an update

it has been days and days since i posted here – and the past four days has seen a move and a trip across the border, and shopping, and unpacking…. so here is the daily chronology for the sake of an update post.

friday – i moved into my new house in gibsons and cleaned up the old place in roberts creek. the move went extremely well, the guys i hired were great and even the clean-up of the old place didn’t take too long. the only casualty in the move was a paper lampshade that was already torn to begin with (it literally disintegrated in the move). i was finished everything by about 6 pm, and got my damage deposit back in cash on the spot. by friday night i had got my bed set up, my shower curtain hung, the food that needed to be cold into the refrigerator, my adsl connected and working, and my stereo hooked up. my real estate agent called me to tell me that she thought i made the right decision and since when i made my offer it had likely already accrued some value (market is hot apparently).

saturday – i got up at 5:30, filled my tank full of gas and hit the ferry to meeting jess and megan in east vancouver at 8. the three of us drove down to bothell washington for a belated earth day event that featured dana lyons and derrick jensen (who i have been wanting to meet in person for awhile). we attended an informal discussion early in the afternoon, met a friend of mine for lunch at a thai restaurant, and then hung around for the evening event which went until 11:00. then we drove home and i crashed on jess’s couch. the border was uneventful going both ways, and the trip was definitely worth it. i will post more on this later.

sunday – i got up early and drove to the ikea in coquitlam where i spent a small fortune on occasional tables, bedding, kitchen gadetry, shelving and bathroom textiles. i still need to get some sort of loveseat or small sofa for the living room since the pillows i had in the last place won’t really work in this new place (at least in that room, i want to use them in one of the downstairs rooms…..). got home around 2 and spent the rest of the day putting together furniture and unpacking.

monday – went to canadian tire in the morning, then london drugs and picked up additional household things, then spent the rest of the day unpacking and moving empty boxes downstairs. i have managed to get the entire kitchen and breakfast nook unpacked at this point, but there is still a *ton* of work to do.

so really the last four days has been a combination of working and driving, with a brief interlude of socializing in bothell. i am well, and really excited to be in my new place despite the fact i can’t even find my shoes at the moment….. i think however, that a housewarming june 11th will be right on schedule for having the majority of my boxes unpacked!