so, let's see. that other job, not so much. insert long story and personal history and general annoyance and also general appreciation to the universe which has kept me out of something which i knew better than to get into but would have anyway. feh. i don't need to go back to what made me unhappy. it's a long story. i found out a lot more info about the situation. but really, bottom line, i'm more than ok with it. at least at this moment in time i'm not really wanting to go back to the old mothership. for a second i thought it would be good. and then i remembered.

instead, well, i spent the weekend in california power shopping with grace. everyone in the whole world naysayed our plan to fly to san jose, buy a loft that afternoon and spend some time enjoying the sun and visiting with ms uber fab in monterey. oh no, you can't just fly down and buy property in the bay area. for the first thing, you'll never find what you want, secondly, there are at least 300-400 people on all waiting lists for any lofts worth buying, plus it just can't be done. not in two days.

pox on you all. we did it in an afternoon.

we looked a bunch of stuff, but the first thing we saw was right. by lucky stroke of the aligned stars we were able to bypass a huge gnarly waiting list, put in an offer a few hours later, visit some other places just to be clear it was the right thing to do, and wait for the offer to be accepted. which it was. ta daa!

other than that, i haven't stopped moving for almost 2 weeks. the bathroom is almost painted enough (i think it will be 4 coats of red), and once i can breathe then we have to prepare for some social activites that grace has planned before she leaves.

plus the current freelance has me downtown and not in my jammies at home. i keep thinking that any day now i'll be able to do something besides work on the house or work or sleep. it's not happening. i got to knit on the plane, for a couple of stretches of about an hour. which is about 59 minutes longer at a stretch than i've been able to knit in ages.

hopefully i will manage this without my head exploding. some people thrive on this kind of thing. i don't.