back for a litter box.
I was telling Tedford about Percy and about how I'm not sure what I'll do when it's time for my vacation in August, but he told me that he and Girl Chris once used a company that will come out to your house to feed and play with your animals, water your plants, and bring in your mail for only about $10 a day. So he's gonna get that number for me! Sounds sweet. That'd be so much less stressful on kitty than being boarded in a kennel or making the long coast-to-coast flight (although this fella has traveled all over the place so he's probably fairly used to it). Plus my folks already have two male cats at their place and I think bringing a visitor would cause trouble.
*Squeeeee!!!* I'm so freakin' happy now! You should have seen me in the pet store, hahahaha. I had to squish all the beds to find just the right one... I stood there clutching the catnip mouse, almost in a trance of blissful pet accessory planning... I took a look at the cat furniture and climbing posts, but I bet I could make one myself for far cheaper--plus then I could customize it so that the top level meets up perfectly with the window ledge in the living room.
*Happy sigh*
Today I rode up to New Hampshire with York and Tedford to attend Jason's son Davis' 3rd birthday party. Holy crap, there were a billion kids. Kelly works for a daycare school, so tons of those kids were there, plus the kids of all her coworkers. They had a freakin' bounce house set up in the yard! The weather was absolutely perfect. Kelly has been taking cake decorating classes, so the cake she made for Davis was a 3D construction in the shape of Disney Cars versions of Buzz and Woody!!! Freakin' awesome! Apparently she was up nearly all night doing it. The three of us felt a little awkward and out of place since none of us had children there, but it was still fun watching the mayhem. ^_^ Unfortunately York and Tedford didn't want to stay long enough for the adults party to begin... I guess once all the little kids go home, they're firing up a bonfire, cooking steak, and boozing the night away. We should have gone to THAT part of the party, haha. |
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| *Groan* |
[May. 17th, 2008|08:53 am] |
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Ohh.... headache... whyyyyyyy????? I've been waking up with headaches the past couple days and I haven't figured out why yet. Grr.
I realize I still haven't written about opening night of Cardenio or the all-company picnic we had on Thursday... I'll get to it eventually.
Yesterday I worked a few hours alone in the shop to finish up my week. I worked a little on my IKEA chairs too. Then Andrew showed up at the shop to say goodbye to me, but I hauled him out to lunch at the Thai place in Belmont before letting him leave for Maine. He's going to be super busy at his new gig up there so the chances of him finding free time to visit us here in Boston are slim. So we said our goodbyes and hugged and he went on his way. I'm going to miss him quite a bit actually. Andrew reminds me a lot of my friends back home.
When I got back to Waltham in the afternoon, my property manager Adolino was standing at my door. He'd come to take a look at my thermostat but he got here before me and had forgotten his keys, haha. He wasn't able to figure out what's wrong. He claimed he was going to come back in the evening with his tools, but he never did. But at least he was able to give me the okay regarding having a cat here.
I made a batch of mini cupcakes last night. I like them but I imagine others might think they're a little odd. I had a box of yellow cake mix, but I added some extra vanilla and some cocoa powder to the batter as well. And I had no icing (and no powdered sugar to make icing), so I just rolled the tops of the little cupcakes in a mixture of sugar and cocoa powder. They look like dusty little toadstools, haha. I think they're tasty--the cocoa powder on top keeps them from being super sweet, but that's kind of what I was aiming for. *Shrug* I've squirreled them away in little containers stacked on top of my fridge so I don't eat them all at once, haha.
I've got a batch of Amish Friendship Bread brewing in a bag on my table. Is it really Amish? I mean come on... the recipe asks for a package of instant pudding mix. ??? I don't know. But I do know that it's mighty tasty stuff so I asked for a batch of starter from Tedford. Heh, it smells like beer.
I straightened my apartment last night. I finally unpacked the majority of my boxes and found homes for the boxes of random crap I don't need to get into at present. So I have floor space again, woot! And my table is cleared off so you can actually notice the vase of lovely flowers standing on it. :-) I can see now that I will soon be in desperate need of a vacuum. The carpet is looking grosser and grosser since I track in random bits of dust whenever I come in from the laundry area.
