new home

sorry i haven't blogged in awhile. the last couple of weeks have been a whirlwind. i went to florida to find a place for jason and i to live. i found this great apartment in a two family house. it was built in 1938 and reminds me of the inside of Henry Higgins house in My Fair Lady. If you haven't seen this movie definitely put it on your netflix list. It is an enormous apartment. i'm not always the best judge of square feet but i know the place in new london we were living in was 700 sqaure feet and this place could easily fit 3 of our last apartments in it. and it is only $25 more a month than what we were paying here! i was a little dismayed when i first got there because i was sure we were going to have to live in one of those mega-plexes with 400 other people. i actually went to check one out that the lady there told me not to get too close to the pond at the complex because they did have an alligator problem from time to time. WHAT!!?? all of the swiming pools there have a mesh covering over them like a screened-in porch. i assumed it was just to keep the bugs down while you were out there, but no that is just a side benefit. it is so that you don't get a surprise waiting for you in the deep end.

the other odd thing (and trust me there are many) are the billboards advertising specials on handguns at various "discount" gun shops. seriously they showed pictures of which guns were on sale. picture, for those of you in phx, a big billboard on camelback road not telling you about the latest offering from verizon wireless, but a big fat guy pointing the way to his gun store! man and i thought arizona was pretty gun obsessed.

oh and the drive thru cigarette shop was nifty too.

jason and i watched the movers pack up all our crap this week and load it in a truck headed to daytona. (i hope) that was an odd experience. it was great not having to do anything but god help you if you put anything down. my sunglasses were sitting next to my keys on the table and they packed my sunglasses. they also packed my phone charger which was still plugged into the wall. nice.

jason spent the last part of the week here up in springfield, mass. at a big racing expo. who knew they had these? he had to run the booth for the touring series he does p.r. for. we are meeting up in hartford tomorrow to have lunch before he has to fly back to daytona.

i moved my stuff that i managed to wrestle from the movers into my new digs which are literally right around the corner from where we were living before. i met these people through an ad on craigslist. i haven't really seen them at all since i moved in. our schedules seem to be fairly opposite.

whew! guess that's it for now.