It's Been Ages

This is the first week I feel somewhat settled in Denver. The first week was a flurry of unpacking and decision making about what I could live without for the next two to three months. Then I took a trip to Dallas to visit my friend Kristin, and due to heavy holiday travel, wound up spending an extra day in the airport trying to get home. When I did get home, I was looking forward to some stability, which would have helped when I fell off my bike and hurt my wrist. Along with the wrist injury came an annoying head cold, and finally, this week, I am on the mend.

I suppose I owe an update in other areas as well. We're still looking for a house. We viewed a gorgeous bungalow with the highest ceilings, and I was getting that I-really-want-it feeling in my stomach until we walked to the backyard and saw the most atrocious carriage house backing the property. Half of the backyard is taken up by a giant, red, adobe-looking square thing with windows that is apparently a residence. And owned by someone else. Grrr. I really was hoping for a two-car garage. Why does every home have its compromise?

And the only other update is that I'm training for a 78-mile bike ride in the lovely Colorado Rockies on August 4. The ride goes over the Copper Triangle, and as of right now I am not in any sort of shape to do this thing. This has made my little wrist injury and head cold especially annoying. But, with some heavy training over the next three weeks, lots of goo and water, I will hopefully make a decent showing (and by decent I mean I'll finish).

That's all from Colorado Land for now. I'll be on the computer all week, perhaps with something interesting to say.

Without Email for a Bit...

I'm in Denver, I've moved into a dwelling place where I will be warm and dry. A little too warm, maybe, but after all my complaining about the chilly temps in the Bay Area, I'm going to forgo complaining about the weather until I either lose my windshield in a freak hail storm or am swept away in a tornado.

There's no cable or internet until next Friday. This saddens me on a few levels:

• Blogging will be difficult
• I will be missing an episode of my new favorite show: Flight of the Conchords
• Life without email feels...empty

But hey, I've managed to both blog and pre-order the next Harry Potter, so my internet life is not all that bleak. No need to take pity on me.

Until the internet graces me with its presence once again...

Bust out the Boxes!

Having moved every year since graduating high school (sometimes more), I consider myself to be somewhat of a moving expert. Perhaps this is also why I feel completely at ease with the progress I've made packing up the apartment so far. Number of boxes I've packed = Zero. I'm fine with it. Not a bit nervous.

It is true I'm cutting it close, especially with the one-woman team I have to work with (that would be myself, but hopefully not my organism self). Therefore, it is imperitive I begin packing tonight. The best place to start is with books. Now, lest I completely ruin today's blog with boring packing tips, I feel it necessary to end here.

I will, however, make a goal for packing boxes, and that is to pack 6 boxes tonight. That should cover the books and then some.

Yeah, I know, still boring.

I'm going.

Wish me luck...