Jello is chilly. One really needs another person in there to keep warm.

Zen makes an important point.

::pulls Suzi, sans homework, into Jell-O with her::

We're picking up the kitten at 4 today! SQUEE!

So we should have new kitty pictures by 4:30 CA time?

The DH and I went to open houses today. It was somewhat helpful. We only saw one house we'd even consider, and while we could move in and live fine, there were a lot of cosmetic changes I'd want to make that would involve sanding and scraping. Nothing immediate that would require a contractor. There was also a very spiffy row house of marble and granite and glass that was very fancy that was in a neighborhood of boarded up houses. It had thick glass in the windows and bars on all the windows/doors and I would have felt very much a prisioner in a gilded prision.

Today I found a condo that I loved, and oops, it's in an "adult community". I said, fine, it'll be quiet, but the realtor thinks the cut-off age is 45. Damn, that's the first time I've wished I was a year older!

I just put together my new bookshelf! I still don't have enough room for all my books, but I was able to empty one of the stacks. (I think I'm going to rearrange them so that the new bookshelf has only paperbacks. My old shelves are all inherited from my grandmother, and they're solid wood with glass doors that have held up for at least 50 years. My new ones are from IKEA; I'm not sure that I trust them being full of hardcovers. (Plus, if there are going to be some books not protected by glass, I'd rather put some of the books that are in not great condition already.)

Oh, Hil, I adore and long for bookshelves with glass doors! Are they the law-library style with the doors that open from the bottom? Love those.

Are they the law-library style with the doors that open from the bottom?

One set are. The other has sliding doors. The wood on both is kind of scratched-up, but the glass is all in perfect condition, so once I have an actual job and some money to spend on stuff like that I'm going to get them fixed up and refinished.

The new ones, just boring plain IKEA shelves. But they're in a color that coordinates with the wood of the other ones, and they're kind of behind the couch, so it doesn't look too horrible. They sold a glass door for these, and I was tempted to get it, but I decided I didn't really need it.

Can I just say that having the washer/dryer in the hallway between the bedrooms is BRILLIANT?!?!

Our new place has the washer/dryer in the ginormous master bedroom walk-in closet, which is pretty cool, too.

Timelies Bitches. Woke up this morning to go kayaking in Long Beach Marina area. It was cool to paddle around water ways I usually drive over. However, I haven't paddled in over a year, and boy are my arms tired. Think I can use this as an excuse for getting my ass kicked in Xbox with Pete & ND? Oy vey I suck at Gears of War worse than Halo. Eh, it will be fun either way :)

So in my paddle journeys, one of the attractions are an area with non-poisonous jellies! It was cool to paddle around without fear of getting jabbed.

If anyone is interested, I'll try and GoogleMap my approximate route after I get my ass fragged in an hour.