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May 8, 2009 | Bits and Bobs
If I’m going to keep posting once in a blue moon I guess my posts will continue to be random hodge podges. You don’t mind, do you?
The first thing I’d like to discuss is the fact that we’re moving! It all happened so fast. We’d sort of been looking at houses with our Realtor extraordinaire, Marguerite, but nothing too serious. Then one day, SB, who is usually just luke warm about houses, came home with a flyer, declaring his love for a house he’d seen. We went and looked at it the next day, and less than 30 days later we closed. Whoosh! But not so fast. There was a tenant in it. So now we have to wait until she’s out on October 1st. But soon! Soon we will be out of the ‘hood.
The ‘hood has been on our last nerve lately, now that we’re moving. For instance, yesterday morning, I awoke to a tweaker on my lawn smoking crack. Doesn’t that sound like I’m kidding? I’m so not. This is something I NEVER would have blogged about before we were moving. I’m always so quick to defend Hilltop, so quick to tell you that our neighborhood is GREAT! But the fact is, this is a tough place to live sometimes. We’ve never had anything too bad happen to us, besides, you know, tweakers, fights on our lawn, etc, but many of our friends have been burgled and had cars stolen. After four years here, I’m very happy to be crossing the tracks, or Division St., more accurately.
In related news, we found a family of Missionaries to rent our current house. No shit!
Sleep, or my lack of it, is still a pretty big issue right now. We’re down from an average of eight wakings per night, (10:30, 11:30, 12:30, 2:30, 4:30, 5:30, and up for good at 6:30) to around four. (10:30, 1:30, 4:30, 6:30) I can live with four, after suffering through eight, but three? Three would be heaven. Because of all this, I have some pretty effed up dreams. Crazy stuff.
We started watching The Wire (OMG SO GOOD) and I’ve been afflicted with the DVD-series-addiction disease. You know when you start powering through a show on DVD, and soon it totally invades your thoughts and you think about the characters all the time? The other night I was dreaming about it when Clark woke up, and I started shaking SB awake, telling him he had to go in because “He’s seen me! I’m burnt!” In my Wire dream I was apparently surveil-ing Clark.
The universe sent me a message yesterday. I have this photography-business-related idea wherein I decided I needed funky little bowls and goblets and such. I figured I might find these things at a thrift store. Yesterday afternoon I had some Clark free time, so I got a coffee and set about on my Value Village treasure hunt. I found EXACTLY what I was looking for. I was so stoked! It’s super exciting when you find what you need at a thrift store. It feels like you won a prize! I headed home with my stash, picking up Clark on the way. Well, here comes the message. SB and I joke about me being The Queen of One Trip. I often carry all 10 grocery bags in at once, fingers be damned. Or I’ll use my old waitressing skillz to carry both of our plates plus two beers, napkins, silverware, and the butter dish to the table. I almost never drop anything, but now the ante is upped in my Queen of One Trip-ness since one of the items I’m usually carrying is a baby. *sigh* Can you see where this is going? So, I was on my way in from the car, carrying Clark in his bucket and my box of pretty pretty goblets, when I started to lose it right before the gate. I suppose I should be happy that I chose to drop the box and not the baby, but KERSMASH, the box flipped in the air and crashed on the sidewalk, shards of green, blue, and red glass flying in all directions. I lost all my scores, plus $37.12 of my precious photo biz money. Boo.
So, the universe was either trying to remind me not to be attached to Things, or else it was saying, it’s time to step down as the Queen of One Trip.
Speaking of the photography biz, though, part of the reason I’m here so infrequently is that I’ve been busy! Check out my photography blog for some fun slideshows and whatnot, should you be interested.
As always, thanks for reading, peeps. Here’s a picture of my delicious boy, your reward for sticking around.
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September 9th, 2009 at 9:07 am, Colleen Says:
I have been waiting for the blog report of the move!!! Congrats Jenny, that just rocks!
September 9th, 2009 at 9:08 am, Colleen Says:
I have been waiting for the blog report of the move!!! Congrats Jenny, that just rocks! Clark is so very very cute!!!
September 9th, 2009 at 11:13 am, hliv Says:
HE just keeps getting cuter I swear…missing you like crazy. I am shooting for a blog post by the end of next week, which here means…Wednesday…
September 9th, 2009 at 11:49 am, Jenny Lloyd Says:
We love The Wire! We watched the first two seasons last fall and then had to stop in order to finish planning the wedding. Once we got back, I think we polished off the last three seasons in a month! Current addiction: Mad Men. Other past addiction: Arrested Development.
September 10th, 2009 at 5:51 pm, Kelly T Says:
The Wire–it’s own special form of crack. I HIGHLY recommend that after you power through you check out In Treatment (tasty Gabriel Burne) and Breaking Bad (fabulous Brian Cranston from Malcolm in the Middle). We are total series-power-through-on-DVD-f*ck-commercials-and-waiting-a-week-between-episodes people. Great to hear all is going well.
September 10th, 2009 at 6:57 pm, Melinda Says:
Congrats on your house! So awesome!
True story: My mom was carrying my older brother down the stairs in their house when he was a baby. She fell and BROKE HER LEG but didn’t drop him. The maternal instinct to protect the young was strong. He escaped completely unscathed and she had a cast and a baby to take care of. UUUgggh.
Clark is growing so much! So adorable.
September 11th, 2009 at 9:41 pm, Megan Says:
First of all- kid is cute. Ridiculously cute! Second- its so funny to read this, because today I finished a 2 day Wire Season 1 binge (for the first time) and also cannot stop thinking about the show, characters and life in general. Dreams and all! Maybe my favorite tv show ever. Hilltop is kinda like Baltimore…sometimes a love/hate relationship…congrats on the move!!!!
September 16th, 2009 at 3:31 pm, Jill Says:
So excited that you get to move into a new house. I’m feeling the very adultness of owning a home right now as I’m about to shell out some serious cash. UGH. But, they are our nests of love. What? I don’t know why I just said that. ANYWAY….
I need no reward for reading your blog, but pictures of Clark are a pure joy and you should be so proud! I miss you and love you lots! Give my love to Aaron, too! Kisses XOXO!
September 24th, 2009 at 4:17 pm, Jenny Says:
Colleen: Thanks so much! You guys must be moving soon too, eh?
hliv: Loving your blog posts! Time for a new one, I think.
Jenny: We love all of those shows, too.
We finished season 2 of The Wire last night. SO GOOD!
Kelly T: I know! We are watching HIMYM and Mad Men in real time now and it’s SO annoying!
Melinda: That’s a crazy story! I am indeed glad for the maternal instinct!
Megan: You must be loving The Wire on a whole different level having lived in Baltimore!
Jill: I need to see some pictures of your house! I’ve only seen the listing pictures!