I almost feel too lucky sometimes. After a lifetime that seemed full of nothing but disaster and trauma, now it seems that every time I turn the corner there’s yet one more thing that makes me life feel even more impossibly perfect. I mentioned before that the fact that our house is surrounded by horse […]
To recap: Our son was born on November 13. On December 16, movers came in and packed up all our stuff, and we spent 3 days in a hotel. Mr Nikki continued to work for 2 of them. On December 19, we got on a plane and moved up to Seattle where we’ve spent the […]
They say you don’t know what you got till it’s gone, but I’ve found the inverse can also be true – you don’t know what you didn’t have till you have it. Err… what I’m trying to say is that I didn’t realize just HOW unhappy I was in LA until we moved up here. […]
We hired a professional cleaning service to do a thorough, top to bottom cleaning of the house before we move in next week. They started today, and told us that they couldn’t finish it because the house is “really, really dirty.” So they’ll be finishing it up tomorrow. We also decided to have the 3 […]
I have a husband, a baby, and a HOUSE. Hell’s minions are having a snowball fight, as we speak. We closed on Thursday afternoon, got the keys on Friday afternoon, and went over to check it out again today. Remember I mentioned that the previous owners had tax liens against them? Quite a lot? Well, […]
I can’t even begin to describe how much better I feel when I just get out of the apartment. (We’ll be moving in to the house NEXT WEEK!) This weekend we went to wander around Ballard (a neighborhood of Seattle) and on Sunday, we did the 2.8 mile Loop Trail in Discovery Park (up to […]
Ok, so I’m really sick of corporate housing. It’s nice enough & all, but sometimes it hits me just how much we’ve had on our plate this past couple months and just thinking about it makes me exhausted. Birth, the 2 days in the hotel before flying up to Seattle, the flying up to Seattle, […]
As someone who eats, and always has eaten, a tremendous amount of raw vegetables and fruit (it’s practically ALL I ate while pregnant), I can tell you that produce in Seattle is a million times better than anything you’ll find in Los Angeles. Hell, yeah. And let’s not even get started on the fish. I’m […]
So after I, nearly last minute, decided I really, really wanted a home birth, my fabulous & amazing Doula did some scrambling and found me a midwife who is available. Best of all, it’s someone she works with at a Birthing Center, so they know each other & work well together – which bodes well […]
I can’t complain about Monday, ever again… Woke up this morning, Mr Nikki checked his email and found that HE GOT THE JOB IN SEATTLE. Finally, after an agonizing two weeks of waiting (during which time the HR guy leaked that they had to finish a couple more interviews) – MR NIKKI GOT THE JOB! […]
