Well we moved in a week ago yesterday. This last week has been busy. We went to Lake Austin last Sunday. It was wonderful and thanks to SPF 55 we did not burn. The water was so warm. It was sad seeing how much the waterline has gone down , we saw docks on the dry lake bed with the water and new docks a good 20+ yards away. But still it was wonderful after moving boxes inside all day Saturday to chill with good people in warm water with an awesome water slide. (I would go down with everything..my sunglasses which I took off and held but they are prescription and I can't see without them, my hat which is not as buoyant as I'd expected I had to grab it before it sunk, and a tee shirt to protect my back from 105 degree sunshine.
So after all the fun had no hot water or cable/ Internet until late Tuesday. I really wasn't that bad it was just inconvenient. As long as I took trips with boxes down to the recycling or sat on the patio (seriously I didn't have time to sit on the patio) then the cool shower felt really good.
So now the pieces are pretty much together around here. We have lots boxes of books still to deal with , but with Ben working 12 hours(sometimes more) a day 5 days a week he couldn't get the bookcases together mainly do to being in an apartment..its rude to bang with a hammer at 12am. And his desk needed nailed back together. Yay, cheap Ikea particle board...it may have been cheap Walmart...or cheap Target but the idea is the same cheap particle board which we paid too much for I'm sure. Wow tangent. So point being the library/ Ben's studio is nearly set up so the books will be shelved and then it's hanging paintings time:) YAY!!
The cats are adapted to indoor life. I think they are afraid of their they go on the patio and turn right around. We will move the carriers as soon as we can move the contents of the "laundry room", which is not a laundry room unless we furnish it with a washer and dryer. Oh but there is no on site laundry:( I found a laundry mat but its a little drive especially if tom tom is unclear about stay right and go blah.....blah ...Anyways, I really need tom-tom so I need to be nice to it. Thankfully Ben took Gladys' (from Portal) voice off I kept imagining an evil potato giving me directions.
On a random side note this place is about the same size as our last place, just a couple hundred feet smaller but it feels the same. We had the front room we never really used unless we had a party. Like our last place we don't have a guest room we just don't have that much space. But on a side note since we are going to miss Jody's Halloween party (super sad about that), well I'm hoping to maybe have a Halloween party here. ( while would pale next to a Jody party, last year we had a sing along to Labyrinth, very impromptu). Of course if we know someone having a party we will avoid the mess and expense and go to a party elsewhere.
Oh random note my hair is darker. It will fade down some, but I was so sick of the blond. So it's a "light chestnut brown". I used Naturatint, it's ammonia free and not completely nontoxic sadly, but its so much better than drugstore/ beauty supply store/ and salon products. So I'll keep reading reviews and see if I can find a safer product that colours just as well.
I can't wait to get my studio space set up. I really want to paint. I'm in the mood to watercolor. <3 Oh, Oh and I want to do some collage, mixed media fun.
Well Ben is on a misson to find us a Pho restaurant today, so we will have happy bellies:) Yum Yum Yum!
