Archive for October, 2005
- we bought a house last week. and we’ve spent every minute of the past 4 days scraping, spackling, sanding, painting, cleaning, installing light fixtures, learning wiring, plumbing, and carpentry, all the while trying to pack our old place and move stuff over, and generally destroying our bodies in the process. on the bright side, i think we had the fastest closing in history. in and out of there in 40 minutes, and not nearly as many signatures as i thought. is this what it feels like to be an adult? in any event, we are now happyish residents of the town of belmont.
- painting celiings sucks. for the love of god, please don’t ever paint your ceilings any color other than white, so thh next poor schlub who has to paint them won’t require 5 coats to cover it. i guess i should have used a primer, huh?
- i’m keeping a running count of the number of trips to home depot and lowes i make. since thursday, i’m up to 6, not including the paint store.
- we ordered a new washer and dryer and had it delivered yesterday. unfortunately, they didn’t fit down our basement stairs, even after i ripped apart the railings. i might be in the market for a reciprocating saw to do some damage to some stairs. that’s covered in the condo documents, right?
- i think susanne should be one of those hot carpenters on those design show on tv. she’s good.
- the grill insert for our cooktop that i was hoping to get for chrismukkah magically appeared in the cabinet under our sink. yay for me!
- i’m too tired to think of anything else right now…
- expect to see me covered in paint, spackle, toilets, light fixtures, tools, boxes, tape, and junk for the next month. god help me.
- the first annual oslerwurst. great fun had by all, and lots and lots of sausage and mustard. the surpise hit of the day was the mole sausage. and the other surpise is that many oslers read this site. hello oslers!
- after packing the pantry and dining room and living room shelves, we already have about 35 boxes. remember all of those fun dishes and glasses and bowls and platters that you get for your wedding and all of the thousands of boxes that they all come packed in that you throw out. well guess what? you get to pack them all up again. having full sets of all of your glasses and dishes isn’t nearly as much fun to own when you have to pack them all.
- ugly americans: The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions. a partially fictionalized story of the young guys who went wild in the far east markets in the mid-90’s. they made a ton of money, lived like rock stars, and got wrapped up with the japanese mafia. a quick and interesting read.
- sometimes, you look around at your life and realize that somehow, you grew up and got old. remember those dinners that your parents would have when you were young and they would be having these really boring conversations about mortgages, taxes, home repair, cooking, and car maintainance? well suddenly, you’re having them. i came to that realization on friday morning at 5:30 while riding the bike, watching a bathroom renovation on tv, and getting excited about watching them put in the new toilet and laying tiles. stick a fork in me. i’m old.
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