v's new house

this weekend was spent working (from home mainly, not so bad), and helping vernon unpack things at his new house. the movers come on tuesday for the big stuff, but for now we moved some boxes and set up his kitchen - yay! i took a bunch of pics, of course - so here you go. the first day at his new house, in pictures...

we uncovered a bunch of WEIRD stuff that the owners left behind......like these two bottles of Purity brand strawberry flavoured syrup. apparently you add it to water for a refreshing drink. um. gross.

and this twizzler dispenser....how many twizzlers did these people eat that they needed this dispenser box thing? or did they go into the convenience store and just buy the display because they need 200 pieces of twizzler?? in any event, very odd...
and these crazy christmas dishes. seriously crazy. there is a complete set of 4 place settings....

and they have this super tacky charming picture on them....

and matching tea cups.......


part of me actually wants to use them. after a few runs through the dishwasher of course.

so then the cleaning continued.....

we found the cuban rum that caused paula to conduct her very own imaginary orchestra!:

we drank the cheap beer that the old owners left in the fridge...very appropriate as the house backs onto the Labatt brewery. Too bad it didn't back onto a good brewery, like Quidi Vidi Brewing. but these were free and we drank them and liked it.


and we had our first dinner in the kitchen (sharing the ottoman as a chair because he hadn't actually bought kitchen chairs yet - he has now. they're nice.)


then i think i may have passed out from the cleaner fumes because i don't remember much after that. at some point i went home, stressed about work, stayed up too late "tidying" which really means i wandered around the apartment moving things from here to there.

the weather last night was brutal - not a lot of snow came down, most of it was going sideways or up. the wind was howling and was actually LOUD. very irritating when you're trying to sleep. we're supposed to get another "trace" of snow tonight. nothing too exciting.

i guess i have nothing else to say. maybe i will later in the week. my sock is still the same length. i have several ideas for other projects but i haven't actually started anything. work and school are taking all my time (or rather, work is taking all my time and i really wish i had more time for school to be taking up).