A herd of small, extremely active, young creatures have moved into the apartment above me.
One would assume that there are also parental units, at least one, though I’ve neither seen nor heard any evidence of such.

I don’t have any illusions that the parents will do anything to keep the noise under control; and really, the old standby, “go outside and play” isn’t an option these days.
So how can I complain?
What other option do the parents have?

But I do hope that the ceiling doesn’t fall in, at least not while I’m living here.

So my one and only cup has sprung a leak. (It was one of the REI double walled plastic ones.)

It seems I can’t put off going out and buying a couple of new mugs any longer.

I don’t wanna buy dinnerware! Or breakfast-ware.

But I DO want to be able to drink coffee in the morning (which I make every morning in the little french press Roxanne sent me).

good natured grumbling

The apartment complex has a pool. The pool is open whenever the office feels like it, when they feel like it does not in anyway match the “scheduled” hours.

But, it does seem that they usually open the pool around 3:30pm, when all the kids start swarming to the pool like june bugs to a screen door. (actually, I think the june bugs are swarming to the light, but I’m not sure; all I know is that they can cover a screen door so thick you’d have better luck going out a side window)

The one constant is that if the pool is open, it will close promptly at 9pm. Locked. Chained and locked.

I’ve been hoping to wait until all the little rugrats (anyone under the age of 25, I did say I was getting crotchety, right?) go home for supper, or homework, or even bed. But they don’t go! Do these kids just not *do* homework? (apparently not if my upstairs neighbor and her daughter are typical).

Sigh. Big drawn out dramatic sigh.

I want to do my stationary swimming and my water jogging. I’m old. They should humour me! I had to humour old people when *I* was a kid!

I figured Easter Sunday would be a great time to hit the store, all the usual shoppers would be home stuffed too full to move. But no… apparently they hadn’t actually done any of the cooking yet and were frantically attempting to do their last minute shopping so they could create their Easter masterpiece. Or maybe they had finished eating and the crowd was so large that now there was not a single bite of food in the entire house and in self-defense they had to run out and restock.
Either way, it was busy. Very busy.

But I did manage to come out with almost everything on my list (I know the store and thankfully they haven’t succumbed to the usual “rearrange every aisle and what’s on the specific aisles” mentality yet).

While I was in the store I realized that I could cook again! Plantains! Sweet Potatoes! Tofu! (only in stir fry and curry) Pancakes!!! Rice Pudding!
As an added bonus for my shopping trauma I got 3 marranitos warm from the oven. 😀

I am absolutely loving my new bed. It’s incredibly comfortable and I sleep so well. I still wake up at 3 in the morning but when I am asleep I sleep well.

So I mentioned a post ago that I purchased the Ikea IVAR 3 section bookcase. I like it, very open, very “light” looking (so far as a bookcase can look light). And it fits the wall perfectly.
But it was so not meant for one person to put together alone. I’ve spent two hours this morning holding one piece with a leg while balancing another piece with a hand, and using my other hand to swing around and place shelves. If I had a tail I’d have been using that too!

I now have enough of it put together that it can hold itself together and I can see the outline of how it will look. It will look good.

My bed and my rice/porridge cooker both showed up, and I got a package from Roxanne with an itty bitty (exactly what I wanted) coffee press (and a few other bits and pieces currently being put to use) in it; thanks Roxanne!

My bed is extremely comfortable, though I did wake up at 3am again.
My rice/porridge cooker cooked rice beautifully last night and I’ll see how well the timer works this morning if/when it turns on automatically and cooks my porridge for breakfast.
My coffee press will be pressed (ha!) into service this morning.

After the mattress people dropped off my mattress I decided that I had just enough time to hightail it to Ikea and pick up the IVAR shelves (basic pine, open design) I’d decided on. Good decision.
I got there an hour before closing, got what I needed without a lot of window shopping (difficult to do in Ikea) and made it home by 10pm.

Today I’ll put together the shelves; easy enough to do but I need to put the cross braces on and anchor them to the wall.
Then I can start getting stuff off of the floor and organized. That will help a lot with my mental status. I like to know where things are, which is difficult if everything is stuffed into various plastic bags and scattered haphazardly across the floor.

That’s enough for now. 🙂

My rice/porridge cookerAND my bed show up today!

Someone gave me some sheets so I’m all set for when the bed gets here. I’m very excited!

Tonight is the first night I’ve spent in my new place.

I don’t have my bed yet, it gets delivered tomorrow evening; but Keegan is sharing her dog bed and we’re fine.
I could have waited, spent the night at my friends house again but I really wanted to experience my own space again. I wanted to get used to my place, spend some time organising and visualising.

It’s good here.

Today I purchased a broom/dustpan set and a toilet bowl cleaner. Yes. Cleanliness.

I intended to purchase a shoe rack to put by the front door. I went to Target, got it, measured my shoes to make sure they were large enough to use the shoe rack, then took it to the cashier to pay. All their phones/lines were down so they were only accepting cash. So I walked out without the shoe rack. Pffft.

I moved a lot of stuff out of the truck, books mostly. The truck seems to be driving easier now though much more buffeted by the wind. Hmmmm… 😀

Then I went to the local B&N bookstore to meet the lady I knit the purse for. I managed to get out without buying a single book. A rare feat for me.

And I started knitting some potholders for myself for my own kitchen. Woohooo! They’re lambswool so when they’re knitted I’ll run them through a hot wash and let them felt. That will make them thicker and more useful as pot holders.
I have 3 bright colours that will really brighten up the kitchen. I plan on making sets of various sizes, so trivet size, hand size, maybe even a couple “glove” styles (knit one long rectangle, then sew it up into a square “mitt”).
I’m using a “moss” stitch. It’s perl 1/ knit 1, alternate each row. It turns out a very insulated fluffy weave.

Tomorrow is washing sheets and towels someone gave me, washing the mattress pad for the new bed, and washing the sheets of the guest bed where I’ve been staying. So lots of laundry.
And then more changing of address tasks. I got some of it done online over the weekend but many are easier to do by phone so will get done tomorrow.

Wednesday evening my mattress gets delivered.
Next Monday my internet gets connected.

Life is good.