h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It's been a while since I posted here, but here's my update:

We're pretty much settled into our new house. It even feels like home now! We've only succeeded in painting the kitchen/dining room (it's really one large room), since we ordered absolutely wonderful dining room furniture from the Amish! We had to paint it before the furniture gets here. We figured if we were going to spend the money, we might as well get good, handmade quality pieces. It turned out not to cost much more than if we went to a furniture store and bought from some big chain, so we're very pleased. Now if it would only get here!

TJ and I have both been working from home, and it's gone very well. I love being home, but unfortunately Newsday has decided that they want somebody in-house in my position, so I've only got a job through the end of February. I've been searching ... thank God for the internet! It makes it so much easier to job hunt! Newsday said that they might keep me on part-time, but as the company just went private, nobody's gotten their budgets for the year yet. So ... I wait.

Both my parents and my sister came to Ohio to visit already! My folks came for my birthday in October (which was a wonderful surprise!) and my sister came in the beginning of December. I really miss my family, but we certainly get our fill of TJ's family here!

The town we've moved to is really quite wonderful. It's an old college town, and it's an arts college, so there are wonderful little shops, galleries, and a surprisingly good art museum! We're on the "edge" of the country ... about 30 miles southwest of Cleveland ... so it's not *too* hard for me to acclimate ... aside from the occasional rooster crow and horse whinny ... not to mention gun shot!

Now that winter's really into it's cold days, we're going to concentrate on doing some painting. I have paint for my office, but we haven't had a full weekend free to do it. Maybe once I'm unemployed I don't have to worry about having it back into shipshape right away, and we can do it then.

Owning a house is such a wonderful thing compared to renting! One of the first things I did was go to Home Depot and get a bag full of paint swatches, and I've been having fun deciding what color to make everything. We painted the kitchen a nice yellow (it's called surfboard yellow, actually). I still don't know what to do in the living room though. It's an odd room, and we've already changed the furniture twice. It still doesn't feel right.

I just realized that I'm way behind on updating photos too. I'll upload some new ones!

Glad to hear you're settling in well. I was wondering how you guys were doing just the other day.

So when's the housewarming party?

Any time you want to show up! It's pretty warm here, and we can always fire up the ... erm ... fire ...

Hey broe! How are you?

Cold
Although that's a fairly recent development.

Otherwise well, more or less.

That's pretty rotten, about the job. Especially having just bought the house. Had they given you a reasonable expectation that the work-from-home thing would be acceptable, then change their minds?

Next time I'm over - and to paraphrase Sean of the Dead - we're coming to see you Barbara!



Glad things are okay.

Shea!

Welcome back friends...

Long see, no time!!!

Glad all is well and good to see you back in the soapbox that is H2G2!!!!


Hope you stick around a while and catch up with the usual topic drift!!!

I am sure someone will give you a H2G2 update on the !!!



MMF

Lovely to hear from you again at last!

i'm quite fond of yellow paint myself. my office, staircase and corridor look as if the sun is always shining

Let me see if I can get this straight, Shea. You have a kitchen/dining room that is empty because the furniture hasn't come yet? And the living room has been "changed" twice so far? That doesn't give your friends and family any place to sit when they visit (or at least not many of them, assuming that they don't come between changes of living room furniture, when that room will be empty as well).

They can always find one spot to sit on in the bathroom, anyway, and the tub will fit two.

depends on the size of tub and guests, doesn't it?

Yes, Pierce. If enough of Shea's friends are Lilliputians, there will be no problem at al.



But if Shea should befriend the entire first string of a football team, she will need a *lot* more furniture to accommodate them when they visit.

She could just make all invitations "BYOS" (bring your own seat).

That's abrilliant idea, Broe.

I'll sit on the floor.

It's gonna be fun trying to get that through the x-ray machine at the airport

Why, Gosho, what will you be wearing that will set it off?

--Metal pins holding broken bones together?
--Metal brackets in your suspenders? (that happened to me )
--Metal fillings in your teeth? (Hasn't affected me yet, but wait a while)
--The sheer animal magnetism that you shower on the world?

Oh, a little from column A and a little from column B. And column C and column D

Wait... I'm British, not Columnbian

so you are not from british columnbia?

What a happy coincidence! The coffee in my hand is Columbian, but not British.