Tuesday, October 27th
Yes, I'm working at the bookstore again. Free tea and cookies. Um, if my boss somehow comes across this, I'm kidding, really!
Actually, she doesn't care. With the beverages, you're paying for the cup, not the contents so much. Employees use their own mugs, so it's not costing her that much--a few pennies. And as for cookies, brownies and the like, there's a certain amount credited to "breakage" and as long as we don't go crazy, we're good.
So, anyway. My life this past week has been busy. I asked Harlow to move in with me. Yeah, I know we broke up over the summer, but we couldn't seem to actually make it stick. Which, from my point of view, was good. We've been seeing one another pretty regularly the past couple of months, and have ironed out some of our difficulties. I won't be so presumptuous as to say we've fixed all of them, but it's a start. As we were spending most of our time together anyway (basically, she just went home on weekends), it just seemed the thing to do. So we've been moving her stuff in and rearranging furniture--a good half-dozen times, I'm sure. The cats find it endlessly interesting and are underfoot constantly. Her fish now live in a new aquarium (it's cat TV) that sits in the bedroom--I like to watch them as I go to sleep.
We brought over her piano. Now, I'll be the first to admit I'm not built like a football player, and most of my friends are women, so that pretty much left out moving it ourselves with the help of friends. So we hired a moving company for it and let them sweat and swear up the stairs. Worth every penny. It's an antique upright, and we did more arranging and rearranging to get it to fit. I love to play the piano, and will probably spend a bit of time doing just that. After I get it tuned--it's just a little off.
When we weren't dealing with hauling stuff here and shuffling it around, we were busy cleaning/fixing up Harlow's old place. She's going to rent it out to someone she knows, and it needed a bit of work, so that's what we've been doing. The past week has been work on top of work, and we've fallen into bed exhausted every night. Harlow ended up doing the lion's share, as she took time off from her job to do this. I didn't take off time from the yoga studio but did from the bookstore--I work evenings there. We did most of the heavy stuff in the evenings, and Harlow is quite the worker.
But anyway. The lion's share of the work is done--there's still little things to be done here and there, but nothing major. And it's worth every little ache and pain to have her here. I'm happy and feeling pretty good about the world at the moment.
Customer approaching, so later.
