More ups and downs
So, The Little Red-Haired Girl and I had a pretty good weekend. I didn’t have class on Friday, but I went to school to get some work done in the morning. We were going to bike to the Frist after lunch, but she showed up at my “pod” (little cubicle space) because she had come to the library to check email. After that we walked over to the bike store to get her tires pumped, then biked to her new place of employ to pick stuff up. By the time we got home it was too late to go to the museum, so we cooked a dinner that we could bring along to see The Winter’s Tale in the park with school friends.
The play turned out to be interesting, and Claire is a theater person so she gave us her critique, which was such a cool perspective. After we went to Jud and Laura’s and hung out until mad late. They are just fun to chill with.
Saturday we went and bought a dresser for me, finally. We got it at a consignment shop, so it is a good, solid, Real Wood dresser with no Stupid Drawers. That night our school friends came over and hung out for a while, and then we went to a school people party down the street from our house. It was a pretty typical sitting around talking and drinking kind of a thing. It was nice to see people in a social setting, and to meet school people that I don’t know yet too. Once we got bored at the party we went back to our house and ddr’ed and eye-toyed. It was a hoot. Again to bed real late though - I am totally jet-lagged today.
Sunday The Little Red-Haired Girl and I shopped for groceries and things in bulk at Sam’s Club. That pretty much took up the whole day for some reason. We also did some more unpacking and put the dresser in the bedroom, which makes everything seem way more like home. No more duffel bags for our clothes. Now the real obstacle is just bookshelves. But what with the money situation, that will just have to wait.
The bad thing that happened this weekend is that our grill got stolen out of our driveway. We keep it on the side of the house, which is where our back door is. Well, we used to keep it there. When I went to get my bike this morning it was gone. The dish that goes on the bottom of it to catch ashes was in the driveway in a pile of ash, along with a big footprint. I guess he ran off with it in a big hurry. Those of you who know us know that about 60% of our meals happen in that grill. It sucks pretty bad. I hate that we live in this neighborhood where we have to fucking bolt everything in place. I don’t feel particularly unsafe, just sad. Part of it is that there is this alley that runs behind our house, where the garbage truck rolls through. I think that it is good cover for people to sneak into backyards and driveways at night, because no one is ever back there and it’s dark. Maybe our landlord will put up a fence for us or something. It’s just so frustrating. I know that we could be way worse off, but at the same time it’s not like we can just pick up and buy another grill tomorrow, either.
Also, still no internet. And comcast has charged our credit card for a month of digital cable and internet at our old house in Somerville, after we’ve called twice about getting that cancelled. I think that we had such a nice weekend, it just couldn’t last.
