Mid-January, Rain - January 13, 2012 |
September 22, 2004 The Importance of Being Comfy I'm in! I played a gig out of state on Friday night, moved on Saturday in the pouring rain, and was singing at a church service in New London at 9:00 Sunday morning. Then had a gig that night. I can hardly believe it. Unpacking is going to take a while, since I'll be home only seven days out of the next four weeks. Dar was here for the event on Saturday, and stayed til night time, putting together the do-it-yourself shelf unit for the bathroom. This required prying off a very long plank across one wall that has forever served as "the" bathroom shelf -- ugly, ungainly, and everything visible. I chose what's actually a bookcase, wider than tall, which fits nicely on that wall under the slanted ceiling. I'll have to paint it, but at least my linens have a place to live now. I still have to assemble the pantry cabinet. The only surprise was that my beautiful, huge, plush, cushy, not very old but very expensive sofa would NOT fit up the stairs and around the last bend. It's right now in storage with the movers. My rite of passage couch had to go! One of Rose's friends, though, has offered to keep it in her unfurnished living room, so I'm trying to arrange to have it transported there. I could have potential buyers go there to look at it, and maybe she'd even love it herself... It means that the living room will be the last room to get organized; there's not much in there now except boxes, a papasan chair, an empty bookcase and an unplugged tv. And my beauteous sculpture by the late, lovely Jocelyn. (She was a good friend of Dar's.) ******** AND, I picked up my new car yesterday. Gone way into hock now, ooh baby. I love it, though the seat isn't quite as comfortable as the Civic's, and we'll just see how it feels on those long drives. I was only a little choked up trading in Tardis One. It was time for both of us to move on; I hope its next owner loves it. ******** Can I just say that I can't believe I'm here again? Willimantic! It's been 6-1/2 years. I even went to the Food Co-op, and they had a record of my old membership from the 90's, and I got to pick up where I left off. They have my very favorite yogurt and veggie burgers (Amy's, by the way; they're so good). Then I went to the police station to get a change of address sticker for my license, then went to the local post office, then to the local spring for water, and dropped a note off at my old favorite college professor's office saying I was in town. Since the dvd player isn't hooked up (I chose not to get cable here) yet, I've been reading during breaks instead. It's interesting to kind of stay in my head all the time, in my body. Just today I got the DSL hooked up, so now of course there's some internet usage -- and Dar begged me to let him pay for cable tv, but I said I wanted to be without it for a while. Just see where my mind takes me instead of plopping down in front of the telly. I loved having cable, but I want to do more writing here and live more simply, at least for the time being. Rose is so in love with her caller ID, she was aghast that I'd given it up -- but truly, I like the mystery better. When the phone rings (and I lucked out by getting a new phone that has a soft little "deedledeedledeedle" of a ring) I jump up and say, "Somebody wants me!" The place needs a lot of paint and some other TLC, but I probably won't get to it for several weeks -- maybe not til Spring. I'll be patient. Even with more traffic noise (I'm half a block from the far East side of Main Street) and the occasional boom box, and the Squatley kids playing next door in their dump of a yard (more on that later), I'm thrilled to be here. Thrilled! It's my place and I've come home as steward. ******** I lost a few pounds during the move, and no wonder. Today I cooked a veggie chicken bean soup in the slow cooker in anticipation of my bandmates coming over, but they've come down with sore throats so we're going to try to get through our business by phone later tonight instead. The soup was good; the stock was nothing special, but then I'm out of practice, and it was very healthy anyway. Tomorrow is the last day here and then we're away a couple of days; home one day again and then out for six days. Home three days and then to Austin TX for 12 days. I'm really looking forward to Texas. For once I want to not get sick there! The first time we had bronchitis; last time I got an intestinal crud for a couple of days, and then by the time we got home we were all sick again. Hmm, I wonder if I should be hitting the echinacea next month? Anyway, so entries will be sporadic until late October. Other than Texas, I'll be driving in my new car, that has a great CD player and room enough to swing a cat. I'll take a picture of it one of these days; the Scions are awfully cute. Be well, be comfy. |
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