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this morning, my boss asked if i was in a better mood than yesterday. i said i didn't think so, he offered to help, and i said, "unpack my life!"

the surface of the kitchen is a mess. the sink is caked with acrylic paint. it was the first room in which we started putting things, so the box for the dehumidifier is acting as storage and garbage, simultaneously. other peoples' painting accessories are randomly placed so i don't forget to return them. the worst part is that we shoved every belonging into the downstairs bedroom, and we can't find anything. even though i labeled each box. my favorite is the one that says "kitchen. knives!!1"

you'd think i'd be happy to have delivery food out of necessity, but it's contrary to the plan.

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really, after this i'm done.

we slept at the new house this weekend! saturday night, we had the futon on the first floor and fell asleep watching children of men; the first half of the movie was good, the neighborhood was highly quiet.

last night, we set up the back bedroom with minimal necessities (the floors are getting redone on friday, so we don't want to have to move too much crap back downstairs).

i slept like a log. and woke up late cuz i set my clock's time for the wrong 12 hours.

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and then i'm done.

kurt canceled cable.

i started reading midnight in the garden of good and evil last night. i haven't read a book in like 2 years.

i'm still on part one. it's pretty interesting so far.

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i had the phone/dsl switched to the new place on the 20th, and had a chance to test that yesterday morning. i still don't have dsl at home... so you'll have to wait patiently for pics.

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we moved everything else this weekend. i am sore.

and i wish i didn't have to work in order to pay for the house we just bought.

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i'll change lanes abruptly because i get sick of staring at the rear of an ugly isuzu jeep-thing, or a honda element.

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if everyone thanks god that it's friday with such vehemence, doesn't that indicate that something is wrong, and if something is that wrong, shouldn't it be fixed? or at least addressed?

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i'm home again today. i think this is the first time ever that i've been affected by something so much that i have missed two, full, consecutive days from work. it makes me feel weird.

the worst part is my anxiousness to pack, clean, etc. but i can't bend over to pick stuff up! grr. i can barely pick up jones' poo on a walk, let alone chase him around at the dog park.

back issues are one of those things that someone who has never had them will never understand.

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i guess it's cuz the only thing i can do is sit in the chair and get up to stretch every 10 minutes.

the ferrets have been at their new home for 2 weeks as of today... and i miss them. but with all the house stuff, they would have been stuck in their cage for days at a time, only seeing me to force tinker to take medicine. i'd probably have become someone they hated after a short while. i hope they're doing well...

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i just want to thank closetpunk77, whoever s/he is, for letting me use your internet connection today. it seems my neighbor's (who has granted permission to use his wireless) connection isn't cooperating. it won't connect, even though it's at "good" signal strength. so, closetpunk77, i thank you.

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i effed up my back something good yesterday.

i kinda ignored it on saturday, cuz i wanted to get those rooms painted. so, of course, i was hobbled by sunday afternoon. i spent most of it on the steps scraping trim off the door jams. which was an awful idea because i had to twist my trunk (one of those things you're not supposed to do) to get at all the little nooks. needless to say, i am not at work today. i laid in bed for a couple hours after waking up. couldn't move.

on another note, and a very timely one, those of you who know me well know that i am trying not to order as much sushi as i have in the past. all due to the cost, and its affect on my bankroll. well, the delivery guy, whom i've come to like more than a person should like their delivery guy, is moving back to China this week and 1/4 of the fun of ordering was teaching him English. that, compiled with the other reason, are plenty to resume previous habits of not ordering out.

this will further encourage my desire to make my own sushi for lunch. my bento box is on its way as we speak.

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yesterday, upstairs dave's* wife and i painted four walls in the bedrooms, two blue and two yellow. after her much-needed help, i started on the trim (i hate painting trim!) and realized that, instead of painting the woodwork in the upstairs landing, we're going to strip it. we ARE! everyone says how much of a pain in the ass it will be, but i love original woodwork. and it's my house. dammit.

plus, the three layers of pain that are have been applied over the years are peeling off with almost no effort. paint doesn't want to be there.

*he doesn't live upstairs anymore.

also, tds moved phone service to the new place on friday, so i'm borrowing joe's wireless internet this morning.

