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It's been a good week. Dad's been here since Monday and we've been mostly just moseying. Some highlights include:
My cousin Becca's arrived from Arizona as of last night. I'm hoping we can cross paths today. We're woefully understaffed this week, particularly yesterday and today, but I figure post lunch will be OK. And all the interns are elsewhere today, so no need to keep checking in on them. If ever there was a day to leave a few hours early, it's today. 60-what?! OK, fine. Be that way. Melt the snow. :)
It was so pretty yesterday evening, I had q_e pump up my bike tires and went for a test run down the bike path. Ohhhhh. Right. THAT. There's that thing that makes everything feel better. And the universe agreed with me. It brought up Spring-Allegro from Vivaldi's Four Seasons on the return leg. I'm quite certain there wasn't a more perfect benediction for the first ride. It also reminded me (again, again, again) how much I need that chance. Riding on the path is a meditation and comfort that random fight-traffic-on-streets never ever will be. Sure, there's idiots. There were 2 abreast just yesterday, providing me with the chance to mutter "idiots" under my breath when they ignored my bell. I actually enjoyed being irritated by them.
I came back and wrote the RE agent saying that I was ridiculous for not including Lexington in the search. Originally I'd been dead-set on Arlington when we first started talking, but since then she's been showing me places that are exactly the same commute, or worse. Between everyone's demands plus the state insisting we preserve Crime Fighter from the dangers of lead paint, we don't have the flexibility to cross off a whole town that could work. Besides. If we stay close to the current neighborhood, I'd not have to bid my commuting friends adieu and/or make special arrangements to see them when it was just part of my day pre-move. Also. I rather enjoy the familiar Saturday routine: Diner, Wilsons, Bedford Stop n' Shop, home. Chances are that ritual would not make sense in half the places we've been looking.
It's easy for me to get twitchy about not yet finding a place, even though we haven't been looking for more than 2 weeks yet. My brain's been over-ready for a few months, so there's concern. But I'm trying not to have a wiggins over it all.
Actually, there's a lot of things that had been weighing on me that have shifted-
- Bananagrams
- watched new Star Trek movie
- group visit to ultra-sound land
- successful visit to see Sang before he leaves Lexington in favor of Natick.
- introduced
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asciikitty to both Dad and Sang - quiet_elegance has been taking him to a new breakfast place almost every day, which seems to be amusing.
My cousin Becca's arrived from Arizona as of last night. I'm hoping we can cross paths today. We're woefully understaffed this week, particularly yesterday and today, but I figure post lunch will be OK. And all the interns are elsewhere today, so no need to keep checking in on them. If ever there was a day to leave a few hours early, it's today. 60-what?! OK, fine. Be that way. Melt the snow. :)
It was so pretty yesterday evening, I had q_e pump up my bike tires and went for a test run down the bike path. Ohhhhh. Right. THAT. There's that thing that makes everything feel better. And the universe agreed with me. It brought up Spring-Allegro from Vivaldi's Four Seasons on the return leg. I'm quite certain there wasn't a more perfect benediction for the first ride. It also reminded me (again, again, again) how much I need that chance. Riding on the path is a meditation and comfort that random fight-traffic-on-streets never ever will be. Sure, there's idiots. There were 2 abreast just yesterday, providing me with the chance to mutter "idiots" under my breath when they ignored my bell. I actually enjoyed being irritated by them.
I came back and wrote the RE agent saying that I was ridiculous for not including Lexington in the search. Originally I'd been dead-set on Arlington when we first started talking, but since then she's been showing me places that are exactly the same commute, or worse. Between everyone's demands plus the state insisting we preserve Crime Fighter from the dangers of lead paint, we don't have the flexibility to cross off a whole town that could work. Besides. If we stay close to the current neighborhood, I'd not have to bid my commuting friends adieu and/or make special arrangements to see them when it was just part of my day pre-move. Also. I rather enjoy the familiar Saturday routine: Diner, Wilsons, Bedford Stop n' Shop, home. Chances are that ritual would not make sense in half the places we've been looking.
It's easy for me to get twitchy about not yet finding a place, even though we haven't been looking for more than 2 weeks yet. My brain's been over-ready for a few months, so there's concern. But I'm trying not to have a wiggins over it all.
Actually, there's a lot of things that had been weighing on me that have shifted-
- We don't owe money for taxes. This is a big deal since I really wasn't sure. It could have been awful, but we'll get a return and everything.
- I really like Carol the RE agent. She's been good about taking what I say into consideration. I'm sure she will help us find the new place soon.
- Sprog has all the required parts and is growing at the expected rate. We have had visual proof of this now.(purple_terror started the inevitable game of find the worst names ever and laugh hysterically. There are now at least 3-4 options for the boy if he chooses to be a porn star.)
- We have good news from the spring board meeting, so future archive/work plans can continue apace.
- Now if only we could get q_e a job that lasts for weeks, nay months on end. That'd kick ass. But with spring next week, chances are getting better this will happen very soon.
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