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I had decided I wouldn't update until I finished moving, or at least the moving out phase of moving, and I finished that last weekend, finally! So hi!
It took 2 months to move out of my efficiency, but another 2 months to sort through and clear out the storage bin--management has taken a couple months to upgrade my old efficiency, so, luckily, no one was moving in who needed the storage bin. Now all my stuff is in one building. It will be several months before everything in here is unpacked and placed, or several months to life, I should say, because, really, us clutter-bug types never finish with that.
But goddess, I love this new place! It's just one building over from where I lived before, but this building is the only one nestled back in the woods, so I have beautiful, glorious, tall, trees out my windows. Now that the leaves are out, the little patch of woods around here really does block out everything else, so visually it's like being out in the country, with the convenience of having a coop supermarket, theater, restaurants, cafe with music, pool and gym, and community center two blocks away. There's traffic sound most of the time, but periods of quiet, with frogs singing on wet nights. And bird song--I've watched chickadees, titmice (they are so loud!), cardinals, nuthatches, finches, thrushes, and woodpeckers, robins, grackles, and sparrows from my windows. I'm on the second floor so I have a true flet-smial. (-:
And I've turned my sun room into a garden paradise/kitty playroom. Well, everywhere is a kitty playroom, but they have a tall climber in here that Moo and Tuxie use especially. If the bedroom and the living room/kitchen were 3 feet wider, this place would be absolute perfection as a me-habitat, but it's damn close enough. I think it's pretty rare to find apartments with sun rooms, and it's what I've always wanted. Pictures will be forthcoming. These garden apartment buildings were built in the 1930's as part of Roosevelt's planned green community projects, and there's about 6 or 7 of them here that have some one bedroom apartments with sun rooms or balconies, but my building is the only one set back in the woods, so I've got one of the couple bestest apartments in the whole town, I do reckon. *nests happily*
And the cats are all happy here, though Milli, my sensitive one, is still adjusting. Saki, my loyalist, surprisingly, was the one to escape the first day we officially moved in here. She ran out the door, into the hallway, and preceded to run UP the stairs to the third floor, rather than down to the outside door. The efficiency in the other building we just moved out of was on the third floor, so it was very clever of her--"Mom, we're on the WRONG floor!" So cute.
Since I learned how to use LJ's scrapbook last fall in trying to find Moo and Tuxie a home, before finding us all a new home, I'm starting to put up pics. I've got a ton of pics that will take a while to get unpacked here. But today I figured I'd introduce you to my eldest kitty, Milli. She's a sweetie. I brought her home from the DC shelter 10 years ago this April--she's around 11 now. She's often an aloof elf princess, but when she wants affection, she wants to be held tight for at least 15 minutes, with her paws stretched out dangling over my shoulder.
Here she's on the back of the love seat in our old place. You can see her amazing tail with red, white, and black rings, and a little red dot at the very end of the black end of her tail.
Milli's had health problems since this fall. She had blood in her stools which we managed to clear up with antibiotics but she kept losing weight. She's gone through a lot of diagnostic tests the last few months, and we found that what I had thought was just horking up was actually a cough from respiratory problems, which she has in addition to the intestinal problems, but nothing has really been determined, and I've had to put the breaks on what all the specialist vets want to do to her because she's not good with the stress, and they're not very attentive to her emotional well-being. One thing she is enjoying is that I've been feeding her ganormously and in her own private dining room on the bathroom windowsill where she can take her time, and even play with her food (I've discovered she's a lefty), without being pushed out by the ever ravenous and slurp-up-in-one-gulp Saki.
Here's Milli on the kitchen windowsill in the new place, back when we had snow in February, and you can see my old building through the window, that's not too visible now with the leaves out--yay.
I love the variety of textures and colors in her fur--hence the back of a Mill-Mill head:
Works going fine--been working with one of my coworkers, carefully combing through his translation for an Urdu Reader with him--he's 80 and grew up in a village near Peshawar in Pakistan, so I've enjoyed getting him to reminisce.
My mom and brother have visited a couple of times. Since my dad died, my mom and I have been talking daily by cell phones--a new thing we started when he was in the hospital--I didn't have a cell phone before then. However, the daily contact is starting to wear thin, so I think that's a sign we've gotten through the worst of the mourning period.
Besides reading, though most of my fun time has been spent hunting and gathering household goods for my new nest, and spending too much money thereon, last weekend I got out to the Arlington Cinema and Draft House for a mini LotR festival--a showing of the trilogy with a costume contest and a Gollum voice impersonation contest. I hung with my LotR meetup group--a very nice laid back bunch. 'Twas really fun--I hope we have it next year. Alas, I still have not put together my Bag End as I had hoped to do for this event last year, inspired by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ophelia_medusa's wondrous creation, but I've been busy with my own smial--my action dollies will have to wait a little bit longer for theirs.
And then the week before I went out to visitstrangemuses, had a lovely time, and met her sweet furry and spiky roommates and saw some of her myriad wondrous action dolls and kickknacks--a proper hobbity domicile if ever there was one.
And I'm taking walks around the lake here again--the foot gets a little sore after a mile of walking on mostly dirt path, but not too badly, so 2 mile walks are a go--we'll see how frequently I can do so now without undue strain.
