red balloons and waterguns

(Above photo: Edna with housewarming gifts from friends... a silk scarf from Andrea, and a Balloon-o-gram from Scott & Amanda & Zoe.)

Thanks so Scott, Amanda and Zoe for the wonderful bouquet of a dozen red helium balloons tied to a bag of jellybeans; it was waiting at our front door when Jeff and I arrived on Saturday for our first night at the house.

We're officially (and finally) moved into our new house! The move isn't quite finished; we still have stuff in two small storage lockers downtown as well as my mom-in-law's condo, but our home base is now in our new house. We had our first breakfast out on the deck beside the garden, beneath the crabapple tree.

Yesterday was crazier than we expected and we didn't get time to start unloading the storage lockers containing most of our personal stuff (including office stuff and summer clothes). BUT my office now has a new desk, thanks to Jeff's expert IKEA-assembling skills. :-)

A ton of things still to do and when we make the mistake of thinking about it too much, it's easy to get overwhelmed. We still have no shower rod or curtain, for example. Our washer and dryer need to be hooked up, we have no high speed access yet and there's only one phone in the house. The solarium is filled to the ceiling with boxes to be unpacked, and we both know there are at least four times as many boxes waiting for us in the storage lockers. Thanks SO MUCH to Ginny and Ray for helping move furniture around yesterday.

I had a bit of a meltdown yesterday afternoon and unfairly took out some of my frustrations on Jeff, who was very patient; we've been taking turns supporting each other during these kinds of moments over recent months. Before we both got back to housestuff, he put on the new Riverfolk CD ("Meander") on our player; it's been our only CD in the house until just recently, and we've been playing it over and over again. It takes a lot of effort to feel stressed or unhappy while listening to this album. :-)

Jeff and I took a break from movingstuff on Saturday to attend Reid's and Luisa's annual watergun party. Great fun! Thanks so much to Luisa and Reid for hosting this. I'll upload some pics when we have high-speed access again. Luisa also lent me some small cans of green acrylic paint for more tree leaves for my office wall, yay!

I'll be going to my niece's birthday party on Wednesday night but those who are free should consider checking out the Heather Dale concert in Hugh's Room. You can find out more about Heather and hear soundclips here.

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