How is it that I have been wandering around the internet all day, yet I haven't managed to write a single update in here about my exciting new life??? I've decided that it's now time for me to write a little in here before I watch a bunch of LOST special features and then hit they hay for the night.
So after I updated about everything yesterday, Catherine and I put our computers in the car and then walked to the Rec Cen to work out but that sonofabitch was CLOSED for yearly maintenance until September 10th. We decided instead to go back to the house and do sit-ups to Oldies. Catherine and I are Oldies buddies. We came back and did that in my nearly-empty room and Catherine totally beat my butt at sit-ups. Plus I am way more sore today, so she is clearly in much better shape than I am. We were nice and hungry after our workout, so we went downstairs and made lunch. Since we don't have any furniture yet, we decided to sit on the ground next to the fireplace to eat. Then we took showers and got ready to go on our shopping excursion!
First we stopped at Bed Bath & Beyond, where I bought a lot of cool things like a shower curtain rod, shower curtain, bath mat, bathrobe, muffin pan, straw holder, and two Snapware food containers to replace the ones that became nastified somewhere in the moving process. Snapware is the ultimate! Our next stop was K-Mart, because we figured that Linens 'N' Things might be really similar to Bed Bath & Beyond. We found some useful items there, but not the black trash can we were looking for. (We are still without a trash can for the kitchen.) Since that was the only thing we were still looking for by the time we were done with K-Mart, we decided to look at Costco. We didn't find one there either, and we didn't even end up buying anything, but this was probably the best stop because they had the BEST SAMPLES IN THE WORLD. We had pumpkin pie (2 samples for me and 3 for Catherine), pepperoni pizza (2 each), yogurt, goat cheese, sorbet, Catherine tried some pasta... Jesus, it was delicious. We were burnt out after that, so we drove back home.
Starr's parents were leaving as we put our new purchases away, and then she took a shower. When Starr was ready, we all went to the Goleta Coffee Shop to get dinner/use the internet. We stayed until they closed (which was at 7) and had a really awesome time. I got the best phone call ever from Mitzi. I almost peed my pants at least three individual times. But especially at the beginning. "This is Michael Jackson! Do you want to come to Wonderland? This is Mike Tyson!" The coffee shop was the cutest place I've ever seen in my life. It's really big and there is a large comfy area in the back with booths and couches and a fireplace and the smoothies were delicious and aaahhhh I LOVED IT! While we were there, I ordered a bookshelf and dresser to complete my room. The shipping was WAY TOO MUCH and I am really pissed about that, but they are the perfect size and they're really cute. I hope they're not too hard to put together. :/
Then we came home and attempted to put Catherine's desk together. It did not go well as IKEA forgot to include instructions in her box. So we gave up and had a little lay down on Catherine's floor for a while, just talking. It was nice to talk! Then Mary came to visit Starr (and bring me shower curtain hooks!!!) and Catherine and I talked in my room for a while. Starr went out with Mary and Dave, and Catherine and I decided to watch some Ali G downstairs. It was amazing, of course. Starr came home and watched some with us, and then we decided to go to bed, I believe. I can't think of anything I missed.
I slept in my room for the first time. It was very nice. I love it. Right now, I am on an air mattress with a little desk light propped up on an upside-down trash bin. I used this light to read some of my Anthony Rapp book before I went to sleep last night. Then I went to sleep and slept very soundly!
I woke up to the sound of my alarm at 7:30am because the cable guy was supposed to show up between 8 and 10. I pressed snooze twice, and then went downstairs to eat some CINNAMON KRUNCHERS, BITCHES! Ugh, I'm so glad I finally found some! I thought they'd stopped making them! Anyhoo, we all ate a little breakfast and then stood around waiting for Mr. Cable Man. I think he arrived at around 8:45, and he didn't seem to have any problems getting us all set up. He even made it possible for me to watch TV in my room, which is going to be fantastic. When he left, we began the process of setting up our wireless router to the internet modem. This took a long time. The router came with a CD that could only be used on PCs, so Starr had to use her laptop. Once she finally got it set up, Catherine and I were unable to log on to the network using our Macs. We were very frustrated, and Starr eventually called the tech support people and was able to figure it out. The phone call lasted a long time, but in the end all he really told us was that the password has to have a $ in front of it for Macs. Oh well. We figured it out and we were really excited!!!
