We moved for HOURS last night. My arms are on fire. My back is in knots. And HOO-RAY, we have another two to three good hours to do again tomorrow night.
But.. it’s pretty cool. Our new house, I mean. It’s growing on me.
I ADORE THE NEIGHBORHOOD. A friend of ours who does amazing theatre lives a few houses down. And HE has a front porch with a swing. I’m so crashing it. It was very cool, as we unpacked our stuff last night, to see throngs of people just walking through the neighborhood. I love eclectic places. This is it.
OOOOH, and.. AND.. we can walk to Sazio!! Man, I love the whole “walking” aspect. I’m a hippie at heart.
We can still use a bit of man power this Thursday night, should anyone feel so inclined.. it’s REALLY not that much to move. We did a helluva lot of work last night (THANKS AGAIN, LIGHTHALLS!), so it’s really just moving our bedroom, the stuff in the shed, and the patio furniture. Wow.. that’s really NOT a lot.
However, we have one obstacle that we have no idea how to overcome: our deaf dog, Mabel, has taken to barking. Incessantly. All the time. (Which is redundant, but that just shows you HOW MUCH she’s been barking.) At nothing. To the point that she wakes us up, religiously, at six a.m. with uncontrolled barking. Just standing there, barking. Now, she’s deaf, so us yelling does nothing. We have to physically drag our asses out of bed to shake our fingers at her.
I don’t think this will fly with the new neighbors.
We’ve considered a “shock” collar (with a low, LOW voltage), but the people at PetSmart judged me when I told them she was deaf. “We don’t condone putting this one deaf animals,” they told me. (If Mabel woke THEM up every morning at 6, they would most certainly condone a whole number of things, half of which are probably illegal in this state.) Our friend, Nina, used a citronella-spraying collar on her dog, but I can’t IMAGINE the smell of citronella occupying the house.
So if you have suggestions, fling ‘em on out here.
In other, departing news.. I will be appearing (along with Steph and Keboobalah) in Shel Shorts with RT’s Alpha Stage, later this summer. Pretty stoked about that. So after you venture out to see “Seussical”, you should come see a raunchy, adult show. Sounds like fun, huh?
That is all.
