Seismic Twitch

I have chafing from my underwear and sweating. Oy! It sucks! I can’t wear a pair of women’s underwear now until it heals. This means that I have to wear Bran’s Y-front gotch. I wore his underwear when I was pregnant with Boy. It was so much more comfortable. I’m thinking that for the next while, until the chafing heals, I’ll get some men’s Y-fronts for myself to wear. Women’s underwear have those elastics around the legs and that’s what’s created “issues” (pronounced iss-youz ala me) today. Either way, I’ll be walking funny for a while.

We have most of the kitchen stuff over at the new place. The fish tank, fish and tank sand are also over there, though the fish are in a Rubbermaid rough-tote with the plants and an aerator to keep air flowing. We have new brooms (Bran has a superstition that, in order for a home to be successful in a new house, the old brooms must be disposed of and new brooms purchased), a lovely new dustmop, and a few other things. Oh, the electronics, you know, tv, stereo and such, are also gone over.

The inside of the refrigerator is clean and Bran has just finished vacuuming the back of it. The oven is very nearly clean, I had to do a second spray on the tougher stuff. I’ll finish with it tomorrow. Then I put the casseroles and other baking things into laundry baskets (they’ve been right handy, they have) and they can be hauled over by car. That’s probably what will happen with my office stuff as well. Then we’re going to do a spray/vacuum of the carpets and that’ll mean they’re done. Then it’s washing the kitchen floor, spot washing the walls and cleaning the bathroom, making sure the stairs to the basement are vacuumed and sweeping the basement. The last thing to be done is to clean up the back yard and dig up my perennials. I even know where they’re going to be put…I think.

Oh, in the afternoon a man is going to come and look at our appliances to see if they’ll buy them for resale. They’re in good shape so I hope they go. I’d rather not move them if we don’t have to.

I hate depression. It’s really made getting motivated for this move difficult. I could’ve had my office totally packed away and ready to go at the beginning of the month. But no, I diddled time away and now we’re at the crunch and so much is left to be done. I hate moves like this. One thing’s for sure. I’m never doing things like this ever again.

WE WON THE APPEAL!!

We didn’t get the notice from the Rentalsman in the mail so Bran called them and requested that someone call and let us know what the results were. I just took the callback. The ruling states that the landlord lacks the grounds to evict us.

We’re still moving anyway, I mean, who’d want to live beside a man who accuses your child (along with his friends) of malicious damage that you know was caused by the action of water, ice and cold temperatures. Yeah, he accused Boy and his friends of causing a concrete trough to crumble like dried mud.

Anyway, I’m going back to work.

Good news, eh?

Bran, Boy and I worked together to jury-rig the a/c into the front window. It’s sitting on a wooden crate, upon which cits a small set of two plastic drawers upon which sits the air conditioner. Bran has blocked most of the upper part of the window with plastic and it’s now blowing in mostly cool air. I can actually feel the difference.

…Right now! A cold, dank castle sounds downright yummy right now. Today, for the first time in several days, my body temperature got down to normal. Dad was up and while he and Bran went magazine shopping in one of the small magazine stores, I sat in the front seat of the car with the a/c blasting. This week we’ve had temperatures in the low to mid 30s since midweek. How hot is that you ask? Well, body temperature is 37. Right now we’re at 32. Tomorrow’s high is predicted to be 34. Tuesday (with some luck) isn’t supposed to go over 30, but I don’t trust weather predictors. So far they’ve predicted thunder showers nearly every night and none have come. Those lying liars of weather people!

The garage sale went well. We got enough that with that and a small lottery win (a bit over $100) we were able to get a new air conditioning unit for the new place. I’m quite looking forward to the new place, having things set up, having the air conditioning unit in the window cooling our space.

Dad was in town today so we took him over to the new place and did some window peeping. We have a small foyer with a closet that is under the stairway that goes to our upstairs neighbour’s suite. The deck at the back is nice and large and we’ll soon have our bench/box there with gardening tools inside. Tomorrow night, everything should be packed and ready to go. Tonight I’m going to try and get the fridge cleaned out and then after the food is gone to the new place I’ll move it and wash underneath it. For some reason the landlord put it up on a piece of plywood. Oh well.