The next part of our day consisted of laying on the living room floor for hours visiting every website in the world, and doing a lot of silly things on Facebook. Teeheehee. It was marvelous to be connected to the outside world again.
At noon, we took a 30 minute walk around the neighboorhood and scoped things down further down the street. We found an international grocery store that Catherine's going to check out. There were also a couple restaurants and things that we may want to look into. The walk was very pleasant! I certainly enjoyed myself.
After that, I ate lunch and sat around on the internet some more. Finally I decided to shower, but I didn't even dry my hair. I am so lazy!!! And my beautiful LOST DVDs came. Hooray!!! Then Catherine and I went to go see Idlewild at 5. It was SO GOOD! Everyone needs to see it. Yaaayyyy!
Then we made dinner and Starr & I watched Big Brother (BOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) and then I called my family to talk about the Big Brotherness. After I got off the phone, I went downstairs and found Catherine sitting in the living room on her computer. Soon Starr joined us and we looked into a possible Awesome Department Disneyland trip in the month of September. This inspired us to play the Cinderella version of Pretty Pretty Princess that Catherine brought. It was delightful. Then we did nothing for a while on the floor of the living room. Catherine was on her computer, but Starr and I were pretty much daydreaming/moping about boys. We were in our own little worlds.
And then I came upstairs, got ready for bed, and now I'm here.
Tomorrow at noon, Brittny will be here! And hopefully Mitzi will come tomorrow too! And then Val & my family will be here on Saturday. Unfortunately, Starr is leaving for the weekend early tomorrow morning... But we will all finally be reunited on Sunday! YAY! I can't wait for the sextet to be complete!
Okay it's LOST time, people. EEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Goodnight.
So after I updated about everything yesterday, Catherine and I put our computers in the car and then walked to the Rec Cen to work out but that sonofabitch was CLOSED for yearly maintenance until September 10th. We decided instead to go back to the house and do sit-ups to Oldies. Catherine and I are Oldies buddies. We came back and did that in my nearly-empty room and Catherine totally beat my butt at sit-ups. Plus I am way more sore today, so she is clearly in much better shape than I am. We were nice and hungry after our workout, so we went downstairs and made lunch. Since we don't have any furniture yet, we decided to sit on the ground next to the fireplace to eat. Then we took showers and got ready to go on our shopping excursion!
First we stopped at Bed Bath & Beyond, where I bought a lot of cool things like a shower curtain rod, shower curtain, bath mat, bathrobe, muffin pan, straw holder, and two Snapware food containers to replace the ones that became nastified somewhere in the moving process. Snapware is the ultimate! Our next stop was K-Mart, because we figured that Linens 'N' Things might be really similar to Bed Bath & Beyond. We found some useful items there, but not the black trash can we were looking for. (We are still without a trash can for the kitchen.) Since that was the only thing we were still looking for by the time we were done with K-Mart, we decided to look at Costco. We didn't find one there either, and we didn't even end up buying anything, but this was probably the best stop because they had the BEST SAMPLES IN THE WORLD. We had pumpkin pie (2 samples for me and 3 for Catherine), pepperoni pizza (2 each), yogurt, goat cheese, sorbet, Catherine tried some pasta... Jesus, it was delicious. We were burnt out after that, so we drove back home.
