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cuddlefish) wrote2007-02-19 03:12 pm
cuddlefish) wrote2007-02-19 03:12 pm
More about the new house
So when was the last time I posted in my journal? Eight days ago? Oh dear. I had things to write about, too. Mainly, that papers were passed right after Valentine's day and the snowstorm last week, and the new house is now ours whether or not I like it. My parents' first thought was to go out there and stay in the new house for the weekend. I could have stayed at home, but I was brave and decided to go with them.
I should say first that I really still can't say I like it or dislike it there because the weekend we spent there was without furniture. We had a good kitchen, and we brought along air mattresses, plates and silverware, blankets, the TV/PS2 rig, and there were lights in most of the house. But we had to buy everything else we had there, like food and chairs, pots and pans, and a cheap plastic table, and it still wasn't enough for us to do any living in the rooms without overhead lights. We ate out of plastic and we slept on plastic. It was all right, because the floor in the main room, where I spent most of my time, is heated. So there are no chairs? Just sit on the heated floor, in the sun, maybe with a blanket. It was very warm at this house. Then we got home and the heat here had been turned down all weekend---big contrast. That was rough.
The high point was probably when I went shopping at BJ's and found a tea set with a beautiful metal teapot and two teacups for $7. I will keep this and the green tea I bought for it at the new house. It was also nice to try out the jacuzzi in the master bathroom of this new place---but not fantastic. Water wasn't hot enough for me. And I remember a moment on Sunday when I was reading, and I was suddenly struck with a strong feeling of euphoria and contentment. (I've also noticed this happening several times while I was, say, playing Summon Night 3, so it's not like it came out of nowhere. Or happened just because I was at the new house. I was sitting on an air mattress, for crying out loud.)
I should also mention that we took along my dog, and she was a royal pain in the ass. The first night was the worst---after we spent hours squished in the car with all our stuff and one restless dog, there was all her whining and crying and complaining that we weren't at home. And then the morning after that, Mosey's precious precious Daddy went out for breakfast and she whined for hours, positive that he could hear her somewhere. As a result, we were forced to take her with us when we all went shopping later that day, and you can't leave your dog in the car, so someone had to wait with her while the other two went into the stores. Once that got better, another thing got worse. On Sunday, she hadn't had her daily aspirin for 24 hours, and it hurt too much for her to climb the stairs. So everytime Dad went up stairs, she stood at the bottom and---you guessed it---whined, until one of us was forced to pick her up and carry her to the top of the stairs. Nobody liked doing that, including Mosey. Poor damn dog. It's clear that there's someone who's having even more trouble than me with the new house.
I've mostly stopped playing Summon Night in the middle of a game I started to get Kyle and Aty together. *shameless* I made Aty a fighter, Machine element, and I have never seen anything more frustrating. Oh yeah, you can have a (big-boobed, bespectacled, polite) girl for a main character, but don't make her a fighter because she'll never be as good as Lex was. Can Equip Daggers? DAGGERS? For crying out loud!
Writing class is mostly the same: people are stupid, I am uptight, I haven't spoken up in class yet. Last time I brought along a number of pictures of various SumoNi charas that I printed out from the computer, and I drew a picture of Marurur looking entirely unlike Marurur. I'll scan it once I have some other things to put into the computer. I know I have other things to do in class, but right now we're talking about grammar and sentence structure, and oh, it's so tempting to sit in the back of class and draw. I think I missed drawing, which is how I spent most of my time in school once teachers started complaining when I read novels in class (!).
I should say first that I really still can't say I like it or dislike it there because the weekend we spent there was without furniture. We had a good kitchen, and we brought along air mattresses, plates and silverware, blankets, the TV/PS2 rig, and there were lights in most of the house. But we had to buy everything else we had there, like food and chairs, pots and pans, and a cheap plastic table, and it still wasn't enough for us to do any living in the rooms without overhead lights. We ate out of plastic and we slept on plastic. It was all right, because the floor in the main room, where I spent most of my time, is heated. So there are no chairs? Just sit on the heated floor, in the sun, maybe with a blanket. It was very warm at this house. Then we got home and the heat here had been turned down all weekend---big contrast. That was rough.
The high point was probably when I went shopping at BJ's and found a tea set with a beautiful metal teapot and two teacups for $7. I will keep this and the green tea I bought for it at the new house. It was also nice to try out the jacuzzi in the master bathroom of this new place---but not fantastic. Water wasn't hot enough for me. And I remember a moment on Sunday when I was reading, and I was suddenly struck with a strong feeling of euphoria and contentment. (I've also noticed this happening several times while I was, say, playing Summon Night 3, so it's not like it came out of nowhere. Or happened just because I was at the new house. I was sitting on an air mattress, for crying out loud.)
I should also mention that we took along my dog, and she was a royal pain in the ass. The first night was the worst---after we spent hours squished in the car with all our stuff and one restless dog, there was all her whining and crying and complaining that we weren't at home. And then the morning after that, Mosey's precious precious Daddy went out for breakfast and she whined for hours, positive that he could hear her somewhere. As a result, we were forced to take her with us when we all went shopping later that day, and you can't leave your dog in the car, so someone had to wait with her while the other two went into the stores. Once that got better, another thing got worse. On Sunday, she hadn't had her daily aspirin for 24 hours, and it hurt too much for her to climb the stairs. So everytime Dad went up stairs, she stood at the bottom and---you guessed it---whined, until one of us was forced to pick her up and carry her to the top of the stairs. Nobody liked doing that, including Mosey. Poor damn dog. It's clear that there's someone who's having even more trouble than me with the new house.
I've mostly stopped playing Summon Night in the middle of a game I started to get Kyle and Aty together. *shameless* I made Aty a fighter, Machine element, and I have never seen anything more frustrating. Oh yeah, you can have a (big-boobed, bespectacled, polite) girl for a main character, but don't make her a fighter because she'll never be as good as Lex was. Can Equip Daggers? DAGGERS? For crying out loud!
Writing class is mostly the same: people are stupid, I am uptight, I haven't spoken up in class yet. Last time I brought along a number of pictures of various SumoNi charas that I printed out from the computer, and I drew a picture of Marurur looking entirely unlike Marurur. I'll scan it once I have some other things to put into the computer. I know I have other things to do in class, but right now we're talking about grammar and sentence structure, and oh, it's so tempting to sit in the back of class and draw. I think I missed drawing, which is how I spent most of my time in school once teachers started complaining when I read novels in class (!).
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Mom has already taken pictures, but I am dissatisfied with them, and anyway it's more fun to put up your own stuff in your own journal, so I will take pictures myself next time I go. :3