utilities

Today, escrow closes, and I nervously await the call that my keys are ready in the realtor’s office. I have been busying myself with work-work and a lot of fidgety nerves and doing stuff like firing up the ol’ utilities. I remember that my gas went out when I first moved back here in ’04,…

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cheep

Yesterday, after backing out of the parking space from the back of my building, I continued down the alley. Right in front of me, and right next to the back of the car wash place, was something I could not identify but it was in my way. Some garbage? A cat hanging out? Some wood?…

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sentient

As I look up from my growing box-canyon for a minute and will myself not to write a post about packing (oh, but it’s coming), I am feeling very conscious of time passing, life being lived, lessons learned, tick tock, passages passages passages. This new condo business is profound, for starters. I have been a crabby…

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house hunty part 6: the tears edition

I’m buying a home! I will be posting my progress here from time to time. Part one is here. Part two is here. Part three is here. Part four is here. Part five is here.  Tears! Frustrated, tired, put-upon tears! The ones I let out on Monday were prompted by getting a load of this week in my calendar:…

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