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Aug. 29th, 2009 10:21 pm
State of the Texty: Weekend edition
In addition to the health update...
*Uprooting stuff:
I think we're finally free of having to muck with Chez Fou. The new owner is now in touch with the service people who screwed up the original job, so I doubt we'll be involved anymore.
Also, we signed off on the inspection report for Charenton, so that should be basically done, now. We have a few bits of documentation and miscellaneous stuff to do for the lender and title co. and such, but assuming that it passes appraisal, we should be in official Pending (aka sit around and wait for closing) status by early next week. And then comes the serious furniture shopping!
Speaking of furniture shopping: Hey,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
havdrake? Next time you have a free weekend, wanna come look at stuff with us? I know we have similar taste, and I'd love to get your feedback on some of the stuff we're considering, to be a third set of eyes.
*'Puter stuff:
Thanks to declaring this weekend to be downtime from Uprooting-related things, I finally had enough free time to back up all my docs, pics, video, etc. so M could install the spiffy new hard drive I've had sitting around for... A year? At least. So I'm now installing all the software and IE plug-ins and such I need. Actually, I'll probably be doing that for weeks, as I remember stuff I need to install.
We also installed Win 7, with which I am rapidly falling in love. OMG so fast and so many awesome little touches. Between that and the new drive, my machine feels like a Ferrari. (Which of course means that my bloody slow piece o' crap at work is going to feel like a '74 Pinto in comparison.) I'm sure I'll find stuff to complain about as I get my hands deeper into the guts, but for now, I'm impressed.
*Dear gods, I love living in the NW stuff:
Also, I was inspired byfenchurche's adventures in blackberries to go raid the ripe vines running through the greenbelt behind our apartment. Got a good quart bag full and barely even touched what was out there. That bag then became part of a coffee cake, which turned out beautifully (no pics, dangit.) It's been a long time since I've done wild berry picking, and I'd forgotten how amazingly good they are right off the vine. NOM.
I feel amazingly calm and relaxed today. Sleepy and tired from all the recent stress, but I do feel like a lot of that stress has finally started resolving, which is a huge load off my mind. Still more to come, of course, but for the short term, I think I'm in good shape.
*Uprooting stuff:
I think we're finally free of having to muck with Chez Fou. The new owner is now in touch with the service people who screwed up the original job, so I doubt we'll be involved anymore.
Also, we signed off on the inspection report for Charenton, so that should be basically done, now. We have a few bits of documentation and miscellaneous stuff to do for the lender and title co. and such, but assuming that it passes appraisal, we should be in official Pending (aka sit around and wait for closing) status by early next week. And then comes the serious furniture shopping!
Speaking of furniture shopping: Hey,
havdrake? Next time you have a free weekend, wanna come look at stuff with us? I know we have similar taste, and I'd love to get your feedback on some of the stuff we're considering, to be a third set of eyes. *'Puter stuff:
Thanks to declaring this weekend to be downtime from Uprooting-related things, I finally had enough free time to back up all my docs, pics, video, etc. so M could install the spiffy new hard drive I've had sitting around for... A year? At least. So I'm now installing all the software and IE plug-ins and such I need. Actually, I'll probably be doing that for weeks, as I remember stuff I need to install.
We also installed Win 7, with which I am rapidly falling in love. OMG so fast and so many awesome little touches. Between that and the new drive, my machine feels like a Ferrari. (Which of course means that my bloody slow piece o' crap at work is going to feel like a '74 Pinto in comparison.) I'm sure I'll find stuff to complain about as I get my hands deeper into the guts, but for now, I'm impressed.
*Dear gods, I love living in the NW stuff:
Also, I was inspired by
fenchurche's adventures in blackberries to go raid the ripe vines running through the greenbelt behind our apartment. Got a good quart bag full and barely even touched what was out there. That bag then became part of a coffee cake, which turned out beautifully (no pics, dangit.) It's been a long time since I've done wild berry picking, and I'd forgotten how amazingly good they are right off the vine. NOM. I feel amazingly calm and relaxed today. Sleepy and tired from all the recent stress, but I do feel like a lot of that stress has finally started resolving, which is a huge load off my mind. Still more to come, of course, but for the short term, I think I'm in good shape.
