Not unpacked, of course, but getting there. Most important, my broadband is hooked up!
I have tons to do so will try and do a longer post about the move etc over the next day or so. Just wanted everyone to know we are alive and in the new house!
And, for your viewing pleasure:
Mostly because there is so much other stuff going on. But, truthfully, I’m not doing very well.
Part of it is all the stuff I am trying to get done with the move. Although we are paying for the moving company to pack us, I still have a lot of sorting and organizing to do, along with cleaning the flat to ‘leaving’ level. A lot of that cleaning will happen next Sunday after all of our stuff is moved out, but I am doing some of it over the next week.
All that bending and stretching and leaning and pushing and pulling means I am sore. A lot sore.
All the places I am sore.*It’s not helping that I am not resting as much as I should, and I know this. On a regular Monday, Wednesday, Friday, when Adam is in daycare, I usually work in the morning, have lunch, work for about another hour and then have a rest until pick up time. I haven’t been doing that this past week or so, so I can get more done, and probably won’t be doing it this next week either for the same reason.
I am also, of course, working. Major stuff going on with my biggest client. Other majorish stuff going on with another client. Possibly another client in the pipeline.
The good news is that my mental state is excellent.
But I’m going to be sore and tired for awhile. I’ll try to not be too cranky!
We are moving soon.
And I’ve been thinking about what I am going to miss about this apartment, this apartment that was my dream apartment when we found it, with it’s hardwood floors and nice large kitchen. This apartment that I am really going to miss over all. But what specifically?
I’m sure there are more things, but those are the one from the top of my head. And what do I love about the new house, that I don’t have now?
I’m sure I’ll add to the list once we’ve moved and settled in.
M-day minus 7…
as my afternoons on Adam’s nursery days are now taken up with the Clear Out of 2011. Even though the new house has a ton of storage space, I am doing my best to not move a lot of junk from one place to the other!
I’m also totally organizing the move for us, contacting removal companies, making lists of utility companies and others to notify of the change of address, along with, of course, the graphic work my clients are expecting me to do and pay me for!
So busy is a good way to describe life right now and, as usual, this blog is the last thing on the list.
But I am Tweeting regularly, so feel free to follow that (@tee2072) and I’m on MN, so look for me there!
I’ll try to keep y’all up to date with move info, but it may have to wait until after the move!
and it is officially ours. We move in starting 14th October.
So house. With garden. Some of which is plain old dirt. The owner, who was living there and is now heading back to Tokyo after 15 or so years here in Belfast, told me he had successfully grown melons in it. I told him that I was hoping to do the same.
Except, I know nothing about growing food. I have planted flowers, in planters, on a patio in California and watched them die. Even though I did everything I was suppose to; watered, weeded, talk to. Still died awfully quickly.
So…now I want to plant food. Potatoes maybe. Peas. Beans? Melons? Definitely some herbs would be nice.
I’m not even sure where to start. Maybe the library? ‘How to grow food with no talent and a black thumb’ would be a really useful book right now. Do you think it exists?
So, I’m looking for advice. So far I have been told I should wait a year and see what might still be planted, although the beds look empty, because there might be perennials that will come up in the spring. Perhaps plant in some pots and transfer them if nothing comes up.
So, anyone have any advice for the novice gardener with a black thumb who would like to use this opportunity to save some money, dig in some dirt and teach her son things?
Oh wait. Dig in dirt. That’s means bugs, doesn’t it?
Perhaps this isn’t such a good idea…