Here and there

My laptop bit the dust. I had slowly been transferring files to Johnathan during our pre-move preparations, but never got all of my “crap” (as he so lovingly called it) switched over. I tried to reformat last night, but everything is running obnoxiously slow. I don’t have time to care too much because I have very little time to sit in front of the screen, anyway. The only real thing I care about losing is my photos, and I think most of them are backed up online. Most of them.

It’s just another manic Monday. My house is finally liveable. I stayed up past my normal bedtime because I couldn’t stand the chaos a day longer. There are still unpacked boxes shoved into closets, but they can live there until I feel like dealing with them again. My new house is quite cozy. I am very satisfied with my surroundings and in love with the yard. There is a crab apple tree leaning over the driveway, and it is currently covered with fluffy pink blossoms. There are red tips and camellias and a clothes line stretching across the back yard. It is very old-fashioned and reminds me of my Grandma’s yard. David has started building a “tree” in a former mud hole. It looks like a cross between a tee-pee and a voo-doo symbol, but it makes me smile to see it standing sturdily despite wind and rain. He seems to be having a hard time adjusting to the move and “doesn’t want the new house.” It comes in spells, and last night, he seemed more like my cheerful David, happily bringing me books to read after bath time. Emily is busy making the house her domain and somehow manages to get into everything within reach. Little feet patter constantly and barely slow when they reach the old furnace grate in the hallway. I’m not sure when I will be able to update again, or even check my email, but I have not dropped off the face of the earth.