Holiday Spirit

I felt personally affronted when someone down in Olympia stole the Athiest Plaque from the capitol building. So, we decided to address things locally with a sign of our own. Its going up on the balcony tonight!


I like the idea so much, I made a store, so you can share in my Solstice joy: Buy Yourself some Sol!

Update: Our banner made the local blognews!

Update2: Here is what the banner looks like from the outside!

Acceleration and Distortion of Space

OMG I Am So Confused. T just wasted 15 minutes of her life trying to explain to me why time and distance cancel each other out when you are a black hole.

I feel so dumb right now.

Pho Sho'

Introducing Duncan and Krista to the joys of Than Brothers pho, after the Girlyman concert.

Happy Birthday To Me!

A Whole Host of people came from all over to spend my birthday weekend with me! Hooray for my brother, Duncan, Krista, and Adam... I am so well loved!

Well Paved

If this is all they accomplished on day one, I have serious doubts about this being a 4 day project. They didn't even finish taking the sides off of our unit.

Just saying.

Update: Ammended length of project is through May 9th. Damn them, my seed babies need fresh air!

Wild and Free and Orange

Wild and Free and Orange
Originally uploaded by Arboreality.

Finished Product: cabled wristwarmers for Talina, just in time to pretend they're birthday presents. :)

The Holidays May Now Commence

We decided to get a tree. I think the snow kind of put us over the top, with the holiday spirit and all. Happy December First!

Aim High

Wow, that was a really long week. And next week is going to be even longer! How is a girl supposed to prepare for the holidays with all this other stuff to do??

Life's Work

So what I've been doing all week is unpacking! I thought I'd show all two of you (Hi Mom, Hi Dad :) what the new place looks like so far, so you could get an appreciation for where I'm living these days...

The Kitchen & Dining Room

The Living Room

The Oh My God, Megan, Why Do You Own So Much Stuff Room

The View

The Hours Of The Day Wonder How They've Been Spent

Handed over the keys to my old apartment last night. I'd lived there for two years -- longer than I'd lived anywhere since leaving for college in 1996, and if you count the switching houses as a teenager, longer that my clothes have stayed in one closet since I was 13.

Goodbye, tiny apartment!

Shoo Fly

I have a serious fruit fly problem. How on earth did I ever think they were cute in high school biology??

Anticipation

Anticipation
Originally uploaded by Arboreality.

Tomatoes are popping up all over on my patio... 4 plants going, but one of them is obviously going to try to drown me in mid-sized tomatoes come the first week in August. Beware, the person who agrees to house sit for me the week I'm backpacking!! :)

Dreaming My Dreams

Hachi has a bit of an obsession with sleeping on my piles of laundry...

Something to Smile About

A really big snap pea from the patio...

Weekend

Between recovering from vacation and that exciting iDay we all had Friday, my week disappeared!! But here it is Saturday and I am rebelling by doing exactly nothing but watch my plants grow.

Everything You Love is Alive

My patio is growing very fast these days!

Modern Technology

I completed step one in my plan to set up a watering system on the balcony: the planter shelf is completely finished! But then I ran out of materials. Could it be that I gave too many plants? :)

Untouched

Untouched
Originally uploaded by Arboreality.

Took some shots of my garden today while the weather was beautiful, they are at Flickr for you to see! Click the picture to see the rest...

Clean House

I finally have a living room again!

Everyone has God on Their Side

Nice day, huh?

Sleepy Beauty

My Valerian is blooming!

A Safe Place

The next step in balcony gardening... when you have run out of surface, build more!

Round and Round

Working on a new pair of wrist warmers, in a spiral ribbed pattern and alpaca yarn.

Invaders

A Green Morning

My patio, looking west, rearranged to maximize my limited space.

GRRRRRRRRRRR

Taken this evening.

My Sad Tale Ends Here

My Sad Tale Ends Here
Originally uploaded by Arboreality.

Caught one. Woke up this morning to find one dead rodent on the patio outside the door.

I'm sorry, little rat, that your poor nose had to get smooshed in the trap in order that my parsley and spinach might live. Next lifetime, try eating something a little closer to the ground, I don't think those ground dwellers mind as much.

ARGH!!!!

okay that's it, I am done with the patient tenant routine!!!!

The Battle of Who Could Care Less

A note today from my apartment manager, in response to my email on Saturday informing him that the apartment is STILL leaking:

We have now placed an emergency leak repair service call to a local professional vendor. Their typical response time is 24 hours or less. The problem has migrated to the unit below you, so we will get to the bottom of this immediately, no matter the cost.

Thanks (again and again) for your wonderful patience throughout this ordeal. Just think, when we're all done with this, you just might have the most water-tight apartment in Seattle!

OH, how badly I wanted to write back:

...and just think, if you'd taken me seriously four weeks ago, this wouldn't be an expensive emergency!

AND BY THE WAY MY CARPET IS STILL WET!

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UPDATE: 4/4/07 AND THEN THERE WERE THREE...

I finally dropped a note on Monday for my neighbors, who share the moldy wall with me. I had told the maintanence guy he should do it but he obviously ignored me, because their response email today said they discovered black mold all over the wall behind their bed.

This is getting ridiculous.

For the Love of All Things Holy

For the Love of All Things Holy
Originally uploaded by Arboreality.

I came home to more leaking. Soaking wet carpet, too. AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH

Now That You Are Here I Will Not Let You

While the floor dries ... yes, still... the bed is in a different position and the cats will not let me out of their sight.

Mom?

My newest knitted creation sits next to Hachi, who does her best not to look confused. Its a dinosaur!

A Rainy Week

It's lovely outside, but inside it's... MOLDY.

So a few months ago they were working on the roof, and I knew this because the workers swept all their trash over the side onto my plants on the patio, and also thumped so hard I came home one day to a broken light fixture in the closet.

Turns out they forgot to clean the drain, so the flat roof filled up with water and leaked into my bedroom last week... it gets worse the further from the original leak we get: it was streaming in my window, but it appears to have also made it's way into the walls, and now I'm living in a mold infested toxic waste site. It's AWESOME, thanks for asking.

Come See Me Sometime

Come See Me Sometime
Originally uploaded by Arboreality.

My patio is in full swing with lots of new blooms. I managed to get home before the sun went down today and dashed outside to document the progress. Click the picture to see more on Flickr!

a new livingroom!

i came to bake a cake, instead, i redecorated john and lauras livingroom.

a couch!

BIRDS!

Til hachi scared then away...

yay

I love this tapestry, and all the people I've lived with have hated it... so three cheers for my own apartment, and my beautiful tapestry above my bed.