House!

[rivka]

curiousangel and I have moved. And I think I speak for both of us when I say, "Augh! We're never doing this again! Augh!"

But now the house is starting to come together. You can see a real living room taking shape around the heaps of boxes. Our books are on the shelves - on the first two floors, at least. Everything in the kitchen is nicely slotted away in its own place. curiousangel, a true hero, set up the computers yesterday and hooked mine up with our shiny new DSL service. We have a temporary resident's parking permit, and have already received one parking ticket while trying to figure out all of the refinements of its use.

I think I'm going to really enjoy living downtown. Wednesday night, after we moved, I strolled five blocks over to the church for a meeting. I called curiousangel when the meeting was over, and he walked up to meet me on Madison and Charles, about three blocks from our house. We looked around at the five or so different restaurants on that corner and decided on a Japanese/Vietnamese place. Then, after dinner, we strolled home. Friday morning, I walked one block to Cathedral street and caught a bus to work - a ten-minute ride. The bus let me out across the street from my office. I feel connected to everything here. This is just what I wanted.

Also: last night I had the best pizza of my life. Went out with curiousangel, dedoc, and Doc's son John, to a cafe two blocks from our house. I had a smoked salmon and salmon egg pizza that was absolutely. To. Die. For. I was expecting the big salmon eggs that I know from sushi bars as ikura, and sort of used as a garnish, but instead I got tiny red eggs and tiny black eggs, in big heaping teaspoonsful. And plenty of smoked salmon. Mmmmm.

I love my neighborhood. When are you all coming to visit?

(Note: I have a new e-mail address, as some of you may already know. It's rivka5@verizon.net, just the same as the old address but with "verizon" in the place of "comcast.")

Comments

[pistorius.livejournal.com]

Congrats! I love hearing when people join the ranks of happy city dwellers!

Once WE have moved, let's have dinner together -- our favourite place in Mt. Vernon it The Mt. Vernon Stable and Saloon on Charles just above Read St.

I also recommend Thairish for good cheap carry-out and Szechuan Fortune is good too, now that they have a new chef. The Helmand is also excellent, but a little more pricey.

Got any book - sized boxes to ge rid of?

[jenett]

Woo. Very spiffy. It sounds like your new house is going to be great.

[fourgates.livejournal.com]

Yaaaay!

Also: last night I had the best pizza of my life.

Did you ever have salmon (I think it may have been called "Northwest") pizza at the Heathman Bakery and Pub in Portland? That was the best that I can remember.

[bcholmes.livejournal.com]

And I think I speak for both of us when I say, "Augh! We're never doing this again! Augh!"

Heh heh heh. It's like giving birth; you forget about the pain.

[trinker.livejournal.com]

How lovely to have dedoc and John in town...and even lovelier to be getting settled into a home that absolutely dreamy.

I've been shuttling back and forth between very suburban and rather more "small town urban" recently, and there's a charm to walking to lunch that I'd forgotten.

[pixel.livejournal.com]

I love my neighborhood. When are you all coming to visit?

"How about late July? The neighborhood sounds lovely, and I sort of envy that connectedness."

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Absolutely! We'll make sure to have air conditioning in the guest room by then.

[wandra.livejournal.com]

This all sounds great.(Apart from the parking ticket.) Really pleased for you.

And that pizza sounds delicious!

[rosefox]

Congratulations! I hope that your move and settling-in continues to go well. Lots of good new-house vibes from us to you. *)

[ex-helygen254.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

When are you all coming to visit?

I believe I had mentioned a while back that the best weekend for me would be my August long weekend (Aug. 1-4). Would that work for you?

[jilesa.livejournal.com]

I love my neighborhood. When are you all coming to visit?

Whenever you like. We're practically neighbors now, and will be in even closer proximity once I move into my new house, I think. :)

[rivka.livejournal.com]

I think so - I'll check with M. Yay!

[curiousangel.livejournal.com]

Arggggh... wish I'd seen this post yesterday, before I threw out all our broken-down boxes! We'll still have a few boxes available later, as we finish unpacking, but they're mostly gone right now.

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

Yay! Much house happiness to you both :-).

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

Oooh! I can't wait to see it! So glad to see you so happy.

-J