Zeigen

That was quick — a whole week without a blog post.

As is traditional in the blogosphere, here’s my long-winded excuse for not having updated this blog:

• The dog ate my homework, along with my left tibula.
• I was too busy doing my taxes and the check is in the mail, taped to a brick.
• I was sick with a case of temporary sickle-cell anemia.
• We were kidnapped by Libyan terrorists, developed Stockholm syndrome, ate French fries and Belgian waffles, and then were stranded when our American Airlines flight was canceled, so we had to swim home (uphill both ways).

The truth is that we’ve been spending our time moving out. Packing up. Hauling boxes. So so so many boxes.

The floors of our house are in a terrible condition (thanks to the cracked foundation of our 1950s era house), and the bathroom and the kitchen both need work. I’m not the kind of man’s man who can just fix all that solo, so we’re having some work done. It’ll take about two months, and in the meantime we’re living in a guest cottage in the back of Bob V.’s house. For two months. Eight weeks. Two months. Did I mention we’re all sharing a room for two months?

Last week we got almost everything packed (and I took off Friday from work to help get it all done). Monday the PODS people (hah!) arrived. Thanks to Kyrie taking the kids Saturday morning and Sunday evening, we’re now in pretty good shape. Last night, we moved into the cottage.

It was a pretty rough night. Both Kimi and I are sore from lifting boxes, and Sammy and Sophie naturally were a bit disoriented by the new location, so woke up several times. Each at different times, naturally.

Sammy and Sophie are both used to sleeping in their own rooms, and even though they get the upstairs while Kimi and I are downstairs, it’s all one big room.

Our house is pretty small, but to really appreciate how nice it is to have a house, all you have to do is try to squeeze stuff for a toddler and an infant into 600 square feet. Still, it’s a great space, and we’re very appreciative of Bob and family for letting us camp out.

It’ll be very nice to have new floors and a remodeled kitchen, but in the meantime, I repeat: We’re insane.

We did take a couple of breaks from moving: Wednesday we had Kevin and Rachel over for Uncle Frank’s BBQ and a game of Race for the Galaxy (my new obsession, a board game I’ll review here sooner or later), and Saturday night we took in Yuri’s Night at NASA Moffett Field, about which I have several more thoughts that may actually appear here as well.

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