Monday: a tour

This is what I woke up to this morning. At least it was nice enough to stay off the driveway.

I also finished unpacking the last few things upstairs, so I thought I'd put up a few more pictures.

bathroom

second bedroom (it has some of Ben's clothes, but besides that we don't use it. Flurry tries her hardest to make us keep the door open though.)

Bedroom

Bedroom from another angle

office/bookshelf area (although we don't use it for an office)

It actually ended up being a rather busy day. I started to contact some people about mowing our lawn in NY (which felt really odd with snow on the ground here). Ben and I had lunch with someone we went to college with. I got a new library card. I tried to send some packages, but this post office won't tape my packages shut. I did manage to run into someone else I went to college with, so that was fun. Then I bought groceries. I realized half way through that I was getting rather cranky, but luckily there was no one for me to be cranky towards. Then I had dinner with some family.

I'll leave you with this thought that I thought when I needed to wait for about 10 minutes and realized that I had left my iPad downstairs. "I'll read! What a novel idea."

Sunday: a profound thought

Are pet fish really pets since you don't pet them?

edit: I added the following picture for Ashley. I did once have someone ask me if we

always wore wooden shoes.

Saturday: lights

Ben's parents came over today to see where we are living. While they were here we managed to figure out what the light switch that seemed to do nothing does, find the third electrical circuit in the basement, and figure out how to turn on the lights under the cabinets in the kitchen.

One of them must have plugged in the cabinet lights without us watching, because it took us a while to figure out how they got turned on. I kept flipping light switches with no luck. Then as I was getting dinner ready I just happened to notice a plug that was plugged in and wondered if that's why they were on. Phew.

Friday: textbooks

So during the last seven years, Ben and I have lugged around about 10 boxes of textbooks from house to house. Several of the books we have two copies of, but we lug them all around anyway. Then Ben said he needed some as a reference for his new job. So I went to pick them up from the storage area.

It made lugging them all over the country suddenly worth it. I also got to feel rather thin as I snaked in between stacks of boxes trying to find the right ones.

Thursday: mall

I went with Cheryl, Allison, and Scarlet to the small GR mall today. We had lunch there and they needed to get some stuff at one of the stores. The lunch was delicious...an egg scramble. I asked for raisin toast and when it came out there was icing on it. At first I was disappointed because that wasn't what I really wanted, but after I started eating it I enjoyed it. It was like a little cinnamon roll.

There were also these huge fish in little fish ponds in the middle of the mall. It was fun watching Scarlet enjoy them.

I think I also figured out the trick to getting long hot showers in this house. We figured out how to get hot showers, but they didn't last quite as long as I like. (Don't get me wrong...they were really close to the right length. And they were never cold. Just not perfect.) I thought about telling you the trick but I don't think anyone would really care.

Wednesday: super productive

Thanks to Ryan's idea, I captured a video of myself cleaning up the living room. He suggested making a stop motion video, but after about 15 minutes of video processing (and only getting through 15 seconds of video) I decided that was a bad idea. So instead I grabbed just a few shots from the time it took me to clean. It makes me look like a super-productive cleaner.

Tuesday: not so productive

Today wasn't as productive as yesterday. I still got several things done, but none as cool as going from a messy kitchen to a clean kitchen. Because of this, I've decided to add finishing the living room to tomorrow's list. And it'll give me something to take a picture of.

This morning I had lunch with a friend that I haven't seen in years, and that was nice. Then we ended up picking up Ben's parents from the airport at night. We got to drive in a Volt for the first time...it was pretty nice. Lots of buttons to play with.