Yes, again. It’s a yearly thing. It’s a tradition. Since I moved to Portland, and since Dave and I have been together, we have moved five times. This will be our sixth move. In five years. We have never renewed a lease. I realize this sounds exhausting and maybe a little silly. Isn’t moving a [...]
A Slow Moment In The Chaos
April 13, 2012 By 2 Comments
At the beginning of this week, I was running around Astoria like a nut, making the final push before we had movers come to take our worldly belongings back to Portland. It happens every time we move. Every damn time. I always think moving will not be such a big deal, it won’t be such [...]
Farewell For Now, Astoria
April 8, 2012 By 5 Comments
So we are excited about moving back to Portland. We love Portland. But we also love Astoria, and it is bittersweet to wrap up our lives here. Every time I drove back to Astoria after being away, I would take a deep breath, gaze over the ships in the river, the hills of Washington, the [...]
This Never Gets Old
April 4, 2012 By 5 Comments
Time to trot this graphic out again. The final pieces are falling into place. We sign a lease today. We move our stuff next week. Very soon, we will be settled. It’s all very, very exciting for us. I’ve been thinking of writing a post about our year off, and all the various things we [...]
File Under: Nuts, Running Around Like
April 2, 2012 By 11 Comments
Okay, so: Hello internet. I see you still exist even when I go away for a week or two. We have been running around like nutty whack-a-doos. Dave starts his new job in Portland *today.* Huge. This was the first big piece that needed to fall into place in order for us to move back [...]
Somewhat Daily Photo 1.16.12
January 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Another shot from my first week in Portland in January of 2008. More on that over here. You, yes, YOU are wonderful!
Four Years Ago
January 16, 2012 By 8 Comments
Four years ago today, it was snowing as I drove north through Redding, California. I was driving up I-5, the spine of the west coast, on my way from Los Angeles to Portland, Oregon. I had a kitty in the passenger seat, and a car stuffed with boxes of clothes, camping gear, books and whatever [...]
Getting Settled
June 6, 2011 By 7 Comments
This is a post about closets. I’m not kidding. We have SIX closets in our new apartment. Sssssiiiixxxx closets. We have more closet space in our new place than we had total square footage in our last apartment. I know it takes some audacity to write and post photos about my closet space. Why would [...]
Arrived.
May 18, 2011 By 7 Comments
Holy crap. We moved. I drove the truck. I wasn’t too freaked out about it. I’ve driven moving vans and trucks before. The little ones. I reserved a ten foot truck, but, ha, they didn’t have ten foot trucks. They only had fifteen foot trucks. We got it for the same price, but I still [...]
Tell Me Again Why We Do This So Often?
May 15, 2011 By 5 Comments
When you pack boxes in 533 square feet of space, there’s no real place to put anything. We’ve had so little space that a lot of our stuff has stayed in boxes the whole time we’ve lived here. All four months. This is the fourth time I’ve moved in just over three years. It’s the [...]
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