Cars, Security and a Peek into my Life
It’s a rubber megaphone for your phone. It’s like my car stereo.
Haven’t had a TV for 17 years; not just no cable, but no physical unit either.
(this has been a ThingsIFoundGoingAboutLife.com post, a sub-blog of KeriBlog)
Remember when I bought a house-worth of furniture yesterday? Took delivery of 17 pieces at 1pm.
Was most looking forward to the bed.
2 guys kindly came to help, thought we’d have everything built by tonight.
Was that ever delusional.
It’s going to take 4 times as long as I estimated.
And was delivered the wrong slats for the bed bottom.
I took my shopping list to the store too, to order everything with a human and avoid this. And they’re not just the wrong slats wait, this type isn’t even for sale on the website.
I was so close to getting off an air mattress guys. It’s been 2 months now.
(if we’re just meeting: I bought a house, picked up the keys on July 25 and never went back to my condo downtown, been living out of a suitcase since, blog tag = house)
Ikea couldn’t have been nicer about it, almost over-compensated, so tomorrow I’ll swap the slats, plus… omg plus:
Tomorrow: 2 newspaper deadlines Friday morning, conducting an interview about auto security at 11am, then a Porsche 911 event at the Manga Golf Course tomorrow night, and it’s the last day EVER to drive my beloved Jetta because it failed the smog test so hard, and I have surgery Tuesday morning and haven’t been able to figure out how to hide that from you…
… so I’m going to sleep on the idea of putting my blog on pause for a week …. need to get this house stuff in order because the snow comes soon, which’ll be perfect blogging weather…
TTYT XO
Similar to ‘Dance Packing‘ and ‘Dance Working‘ (aka ‘Chair Dancing’).
Top right – not so flexible, but still pretty symmetrical huh. Bottom right – where has my back arch gone?
Blog tag = Dancing
My mind is still melted, and been sleeping a lot, but it’s still not enough.
Had to be up early, because today starts Phase 2 of turning this cottage I bought, into a house. Right now they’re using some sort of mega saw and it’s shaking my desk.
Made it to Monday, then the big blog posts stopped and think you’ll agree the following ones were rather light. So I’ll fill you in over the next 2 days, then I’ll make one main post that contains links to everything, and by Wednesday I should be done and normal blogging will resume.
And this, I need to do more of this.
Not used to being around humans constantly, have some balancing out to do. Plus there’s world and auto news to catch up on, and celebrity gossip of course.
Have a good start to your week, TTY Wednesday.
So it’s Tuesday night, and note the lack of Targa posts? Yup.
I was too ambitious in estimating my recovery time guys, I’m still a disaster. Better than yesterday, in which I barely recognized myself, could hardly form a sentence and kept bumping into things. My mind is still mush.
Phase 2 of winterizing my cottage is complete, but even that. And all those work boots on my clean floors… ugh, round 100 with the bucket and brush.
I used up my vacation time at the newspaper last week, so it was back to work today and wrote the news, and then this afternoon there was a window, and instead of blogging I took it …. wait for it…. went and bought furniture.
It’s been exactly 2 months I’ve lived without anything except an air mattress. It was fine and fun, now over it, the delivery truck is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon.
Not going to give you a timeline this time, sorry for my melted brain!, but leave it with me I am ON IT xo
Done! I finished!
Sounds kinda weak I know, but it’s not. Plus I didn’t crash the car, imagine relaying that news to Nissan.
Like a veteran competitor said to me, “no one will understand what you’ve done and their eyes will glaze over when you try to explain”, and I’ve already experienced that… so I’ll sum it up as: how often have I ever said something’s hard? Exactly. And I’d do it again (in the Targa category though, that’s enough math.)
This is being typed from the celebration dinner, here come some photos, including my finishers medal! I drove 85% of the 2,200 km race and we finished with a perfect score: a 0 on Brigus.
Flying home tomorrow, bet I sleep till Monday, and I’ll back-date and beef up the past few posts soon.
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