fun with a camera

i've been so good about studying lately -- today though, it didn't happen.

i was up til 2 last night and then leigh was knocking on my bedroom door at 7:45 this morning right AS my alarm was going off... i staggered out of the room, splashed water in my face, and then drove her to the uhaul place closest to here...

turns out, for wanting to stock a new apartment, we got a pretty sweet deal... leigh lives in a furnished apartment with a couple from greece... when she told them she was moving out and about to go furniture shopping, they told her to check the basement and take old stuff off their hands for free (we're going to pay them something anyhow)... out of our basement explorations this weekend, we picked 2 bookcases (one for videos, one for board games), a TV stand, a recliner, and a sleeper sofa for the living room... and leigh got a twin size bed and a nice desk out of the deal for herself... not bad for "free", eh?

anyhow, all that stuff picked out, ben, eric, leigh, and i spent the morning unloading things from the basement and getting them into the uhaul... getting the sofa out of the basement was quite the complicated trick and we thought when we shut the uhaul and drove off we had finished the hardest part -- we were wrong...

at our new place, we have the 2nd floor of a 2 story place. when you go in the front door of the house, you immediately are standing between two more doors, one for downstairs, one for us, so to get anything in, you have to make about a 45 degree angle between two doors which are no more than 3 feet apart and then immediately go up a flight of stairs... it was tricky enough to get a recliner through at that angle that the sofa had no hope...

on the other hand, in the back of the house we have a service stairwell that goes all the way up to the attic (storage) and all the way down to the basement (laundry/boiler room)... it's narrower than the first stairwell and it makes a 180 degree turn every 6 steps, BUT it didn't have the weird angle double door problem, so we figured we'd try it... it turned into an "only 3 people can get close enough to handle the sofa" deal, but they told me to take pictures because it was such a crazy job, and i got stuff out of the way as they went (light fixtures off the ceiling, etc.) before the upward bound sofa broke them... surprisingly, the sofa made it up (with some minor damage to the stairwell, but shhh don't tell tony (the landlord)... we'll fix it later) without having to be sawed in two like we were worried about.

anyhow, many hours later, leigh treated us to fudruckers for a late lunch... by the time i did other errands (filling out rebate stuff for this new computer, etc.) it was late afternoon... i went home for an hour while eric went home to practice horn... when we met up again at 7 for walmart and blockbuster (he paid $15 for unlimited rentals for a month... in the last 5 days we've seen big fish, amelie, fantasia 2000, and the fighting temptations... we rent 2, then trade them in for free... tonight's selections: intolerable cruelty and road to perdition) we were too tired for math...

eric had a red lobster gift certificate from the place he bought his car this summer and ever since he got it he told me he planned to share it with me... so before we went to watch movies, we had crab there :-) and for way cheap... by the time we made it back to my place it was 10:30, and the funny thing about having furniture now is that people use it instead of staying in their rooms ;-) so colleen and leigh were watching men's gymnastics finals on the olympics... we finished that with them, and finally at 11:30, started intolerable cruelty which had me worried a little at first but turned out to be decent... road to perdition is later in the week.

that's the scoop on my day.

if you're following the roommate story -- saturday was a rough day, but sunday was a really good one... waiting on some tests to come back, but unless they amazingly suddenly reveal something the doctors can treat, her mom is being transfered to a nursing home in ohio by wednesday... we shall see...

finally... why am i still up 2 hours after the movie is done? fun with my new computer of course... see the new apartment here:
http://www.eden.rutgers.edu/~lpudwell/photoalbum.html#house enjoy!