I'm so glad you're liking your new job, Cass :) Also, you can get the shoes for around $20 on eBay (search for Gap rhinestone - woot!).

ION, I can't sleep. Argh! But my kitties are being really sweet. They got up with me and keep visiting me at the computer. I love those girls.

Doors off hinges??? OK, I've moved a number of times, and never have my doors been off the hinges. WTF?

What Cindy said. This house is old and has tiny tiny spaces. While we were there, the movers took out a large dresser through a second floor window that opened out on the first floor/dining room roof, and lowered it down. It looks like that in order to get their sofa out on Thursday, and probably oour sofa in on Tuesday, we'll have to take the sliding doors out.

Tom is super stressed about that whole endeavor now.

In possibly related news, Tom had to wake me up because I was hyperventilating/having a panic attack IN MY SLEEP.

We didn't sleep well last night.

{{{Nora and Tom}}} Soon you'll be all settled in your beautiful new place and the anxiety will be replaced with accomplishment.

Our place has little doorways and skinny halls leading into the bedrooms so they had to remove the bedroom doors to get the armoirs/dressers/beds in. No big.

Oh Nora, I hope you guys get to the enjoying it stage, really soon. At least now, your housing costs are relatively fixed. When you rent, you're at the mercy of the landlord, and your home can be sold out from under you at any time.

I think once we get moved in things will be awesome. The stress is two pronged - the house buying as well as the actual moving. A week from now, we'll be in a better, if more exhausted, place.

Oh, Nora! You poor thing! I agree with Cindy, though. It'll be better once you're in the house.

Timelies!

Ugh.

There is a disadvantage to being a patient at a teaching hospital. The doctors finish their residency and go on to other practices/hospitals/etc. I called to make two different appointments this morning...one with my PCP, the other with my neurologist...both are leaving the hospital, so I have to see new doctors/residents. So frustrating, after building a relationship with these doctors for two years. I'm most disappointed about my PCP. She has really been with me since I first moved out to Boston and started having trouble. Whenever I was hospitalized, she would come see me every day. I could page her with any questions, etc. She really was wonderful. I'm going to miss her a lot.

{{Nora and Tom}} I hope the moving goes as somoothly as possible and you are settled in your new home (that, incidentally, belongs to you!) before you know it.

Very cute shoes, GC.

(eta: That's too bad that you're losing the doctors you know, vw. I hope whoever you get next doesn't take much breaking in!)

Granola:

There's a very loud "discussion" going on in my office mate's boss's office. Behind a closed door, but I can hear every word. I am so uncomfortable.

There's a very loud "discussion" going on in my office mate's boss's office. Behind a closed door, but I can hear every word. I am so uncomfortable.

Eek! does it involve you at all?