Sunday, April 29, 2007
Last post as a renter
Wow, buying a house is a lot of work! The scrambling to get mortgages, homeowner's insurance, money for closing costs... it's all very tiring, confusing, and stressful. Then, to celebrate, you get to move. We've been moving for a week now, and we're beat. So, so beat. We moved two U-Haul vanfulls (that's not a real word) last Sunday, and we've been taking stuff in our cars all through the week. We took five carloads over yesterday, and I took another this morning. I'm waiting for the movers to arrive who will take the last of our heavy stuff. You would think we had a six-bedroom house with the amount of stuff we have!
I tell you what... I'm in love with having a garage. Not sure where something will go? Chuck it in the garage! Bags of clothes waiting to go to resale/Salvation Army? The garage is a good place to put them! Extra furniture waiting for a yard sale? Garage! Garage! Garage!
OK. I'm signing off from lovely East Dallas. Catch you guys in the O.C. (that's Oak Cliff, yo).
Wow, buying a house is a lot of work! The scrambling to get mortgages, homeowner's insurance, money for closing costs... it's all very tiring, confusing, and stressful. Then, to celebrate, you get to move. We've been moving for a week now, and we're beat. So, so beat. We moved two U-Haul vanfulls (that's not a real word) last Sunday, and we've been taking stuff in our cars all through the week. We took five carloads over yesterday, and I took another this morning. I'm waiting for the movers to arrive who will take the last of our heavy stuff. You would think we had a six-bedroom house with the amount of stuff we have!
I tell you what... I'm in love with having a garage. Not sure where something will go? Chuck it in the garage! Bags of clothes waiting to go to resale/Salvation Army? The garage is a good place to put them! Extra furniture waiting for a yard sale? Garage! Garage! Garage!
OK. I'm signing off from lovely East Dallas. Catch you guys in the O.C. (that's Oak Cliff, yo).
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
In which I show my intelligence
I just found a link on Frontburner that says a study shows that Dallas is the #2 worst city for spring allergies this year. The Frontburner post talks about how it's been especially bad in Dallas over the past week or so.
You may recall that I'm having ear trouble due to flying while allergies were flaring up. However, I was surprised when I read that post on Frontburner, because my allergies haven't bothered me at all the past week.
Suddenly it dawned on me: I'm currently taking two types of allergy medication to help clear up my ear. That's why I haven't been suffering over the last week.
Duh.
I just found a link on Frontburner that says a study shows that Dallas is the #2 worst city for spring allergies this year. The Frontburner post talks about how it's been especially bad in Dallas over the past week or so.
You may recall that I'm having ear trouble due to flying while allergies were flaring up. However, I was surprised when I read that post on Frontburner, because my allergies haven't bothered me at all the past week.
Suddenly it dawned on me: I'm currently taking two types of allergy medication to help clear up my ear. That's why I haven't been suffering over the last week.
Duh.
Monday, April 02, 2007
Hardy har har
My pal Mark waxed lyrical over baseball's Opening Day today. He also thought it would be funny to say that his team, the Astros, are also my favorite team. He's wrong, of course, although my team's dismal showing today forces me to consider switching teams (just kidding, Sox fans!).
I actually saw some of the game this afternoon. Since I worked both days of the weekend, I got the afternoon off. I spent some of it trying to go to a doctor's appointment, but it turned out that I was early. Like a week early. Oh well, I guess I'll go back next week. So I came home and watched part of the game and put an ad for our apartment on craigslist (p.s. If you need a place to live in Dallas, drop me a line). I got some responses right away, so I spent an hour or two cleaning up in case someone came to see it. I kept the game on while I was cleaning, and I kept hearing the score getting worse and worse. I hope this isn't indicative of what the season will be like.
In other sports news, I totally won the March madness competition that Victor, Mark, and I had. Ha ha ha!!!
Tonight we went to see Explosions in the Sky. I'll write about that tomorrow, but it was a great show. Thanks, Chris!
Jam of the week: "My Old Ways" by Dr. Dog
My pal Mark waxed lyrical over baseball's Opening Day today. He also thought it would be funny to say that his team, the Astros, are also my favorite team. He's wrong, of course, although my team's dismal showing today forces me to consider switching teams (just kidding, Sox fans!).
I actually saw some of the game this afternoon. Since I worked both days of the weekend, I got the afternoon off. I spent some of it trying to go to a doctor's appointment, but it turned out that I was early. Like a week early. Oh well, I guess I'll go back next week. So I came home and watched part of the game and put an ad for our apartment on craigslist (p.s. If you need a place to live in Dallas, drop me a line). I got some responses right away, so I spent an hour or two cleaning up in case someone came to see it. I kept the game on while I was cleaning, and I kept hearing the score getting worse and worse. I hope this isn't indicative of what the season will be like.
In other sports news, I totally won the March madness competition that Victor, Mark, and I had. Ha ha ha!!!
Tonight we went to see Explosions in the Sky. I'll write about that tomorrow, but it was a great show. Thanks, Chris!
Jam of the week: "My Old Ways" by Dr. Dog
Wildlife at work!
My workplace is in a pretty park in Dallas's Oaklawn/Turtle Creek area. The creek runs through the park below the theater buildings. The city is repainting the parking stripes in our parking lots, so today I had to move my car to another lot so that the workers could access the lot in front of our building. As I got into my car, I heard quacking.
I looked around, and there was a guy going into the theater, so I figured that it may be him making weird noises as he walked. But as I pulled out of my parking space, I saw two ducks! They were in the grass between the parking lot and the cliff that leads up to the walk/run/bike trail. Too cute! They were mallards, a drake and a hen (boy and girl).
When my coworker and I walked back from the upper lot, we got pretty close to them, and they didn't seem to want to move. I was a little worried that the hen might be nesting there. However, I watched from the window a few minutes later as the drake climbed/flew up the cliff towards the trail. Maybe they were just displaced from the creek as the workers were repainting stripes. I'll check for them again tomorrow, and I'll try to remember to take the camera just in case.
My workplace is in a pretty park in Dallas's Oaklawn/Turtle Creek area. The creek runs through the park below the theater buildings. The city is repainting the parking stripes in our parking lots, so today I had to move my car to another lot so that the workers could access the lot in front of our building. As I got into my car, I heard quacking.
I looked around, and there was a guy going into the theater, so I figured that it may be him making weird noises as he walked. But as I pulled out of my parking space, I saw two ducks! They were in the grass between the parking lot and the cliff that leads up to the walk/run/bike trail. Too cute! They were mallards, a drake and a hen (boy and girl).
When my coworker and I walked back from the upper lot, we got pretty close to them, and they didn't seem to want to move. I was a little worried that the hen might be nesting there. However, I watched from the window a few minutes later as the drake climbed/flew up the cliff towards the trail. Maybe they were just displaced from the creek as the workers were repainting stripes. I'll check for them again tomorrow, and I'll try to remember to take the camera just in case.
