cydniey

dumpster score: surround speakers for my bedroom. missing one rear speaker. so an old speaker is the other side. S brought them over a week or more ago and i didn't think they would work. they all did. and they were in a box placed outside the dumpster so i only had to clean them a little. once over with anti bacterial and they were ready to go.

why do i need surround sound in my bedroom? i don't. hee. this was an icing-on-the-cake find. there was even half a spool of monster cable which i will give back to S so he can trade it with someone else. i have no use for it. the living room speakers are already hooked up. he trades this stuff with us for food and company, he never likes to come over empty handed. i told him it isn't neccessary, but he does it anyway. he has contributed more to my collection of "art" CDs (CDs for me to make things with) than any other single person. he is loved for that. he is loved for other reasons, too. he's a good kid. he's older than a kid, somewhere in his late twenties. but to me he's a kid.

and i only had to rearrange a couple of things, move some stuffed animals and find a new place for my lite-brite. it wasn't the horrible terror i thought it would be. that cleans the top of the room, the floor level still needs help. but i feel accomplished.

and i still have half a pot of coffee left. i swear to myself i will not make more.

oh, and the big thing in our lives is the flipping of the property we're living in. we got notice at 11 when doc got home last night that we needed to clean off our porch. the memo reminded that there was no storage allowed so this shouldn't be a problem. they are going to paint the buildings and need access to the porch. we don't store stuff, but i did have a work table set up and a shelf unit of cinder blocks and planks for the tools and stuff i don't want to store inside.

in the process, we opened up the door to our small storage closet and found that the soft water heater is leaking. some stuff is ruined, i'm not going to cry over it. the most valuable thing i think was a picture of me when i was a kid. so that explains why our water bill was so high last month. so we called them to log it before they come up and power wash and the office blames it on that.

so the porch is clean and the litter box is in the apartment, in doc's bathroom with the fan on. doc's bed is also piled with the stuff from the porch. we put a dropcloth down and cleaned as much as we could and then put the stuff on the bed. that way it isn't all in the living room. because though they are starting today, our building was at the end of the short list, so it could be days before they get to this building.

i'm fascinated about how they are going to block off the doors and windows to paint. i'm also curious about the doors, which are blue and the new colors don't go with that blue at all. so are they painting the doors? i'm all about watching it happen.

today they repainted the lines in the parking lot, blocking off parking in front of the walkways that lead to the parking lot. it cuts the parking capacity in front of the buildings by 2/3. that will make for happier parkers, or not.

once they are done with all this, i'm pretty sure this place is going condo. how, i don't know. even if you combined the upstairs and downstairs, no that wouldn't work. i don't know. i can't see this place going condo, but doc thinks that is exactly what is happening and R, before she left, heard from some member of the staff that was what was happening.

i guess we're moving out in november. unless they will give us a 3 or 6 month lease. how annoying.

my friend S left this fabulous piece of art on my porch the night before last. it is a painting on fine pressboard that has been carved out with a dremel for texture, the painting is abstract and the frame is completely wild and obviously hand done by someone with mad skills. i'll take photos if i can (can't wait for the camel camera to get here).

i'll also try to get photos of Spot once we get home this evening. R isn't free until four. i'll be bouncing off the walls and fretting over the cage and the ball and the treats and such all day. hee.

in all our bluster to get the couch here, we overlooked a really swank iron lamp with metal shade. lucky S stopped by and brought it round to see if i liked it. i love it. we left an iron work lamp back in PA that was doc's and treasured. this won't replace it, but it will fit his style and light things up. =}

S also helped me rid myself of the old couch. i took many trips to the dumpster with computer hulls and dead furniture and stuff. my living room is almost livable, and as soon as i have the energy, i'll move one of the two things in the living room that shouldn't be there. a crate of old records for book covers. the other item is a tv which is coming in here to be an alternate monitor so i can watch all of my stuff i have burned.

a good day. we're going for a record. hee.

and doc thanks you too.

another grab last night, this one from the dumpster area of his work, doc got a leather office chair with a broken back. he got it for my studio. so i looked at the breakage, too much damage for me to fix. and last night, as i fall asleep, i think on it, i wanted a stool or something backless for the studio for the sake of room, since i don't lean back when i am working. and then it hit me . . .

take off the back and the arms!!! so now i have a rolling leather stool that rises and lowers and is super comfy and the problem is fixed. this allows me to rid ourselves of the last "bad chair" (long story) and put the former studio chair on the front porch for my cat watching time.

a new, okay, barely used and smell free black velvet loveseat was up at the dumpster. there was a lot of stuff, like someone left behind stuff or couldn't fit all they had. but we, or rather, doc, brought it back and cleaned it and threw a nice green cover on it and it rocks. this is by far the best of the second hand couches i have had. and i have had a lot of them. plus it is an incredible step up from the last one we had which was barely comfortable and structurally questionable. this one is fluffy and has the cushioned arms and the head places (the back is high) . . . the cats are completely freaked, but i am in love.

S's dumpster diving just got me a bunch of faded tshirts and the computer games (with serials and all the CD inserts): quake, alice, oddessy,sim city 2000, strif and dagger fall.

i squeed when he handed me "alice" and "quake". but mostly over "Alice". my new sims aren't working with this computer for reasons i don't give a crap about enough to fix. so this will be perfect!! whee!