As in - square feet.
How do you fit the stuff from a 4750 sq. ft. house into a 2500 sq. ft. house? Very carefully, I have learned. It's not the furniture, it's the stuff.
While I've been unpacking, I've adopted the rule - if I haven't seen it in the past year, it goes in the trash. If you've ever moved, you know that you empty the wardrobe boxes first. They're easy to empty, then you're left with a big container to use for trash. Usually the trash is just the paper that they use to wrap all the stuff. BUT we have filled up over 20 wardrobe boxes with trash from our house.
Last week, I had to call for a special garbage pickup. the garbage men spent an hour and a half outside our house emptying each container and sorting for trash and recycling. This week, I'm guessing we'll have to call for special pickup again. We've got at least 10 boxes of trash this time. And I'm still not done.
We might be fully unpacked by Christmas.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Dear Cafe du Monde,
My husband and I were recently in New Orleans for the SIGGRAPH computer conference held at the New Orleans Convention Center. During the early hours of August 7, we decided to end our night out with a stop at Cafe du Monde for coffee and beignets. Since we were out with several of my husband's friends and co-workers, we left at different times to meet up at the cafe at around 1am. First 2 members of the party arrived, then my husband and myself, then one more person in our party arrived. I hardly believe that it is unusual for additional parties to arrive when meeting up at the cafe.
The first 2 had already ordered when my husband and I arrived. The server brought out their order, and we placed ours. Since the server had gotten one of their coffees wrong, he gave it to my husband and went back to put in the rest of the order. In the mean time, the last person of our party arrived. The server brought out the rest of the order, which was incomplete as he forgot an order of beignets, and the third party placed his order. We had to place an additional order after that, because the server was irritated, quit listening to us, and didn't bring out the correct number of beignet orders.
When it came time to pay out, my husband paid for the entire table's food and coffee. The total came to $19 or so, and my husband tendered a $20 bill and a $1 bill. He told the server to keep the change (while intending to leave an additional tip on the table). The server yelled at him and threw the $1 bill down on the table, telling him he could keep his stinking tip. Then he gave us all a lecture about how rude we were for arriving and and ordering food at different times. Nobody had been rude to him, we were all just trying to order food and get him to serve it to us correctly.
My husband ordered an additional 3 iced coffees, and the server brought them out to him in a to-go bag, even though we hadn't asked for it to-go. When removing the coffees from the bag, one of them got spilled. That prompted another lecture from the server. He didn't try to rectify the fact that one of the coffees got spilled. He just told us that he took one off our bill - without asking if we'd like it replaced. We left him a nice tip of $20, even after the way he treated us.
We were not drunk, belligerent, or otherwise ugly to him. He was clearly irritated about something from the moment we arrived, and his behavior was terrible toward us. Our party included people from all over the world - England, Germany, Sweden. And they all got a taste of some pretty awful behavior by a server at Cafe du Monde. I'm sure it left quite a bad impression on them.
As for myself and my husband, we visit New Orleans quite a bit and Cafe du Monde is always on our list of places to visit. However after the last visit there, it will be a long time before I want to subject myself to that again.
Sincerely,
Cindy Everitt
The first 2 had already ordered when my husband and I arrived. The server brought out their order, and we placed ours. Since the server had gotten one of their coffees wrong, he gave it to my husband and went back to put in the rest of the order. In the mean time, the last person of our party arrived. The server brought out the rest of the order, which was incomplete as he forgot an order of beignets, and the third party placed his order. We had to place an additional order after that, because the server was irritated, quit listening to us, and didn't bring out the correct number of beignet orders.
When it came time to pay out, my husband paid for the entire table's food and coffee. The total came to $19 or so, and my husband tendered a $20 bill and a $1 bill. He told the server to keep the change (while intending to leave an additional tip on the table). The server yelled at him and threw the $1 bill down on the table, telling him he could keep his stinking tip. Then he gave us all a lecture about how rude we were for arriving and and ordering food at different times. Nobody had been rude to him, we were all just trying to order food and get him to serve it to us correctly.