I'm not sure why I chose to get up this early. My only plans for the day are to make an appearance at Jason's son's birthday party up in New Hampshire. I have to catch a ride from Tedford, but I'm still not sure when he's leaving. The party doesn't start until noon anyway. I'd wanted to make the cupcakes to take to that, but Jason said that there's already going to be masses of food and cake and I just need to bring myself. I wonder if anyone else from the shop will make an appearance? Maybe York. I don't know.
You know, I fucking love Life cereal. I'd forgotten. But it is perfect. The cinnamon kind, to be specific. *Nom nom nom* I shall have another bowl... and play The Sims until I feel like crawling into the shower. |
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| Meow!! |
[May. 16th, 2008|05:24 pm] |
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I am soon to be adopting a furry little son! I just got the okay to take in Cat's kitty! (... that sounds odd, haha) Anyway the story is... Cat has been taking care of a cat named Percy who used to belong to her roommate's boyfriend. Apparently said roommate's boyfriend decided the kitty was a "stranger" because it's not inclined to sit all over him every moment of the day. So he basically ditched the poor thing. And Cat has been looking after Percy, but now that she's graduating and moving back in with her folks, she has to find a new home for poor kitty. The tricky thing--Cat and Percy are in Pennsylvania and I'm in Massachusetts. Hopefully we can coordinate something. It would seem Amtrak is out of the question though. Their website says that no animals are permitted except service animals.
But hopefully Percy will be joining me here before too long and I'm sure I'll completely spam everyone's friends pages with kitty photos. :-P |
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| Random Outburst |
[May. 16th, 2008|08:23 am] |
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TEARSAAAAAAAA! I'M SO FUCKING EXCITED TO SEE YOUUUUUUUU!!! Summer is going to pass so slowly, haha. August is going to be awesome and we're gonna have crazy fun times. ^_^ |
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| Sleepy... |
[May. 15th, 2008|01:33 am] |
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I'm going to bed in a moment. I just wanted to pop on and say that either... A) I look hot tonight, or B) guys' standards drop dramatically around 1:00 AM. Because I've never been hit on so many times during the course of one fifteen minute walk. I guess being the lone female walking up Moody Street late at night in a dress makes you more likely to be noticed. But yeah... kinda weird. Very twilight zone for me. One fellow was persistent enough to follow me for a block complimenting my dress and trying to convince me to go have a drink with him--pfft, when all the bars were obviously already closed, so I know exactly what he was fishing for.
I guess I should be flattered. I just wanted to look good for the guys from work--didn't think about the fact that I was going to get hollered at while trying to hobble home in my ridiculously tall shoes.
Oof, so tired now. Thank goodness we get to come in to work an hour late. |
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| P.S. |
[May. 12th, 2008|09:53 pm] |
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| | Madi Don't Leave-PlayRadioPlay!-Texas | ] |
Oh, P.S.!!!
Happy Birthday, Scott!!
^_^ |
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| Holy crap, I'm online... AT MY NEW APARTMENT!! |
[May. 12th, 2008|09:52 pm] |
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It would seem that somebody has wireless set up in this building because I'm currently online at my new place!!!! ZOMG. SO HAPPY!!! I wonder if it's intentionally set up for the whole house? Because I was never asked for a passcode. I just turned on Airport on my computer and it popped up! (I should have tried that sooner, I'm so stupid!) Well in any case, I shall continue to use it until somebody wises up and puts protection on their signal, bwahaha. Free internet = a very good thing.
My AutoCAD final seemed pretty easy. I did have to look up a couple things, but there was a lot less to the test than I'd expected. I think I was second or third to finish... I was done in two hours.
Oh sweet ass!!! I just realized... I haz internets which means I can start uploading a bunch of photos I've been waiting to put online! Yesssss.
I wanted to call my landlord earlier today about my heat and to ask about his pet policy (because I might be adopting a kitty from Cat if permission is given), but my freakin' phone died and now I feel it's too late in the evening to call without being rude.
Speaking of cats, I didn't have to go back this evening to feed Brit and Tony. I got a text from Tedford saying they were catching an earlier flight back and I wouldn't have to stop by tonight.
I'm so excited to sleep in my new bed!!! Hahaha, it's my BIG GIRL BED! I feel so grown up, haha. No more twin mattress and toes sticking off the end for me!
