This weekend has left me tired
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ilaiMore fun than a barrel of monkeys!
The act of moving my sister itself was actually pretty painless
My brother W and I flew out to Philadelphia Thursday night to help my sister A move. Since she'd rented a 10' Budget truck and didn't actually have all that much stuff, we managed to get her moved by mid-afternoon Friday, with most of the time spent stuck in the lunch-hour traffic of downtown Philly.
Little did we know that the rest of our stay there would be spent with furniture.
Why I'm all IKEA'd out for the rest of the year
After the move, W and I complained that we wanted lunch, so A drove us to Wendy's for food at 3pm and then led us to IKEA. By the time we left at 10pm, the store had closed, and my sister had plunked down two-and-a-half grand on furniture. We then hauled all of it up to her second-floor apartment, returned the rental truck, ate dinner, and went to bed around 1:30 am.
Saturday and Sunday were almost entirely spent assembling A's furniture: a bed, a cabinet, two drafting tables, four chairs, a loveseat, a CD shelf, a coffee table with a glass top, and a 6' x 6' bookshelf comprised of 25 squares. IKEA had messed up and gave us the wrong parts for the loveseat, so we had to go back to exchange a box or two. A is not very mechanically inclined (that may be an understatement), so W and I had to assemble everything, right up to an hour or so before we had to leave for the airport.
Needless to say, W and I weren't too happy that there was next to no downtime at all this weekend.
So with no energy I spent the Fourth of July a bit more leisurely
While I was stuck in traffic in a rental truck on Friday, I had received a call from the illustrious Mr. Jao exhorting me to meet him for lunch on Monday. So![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lokiect and I met up with him and his fiancée (!!!) at ET, caught up, and strolled down Harvard St/Ave to a Korean restaurant called Hanmaru. The food was okay, but the neverending stream of iced tea really hit the spot. We made an obligatory trip to J. P. Licks and dawdled a bit at ET before parting ways.
Karate practice was mostly normal, thoughlokiect led charts and I got a bit of self-awareness Tai Chi from dcltdw. Afterwards four of us (lokiect, arkadiatri, rusalka, and me) went off to the Student Center in search of food, but godd**n LaVerde's was closed at 9, so I took a shot in the dark and suggested Thailand Cafe. Luckily they were open for another hour, so we had a nice late-ish post-practice dinner. The poor server had to keep refilling our water glasses every few minutes or so.
Yesterday I felt way too exhausted to deal with the crowd and the heat down by the river, so I did some light grocery-shopping and joined Cook House for their barbecue. I got to seemaputi_pirate and mister_nick! and puffy_wuffy other folks I don't see that often. maputi_pirate and mister_nick tried to convince me to play WoW; I will resist them yet... though I must admit it was entertaining watching maputi_pirate's undead mage roam around the countryside killing crusaders. The undead have this unforunate (but cute) habit of poking bits of bone out of whatever clothing they have.
I spent a few moments in the evening reading quietly in our living room withjadia and visage--so quietly in fact that poissonvert couldn't tell if there was anyone home (or alive).
The act of moving my sister itself was actually pretty painless
My brother W and I flew out to Philadelphia Thursday night to help my sister A move. Since she'd rented a 10' Budget truck and didn't actually have all that much stuff, we managed to get her moved by mid-afternoon Friday, with most of the time spent stuck in the lunch-hour traffic of downtown Philly.
Little did we know that the rest of our stay there would be spent with furniture.
Why I'm all IKEA'd out for the rest of the year
After the move, W and I complained that we wanted lunch, so A drove us to Wendy's for food at 3pm and then led us to IKEA. By the time we left at 10pm, the store had closed, and my sister had plunked down two-and-a-half grand on furniture. We then hauled all of it up to her second-floor apartment, returned the rental truck, ate dinner, and went to bed around 1:30 am.
Saturday and Sunday were almost entirely spent assembling A's furniture: a bed, a cabinet, two drafting tables, four chairs, a loveseat, a CD shelf, a coffee table with a glass top, and a 6' x 6' bookshelf comprised of 25 squares. IKEA had messed up and gave us the wrong parts for the loveseat, so we had to go back to exchange a box or two. A is not very mechanically inclined (that may be an understatement), so W and I had to assemble everything, right up to an hour or so before we had to leave for the airport.
Needless to say, W and I weren't too happy that there was next to no downtime at all this weekend.
So with no energy I spent the Fourth of July a bit more leisurely
While I was stuck in traffic in a rental truck on Friday, I had received a call from the illustrious Mr. Jao exhorting me to meet him for lunch on Monday. So
lokiect and I met up with him and his fiancée (!!!) at ET, caught up, and strolled down Harvard St/Ave to a Korean restaurant called Hanmaru. The food was okay, but the neverending stream of iced tea really hit the spot. We made an obligatory trip to J. P. Licks and dawdled a bit at ET before parting ways.Karate practice was mostly normal, though
lokiect led charts and I got a bit of self-awareness Tai Chi from dcltdw. Afterwards four of us (lokiect, arkadiatri, rusalka, and me) went off to the Student Center in search of food, but godd**n LaVerde's was closed at 9, so I took a shot in the dark and suggested Thailand Cafe. Luckily they were open for another hour, so we had a nice late-ish post-practice dinner. The poor server had to keep refilling our water glasses every few minutes or so.Yesterday I felt way too exhausted to deal with the crowd and the heat down by the river, so I did some light grocery-shopping and joined Cook House for their barbecue. I got to see
maputi_pirate and mister_nick! and puffy_wuffy other folks I don't see that often. maputi_pirate and mister_nick tried to convince me to play WoW; I will resist them yet... though I must admit it was entertaining watching maputi_pirate's undead mage roam around the countryside killing crusaders. The undead have this unforunate (but cute) habit of poking bits of bone out of whatever clothing they have.I spent a few moments in the evening reading quietly in our living room with
jadia and visage--so quietly in fact that poissonvert couldn't tell if there was anyone home (or alive).
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Date: 2006-07-05 04:55 pm (UTC)Oh, man, I actually did the anti-"Spinal Tap" thing when I read this and was like, "...rented a ten-inch Budget truck wait no." Does today count as a virtual Monday? because that would make this week officially EVIL.
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Date: 2006-07-05 05:04 pm (UTC)When my sister sent us e-mail, she kept saying 10" truck. I guess that's the anti-anti-(or maybe prefixless)"Spinal Tap" thing, but I have yet to see the movie....
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Date: 2006-07-05 05:12 pm (UTC)(sekkrit msg to
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Date: 2006-07-05 05:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-05 05:17 pm (UTC)And, you know, I aim to please!
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Date: 2006-07-06 04:48 am (UTC)I have this...
Date: 2006-07-07 12:36 am (UTC)Give me a poke sometime. I keep meaning to actually *watch* it again.