Moving Day... Almost

I have some time to kill at work before they (hopefully) let us out (really, really) early, so I thought I'd pop in, start typing and see what comes out of the keyboard.

Tomorrow is moving day! We haven't packed a thing, of course. At least my stuff is either still in boxes or can be easily thrown in boxes... Not sure what we do with all of K's stuff. He's a guy, though - guys have that magical ability to take a hundred thousand things and pack them all into one teeny tiny duffel bag. In half an hour. Grump. :)

Thanks in advance to Dhavid and Panda Thug for helping out. We need you!

It's fun trying to change your address everywhere when half of the computer systems refuse to acknowledge the existence of your town. It used to be called something else, and the town elders in their infinite wisdom (and their desire to capitalize on the "Barrington" cachet) renamed the town a year or two ago. And now I can't change my address on magazines, my credit card, or anywhere else without talking to a customer service rep -- who then enters it and says "...I'm not seeing that town in the system, what's it called again? Well, I'm just going to put 'Barrington' okay?" Sure, I guess, after getting myself into mail forwarding hell it's not like the post office is ever delivering mail for me again anyway, so what difference does it make now?

Hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving. I sure did! Lots of family around - Roy & 3 of his children, Mr. Accuracy and his family, Mom, Dad, K and me. Looooots of food. A little wine. A lot of laughs. A brief conversation with K's mom on the phone, where I managed yet again to make myself sound and feel like a complete idiot, only this time I think I sounded like I expected K's parents to buy us furniture for the new house. Nice, Joan. (It's just the usual "Oh god, I sounded like a dork" feeling whenever you talk to someone you want to impress.)

(Okay work, the markets have been closed for half an hour now, let us goooooo....)

Oh, congrats to PonyBoy (HV's friend in San Fran, the one who originally dubbed me Joan) on his engagement this past weekend! Way to go! Congrats also to KarateKat, who has just graduated from an accelerated nursing program...

We had a scare with one of the toads this week - K found Buffy (the largest of our 3 bufo americanus toads) with .... shall we say ... part of her insides on her outsides. Poor Buffy! K found a vet for "exotic pets" and took her there for x-rays and surgery (yes, surgery, on a toad! No, I didn't ask how much it cost - if it were one of my cats I would've done the same thing) and she looks like she's recovering fine. (Fingers crossed.) K managed to find the vet expert who operates on toads down at the Shedd Aquarium, and he remarked that it was refreshing to find someone to talk to who actually knew more about the toads than he did. I'm just glad she was able to put Humpty Buffy back together again...

Kitties seem to be doing fine, and I'm pretty sure they're going to adapt well to their new environment after we move. Viceroy Chunkyfunk might even lose a little weight with all those stairs to run up and down...

Happy Friday, everybody!

Love,
Joan