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work's been a little nutty lately. so, yesterday, we decided it was FULL BLARE day. everyone turned their phone ringers up, and talk just a little louder than normal. it was quite amusing.

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i just found a bandwagon that i can hop on... bento boxes for lunch.

i also found a box on ebay... and a rice cooker (which costs more than my earth machine composter).

my boss suggests, "save your pennies!"

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we keep talking about the huge projects we want to accomplish, and it seems pointless since we have a million tiny projects to do over the next 30 years...

so, i started the job of tackling two necessities: a rain barrel and a composter. they've both been ordered.

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so, my right earbud stopped working and i only just got them in february; well, they came with the ipod radio remote. since i had not heard any more news of the new apple store in west towne, i called apple up to initiate an exchange.

they had to tie my purchase to my ipod in order for me to qualify for the apple limited one-year warranty, even though the ipod had nothing to do with the malfunct earbud. a half hour later, i was well on my way to receiving a package from apple!

so i waited... and finally, in the mail, came a radio remote. without earbuds. imagine my excitement when i realized that i got to call them back to explain the situation! i talked to several people before i finally ended up in sales where we determined he'd just ship another radio remote with earbuds and all i had to do was return the two remotes and pair of earbuds.

great. problem solved. not 3 days later, i get a package from apple and return my package to apple. or so i thought.

among the frazzle that was house-closing, i checked my balance last friday and saw that a charge was pending from apple in the amount of $51.70 (the cost of a radio remote when not returned). guess how thrilled i was to know that i got to call them and explain my dilemma!

after talking to a repair rep and a customer service rep, they thought i should call fedex. the very nice fedex rep tried searching 6 ways from sunday and could not locate the package. while she was looking, i realized apple was expecting a package from dhl, but they had sent me a link to a form from fedex, so there was no way we were going to find this package.

so i called apple back, and after getting hung up on by a cs rep, and finally getting someone who referred my situation to her supervisor, i will be credited the $51.70.

so, all in all, apple was pretty nice about it, but i'm kinda peeved that i had to find the culprit; which was probably just a simple programming error.

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we had a reorg last week. i didn't blog about it cuz the house stuff was on my mind. but, i'm now in a different department. so, i'm just waiting for the other shoe to drop.

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i just pulled a tick off my head while sitting at my desk at work.

now it seems like every little thing i feel is a tick.

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coming back to work after four days of hard work is tough. i've been granted leave from the new house until friday.

i did the trim yesterday, minus three and a half walls' floorboard. i just couldn't do it last night.

kurt's mom is coming up tomorrow, she wants to paint. before i did the trim, i was like, "no, i want to paint the bedrooms!" and now i'm like, "whoever wants to paint, i don't care."

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judy and i painted for 9 hours yesterday. well, we took breaks, but we started at 9:45 and gave up around 6:15.

i'm gunna do the trim today. we're sticking with white. :)

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i forgot to bring the ding dang camera with on our walk-through yesterday. amazingly, however, they cleaned out the entire basement and the yard was no longer filled with trash. the whole place, though, has a very small layer of scum about and we'll need to apply some elbow grease before we paint on saturday.

unfortunately, kurt kinda procrastinated on calling the floor guy, so we still don't have him scheduled for the upstairs bedrooms...

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if it weren't for all the money we're going to be throwing around in the next couple weeks, i'd buy it for the new house.

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normally, i wouldn't self-volunteer to bring work home, but this weekend was the perfect one to do so. i have a smallish project that's been hanging over my head for a while, and i was able to get it (mostly) done friday and today; with the help of the bedroom a.c. and my trusty laptop. this makes it possible for me to take a vacation day on the 16th to continue with house stuff.

thank goodness our friend Judy is gunna come help edge so we don't have to tape everything off. we're betting we can get the dining/livingroom done in a couple of days. then there's the upstairs bedrooms...

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i've watched about 6 hours of flip that house this weekend.

these people are crazy.

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i just tried sauteeing some soyrizo and the smell turned my stomach. that has never happened to me before. i had to have kurt dump it down the garbage disposal.

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