I feel so totally scatterbrained right now. I guess I'm just ecstatic about finding internet, hahaha. Plus I got a package from my mum. :-) She mailed me my blender and Brita water pitcher and sent along a bunch of other random kitchen gadgets... and of course the obligatory granola bars. It just wouldn't be a package from my mother if it weren't stuffed with granola bars as if they were packing peanuts!
When I went grocery shopping this weekend, I bought a bouquet of flowers for my table and a single pink rose to put on my fireplace mantle. The rose is gorgeous right now and smells so lovely. It's standing in a glass soda bottle I saved, haha. ^_^
IKEA is my hero right now. Just because. I haz furniture, people!!! This is big for me!! Now that I have the bed and my desk in here, I can totally visualize what I want to do with the rest of the bedroom!! Ooh, I'm so going back to blow more money after a couple more paychecks come in. *Scheming*
Okay I'm done spazzing! I'm gonna call my mum and spazz to her instead now, heehee! |
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| Tony is being... nice??! |
[May. 11th, 2008|08:06 am] |
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I slept until about 7:40 this morning. Brit left me alone this time, but Tony came in and was on the bed. When I stirred a little, he came up and sat his fat ass on my chest. I was like, "Okay okay I'll get up and feed you!" and I tried to sit up, but he didn't move. So I started to gently pet him and he let me do it! He even started purring. Hurray! But I did make him get off so I could feed him... because damn, that cat is heavy. :-P
I'm going to head out for today's errands shortly...
Drive by shop to borrow a drill.
Swing by Target to check out bed sheets.
Return to Waltham to finish assembling furniture and do some cleaning.
Around noon, bring the drill back to the shop and leave the truck parked there.
Ride the T into Boston to do my AutoCAD homework.
Maybe hang out back at the shop working on my chairs. |
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| It's IKEA Day (Number 2)! |
[May. 10th, 2008|07:46 am] |
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Tony is staring at me from the office door. And I just had a wrestling match with Brit, heehee... she was squirming on top of the radiator cover and I was rubbing her belly, and she'd grab on to my arm and bite the fabric of my jacket sleeve. ^_^ They didn't sleep on me last night, but they were both on the bed. Brit was being snuggly for awhile after I petted her. She wanted to sit there and knead on my arm. And apparently she likes my deodorant because she kept trying to put her head in my armpit to lick it, haha. They're cute kitties. They had false hopes of feeding time this morning, though. Tedford forgot to turn his alarm clock off, so at 5:15 a shrieking beep invaded my dreams and I had to get up to figure out how to turn the damned thing off. So of course the cats leapt down from the bed thinking, "She's up, she's up! Breakfast time!" Heh, no such luck kids. No way I was getting up that early. I slept until 7:00, and every once in awhile Brit and Tony would come in and just look at me. Brit jumped on the bed once to try to wake me so I played the old wiggly hand under the sheets game with her. But I'm up and they've been fed. Brit hardly touches her food though. I knew in advance that this would be the case--she prefers to pick at her food over time, but I can't leave the dish out because Tony will eat it all. At meal times, Tony has to be confined in the office to eat because he has to eat diet cat food and he'll go after Brit's food too if he can. And she'll just let him eat it because she treats him like her kitten.
So today's agenda is a trip to IKEA. First I must get some gas in the truck, then I'm going to stop by home in Waltham to get more sensible shoes and grab the bit of my last receipt that will give me $4 or $5 off my next debit purchase.
Agh, Tony is being a little prick!! I heard him knock something down, so I checked and it was just the scoop used to measure his food. But when I picked it up and then reached to pet him, he swiped at me and gave me a cranky meow. AND tried to grab my feet. Not cool, Tony. Not cool. |
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| Goin' offline for a bit. |
[May. 3rd, 2008|10:21 am] |
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York and Esch are coming to help me move my shit this afternoon, so I'm packing up the computer. I don't have internet service set up at my apartment yet, so until I get around to it, I'll be checking things from work on my lunchbreaks. So don't worry about me if I seem to disappear. I'm alive! |
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| Eep, so behind in my interneting!!! |
[May. 2nd, 2008|12:42 pm] |
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| | Sym No. 6 In F, Op. 68: Allegro-Beethoven, Ludwig Von-Symphonies Nos.5 And 6 'Pastoral' | ] |
Yikes. Checking up on things takes forever when I'm offline for a whole work week! I'm at my old place to finish packing... because tonight is a game night at York's and I plan on asking people for a little moving help tomorrow. But interneting is taking me longer than anticipated!!! Read friend posts, catch up on a week of QC, notify A.R.T. of my address change, email my resumé to Julia, order rose bushes for Mom from Jackson & Perkins... now I just need to order something for my brother and then I'll be able to stop.
