Our new living room

Today we closed on our condo. Only three weeks after our first tour of Arbco (and only two days before that we had never even heard of cohousing). There were a lot of papers to sign. The government representative warned us about the high property taxes and about the “Sanibel Stoop” disease. She had cool short hair like the wizard guy in the Nutcracker.

My neck has been aching lately. I had to go back to work while Garry and my mom went to check out the paint samples in the condo daylight.

A plethora of hats (and a cat)

I’ve wrapped my coworkers’ gifts to give to them tomorrow. I had to make hats out of old yarn as we have no money, though I did line Jon’s in Batman fleece. I hope they like them and they’re not too big.

Work is dragging – thank god it’s a half-week. I just want to move in – it’s all not even started to sink in yet. Yesterday they had a “solstice party” with crafts and I cursed the stupid weekend buses – I can’t wait until it’s all just down the hall from us. It’s funny – I’m actually looking forward to the community aspects the most.

I wish I updated this more. I like looking back and reading about what happened in the year, but now I can’t remember anything that’s happened in the past three months. I better get into the habit of it again; maybe now that work is becoming more of a routine.

My dad cutting his cake

I’m looking through my photos to see what we did, but there aren’t many photos, so I guess we didn’t do much. For my dad’s birthday (Aug 7) we had a picnic that Garry and I prepared. We ate at the Baraboo park, which has a little zoo filled with old animals or empty cages. It was still fun; the prairie dogs and deer seemed to be proliferating at least. We then drove to the 100th anniversary celebration of the “man mound,” which is a big mound of dirt the Indians made. They were taking everything down when we got there, but we got to enjoy the exciting lump ‘o grass.

Our Dwarf Hamster

Our last gerbil has been laid to rest out back. We bought two dwarf hamsters to fill the rodent void in our lives; unfortunately one of them died after a few days and we returned the other. No idea what happened… at least we didn’t get attached (and they slept all day anyway).

Pookie's Sweater

I’ve been crafty a lot lately; I’ve made about 6 pairs of pants, and two of them actually fit and aren’t see through, way to wide legged, or insanely itchy. I’ve also been knitting; I’m half way done with a sweater, and I also made a little turtle neck for Pookie. He’s so dashing! Today we tried to take him outside and take some photos of him in the sweater with the nice fall backdrop, but he hasn’t been out for awhile and wasn’t very happy, especially after he tried crawling into some trees and managed to walk right through a huge burr patch. Then he really wasn’t happy when we got back and I had to take the scissors to his fur…. Now he’s asleep in his bed, and I’m a very guilty feeling mommy.

Geekkon 2008

This weekend was Geek.Kon. Unfortunately I had to drop some of my duties (though I still ended up having to do pretty much everything I did last year, only not as well, since we didn’t have anyone else to do it and I didn’t have the time to do it well). I’m a bit annoyed since I asked for help and no one did anything, yet they still seem to think I didn’t do enough though they knew I didn’t have the time. But ranting aside, it all seemed to go fairly smoothly. I’m hoping this year I can be more involved, though another part of me wonders if I want to be more involved. But it’s nice being a founding member of a (hopefully) soon to be growing con. And the con itself is just a really nice thing to have in Madison.

Digital collage art

I’ve been trying to find the time to do little art bits, as well. I’m really hoping to create enough in a somewhat unusual style that I can go around to galleries or maybe make a viable little business online, and then once Garry finishes school and gets a job with insurance I’ll be able to take it to a full time business. But then I also want to create a business doing anime portraits at conventions, or maybe creating a line of products with original kawaii characters, or maybe a business selling pants! I have too many projects. Tomorrow I’ll try to bring some of my work projects to scan in, too.

Garry started school about a month ago. He started in Biotecnology, but decided that science wasn’t the way to go. So next semester he will be switching to the Marketing department, and one day we may be able to start a business together!