Random Bits O' Fluff

Haven't felt much like posting lately - just trying to get everything together and unpacked so that TD and I can relax a bit before he leaves on Tuesday (*sob!*). Here's my life in those oh-so-enticing bullet points. On second thought, I want to call these little morsels something more palatable than bullet points. How about canapes? Hors d'ouevres? Basically, this is my life in the yummy finger-food form of your choice...

1) We have unpacked my office up at school, hung pictures, etc. It took us from 8pm to midnight last night. I had 9 very heavy boxes of books and files and I had to raid the construction zone around the building next door to my department to get a wheelbarrow to take 3 boxes at a time up to my office. Yep, a dirty wheelbarrow (actually it only had some dried cement in the bottom). I was trying to look very casual as I burgled but I'm not sure it worked - I got a lot of strange looks. Especially because my department is in a new and very nice building. But, there wasn't any detritus trail left behind, I returned the wheelbarrow to the work site and TD and I didn't break our backs any more than we needed to!

2) Tomorrow we get our new couch and living room chair! Joy! My butt will be happy...

3) We are getting ready to grill steaks on a little grill we got from IKEA that looks a little like a silver spaceship. It's tiny and round with little legs that stick out.

4) I continue to love it here - except we saw one of these things (called a waterbug hereabouts) the other night - I know that this will to a certain extent give away my region, but it was so horrible I had to blog it. The horror...the horror....

We've taken steps.