You guys! It's so great to post with you!
How's the new place?
The new place is a whole room bigger than the first place (which means we now have a spare bedroom, and who wanna be our first guest? Um, once we finish moving the last remaining stuff from the temp place and straighten this place up, of course, so, um, who wants to be our first guest next week or so?).
It's finally - after a bit longer than two months in the temp tiny place, which was an excellent idea and solution for its time (after two, yup, not one but two, landlords broke their lease with us), but still so much Not A Home - um, where did my sentence go? Oh, yeah. So, the new place, even with all the boxes and unpacked stuff and not-yet-all-there stuff, still already feels more like home than the temp one, and it's such a great feeling. I was serious, who wants to be our first guest?
Is your elevator set up for Sabbath service?
I have no idea regarding the elevator at the temp place (it was kept in such bad conditions, I don't think they'd make the effort of maintaining this sort of service), and we never stayed there for shabbat (the place was too tiny and not-equipped for cooking and, well, Shabbat-ing), so I never had a chance to check.
However, the DH's parents live on an 8th floor, and their building definitely has a shabbat mechanism. It means that once it's activated, you can't get anything from pressing the buttons, and the elevator runs automatically - from the bottom straight to the top floor, and then down to each floor at a time, until it reaches the bottom again. Of course, there is a warning siren right before it closes, to make sure people manage to take care when entering and leaving, and it waits a bit in each floor. This way it's possible to climb upstairs (especially for elderly people, or mothers with babies in their strollers (is that the right word?) or just plain tall buildings), without having to change any situation of any electrical circuit or have a major workout.
Is it also Jilli and The Adorable One's anniversary? If so, felicitations!
If it's not, it should be, and that's good enough for me. Happy day, Jilli! Happy day, Pete! With lots of wishes for a wonderful year together!
I am reading Sam to mac at bedtime
Goodness, I leave the internet for a few weeks and Allyson's book is out? There's not enough "Yay" in the world (even with its internet all working and stuff).
Oh, does that mean I should be away more often? Because if that means that more Buffista dreams and things-they've-worked-so-hard-for are going to come true, I'm so willing to pay that price.