That’s about it. It’s hot. I’m hot. I’m very full of supper (Great Buffet again) and I want to nap but it’s too damned hot. Life sucks and then you die.

I stole this from Dharma. She didn’t tag anyone in particular and I won’t either, but If you want to do it, feel free.

The Fiver:

1. Five favorite days of the year.

1. Yule.
2. The day after the last final of the term.
3. The very first day of the next term.
4. Any day that I’m with Boy and Bran doing something fun.
5. The day after moving day.

2. Five things I watched this week.

1. Murder and mayhem.
2. The sweat roll down Bran’s neck this afternoon.
3. The dragonfly land on Bran’s and then Boy’s fingers.
4. Mythbusters
5. The neato screen saver on Bran’s computer – he uses Ubuntu Linux

3. Five things you don’t want to do but should.

1. Get a mammogram.
2. Get a physical.
3. Go to bed.
4. Finish packing (it’s still in the high 20s in the house)
5. Finish dusting.

4. Five things you want to learn.

1. To learn and be fluent in Cree.
2. Photography, not just taking pictures, but framing, lighting and all that stuff.
3. Beading jewelry to sell.
4. To listen better.
5. To play guitar.

5. Five animals you’ve had as or have pets who impacted you.

1. Watson, my dog. A standard, long hair, black and tan dachshund. She only lived 1 year and 13 days, but she taught me a lot about humour, patience, and love.
2. My goldfish when I was a kid. When I had the flu once I laid on the couch and watched “Goldie” swim around in his bowl. I’d sleep, then wake up and watch him again.
3. My aquarium fish when I was a teenager. I had that tank for a few years and took, what I thought was really good care of my fish. Of course, it was a really good thing they were all very hardy because anything more delicate than them would’ve kacked it quickly.
4. Sandy, the family dog when I was little. Apparently I didn’t like him much. When I was little, Mom’d put me out in the yard and tell the dog to keep me there. He’s lay across the gateway and I’d just stand there (not wanting to touch the dog I didn’t like much) and yell at him and tell him he was a bad dog. He’d just ignore me and sleep.
5. Sooty…my mom’s cat, quite literally. She taught me how to run really fast, really, really fast!

6. Five favorite pieces of clothing

1. All of my sweats.
2. My shorts.
3. My t-shirts.
4. My star and moon dress. It’s quite pretty.
5. My comfy sandals.

7. Five things you enjoy in the summer

1. Barbecued food.
2. Watermelon…though this one comes with a caveat because I prefer the watermelons that have seeds. Now they’re selling those seedless ones and they’re severely lacking in flavour.
3. Thunder storms and warm rain.
4. Air conditioning on really hot days (that I’m suffering through tonight)
5. The smell of the air after a cleansing rain.

8. Five foods you don’t like

1. Apricots *shudder*
2. Lamb *shudderer*
3. Caviar *shudderest*
4. My mom’s goulash – even now, with her dead 14 years and even longer since her last inflicting “goo-lash” on me the thought of it still leaves me slightly nauseated.
5. Parsnips.

9. You are given $50,000 to give to 5 people as $10,000 cash gifts, who and why

1. Bran – because he’s really cool and doesn’t often buy things for himself. I’d like him to have some money to spend on himself.
2. My friend Anne, in BC, cuz she rocks the Cassbah!
3., 4. and 5. My three nieces – because they’re fabulously talented and I’d love for them to be able to do whatever it is they want…even though one already is.

10. Five things that are not where they belong

1. Me, I need to be in the new house.
2. Most of the stuff that we haven’t packed yet.
3. Mush, she really needs to be singing on stage and earning tons of moola.
4. Bran, he needs to be teaching.
5. My brain.

Well, you know, someday I’ll write about this whole saga that we’ve been going through. That will come after we find out if we won the appeal and after we get our damage deposit back. Then again, maybe I’ll just let this all go and call it a valuable lesson learned and buy a house at the soonest opportunity.

