Second post of the month...
May. 23rd, 2023 10:20 pmWow, I don't think I've had a two-post month on DW since October 2022.
The boy toy and I are settling in at the new place. I think I shall call it the Blue and Green Cottage, after the colors of the interior walls and trim. We still have stuff in storage, of course. We probably will until after Pennsic, because the previous occupant's belongings are still piled in the bedroom closet, and the remnants of Chessiecon's material goods are stacked up along the bedroom walls.
For a one-bedroom apartment, it's not too small. The kitchen is about the same size as the combined kitchen and dining room in the lost condo. The living room has roughly the square footage of the living room in that place. The bathroom is noticeably bigger than its counterpart in the previous home, although it is somewhat oddly shaped. There is no space-wasting interior corridor; all rooms are joined to the kitchen, which reminds me of a lot of the century-old homes in my mother's hometown.
It's just that this place has one bedroom instead of two, and the bedroom isn't quite as huge as in my old condo (there, the "master" bedroom was bigger than the living room). Still, there are some nooks and crannies that can be utilized more efficiently, especially once the former occupant's stuff travels elsewhere.
Little by little, it's starting to feel like a place where I might be living for a while.
In other news, Balticon is coming up in a few days. I always have such mixed feelings about the convention. On the good side, this year makes 20 years since I met![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
cz_unit and his wife ("phoenix_glow" on LJ) at that convention, and that is something to celebrate. OTOH, this year's Balticon weekend makes a full decade since the untimely death of Lord Pedro de Alcazar and eight years since the untimely death of a fellow science writer who had met her husband at Disclave 1985, exactly 30 years earlier (and the first con I ever attended, and the first time I set foot in Maryland and DC, etc.). Memories....
The boy toy and I are settling in at the new place. I think I shall call it the Blue and Green Cottage, after the colors of the interior walls and trim. We still have stuff in storage, of course. We probably will until after Pennsic, because the previous occupant's belongings are still piled in the bedroom closet, and the remnants of Chessiecon's material goods are stacked up along the bedroom walls.
For a one-bedroom apartment, it's not too small. The kitchen is about the same size as the combined kitchen and dining room in the lost condo. The living room has roughly the square footage of the living room in that place. The bathroom is noticeably bigger than its counterpart in the previous home, although it is somewhat oddly shaped. There is no space-wasting interior corridor; all rooms are joined to the kitchen, which reminds me of a lot of the century-old homes in my mother's hometown.
It's just that this place has one bedroom instead of two, and the bedroom isn't quite as huge as in my old condo (there, the "master" bedroom was bigger than the living room). Still, there are some nooks and crannies that can be utilized more efficiently, especially once the former occupant's stuff travels elsewhere.
Little by little, it's starting to feel like a place where I might be living for a while.
In other news, Balticon is coming up in a few days. I always have such mixed feelings about the convention. On the good side, this year makes 20 years since I met
cz_unit and his wife ("phoenix_glow" on LJ) at that convention, and that is something to celebrate. OTOH, this year's Balticon weekend makes a full decade since the untimely death of Lord Pedro de Alcazar and eight years since the untimely death of a fellow science writer who had met her husband at Disclave 1985, exactly 30 years earlier (and the first con I ever attended, and the first time I set foot in Maryland and DC, etc.). Memories....
