Home, New Home

We're in the new apartment now and the internet and cable just got hooked up. Lots of things I've been meaning to talk about lately, but I'm really hungry so I'm just gonna go with a list and explain a couple things in more detail later. Maybe.

• This is first of my two weeks off between internship and full hire position, and it's been good. Allowed me to do a million things I've had to get done, and I've been reasonably effective at unpacking stuff while Nina is at work.
  
• Went with the more diesel channel lineup this time, so I actually get YES and SNY. Just checking now we have a bunch of movie channels and things like College Sports TV as well, so that's cool. I plan on adding MLB Extra Innings after the All-Star Break; I think the price drops at that point.
• The new place is a serious upgrade in a lot of departments. Feels like more space (probably pretty close to the old one but better layout), hardwood floors, actually finished tiles in the bathroom (which is twice as big), lots more windows (and nicer ones at that). Oh and it has an actual dining room.
• The only two gripes I have about the new place are that they could use some more cabinet space in the kitchen and that they have an interesting lighting situation. By that I mean that there isn't overhead lighting in either bedroom or the living room. Instead they all have a switched outlet. Really the only reason this is a gripe is that the optimal living room layout makes it so the TV and A/V stuff is plugged into the switched outlet, which is pretty much not gonna work. We seem to have found an acceptable alternate layout, but I was mildly annoyed that we had to do so. Oh well.
• Zipper is loving all the windows and all the other people walking around and stuff. She's just having a hard time picking a favorite window.
  
• Driving home the other day Nina and I passed T&A, the local crappy strip joint, and there was a Lamborghini parked outside. Didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
• Today I tried a Soy/Rice milk blend with some Honey Bunches of Oats, and it actually tasted pretty good. This is huge news, because I am so freakin' sick of oatmeal, and I absolutely love cereal. If I can eat cereal again in the morning I will be a much happier person.
• Don't tell Mom but Nina and I ordered a bedroom set yesterday. We looked at a local place here but they were a little too expensive so we went to Bob's in Brookfield (45 minutes away) and ended up ordering the Louis set. It was a thousand bucks and has a sleigh bed, a night stand, a chest, a dresser, and a mirror. It's not solid cherry but it is solid hardwood with a cherry finish so it's a nice balance of quality and price, and it's just the right amount of furniture for our bedroom. Now I have to somehow keep this information from Mom until she gets her bedroom finished.
  

Okay time for hot dogs on the Foreman.