haus!

Ted has just picked up the keys to our new house. Holy carp. I guess this is official. We’re moving to Dublin. We’re moving, like, this weekend. Agh! *stares around in a panic* I am thinking of a housewarming party on August 1, although I’m informed by at least two friends that it’s not a good date because it’s a bank holiday weekend. However, since we can be sure Ted won’t be working the weekend yet at that point, we might have it then anyway. I need to post on…

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hah! yay!

hah! revisions have pushed SPIRIT DANCES to just over 100K! Mission accomplished! Yay! (well, mission accomplished except for the other hundred pages of revisions I have yet to go through. still, yay!) *does a little dance*

sleep dep in action

I couldn’t get through a coherent sentence yesterday to save my life. “It doesn’t matter if it’s hot or cold as long as it’s 70 degrees!” I said cheerfully. What I meant was it didn’t matter if it rained as long as it was 70 degrees. Or, shortly after that, discussing second-hand shops, “You can spend a lot of money with a hundred euro!” when I meant “A hundred euro goes a long way at a second-hand shop.” Then later I was carrying the diaper bag (have I taken a…

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whew.

Yesterday we tackled the task of decluttering the bedroom. Mostly this meant getting rid of clothes. Getting rid of lots of clothes, as it turned out. Three giant garbage bags of donate-quality clothes and an equally giant garbage bag of clothes too worn out to donate. We now have few enough hang-it-up clothes that they all fit into one closet, which hasn’t been so since we moved to Ireland (small closets). Ted’s t-shirts, which used to be impossible to cram into the bureau drawers, now fit nicely. I now only…

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one down, 6 to go…

We’re doing something with this move that we always say we should do when we move: go through all the random piles of crap and extraneous boxes of paperwork and so on and so forth and getting rid of it before we move. To that end, we have just emptied out the front bedroom in its entirety. It was probably the least full-of-crap-to-empty, because it’d been cleaned out recently to become a baby’s room, and then again to become a guest bedroom. We did find about a dozen 3-6 month…

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