Personal History Moment

We signed for the house today. Nutty job that was. I was in the Advocate's office for a few hours as he read out the different documents at warp speed and I followed along, flipping pages as he rambled off the numbered clauses & articles. 3976859302 Then after an unfortunate parking ticket (which, as usual, ruined the following 3 hours for me) we had to go down to the bank to kill the previous owner's mortgage. It was on the other side of town. We've got the keys now. 032472889371

Starting class 5 of Animation Mentor as well today. In fact, just finished my class with Jed Diffenderfer. It's the start of Story. Hoping to be able to document the progress on my little-used AM blog. By the way, it's before 7am. I've got the early morning class this term.

In the process of buying furniture for the house as well. So far we've got Fabri's desk and desk chair, a bookcase, the table, the other bookcase, a lamp and have ordered the couch. Everything so far fits into the early 1900s. It's only once every few days I worry about the place being too themed... but then I remember how very odd I actually am and I don't worry about it too much. I'm choosing things I love to look at whic have some history to them to add to my personal history, so I can't imagine that that could be too wrong. Friday evening I have to truck off to IKEA to pick up the things I don't really want to invest any heavy money into... my office space, the wardrobe and a matress.

Been trying to convince a carpenter or general fixit guy to build us storage under the stairs before we put the floor down, but it's an upwards climb. I don't know why, but the quotes keep coming back at scary prices and the handymen don't seem to have any creative solutions for the space at all. It makes no sense to me... you get some wood, you cut it to the right shape and size, you paint it white and stick it under the stairs. I know, seeing how I'm not a carpenter that I may be simplifying things a little (any job you can't do yourself is presumed 'easy' right?) but seriously, it's meant to be what they do right?? Anyways, the alternative is to wait and see what happens and maybe get a big storage chest instead for the space. In the end that might look nicer anyhow.

I'm looking forward to the first few days after the bixes are in and everything is crazy and messy and nothing's unpacked yet. I can see candles and a bottle of wine and an open box of pizza on the floor. Ok, I'm romanticizing the idea a bit, but hey, nothing wrong with that.