So I realized that I still have the little wireless card that work gave to me (well, that the Director of Technology gave to me... and which he won't mind me keeping....) and that means that I can get online given the right circumstances, hereforth to be known as The Free Wireless Internet Revolution. My father mentioned this NYC trend, and my sister told me where to go. So one block from my house is the really snazzy Brooklyn Lyceum, which has a snazzy cafe with Free Wireless Internet. I am telling you, the world is fucking cool.
So I am here, drinking what may well be the best iced mocha ever (you get to choose from three types of chocolate - I chose dark because I am hardcore) and finally getting some quiet, private time to blog. Ahhhhh.
Since you have all been without my endless, privileged whining for three whole weeks, I will now give you the rundown of Things That Are Hard About My LIfe:
1. I got into the lovely Saab station wagon an hour ago intending to drive to Chelsea to 1) buy a towel rack like they have in hotels (don't ask) at Bed Bath & Beyond and 2) to pick up all the artsy pictures my Wes took in Venice and 3) to buy card stock for our housewarming/my birthday party invitations and 4)possibly go to Crate & Barrel to buy the end table we need, BUT the car was DEAD. AS A GODDAMN DOORNAIL. I do not appreciate this.
2. I have been waiting for a damn long time for my sister to call me back to tell me that I may use her car to go to the stores mentioned above. When I finish my mocha, I will be stealing her car whether she calls me back or not. I brought her keys with me for this purpose.
3. I would like our cable TV/modem to be working now, please. They cannot even give us an estimate of when this will happen. Yesterday and today, though, some nice men were running large wires around in our back yard, so perhaps this is a start.
4. I cannot find the thingies to hold up the curtain rods for the teenager's room, so I can only hang one of the three curtains I sewed for him.
5. I MADE (sawed, nailed, painted, etc) shelves for two of our closets but they don't fit right.
6. I am not on ANY psychiatric drugs for almost 3 weeks now, and I feel physically a ton better. No dizziness, no nausea. However, I am grumpy as hell and have the naggling fear that I will not be able to stay off of everything for too long. However, the grumpiness may be caused by A) moving or B) my period. Perhaps I should just go ahead and get pregnant now, since I am grumpy anyway.
7. I am so, so tired of boxes. We have reached that unpleasant end stage where there is nowhere to put the rest of the stuff in the boxes. We just wander around looking for something to put away, or for a place to put something we have in our hands. This is mostly because we need to have a whole all of built-in bookshelves made but that is a very expensive prospect. And it is not first priority. First priority: a wall and a door for our bedroom.
8. We have no wall nor door to our bedroom, and therefore we basically share a bedroom with my sister at the moment.
9. I very much want to build the benches and planters we have dreamt up for our backyard, but we need a whole lot of concrete bricks and I do not have them, nor can I just swing by Lowe's and pick them up because A) they are heavy and B) my lovely new car is dead.
10. I would like to have grass in the backyard but I do not know where to find the snazzy roll of grass like they have on the British gardening show Ground Force and therefore I am at a standstill on this issue.
That is all for now.
I missed you all something fierce.
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