The Zereps

oh my goodness…my feet hurt so bad! anyhoo…

today was comprised of cleaning, cleaning, putting up blinds and more cleaning. the place was really dirty so we’re still not done, but at least it’s rewarding! 🙂 we just got our portable washing machine. i don’t want to set it up yet since we don’t have our furniture so it will just have to hang out.

so yeah…i went to ikea yesterday. it was the most tiring shopping excursion i have ever experienced. i bought a big push cart thing from the grocery store here in astoria and took that on the subway, the bus and into ikea with me so i wouldn’t have to carry bulky bags with me. so my granny basket helped. but on top of having a full granny basket, i also had to manuver a giant flat around ikea pilled with all the furniture i wanted delivered. but it’s such a relief to have it all done. we’ll have a couch, loveseat, coffee table, reciever/dvd player holder, table, chairs, bed and desk on thursday!!!!! i felt funny getting so much, but we just got the cheapest things they had. our couch was only 189.

i can’t believe how fast the summer is going by! it’s almost august. i’m starting to get bummed now that jakki and kit’s wedding is coming up and it’s finally hitting me that i can’t go. 🙁 maybe if i can donate lots of blood….

yup, jabba is back with us! we missed him so much! right now he’s missing his little friends frankie the bichon and freida the affenpincher. freida is really cute. there are only 200 of her breed in the u.s.

okay, the bleach fumes must have gotten to me and caused me to ramble.
goodnight.

We’ll this is the first post that I’m writing from our new place (good thing for ‘rogue’ 802.11 signals, ’cause our Internet doesn’t get hooked up until Tuesday.) As you can see, Candice posted some pictures of it already. Last night was the first night that we stayed the night here. There are still a couple little things that still need to be done, but we’re getting things all cleaned up and turning this place into ‘home.’ We also got Jabba (our puppy) back tonight and this is the first time he’s been over here. He seems to be adjusting well. hopefully we’ll have some more pics up soon when we make some more progress. Candice went back to Ikea today and spent almost the entire day down there picking up our furniture (to be shipped) and some more housewares, while I spent the day straightening up around here. It’s almost midnight and I’m exhausted, so that’s all for now.

okay, here’s some pics of our apartment, empty obviously. i’ll show you the uglier rooms first 😉 however, after i’ve worked my magic, everything will be pretty and clean!!!!

the kitchen!

the bathroom!

the office! (bad pic, it’s actually a little bigger)

the bedroom! (there are two tall windows to the left wall. 2 closets, a door to the hall and a door to the outside)

the living room! (just off the kitchen through arched entryway, the wall is white so as to watch movies on)

here’s a sign we saw on an old apartment building around where jabba’s been staying. we see alot more of them now that we noticed.

Well, sort of. It’s OK for getting to many places, but for a lot of the vast reaches of NYC, it is simply impossible to get there in under 2 hours–including taking buses, the subway, and walking. I was researching ‘alternate’ forms of personal transportation such as scooters and bikes, etc. but found to my dismay they are all illegal. That’s right–even bikes are illegal to ride in the city. Here’s a quote from a legislator:

“In New York City it is rightly illegal for an adult to ride a bicycle on the sidewalk. The average bicycle weighs less than 30 pounds, yet adult bicyclists are too big, too fast and too threatening to safely share space with small children, seniors and other vulnerable pedestrians. Likewise, allowing any motorized scooter, gasoline or electric-powered, to drive on the sidewalk puts children, seniors, persons with disabilities and the blind in danger.”

Apparently, there are just too many people and not enough room. I was wondering why in a city of 10 million, I’ve only seen about 5 bikes thus far. So, I guess it’s only jobs and activities that are accessible from the subway for us… and lots of walking.

i just watched how to make italian dounuts. i’ll definately have to make those for eric as soon as possible. unfortunately i can’t eat them right now since i am now on my second week of raw food. it’s been working out nicely, too. i’ve lost like 5 lbs. i really want to go out to eat though. there’s this one raw food restaurant in manhattan that sounds super yummy, but it’s a too expensive for us at the moment. 🙁
well, today “they” are putting the second coat of varnish on our floors and installing the dishwasher, and WE HAVE THE KEYS!!! yeah! we’ll move our meager possesions over tomorrow and then see jabba and then set off for ikea! there’s a bus that takes you from manhattan to the new jersey ikea for free, which is nice. we can’t bring jabba home though till the varnish smell wears off. i’ll post pics of the bare apartment as soon as i can, i promise! although, don’t expect too much…it’s still just an old apartment in queens.
toodle-loo!
oh yeah, i changed the theme. i got sick of the old, boring one. i’ll make it look better when i get more time and settled in, but for now, the basic stuff will have to do.

Well, I sent my resume in to a number of places on craigslist today, so we’ll see how that goes. I also need to resubmit my resume to monster.com ’cause somehow they screwed the whole thing up and even though I have the confirmation email that says they got it, my resume does not show up at all on the site.

We got a number of errands done today. Candice has been window shopping endlessly on overstock.com and ikea.com for stuff for our new apartment. Matt was kind enough to give us one of the air conditioners that he wasn’t using anymore, so that was nice. We also have one being shipped to us from California. If all goes well, some of our boxes should be here by monday or tuesday. We didn’t get to visit our new place today because the new wood floors are being varnished and it’d be kinda toxic to breathe.

well, just thought i’d throw in a couple pictures to make this a little more interesting. 😉

this here is pixel, matt and samantha’s cat. he’s pretty cute and funny. i also like how his hair matches mine.

here’s me tonight walking jabba, frankie, and frieda. well, i was only holding jabba here, walking 3 dogs would have been *too* crazy. jabba is still a puppy who pulls on the leash, while frankie is a good little walker. frieda hold up her end of the leash pretty well, too.