Ta-Ra

Yeah, we’re having a garage sale…well, technically it’s a driveway sale since we have no garage. Hopefully everything will go because I’d rather not move any of it. I helped haul out piles fo stuff and my back is not at all happy with me right now. In a little bit I’ll be continuing on with the packing process and cleaning.

I’m so looking forward to this process being done.

…and damned near everything else.

Packing is happening. We’re slowly plugging along. It’s hot, it’s humid, I’m hoping for a thunderstorm. It’s clouding over somewhat, but I doubt anything will come of it.

I’m going to read other people’s blogs and then get back to work.

Ta-Ra

The people who are moving out of the place we’re moving into will be gone and we can move in on the 31st. Yay! I was getting worried about that. If you recall, they were on holiday in BC when we looked at and were approved for the place. At the time there was a bit of a question about whether their notice was for the end of July or the end of August, though they had changed it to the end of July. Bran has also made arrangements to shift our utilities and telephone to the new address. It’s in the works. We even have a truck! Yay!

I got hold of the landlady to confirm the address to send our deposit and first month’s check to and it’s a good thing since I’d written it down wrong and could have caused them problems. She’s calling back to confirm that it’s the address I should send to or if there’s an alternate that her husband wants them to go to.

It’s another lovely day here. It was warmer than yesterday, but still a whole lot cooler than the 30s with humidex being into the 40s. The fans are blowing and I’m happily watching my Thursday night murder and mayhem.

I’m so looking forward to being out of here and into the new place. I don’t know how long I’ll be knocked off internet for, not that I expect our service to not be there, only that I might not have the energy or somewhere to do any typing. I might end up doing an entry or two at school.

In more ways that one.

First and foremost, it’s only 17C here, that’s 62F for non-metric folk. For the first time in three days I’m feeling comfortable. In fact, I might even consider myself to be somewhat (dare I say?) coolish. Today is going to be a balmy 26C or 79F. This means that I’ll be able to get work done in the kitchen.

I finished the area around the stove yesterday not long after I woke up at 6 pm. Silly me, I forgot that I hadn’t eaten for a few hours (since about 7 the night before) and I got somewhat shaky from low blood sugar. This also meant that my thought processes were impaired as well. Alas, Bran needed me to have my thinking brain to help figure out what groceries to get for supper. I wasn’t able to think very fast.

Anyway, I went to the grocery store with Bran and we got soup, watermelon, sandwich meat, buns, organic salad greens, dill slices and crackers (one must have the proper ingredients for trailer trash hors d’oeuvres) and fruit. I think we may have gotten something else, but for the life of me I can’t think of what that might be. When the bananas were weighed in priced in I immediately grabbed one and started scarfing it down. It’s a good way of getting my blood sugar to climb a bit before I a) fell over because my knees wouldn’t support me anymore; b) had my brain flatline and c) got nauseated and ended up dry heaving. I sat in the car and waited while Bran went off and got us some Greasy Fried Chicken (KFC – I know, BAD, but damn!) to have for supper with buns.

So that’s what we did. We had KFC, buns and watermelon for supper. I wasn’t able to sit and concentrate until about 9 though. You see, I had to do a take home exam for my class. I finished it about 3/4 of an hour ago or so. It’s shit, but it’s done. I have to go and hand it in between 9 and 9:30. Then the rest of the day is my own…or rather housework’s, at least until I can’t stay awake any longer and have to go to sleep. Or maybe I’ll come home and sleep and then get up and work and try to get to sleep at a normal hour tonight. Hmmm…I wonder what normal is.

This morning after Boy and Bran got back from delivering papers, Bran asked me if I wanted an Ice Cap from Tim Horton’s and for the first time in a couple of weeks I didn’t want one. I wanted HOT coffee. So he got me an extra large triple-triple. I just finished it and it was lovely. It was hot. And best of all, I didn’t sweat at all.

That’s about it. It’s nice to not be feeling like I’m going to burst into flame at any second. It’s nice to not feel like someone put a damp wool blanket over my face. It’s nice to be a llama again.