Pyramid is hit or miss in quality, but I got a great skirt and one of my favorite shirts from there. Unfortunately they don't give you a prepaid return label, so returns require a trip to the post office. It's good to have a place that offers plus size clothing that isn't boring.

I made it to Cincinnati, after approximately forever driving, and found that my apartment does not currently have electricity (this had been somewhat of a question -- it's going to be turned on on Monday), and it's WAY too hot to stay there without air conditioning, so I'm staying at a hotel until Monday. For some reason, practically every hotel in Cincinnati was completely booked this weekend. I wasn't able to find something myself, and was getting tired and frustrated, so I called my mom, and she searched online and called some hotels and found one out in the suburbs that had one room left.

Now I'm trying to decide what to do for dinner. I think I'm going to order something in -- I'm just so sick of driving, and probably going to fall asleep soon.

Ugh, sorry about the delay getting into your apartment. Rest and recover.

Hil, that sounds like a frustrating day. I hope you get good food and a good night's sleep.

At least you're done traveling, if not done moving around.

Yep. Now I'm thinking about how I'm going to arrange my furniture. The new apartment is a bit smaller than the old one, and it's in an old house where nothing is quite at a right angle. One wall in the living room has a non-working fireplace, which has some really pretty mosaic stuff, but it also means that I can't really use that wall for anything else, unless I cover up the fireplace.

Also, I think I might need to reschedule the internet installation, because I've got the electricity person scheduled for 8-12 on Monday, and the internet person for 10-11 on Monday, and I don't think the internet person can set up the internet stuff if the electricity hasn't been turned on yet.

And I need to buy lamps. My old apartment had overhead lights. This one doesn't.

Climbing step ladder to replace smoke detector batteries plus mild fear of climbing ladders plus vertigo equals very much not good.

Dear person who adopted Maxie (former foster puppy),

Texting me at 11:28 at night to chit chat and ask random questions about a limp the dog has developed? Really? I am not a vet. Also it’s almost midnight. Really?

Oh, dear, Pix

I'm finally catching up after a month in the land of slow and capped internet, and then a week with my family helping me move/being on vacation (this is a not terribly useful combination). Much -ma to everyone who needs it.

I have moved into an adorable little 1-bedroom cottage, where mowing the lawn will be a major source of exercise (I need to get a non-powered mower this week). It's unfurnished, though. But I managed to get a bed and a sofa from the estate sale at the house my boyfriend is house-sitting for reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture.

Tomorrow will be the stock the kitchen Costco run. And I have an on-going quest to Buy All The Corelle (that I see at thrift shops). We found some glass corningware that is intended for use on stovetop, so that will be interesting to cook with.

School doesn't start for a week and a half, but I have various paperwork-type tasks to be done before that.

Have fun turning your cottage into your own little retreat, Debet.