Now I’m like other people
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.
kr8vkat wrote:
I’ve been too wrapped up in my own life to pay attention to the news for days, so I’ve missed most of the Shiavo media circus. Thank goodness. You’re right, it’s remarkably refreshing to not be glued to the news.
I’m glad you are feeling better, and the unpacking is at least moving along at a steady pace. Moving is such a bitch. Tossing papers sounds like fun though - I haven’t done that yet, and I really need to. At least before the next time I move. Moving old papers once or twice is OK, but if I don’t toss them now, it’s be more like five times, and that’s just too many!
Posted on 28-Mar-05 at 12:40 am | Permalink
chaoticgoodnik wrote:
Glad you’re feeling better.
So, who’s winning the cat fights?
Posted on 28-Mar-05 at 12:45 am | Permalink
jencottrell wrote:
This is a time to get back into flylady. She’ll help you feel the urge to TOSS stuff….but don’t get too carried away.
Posted on 28-Mar-05 at 1:48 am | Permalink
halfawake wrote:
TV news? Pfft, I’d rather not have to wast my time getting news through the TV. The vast majority of the time, I read the newspaper for the news. It’s much easier to ignore the articles I don’t want to read - and the ads that I don’t want to see.
DSL is so very nice. I just wish my ears weren’t so sensitive and would let me have it on all the time so it would be a better connection.
Posted on 28-Mar-05 at 5:38 am | Permalink
llyrfish wrote:
Mmmm beer bread. :9
Spencer
Posted on 28-Mar-05 at 6:15 am | Permalink
shaddai wrote:
speedstream modem by chance? mom’s got one of those (i forget the model number) and it drives me nuts. I have a speedstream of a different model that runs hot, but it’s silent thank god.
put it in your closet
Posted on 28-Mar-05 at 10:11 am | Permalink
halfawake wrote:
Yep, it’s a speedstream. My computer is loud enough that it drowns out the sound of the modem while it’s on, but I turn it off at night. It would keep me awake just as well as the modem would if I kept them awake.
Put it in the closet, hmm, that’s a good idea. I think I’d do that if it weren’t for the fact that my ethernet cord isn’t long enough. My guess is the power cord and the phone cords are both long enough to do that, but the ethernet cable isn’t.
*shrugs*
Posted on 28-Mar-05 at 4:25 pm | Permalink
shaddai wrote:
i’d say it’s worth the few bucks to get a longer ethernet cable. what’s the love of instant internet when one’s dsl modem needs to sync first?
honestly, if that modem was mine I would have either taken it apart or returned it to the phone co for a different model.
Posted on 28-Mar-05 at 11:38 pm | Permalink
halfawake wrote:
I don’t mind turning it on - the modem turns on in less time than it takes to start my computer up, but once it’s on, my email loads much slower than it did with my old ISP - with dialup. And it also disconnects my email much more, which is rather annoying; I have to reconnect every five or ten minutes.
I just figured that these things were usuaully this loud so I didn’t bother trying to return it. Besides, the internet is technically under my parents’ name, not mine.
Posted on 29-Mar-05 at 7:01 am | Permalink
shaddai wrote:
that particular modem is a pile of garbage. it’s worth exchanging it one way or another. “it’s broken”
Besides, the newest one my dad got (right before he dropped sbc) actually did the stupid pppoe crap sbc insists on.
Posted on 29-Mar-05 at 9:06 am | Permalink
halfawake wrote:
Well, it does get me online, and I seriously doubt SBC would exchange it after my having it for a year any way. It does PPOE just fine, it just likes to emit loud high pitched noises.
Posted on 29-Mar-05 at 11:31 am | Permalink