I was reminded that I haven't updated since our AC was out. Since then, the AC has been fixed, we've been staying every night in our apartment and we even got CURTAINS! It is super exciting. We still don't have any furniture, but that's ok. It will come.
Evan started classes yesterday, and he said he liked it! He is also working for the department as a graduate assistant, mostly making copies and shredding papers for now. He will get to teach a few times (yay!) and he is looking forward to that. Evan also wants to get into some research with another professor, so overall looking to be extra busy this semester. I think he is just overjoyed to be back in school and not working part-time in a position where his day was dictated by the mood of the 14-year-old he was assigned to.
I have been just working with my family. They get cuter every day. Tonight is the birthday party of the second child. She is now officially 8 years old. And full of the diva attitude. So I will be attending as designated ice skating adult. Mom cannot skate, dad is out of town and girl #3 (who is just shy of three years old) is fearless and ready to run across the ice. So I get to be catcher. YEEHAW! I think it will be great fun.
We are settling into the area nicely, starting to make friends, and regular appearances at events. It is wonderful to finally beginning to feel like we are home.
26 August 2011
01 August 2011
The New Place!
Ok ok, no pictures. Whatevs.
We moved all our stuff in last weekend, and have finally been able to get settled. We really like our apartment, aside from the fact that our A/C has been out for the entire weekend. When it is continuously 100 degrees with a heat index of 110, it is not a comfortable place to be. Plus, we don't have curtains in the living room yet so the sun just beams in from about noon til 4.
We got home Saturday night and discovered it had not been working, and could barely sleep because it was so sticky. So Sunday after church we called the landlord and he said he'd get someone over soon as he could, but probably not til Monday. To escape the heat we packed some stuff up and went back to the Professor's apartment (we had been squatting there until we found our own place. He's still out of the country so we just went on back over). While there I experimented and made an eggplant parmesan. Overall good, but I think I overcooked the eggplant, it was a little too mushy for me.
Monday we headed back to our place and worked on cleaning up. We were hoping to have our first shot at hosting, so we were aiming to have everything put away, or at least out of sight. They fixed out AC and we were running it on full blast to get the place cooled off before our friends came over. Well, then, I walked into the second bedroom and a puddle of water came up under my feet. Evan took a look and sure enough the AC thingy was leaking. The whole closet was wet. And back off it went! After an hour the apartment was up to 90 degrees- and we left, once again, for the Professor's. No hosting for now. Thank goodness we have somewhere to go, because I don't know what we would do otherwise.
I was trying to think what I did back when I didn't have AC. Well that was in Vancouver, and 1) it doesn't get nearly as warm and 2) we could open the windows at night because it cooled down. Here, not so much. Hopefully, we will get everything straightened out soon.
PS- Happy August folks!!
We moved all our stuff in last weekend, and have finally been able to get settled. We really like our apartment, aside from the fact that our A/C has been out for the entire weekend. When it is continuously 100 degrees with a heat index of 110, it is not a comfortable place to be. Plus, we don't have curtains in the living room yet so the sun just beams in from about noon til 4.
We got home Saturday night and discovered it had not been working, and could barely sleep because it was so sticky. So Sunday after church we called the landlord and he said he'd get someone over soon as he could, but probably not til Monday. To escape the heat we packed some stuff up and went back to the Professor's apartment (we had been squatting there until we found our own place. He's still out of the country so we just went on back over). While there I experimented and made an eggplant parmesan. Overall good, but I think I overcooked the eggplant, it was a little too mushy for me.
Monday we headed back to our place and worked on cleaning up. We were hoping to have our first shot at hosting, so we were aiming to have everything put away, or at least out of sight. They fixed out AC and we were running it on full blast to get the place cooled off before our friends came over. Well, then, I walked into the second bedroom and a puddle of water came up under my feet. Evan took a look and sure enough the AC thingy was leaking. The whole closet was wet. And back off it went! After an hour the apartment was up to 90 degrees- and we left, once again, for the Professor's. No hosting for now. Thank goodness we have somewhere to go, because I don't know what we would do otherwise.
I was trying to think what I did back when I didn't have AC. Well that was in Vancouver, and 1) it doesn't get nearly as warm and 2) we could open the windows at night because it cooled down. Here, not so much. Hopefully, we will get everything straightened out soon.
PS- Happy August folks!!
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