In other news, Ernani is loaded in and I did paint touch-up on Wednesday. I'll write about that tomorrow when I've got more time... And Cardenio is packed on trucks and I have a Sunday load-in call from noon to 9:00! Which is why I must get this packing shit done and out of here! Tomorrow I have to get downtown at some point to do AutoCAD homework, too.
BLARGHHH!!!!
I've been miserably sick the past few days, too. I feel much better today, but I was wishing for death all week. |
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| What time is it? MEME TIME! |
[Apr. 27th, 2008|09:09 pm] |
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Yanking this from ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) qcjeph...
1. My username is _____ because ____
It's krktheartist, same as I've used on pretty much every account I've ever had online since middle school. I realize it looks a bit like gibberish, but it's meant to be read as KRK the Artist. KRK obviously being my initials, and "the Artist" because back in the day I fancied myself a painting prodigy. Hah! Silly middle school me.
2. My name is _____ because ______.
Kristin Rachel Knutson... because that's just what my folks felt like naming me, as far as I know. They thought they were choosing something unique in naming me Kristin, but of course it turned out to be a hugely popular name for girls my age. Go figure. Not many spell it with the "in" though. I think I had a great aunt named Rachel on my father's side of the family, but I'm not certain if that's the origin of my middle name. And my last name, pronounced Kuh-noot-sun... the K is NOT silent. I've heard it mispronounced so many freakin' ways... Nutson, Nootson, and the worst ever--Kuntson. It just means "Son of Knut," and the name Knut translates to "knot" in Norwegian (and probably in all Germanic languages). The Knutson family crest is literally just a rope with a knot tied in it.
3. My journal is titled ____ because ____.
The Ramblings of a Spinster in the Making because I'm an eternal pessimist and I'm fairly convinced I'm going to end up an old biddy spinster who lives with twenty cats and sits on her porch scaring neighborhood kids out of her roses with a BB gun. And I do tend to ramble in my posts.
4. My friends page is called ____ because ____.
Kirky's Friends because I couldn't think of anything clever that hasn't been used before. Kirky is the nickname my close friends back home call me.
5. My default userpic is ____ because ____.
Me showing off the treble clef tattoo that jenri did for me when I was last home for the holidays. It makes me feel like I have a little piece of badass. :-P And it's my reminder of Jenni, who I will heart forever for being such a wonderful friend and talented artist. |
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| HAARP |
[Apr. 22nd, 2008|09:16 pm] |
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Holy shit. I bought the CD/DVD of Muse live at Wembley Stadium... and I just watched the concert DVD. I'm blown away like, woah! Crazy intense nonstop--my god, my fingers would be bleeding if I played like that.
They fucking rock.
Wait, let me emphasize that a little more... They fucking ROCK!
Just FYI, haha. :-P
... I hope I didn't bother my neighbors with all my "drumming" with chopsticks on the wristpad of my keyboard, heehee. |
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| It's IKEA day!! |
[Apr. 19th, 2008|10:06 am] |
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In about half an hour, Tedford will be picking me up for a trip to IKEA. It's time to buy some furniture, whooo! ... or well... time to charge some furniture, whooo!! :-P Gonna get an IKEA credit card because if you pay off a $300 purchase within 60 days, they don't charge you for interest. So hopefully I'll be coming back with a table and chairs and a bedframe and mattress! And any other goodies I find that I can't live without. Heehee. :-)
Sorry I haven't been posting. I've spent the past three nights in my new apartment, sleeping on the floor huddled under anything warm and fluffy I can find. I've never been so delighted to do dishes and laundry! And I cooked for the first time in ages! Nothing fancy... it was just noodles and alfredo sauce, but it made me happy.
