Departures

Well, first of all, an apology. I did say that I would be posting some pictures of us moving our "pig" of a couch into our new apartment. Well, unfortunately, I still do not have internet at the apartment, so this will have to do...

Other than the recent departure of my web-surfing capabilities, I have also seen my wife and many friends leave for their summer internships. Kristin is in Minnesota, living with my family (ruh roh); some other friends are in such fabulous destinations such as Benin, Africa (in case you have NO idea where Benin is); Geneva, Switzerland; Kabul, Afghanistan; The Republic of Georgia; somewhere in Canada and here, Baltimore.

I am now trying to finish the insurmountable task of unpacking; I really need to remember to take off at least one full day after moving...I am also trying to teach the cats how to play checkers and run across the alley to the Wine Source to get me my libations/cheese. So far, no luck.

-N

It WILL fit

I hope to have pictures of this process later...

So, we recently moved into our new apartment-a nice, much larger 2-bedroom unit in an area called Hampden. It's an old house, probably built in the '20s, that has had the basement and first floors converted into shops (a purse store and a yarn shop) and the 2nd floor converted into an apartment. We have a deck with a beautiful view (wink, wink) of the Wine Source's parking lot (an awesome shop that sells lots of wine, beer and spirits as well as gourmet meats and cheeses) a MUCH larger kitchen with a tin ceiling and exposed brick, a huge sun room, and 2 bedrooms. We really like the neighborhood because it tries really hard to be chic, but has just a few too many trashy people to get there. This means that it has cool shops, lots of unique places to eat and is relatively cheap, but once-in-awhile you have the rats chew through your garbage (turns out this is a problem in ALL cities) or have a drunk guy pass out on your steps (happened to some friends nearby).

Anyway...so we moved everything last Monday (thanks to everyone involved!) and managed to get everything in the house BUT our very overweight couch. We decided that we would go to Ikea and check out the futons (you see, our couch is a sleeper, which makes it very desirable) but we were very disappointed with what we could afford. So, 2 nights ago, we took a saw to the pig.

We cut it in 2 places and were able, with much pushing, shoving and paint-scraping, to get it into the sun room. Yesterday, I pieced the thing back together with some angled and flat brackets that I bought at Home Depot.

Now we just need to stitch the fabric back up! Victory!!!

-N

Update

We got the pathology tests back for the baby last week. Thankfully, there were no genetic anomalies, which is a good thing because that means there's nothing empirically wrong with Kristin or myself. I guess we'll never know exactly what happened...

Oh, and the baby was a girl (both of us and my mother thought our first would be a girl)! It is possible for someone in my extended family to have a girl!


-N