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cattitude have now each cooked a couple of meals in the new apartment, though we're still figuring out things like oven temperature. We're pretty well stocked on basic things to eat, drink, and cook with, some of them (like all the spices and a lot of tea) brought from the old place, and others (including milk, olive oil, and flour) bought here. I also bought horseradish this afternoon, just because I could—the best I could do in Bellevue was a horseradish-and-stuff spread, and now I have a jar of Gold's horseradish. We also have proper seltzer and a few Macintosh apples.
There are a couple of dozen bright yellow daffodils in exuberant bloom on the front lawn, visible from a window of the sun room. Today it's actually sunny out (the sun room was much less appealing yesterday, when the weather was cool and gray).
We have met one of the downstairs neighbors (I think William), for a brief but cheerful "hi, we just moved in" as we were returning with groceries.
Cattitude has a library card, and I will have one as soon as I take this proof-of-address postcard back to them.
Unfortunately, I forgot to say "here's my new address" to an occasional freelance client when accepting an assignment, so a package of art went by UPS to Bellevue instead of here. The client is away until Tuesday (autoreply) and UPS won't redirect the package here without her authorization. So, I have told her the situation and we'll see if she has it re-sent here or sends me a new one. (The person I talked at our old building was helpful and gave me the tracking number, so I know when it was sent and when delivered.)
This morning I took out my elastics and did a bunch of my exercises for the first time since we got here (I'd done bits in the hotel room).
There is still a lot of unpacking to do, but we have opened boxes with clothing, and hung some clean shirts and pants. We have a lot less closet space than we did in Bellevue or even New York, so are going to be sorting things into what we need now, what we will need at other times of year (which should go in boxes labeled "summer" or "winter" and be stored in the attic), and what we might want sometime but don't have room for in the closet or dressers (more attic boxes—it's a big attic). And some things just don't fit, and will either go to a thrift shop or be discarded, based on how worn out they are.
(This is almost certainly incomplete, but I want to post something before I forget.)
cattitude have now each cooked a couple of meals in the new apartment, though we're still figuring out things like oven temperature. We're pretty well stocked on basic things to eat, drink, and cook with, some of them (like all the spices and a lot of tea) brought from the old place, and others (including milk, olive oil, and flour) bought here. I also bought horseradish this afternoon, just because I could—the best I could do in Bellevue was a horseradish-and-stuff spread, and now I have a jar of Gold's horseradish. We also have proper seltzer and a few Macintosh apples.There are a couple of dozen bright yellow daffodils in exuberant bloom on the front lawn, visible from a window of the sun room. Today it's actually sunny out (the sun room was much less appealing yesterday, when the weather was cool and gray).
We have met one of the downstairs neighbors (I think William), for a brief but cheerful "hi, we just moved in" as we were returning with groceries.
Cattitude has a library card, and I will have one as soon as I take this proof-of-address postcard back to them.
Unfortunately, I forgot to say "here's my new address" to an occasional freelance client when accepting an assignment, so a package of art went by UPS to Bellevue instead of here. The client is away until Tuesday (autoreply) and UPS won't redirect the package here without her authorization. So, I have told her the situation and we'll see if she has it re-sent here or sends me a new one. (The person I talked at our old building was helpful and gave me the tracking number, so I know when it was sent and when delivered.)
This morning I took out my elastics and did a bunch of my exercises for the first time since we got here (I'd done bits in the hotel room).
There is still a lot of unpacking to do, but we have opened boxes with clothing, and hung some clean shirts and pants. We have a lot less closet space than we did in Bellevue or even New York, so are going to be sorting things into what we need now, what we will need at other times of year (which should go in boxes labeled "summer" or "winter" and be stored in the attic), and what we might want sometime but don't have room for in the closet or dressers (more attic boxes—it's a big attic). And some things just don't fit, and will either go to a thrift shop or be discarded, based on how worn out they are.
(This is almost certainly incomplete, but I want to post something before I forget.)
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