My husband ordered an additional 3 iced coffees, and the server brought them out to him in a to-go bag, even though we hadn't asked for it to-go. When removing the coffees from the bag, one of them got spilled. That prompted another lecture from the server. He didn't try to rectify the fact that one of the coffees got spilled. He just told us that he took one off our bill - without asking if we'd like it replaced. We left him a nice tip of $20, even after the way he treated us.
We were not drunk, belligerent, or otherwise ugly to him. He was clearly irritated about something from the moment we arrived, and his behavior was terrible toward us. Our party included people from all over the world - England, Germany, Sweden. And they all got a taste of some pretty awful behavior by a server at Cafe du Monde. I'm sure it left quite a bad impression on them.
As for myself and my husband, we visit New Orleans quite a bit and Cafe du Monde is always on our list of places to visit. However after the last visit there, it will be a long time before I want to subject myself to that again.
Sincerely,
Cindy Everitt
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Texcommunication
I borrowed that word from Cass.
We are moving! At the end of the month, Cass will be leaving his job here to start a new job at Epic Games in Cary, NC. Hopefully, we will be able to join him soon - depending on finding a house in Cary and selling a house in Heath, TX.
I've spent the better part of the last 3 weeks getting this house ready to go on the market. I've painted, touch-up painted, de-cluttered, thrown out junk, cleaned out the garage, planted flowers in the front flower beds. I think it's ready. The real estate agent is coming by to list it tomorrow.
We're headed out to NC at the end of July to start house hunting. I really hope we find something we like quickly. School starts (for the traditional calendar schools) on August 25. If we end up in a year-round school, I have no idea how that will work.
So, after 9 years and nearly 3 months of TX living, we will be saying Adios!
We are moving! At the end of the month, Cass will be leaving his job here to start a new job at Epic Games in Cary, NC. Hopefully, we will be able to join him soon - depending on finding a house in Cary and selling a house in Heath, TX.
I've spent the better part of the last 3 weeks getting this house ready to go on the market. I've painted, touch-up painted, de-cluttered, thrown out junk, cleaned out the garage, planted flowers in the front flower beds. I think it's ready. The real estate agent is coming by to list it tomorrow.
We're headed out to NC at the end of July to start house hunting. I really hope we find something we like quickly. School starts (for the traditional calendar schools) on August 25. If we end up in a year-round school, I have no idea how that will work.
So, after 9 years and nearly 3 months of TX living, we will be saying Adios!
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Painting project
While the girls were gone to camp, I decided to paint their rooms. They had recently picked out new bedding, and I was able to pick out a color that would go with the new stuff. So, on a whim, I started painting on a Tuesday evening.
Cameron's room - her bedding is called "Blacklight Special" - and it's personalized
Logan's bedding is called "Goth Glam" - we're still waiting for her silver pleather bedskirt to come in
Cameron's room - her bedding is called "Blacklight Special" - and it's personalized
Logan's bedding is called "Goth Glam" - we're still waiting for her silver pleather bedskirt to come inSo, I started on Tuesday evening. On Wednesday, Cass comes home at lunch and informs me that his company has been bought. There was a lot of back and forth over the terms of the new contract with the new company. It still isn't 100% resolved, and Cass is interviewing for new jobs. I'd say the odds are high that we'll be moving in the near future. I'm so happy I started the painting project. Not. :)
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Camp day 3
I couldn't find any pictures of Logan on the site today. They put up about 400-500 per day, so it's hard to go through them.
I got a call a while ago from the nurse at camp. Cameron went to the clinic at 3pm with a headache and 99.5 temp. She rested for 2 hours, and her temp was still the same. They'll keep her for a while, hopefully she'll get better. If not, they'll let us decide if we want them to take her to a doctor tomorrow.
I got a call a while ago from the nurse at camp. Cameron went to the clinic at 3pm with a headache and 99.5 temp. She rested for 2 hours, and her temp was still the same. They'll keep her for a while, hopefully she'll get better. If not, they'll let us decide if we want them to take her to a doctor tomorrow.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Camp day 2
Logan - just to the left of the girl wearing sunglasses - I think they were doing an obstacle course
Cameron - her cabin was doing the blob in the lake
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