So excited for IKEA! |
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| *Hums Happy Birthday...* |
[Apr. 14th, 2008|05:22 pm] |
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Just popping on during a break in my AutoCAD class to wish a very happy birthday to Steph!! |
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| Lots of walking and bus riding this weekend, haha. |
[Apr. 13th, 2008|06:45 pm] |
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I snatched up that mirror I was talking about. :-) It was odd... at noon I was waiting outside of the thrift store with several other people who kept tapping on the glass impatiently. I kept remembering that old commercial (was it for JC Penney?) with the woman pressed against the door going "open open open open open open..."
I commuted all the way into town to do my homework--probably about an hour and a half of travel--to spend only 10 minutes finishing my assignment. :-P I flipped over my worksheet in disbelief thinking, "Is that seriously it??? I could have done this before class on Monday!" Guess I should have double-checked how much was really left before going all the way into Boston!
So on my way home, I got off the bus at the Watertown Mall and went into Linens 'n Things. I went to look at bedding, but I was too aghast at the prices. Everywhere I check is just as bad. The price of a queen-size bedding set is going to cost me more than my bed itself! Very lame. I guess I'll have to make a trip out to Wal-Fart, even though I hate shopping at that loathsome place. But I didn't come away from Linens 'n Things empty-handed. I found a pack of 12 pub style glasses for $10, which is actually cheaper than if I'd bought that many at the thrift store. Woot! ... They were heavy to carry to the new apartment though. *Sweatdrop*
Turned into a busy little weekend for me! Marvelous. Gonna type up a new version of my resumé (because Emily wants it on hand for distribution and I got an email from Steve telling me that the man in charge of Commonwealth Shakespeare Company is interested in seeing it). Other than that, I'm eating and dinking around online. I'm thinkin' it's YouTube time.
ANNNNND AutoCAD class and bowling tomorrow, yayyyyy!! |
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| Bits and pieces, here and there. |
[Apr. 13th, 2008|09:14 am] |
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| | J'ai pas vingt ans (Benny Benassi Remix)-Alizée | ] |
I didn't find any tumblers or glasses that I liked, but I did find some dishes at Global Thrift! I had to search around to find the matching pieces, but in the end I took away 8 dinner plates, 4 small appetizer plates, 4 saucers, and 4 teacups. I probably would have taken everything if the numbers had matched up... there were actually 10 plates and 8 teacups. Could only find the four saucers and small plates, though. But anyway, for only $20 I got a nice looking set of plates! They look like china (probably aren't really)--white with a thin gold band and a pale blue and pink floral motif around the outside edge. It was all I could carry at the time (I took them straight to my new apartment), but I was eying a full-length mirror in a gilded silver frame for $14. The store opens again today at noon so I'm gonna go back and see if it's still there.
After taking the dishes to the apartment, I decided to go downtown yet again despite the fact that a huge rainstorm was coming. It started sprinkling on me as I walked to the bus stop, but it was so warm out that it felt good. Luckily during the worst of the storm, I managed to be in transit or inside the CambridgeSide Galleria. And by the time I came back to Waltham, the thunder and lightning had calmed down and it was only sprinkling again. Anyway, I just went to the mall and dinked around. Had dinner but didn't spend any money otherwise. I went into Sears and Best Buy to check out prices of vacuums. And I poked around in the Sears bedding section hoping that the quilts I'd seen on sale last week might be marked down further--no luck, they just extended the same sale price.
Ooh, funny thing on the subway... When I was riding between Park Street and Central Square to go home, I noticed a boy in painty jeans furiously sketching in his notebook. He was drawing me!! Haha, so I prenteded to nod off to sleep so I'd have an excuse not to move. :-P Anytime anyone noticed what he was doing, he's snap the notebook shut and act as though nothing was up. I did move eventually because we were nearing Central Square, but he kept drawing... well, based upon where he was looking, he was either drawing my tits or my necklace, hahaha. Anyway I thought it was all quite cute. He needed to get off at Central Square too apparently, but he hadn't been paying attention to the stops. So when we arrived in the station he had to suddenly abandon his drawing time and toss everything into his backpack to run out of the train.