Starr's parents were leaving as we put our new purchases away, and then she took a shower. When Starr was ready, we all went to the Goleta Coffee Shop to get dinner/use the internet. We stayed until they closed (which was at 7) and had a really awesome time. I got the best phone call ever from Mitzi. I almost peed my pants at least three individual times. But especially at the beginning. "This is Michael Jackson! Do you want to come to Wonderland? This is Mike Tyson!" The coffee shop was the cutest place I've ever seen in my life. It's really big and there is a large comfy area in the back with booths and couches and a fireplace and the smoothies were delicious and aaahhhh I LOVED IT! While we were there, I ordered a bookshelf and dresser to complete my room. The shipping was WAY TOO MUCH and I am really pissed about that, but they are the perfect size and they're really cute. I hope they're not too hard to put together. :/
Then we came home and attempted to put Catherine's desk together. It did not go well as IKEA forgot to include instructions in her box. So we gave up and had a little lay down on Catherine's floor for a while, just talking. It was nice to talk! Then Mary came to visit Starr (and bring me shower curtain hooks!!!) and Catherine and I talked in my room for a while. Starr went out with Mary and Dave, and Catherine and I decided to watch some Ali G downstairs. It was amazing, of course. Starr came home and watched some with us, and then we decided to go to bed, I believe. I can't think of anything I missed.
I slept in my room for the first time. It was very nice. I love it. Right now, I am on an air mattress with a little desk light propped up on an upside-down trash bin. I used this light to read some of my Anthony Rapp book before I went to sleep last night. Then I went to sleep and slept very soundly!
I woke up to the sound of my alarm at 7:30am because the cable guy was supposed to show up between 8 and 10. I pressed snooze twice, and then went downstairs to eat some CINNAMON KRUNCHERS, BITCHES! Ugh, I'm so glad I finally found some! I thought they'd stopped making them! Anyhoo, we all ate a little breakfast and then stood around waiting for Mr. Cable Man. I think he arrived at around 8:45, and he didn't seem to have any problems getting us all set up. He even made it possible for me to watch TV in my room, which is going to be fantastic. When he left, we began the process of setting up our wireless router to the internet modem. This took a long time. The router came with a CD that could only be used on PCs, so Starr had to use her laptop. Once she finally got it set up, Catherine and I were unable to log on to the network using our Macs. We were very frustrated, and Starr eventually called the tech support people and was able to figure it out. The phone call lasted a long time, but in the end all he really told us was that the password has to have a $ in front of it for Macs. Oh well. We figured it out and we were really excited!!!
The next part of our day consisted of laying on the living room floor for hours visiting every website in the world, and doing a lot of silly things on Facebook. Teeheehee. It was marvelous to be connected to the outside world again.
At noon, we took a 30 minute walk around the neighboorhood and scoped things down further down the street. We found an international grocery store that Catherine's going to check out. There were also a couple restaurants and things that we may want to look into. The walk was very pleasant! I certainly enjoyed myself.
After that, I ate lunch and sat around on the internet some more. Finally I decided to shower, but I didn't even dry my hair. I am so lazy!!! And my beautiful LOST DVDs came. Hooray!!! Then Catherine and I went to go see Idlewild at 5. It was SO GOOD! Everyone needs to see it. Yaaayyyy!
Then we made dinner and Starr & I watched Big Brother (BOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) and then I called my family to talk about the Big Brotherness. After I got off the phone, I went downstairs and found Catherine sitting in the living room on her computer. Soon Starr joined us and we looked into a possible Awesome Department Disneyland trip in the month of September. This inspired us to play the Cinderella version of Pretty Pretty Princess that Catherine brought. It was delightful. Then we did nothing for a while on the floor of the living room. Catherine was on her computer, but Starr and I were pretty much daydreaming/moping about boys. We were in our own little worlds.
And then I came upstairs, got ready for bed, and now I'm here.
Tomorrow at noon, Brittny will be here! And hopefully Mitzi will come tomorrow too! And then Val & my family will be here on Saturday. Unfortunately, Starr is leaving for the weekend early tomorrow morning... But we will all finally be reunited on Sunday! YAY! I can't wait for the sextet to be complete!
Okay it's LOST time, people. EEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Goodnight.
Confess!