Mortaine’s Blog

Well, for a week anyway. DSL gets installed at the new house on Friday. Meanwhile, I’ve only got internet at work.

We moved the cats on Friday afternoon. Friday evening, I realized I’d left Allegro’s medication at the old house (d’oh!) so he had to go without. Also, we had a lot of fun deciding where to feed them and such.

Saturday morning I got his pills from the old house. I pilled him mid-morning. He had been hiding pretty much all evening Friday and all morning Saturday. By Saturday evening, he was making forays into the upper level of the house, and yesterday he got downright bold.

Saturday night was another round of the all-kitty wrestling junior vs. senior title match. All. Night. Long. I think we were woken up about 100 times by cat-wrestling. We did get some good kitty snuggling in, but it invariably ended in roughhousing.

Saturday afternoon, we ordered the futon for my office, which will also be the guest bedroom when people stay overnight. That’s pretty much where my quarterly bonus went, but the futon I ordered is really cute and I think it’ll look nice in my office.

Yesterday we returned the truck and started moving the last of our possessions by car. Still left: various odds and ends inside the house and everything in the garage.

My wrist is feeling better. Still twinges now and then, but overall much better.

Yesterday was our first breakfast at home. Nice. I also made breakfast today. Last night, John and I made beer bread and chicken breast salads, which we ate at our kitchen table. That was really nice– it’s cool to have a dining area that is convenient and not constantly cluttered.

John got the TV hooked up, so we got to watch some TV last night. Spending 3 days with only the barest information about the Terri Schiavo case has been remarkably refreshing. You should all try it sometime.

While we were watching TV, Allegro got very bold and hopped onto the ledge that runs along the living room. This ledge is what separates the stairs down and the living room, so it can be a really long drop to the unwary. And Allegro is… not terribly bright. Anyway, he at first scrambled to get up onto the ledge, so I helped him (figuring he was going to get up there at some point anyway). He moseyed along the ledge, and I kept trying to encourage him to perch on the back of the sofa instead– it’s the same height, and wider. But no, he had to perch on the ledge. Then Alladin came and got on the ledge. This usually means another round of wrestling is about to commence. Fortunately, Allegro had the good sense to jump off the ledge before being attacked.

John and I started dreaming about possibilities for the living room, including a new sofa or hide-a-bed for the second wall, for more casual seating (right now, we have the 2-person loveseat and the massage chair).If it’s a hide-a-bed, it would open up the possibilities for overnight guests as well.

In the yarn front, I think I’m about halfway through the spool. It’s slow going, mainly because I’m moving house. If I could spend a whole weekend spinning, I might be all done by now. Or maybe not.

I am gradually unpacking. It looks like it might be 1-2 boxes a day for a while. I still have a ton of books and, the real hassle, papers and things to be filed. I need to go through my old papers and toss a bunch of them– I had a 4-drawer filing cabinet full of stuff that I’m pretty sure I don’t need anymore.