what’s new?
e: Candice and I have been working hard cleaning and straightening up things around here. We’re eagerly awaiting the boxes that Chris Robinson shipped for us to arrive so we can get this place more livable. We’re also waiting for our IKEA furniture to come on Thursday. It’s not very fun having to sit on an ice chest and lean against the wall to eat and use the laptop. My back is pretty sore…
We got our cable internet hooked up today. It’s supposed to be up to 5mpbs, but I’m not sure if we’re actually getting that much speed. I’ll have to test it on one of those bandwidth test sites and see. We also signed up for Vonage Voice-over-IP telephone service. We don’t have a phone yet though.. 🙁 but we will pretty soon.
Our new place is on a pretty quiet street. We’re away from the center of town, so there aren’t too many stores around… it’s pretty residential. But, we did find a nice little shopping center about 5 min. walk away. It has a ‘Best Yet’ supermarket, a chinese food restaurant a deli/pizza place, a cheap clothing store, and a Bank of America w/ ATM. To get to the main street in town (where most of the shops are) it’s about a 10 minute walk, and to get to the subway it’s about 15 minutes.
Oh. One more thing. I know we’re pretty poor right now ’cause we don’t have jobs yet (but we’re looking!) but I just had to have this: Beyond Microwave (I’m actually counting it as a graduation present so thank you to all who donated funds to us so we could get some nice things for our new place.) This thing is awesome. It’s a microwave, but not just any microwave. It has a barcode scanner on it and a database of 4000 UPC codes built into it. You just scan the barcode on the food item and it cooks it however long it needs to be cooked automatically!
July 26th, 2005 at 8:04 pm
Good Grief! That’s one helluva fancy microwave!
July 26th, 2005 at 8:33 pm
Wouldn’t you know it….a stove with a brain. Hey, do you think that with that thing I could learn to cook? I am glad that you found a close supermarket….that is great. I am glad you got it.
July 26th, 2005 at 10:40 pm
Cheryl: Hey guys. Can’t wait to see Eric in a week. Wish you were comming too Candice.Things are pretty calm and boring here. Your apartment looks very nice even if it is dirty. I’m hoping to either paint our place or buy a condo or house soon so I can paint it. IKEA sounded like a lot of fun. Maybe we’ll have to check it out again. Enjoy the microwave (so you’re ditching the beloved convection oven?) Oh, we’ve got a website started if you ever want to look it’s http://www.masongarden.com only thing we could get really with mason in the name. (suprised we got it really) Not much there but a blog right now from me. Hope you have fun and don’t melt.