How did this happen? How did it become August already?! I'm not ready! My mother is here again ... she and my brother just spent 41 hours (of driving time) speeding across the country in our new (to us...week I got from apt to library, returned books, waited in line, checked books out, and drove home in just about 15 minutes. That's awesome! I did a walmart run in about 20 minutes total. Excellent

I cleaned the house, did a bunch of errands, started organizing my dissertation into articles, and did the laundry.  I am now roasting delicious fresh vegetables in the oven.  Yum.  Some new people seem...with what he said).  These people could become threats to the privacy of my rooftop.  I may have to scare them away from the roof with a colourful display of territorial aggression.  Or a cunning trap.  

Well I'm moved in to the new apartment and done with the old.  It is much nicer and quieter here at the new place, even if I live off a main street here in town. I definitely do NOT miss hearing trains rumble by at 3am. Anyway, quick update!

So in my ongoing efforts to get my cable and internet set up at my new apt (don't even get me started on that story), I have been told that both Comcast and AT&T are unable to locate my address on GPS...standard as well, and the property simply wasn't big enough for both the road and the landscaping easement to be the size the county had reverse-decided they need to be. What a clusterfuck, huh

...through til 5am, when Kiera woke me up for snugglies. =^_^= And now I'm up (but not for much longer, mind you) because I've also been freaking out over other utilities I have to switch over from the apartment to the new place which I didn't get done on time, so now I'm kinda screwed... ugh. *headwall* I had the thought last night, this morning... whenever it is... that maybe I should just pay August...

Yes, I know that's not a word. But too bad. So this morning I woke up with 10 minutes to get ready for work. Because I have been in a time warp this whole week and haven't been able to figure out what...tonight after my waste of an afternoon. I have so much shit to do at my new place and at the old, but I ended up taking an impromptu nap for 3 hours. Dammit. Dammit dammit dammit dammit. *le fume

...ten minutes, because North Bay cabs are terrible. So I put on my uniform this time, and I'm calling a cab in like... three minutes. I hate my life sometimes. Nngh. Still not unpacked, been in the apartment just over a week. But I'm working tonight, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, so when I get my two days off (Sunday and Monday) I can try to unpack then, I guess... sad, because when...

...218, and June was 951.  Obviously, this is a huge difference, and we were concerned. First, some background on our electricity usage.  We did not use the air conditioner until May, and we keep the apartment between 85 and 90 degrees when we do use it.  We turn it off while we are away from the apartment (although I am unclear as to whether that actually saves energy, I figure that it can't hurt...

We are all in the apartment now. We are about an hour from getting it completely livable - all that is left is to make a few single things into tall piles in the spare bedroom and pop the bicycle in there, and then we have a kitchen/dining room/living room/bedroom all put away and livable. Thank goodness we like each other because it is certainly tight quarters in here! We have tv's in 2 rooms and...

...will eat them. Here's some mint. This could be fun to use. And some sage. And the biggest, the basil. It has big purple conical blooms, but up behind the blinds. Fuzzy! Also, I rearranged my apartment today, because my daddy came up Saturday and brought my coffee table frame :D Only picture so far, because I haven't started putting everything back on shelves and stuff. Saturday was nice...