Kristel's Blog

Pepper’s feeling better. She’s completely wired, possibly even a little stir crazy. I’ve taken her cone off pretty much all day without supervision. The insision’s looking good, we’ll see if I get told off by the vet because she’s been licking it behind my back or not.

Been cleaning my apartment. Giving my super notice tomorrow, so in case she’s going to do an inspection, I want it looking at least somewhat decent. There’s going to be laundry on the floor because I have to do laundry, but it’s not too bad otherwise. Maybe I’ll clean my bedroom closet, and then mess it up by putting the laundry on the floor. Will have to remind myself though that the clothes on the floor aren’t clean…

It’s hard to clean and pack at the same time, but if I’m going to put stuff away, I might as well put that stuff in boxes. At least the stuff I don’t use on a regular basis anyways. So now, while I think I’m cleaning, all I see is boxes. The good (or bad?) news is that I’m running out of boxes. Soon I’ll have to stop. Debating packing up all my yarn or not. Will I knit between now and the end of March? Definitely. Will I finish all my current wip’s? Um, including the blanket, probably not. Not including it? Probably… but will I decide to work on the blanket, or go onto a new project? Hm… I bought new yarn before I bought the house, and while it isn’t here yet, I’m sure I’ll be itching to use it. But, if I do pack it up, that’s one less thing to pack in March, and it’s not like it’s going to be in a storage locker, at the edge of town, and I’d have to take 2 buses to get there… so maybe I will.

Had my bank appointment today. Mortgage was approved, and we worked out for me to have a line of credit to do some home improvements, and when I’m done, they’ll send someone in to reevaluate the house, and then they can work that into my mortgage, or I could just pay it back. So that part’s all set. Next week is the lawyer’s appointment. We’re just going over the purchase agreement, and he’ll do his stuff regarding the land transfer, the deed, etc. Two weeks before I’m out of escrow, I have to go back into the bank to sign all the paperwork, it gets forwarded to my lawyer, and we go from there. Buying a house requires an unbelievable amount of $$$ saved up beforehand and way too many meetings!

Down to my last box of Scout Popcorn! Hooray! It’s good, but I bought waaaay too much. Oh! Thinking of my microwave (the link is scout popcorn == microwave popcorn == cooks in the microwave) new house as a spot for it off the counter! Hooray.

Can’t wait to move. Check out the countdown for time left. It’s set for the last Monday in March. Obviously, the truck hasn’t been booked yet. But that’s something I can work out later.

Are you supposed to throw a going-away party and a housewarming party? Obviously they’d been like a month apart, if not more, but still… I think the housewarming party will happen for sure, not to sure about the going-away, unless it’s a going-away-and-we’ll-help-you-pack party the last weekend I’m here. I was looking online at someone’s housewarming, and they had done huge renovations (way above the renovations I’m doing) and their housewarming was set up with every room having a different set of snacks per room, and they had a huge collage of before & after photos in each room too. It was very cool the way they had displayed everything. Is that happening at mine? Well, there’ll be snacks, but knowing me, they’ll all be on the coffee table, and there’ll be just a handfull of before/after pictures per room and they’ll be on the nearest flat surface. oh, and unlike theirs, mine’s likely to be a 1 – 4 affair instead of a 2pm to 2am drinking extravaganza! (Well, unless you’re visiting from out of town and spending the night…)

Not finished my knitting for this weekend. I have a bag and a scarf to finish. They’re both about 70% done right now. Not sure they’ll make it. It’s getting difficult to clean, pack, work, take care of Pepper, and go to all these meetings… knitting’s taking a back seat. The bag will probably be done, but the scarf is a fingering weight, and it has like 80 some stitches per row, so it’s taking forever. Probably should go work on that now since it’s not like I’m doing anything productive.