More picture posts will be following. The next one will feature Saki the Great, iconized above. (-:
It took 2 months to move out of my efficiency, but another 2 months to sort through and clear out the storage bin--management has taken a couple months to upgrade my old efficiency, so, luckily, no one was moving in who needed the storage bin. Now all my stuff is in one building. It will be several months before everything in here is unpacked and placed, or several months to life, I should say, because, really, us clutter-bug types never finish with that.
But goddess, I love this new place! It's just one building over from where I lived before, but this building is the only one nestled back in the woods, so I have beautiful, glorious, tall, trees out my windows. Now that the leaves are out, the little patch of woods around here really does block out everything else, so visually it's like being out in the country, with the convenience of having a coop supermarket, theater, restaurants, cafe with music, pool and gym, and community center two blocks away. There's traffic sound most of the time, but periods of quiet, with frogs singing on wet nights. And bird song--I've watched chickadees, titmice (they are so loud!), cardinals, nuthatches, finches, thrushes, and woodpeckers, robins, grackles, and sparrows from my windows. I'm on the second floor so I have a true flet-smial. (-:
And I've turned my sun room into a garden paradise/kitty playroom. Well, everywhere is a kitty playroom, but they have a tall climber in here that Moo and Tuxie use especially. If the bedroom and the living room/kitchen were 3 feet wider, this place would be absolute perfection as a me-habitat, but it's damn close enough. I think it's pretty rare to find apartments with sun rooms, and it's what I've always wanted. Pictures will be forthcoming. These garden apartment buildings were built in the 1930's as part of Roosevelt's planned green community projects, and there's about 6 or 7 of them here that have some one bedroom apartments with sun rooms or balconies, but my building is the only one set back in the woods, so I've got one of the couple bestest apartments in the whole town, I do reckon. *nests happily*
And the cats are all happy here, though Milli, my sensitive one, is still adjusting. Saki, my loyalist, surprisingly, was the one to escape the first day we officially moved in here. She ran out the door, into the hallway, and preceded to run UP the stairs to the third floor, rather than down to the outside door. The efficiency in the other building we just moved out of was on the third floor, so it was very clever of her--"Mom, we're on the WRONG floor!" So cute.
Since I learned how to use LJ's scrapbook last fall in trying to find Moo and Tuxie a home, before finding us all a new home, I'm starting to put up pics. I've got a ton of pics that will take a while to get unpacked here. But today I figured I'd introduce you to my eldest kitty, Milli. She's a sweetie. I brought her home from the DC shelter 10 years ago this April--she's around 11 now. She's often an aloof elf princess, but when she wants affection, she wants to be held tight for at least 15 minutes, with her paws stretched out dangling over my shoulder.
Here she's on the back of the love seat in our old place. You can see her amazing tail with red, white, and black rings, and a little red dot at the very end of the black end of her tail.
Milli's had health problems since this fall. She had blood in her stools which we managed to clear up with antibiotics but she kept losing weight. She's gone through a lot of diagnostic tests the last few months, and we found that what I had thought was just horking up was actually a cough from respiratory problems, which she has in addition to the intestinal problems, but nothing has really been determined, and I've had to put the breaks on what all the specialist vets want to do to her because she's not good with the stress, and they're not very attentive to her emotional well-being. One thing she is enjoying is that I've been feeding her ganormously and in her own private dining room on the bathroom windowsill where she can take her time, and even play with her food (I've discovered she's a lefty), without being pushed out by the ever ravenous and slurp-up-in-one-gulp Saki.
Here's Milli on the kitchen windowsill in the new place, back when we had snow in February, and you can see my old building through the window, that's not too visible now with the leaves out--yay.
I love the variety of textures and colors in her fur--hence the back of a Mill-Mill head:
Works going fine--been working with one of my coworkers, carefully combing through his translation for an Urdu Reader with him--he's 80 and grew up in a village near Peshawar in Pakistan, so I've enjoyed getting him to reminisce.
My mom and brother have visited a couple of times. Since my dad died, my mom and I have been talking daily by cell phones--a new thing we started when he was in the hospital--I didn't have a cell phone before then. However, the daily contact is starting to wear thin, so I think that's a sign we've gotten through the worst of the mourning period.
Besides reading, though most of my fun time has been spent hunting and gathering household goods for my new nest, and spending too much money thereon, last weekend I got out to the Arlington Cinema and Draft House for a mini LotR festival--a showing of the trilogy with a costume contest and a Gollum voice impersonation contest. I hung with my LotR meetup group--a very nice laid back bunch. 'Twas really fun--I hope we have it next year. Alas, I still have not put together my Bag End as I had hoped to do for this event last year, inspired by
ophelia_medusa's wondrous creation, but I've been busy with my own smial--my action dollies will have to wait a little bit longer for theirs. And then the week before I went out to visit
strangemuses, had a lovely time, and met her sweet furry and spiky roommates and saw some of her myriad wondrous action dolls and kickknacks--a proper hobbity domicile if ever there was one. And I'm taking walks around the lake here again--the foot gets a little sore after a mile of walking on mostly dirt path, but not too badly, so 2 mile walks are a go--we'll see how frequently I can do so now without undue strain.
More picture posts will be following. The next one will feature Saki the Great, iconized above. (-:
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What sort of household goods are you looking for????
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At this point, nothing much--I've cleaned out the area.(-; There's nothing I really need at this point, just a matter of frivolous aesthetic upgrading when I see something affordable that looks nicer in this space than something I have.