Plans for today--shower, haul another cart load of clothes to my apartment, go back to Global Thrift at noon, take anything I buy back to my apartment, then head straight downtown to the B.A.C. to do my AutoCAD homework. The building is open until 5:00. I don't think I'll need much time to finish my homework--I did most of it at the end of class last week.
*So happy getting stuff together for my new place, yay!* |
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| Gonna dance to the bank!! |
[Apr. 11th, 2008|06:08 pm] |
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YAY! My usual paycheck (plus some overtime from Travesties) and my replacement check from last month arrived today! I haz monies again! It's a relief... I've been watching my account empty itself while fretting over whether I'd have enough to clear all the large checks I've written lately. Now I've got an $1800 boost back up! Going to the ATM right now...
*Does a not-so-broke anymore dance out the door* |
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| *Listening to Kylie* |
[Apr. 1st, 2008|10:10 pm] |
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| | In My Arms-Minogue, Kylie-X | ] |
Prompted by the knowledge that Calvin Harris produced a song for Kylie Minogue's new album, I just picked the whole thing up off iTunes (apparently it came out today, so I'm on top of what's new for once!)... heh, and I just found Calvin's tune. Sounds like he just altered his track for The Girls and recycled it for Kylie's new song, In My Arms. I'm pretty sure I could mix the two songs together seamlessly, haha. But I like it anyway. ^_^
And here I was trying to take a break from electronica-pop, haha. *Sigh* Only a few tunes into the album, but I like it so far!
I'll write a real update tomorrow when I get home from signing papers for my apartment. |
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| MINE! |
[Mar. 28th, 2008|08:07 pm] |
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It's mine. :-) I'm so geeking out right now!!!! *spazzes* It's not a gigantic apartment, but it's waaaaaaaaaaaay bigger than what I have now!!! The bedroom itself is a bit larger than this place. The kitchen area spreads into a large newly-tiled space that would fit quite a big table. There's a little carpeted living room area with the fireplace (which was functional at one time, but the landlord isn't sure where it vents to now that there have been renovations--he said he could check if I wanted). There's a walk-in closet in the bedroom... hee, and it's so cute because the door is less than 6 feet tall. I have to duck to go in. But once you're in the closet, there's another door with locks beyond that and the washer and dryer units are right around the corner! $1.50 per load, so I'll be spending less on laundry! I'll have my own exterior door that opens to the driveway. Only I will have a key to that particular door. When you first walk in, it seems kind of sketchy because you're obviously going into a basement--I'll have to watch my head carefully coming down the steps. I bet I can make improvements to that area to make it look homier. But the apartment itself is nicely done. The landlord did all the work himself. It used to be one big open basement for storage, but he sectioned it off to create the apartment. Oh, and the bathroom is adorable. No bathtub, but the shower is HUGE and the whole bathroom is covered in tile. The walls are a pretty blue tile. And the mirrored medicine cabinet over the sink has a pretty painted glass panel in it. The kitchen will be nice. An actual oven, wheee!! And there's more than enough cabinet space for me. *dances about happily*
Yes, the ceiling is kind of low and the windows are small and few. The pictures in the Craigslist posting make it look more spacious than it really is, but for one person?... more than enough room! And I'm positive that I could have company over without being embarrassed. The carpet isn't as ugly as I thought it would be. And there's not really that much of it. It's just in the little living room and bedroom. The whole entryway, dining area, and kitchen is done in large white tile. So it's all quite neutral. Ooh, and the neighborhood is more residential than where I've been living. I think it'll be much quieter. The landlord was super friendly and he was excited to show me how new the water heaters are. ^_^ And he pointed out that there's already cable internet in the building, which is sweet.
The broker from Village Realty Group, Bob, was really friendly too. He was the first to meet me there so we sat in his car waiting for the landlord. Very chatty. He kept saying that I'm a nice girl and he'll make sure everything works out for me, haha. He even told me that he has a table and chairs he's willing to sell to me, haha. He also went on and on about how Adams Street is nothing but slum lords. :-P So yes, I filled out the application and gave him a check and Bob said the place will be mine. He said he won't show it to anyone else. I'm supposed to call him on Tuesday or Wednesday to arrange a meeting for the final paperwork. I should be able to start moving in on April 15th.
*SQUEEEEE!* I think it will make a very cozy little place! I'm very happy right now. :-) |
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