Just like Christmas! But wtih dust.
May. 3rd, 2005 08:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwendolyngraceAgain, I have been absent for much time.
But it's becuase life has been really hectic.
Well, and I discovered Tradewinds 2 on RealArcade, but that was only yesterday, so it hardly counts. Also, I got to see![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
grouchyoldcoot a couple weekends ago, and although we both lived up to his screenanme because of the weather, we survived. I'll see him again next week for Crown. And the week after that for War Practice. This is good and better.
Meanwhile, I've been moving to my NEW FLAT! Yay. Prepare to be spammed more, because while I've got shitloads of things to do to make this place more of a home, I don't have a TV or anything yet, so the computer is my lifeline to the outside world...
Hee. Last weekend was an Amber gaming weekend. And we've already got the next weekend set up! This is great - shows everyone's getting somewhere with our plotlines and they want to keep the momentum going. Beats two months between games, I tell you. But while I was home I was able to load up the car (leaving just a bit of room for George, who rode with me to the Amber game) with some of my kitchen stuff. Tonight I opened it all up.
For those who've only known me post-divorce (which is nearly everyone in my online life), I was a very clever witch for my age. I wrapped up all my kitchen things (flatware, stoneware, glassware, pots and pans, utensils, etc.) inside my linens (sheets, towels, and so on) in order to bring both back home efficiently and with a minimum of damage. Note: This really works! You can wrap dishes in pillowcases and sheets and roll glasses inside towels and they're very well protected.
However, I didn't plan, when I came back home from Indiana, that I would proceed to stay in my mother's house, where there already is a full kitchen, for 10 years. So while the method really does work and I greatly recommend it for short moves, um, well, nothing really keeps dust out for 10 years. And to make it worse, some of the boxes weren't sealed up as tight as I thought they were. I think some of them got opened at one point, because we switched from our old stoneware to my stoneware (which was actually my stepmother's stoneware...who is not my stepmother anymore.... Confusing, these blended families), and I think we had to open some boxes to find the ones we wanted. This also has the side effect, for those of you still paying attention, of meaning I don't have much in the way of plates.
But I have a lot of glassware. Oh, my. Glasses and glasses. Apparatif glasses. Coffee mugs. Water glasses. Champagne flutes. No, I'm not fucking kidding: 4 champagne flutes. Luckily I like them. I can't quite say the same for the weird-ass plant pot that somehow got in there, or the plastic canteen (ycch). Oh, and I have a flan dish. God knows when I'll ever make a flan, but if I plan to flan, I'll have a sixteen-inch pan.
I do have a few frying pans, a couple medium-sized stockpots, and my *springforms* which made me very happy (cheesecake ahoy), along with pie, muffin, and some other tins. No cookie sheets, though - but they may have been co-opted back into Mom's kitchen when some of hers died. I have Pyrex measuring bowls, a set of measuring cups (along with one I bought earlier this year in desperation), and hoo-rah, one of my mother's old giant ceramic mixing bowls. Did anyone else have the set of corningware bowls that were blue and white (alternating by size) with the sort of "Dutch" pattern running around the outside? Well, that's what we have. Fond memories of brownies in that mixing bowl. And it was in a towel and near the bottom of the box, so it's even pretty dust-free. Heh. Now if I only had a clean set of spatulas, a brownie pan, and a box of mix....
I am also now richer by one toaster and one coffee maker. With a timer, no less. Too bad I don't really drink coffee as a regular thing. Oh, well. It'll come in handy when Joel visits.
Next, must determine what's missing and whether it can bestolen appropriated from Mom's when I go through in a couple weeks.
I also brought back my collection of SCA scrolls, including my awards and the verious other pieces of artwork I've won over the years for things like singing really pretty 'n' shit. I have a lot of art! I never realized how much there was until I got it all together. This isn't even everything, because I know there's a few pieces I wanted to frame as a triptych that aren't here because they aren't framed. This includes only a few pieces of non-SCA art, too, like my Chocolate Frog Card artwork that I bought at Nimbus and my degrees. The degrees will go into work, once I have a shelf to put them on.
Wow. Speaking of the art, I'm going to lay it out to figure out what I want to hang where. Hm. Maybe I'll eat first. Hee. New flat!
But it's becuase life has been really hectic.
Well, and I discovered Tradewinds 2 on RealArcade, but that was only yesterday, so it hardly counts. Also, I got to see
grouchyoldcoot a couple weekends ago, and although we both lived up to his screenanme because of the weather, we survived. I'll see him again next week for Crown. And the week after that for War Practice. This is good and better.Meanwhile, I've been moving to my NEW FLAT! Yay. Prepare to be spammed more, because while I've got shitloads of things to do to make this place more of a home, I don't have a TV or anything yet, so the computer is my lifeline to the outside world...
Hee. Last weekend was an Amber gaming weekend. And we've already got the next weekend set up! This is great - shows everyone's getting somewhere with our plotlines and they want to keep the momentum going. Beats two months between games, I tell you. But while I was home I was able to load up the car (leaving just a bit of room for George, who rode with me to the Amber game) with some of my kitchen stuff. Tonight I opened it all up.
For those who've only known me post-divorce (which is nearly everyone in my online life), I was a very clever witch for my age. I wrapped up all my kitchen things (flatware, stoneware, glassware, pots and pans, utensils, etc.) inside my linens (sheets, towels, and so on) in order to bring both back home efficiently and with a minimum of damage. Note: This really works! You can wrap dishes in pillowcases and sheets and roll glasses inside towels and they're very well protected.
However, I didn't plan, when I came back home from Indiana, that I would proceed to stay in my mother's house, where there already is a full kitchen, for 10 years. So while the method really does work and I greatly recommend it for short moves, um, well, nothing really keeps dust out for 10 years. And to make it worse, some of the boxes weren't sealed up as tight as I thought they were. I think some of them got opened at one point, because we switched from our old stoneware to my stoneware (which was actually my stepmother's stoneware...who is not my stepmother anymore.... Confusing, these blended families), and I think we had to open some boxes to find the ones we wanted. This also has the side effect, for those of you still paying attention, of meaning I don't have much in the way of plates.
But I have a lot of glassware. Oh, my. Glasses and glasses. Apparatif glasses. Coffee mugs. Water glasses. Champagne flutes. No, I'm not fucking kidding: 4 champagne flutes. Luckily I like them. I can't quite say the same for the weird-ass plant pot that somehow got in there, or the plastic canteen (ycch). Oh, and I have a flan dish. God knows when I'll ever make a flan, but if I plan to flan, I'll have a sixteen-inch pan.
I do have a few frying pans, a couple medium-sized stockpots, and my *springforms* which made me very happy (cheesecake ahoy), along with pie, muffin, and some other tins. No cookie sheets, though - but they may have been co-opted back into Mom's kitchen when some of hers died. I have Pyrex measuring bowls, a set of measuring cups (along with one I bought earlier this year in desperation), and hoo-rah, one of my mother's old giant ceramic mixing bowls. Did anyone else have the set of corningware bowls that were blue and white (alternating by size) with the sort of "Dutch" pattern running around the outside? Well, that's what we have. Fond memories of brownies in that mixing bowl. And it was in a towel and near the bottom of the box, so it's even pretty dust-free. Heh. Now if I only had a clean set of spatulas, a brownie pan, and a box of mix....
I am also now richer by one toaster and one coffee maker. With a timer, no less. Too bad I don't really drink coffee as a regular thing. Oh, well. It'll come in handy when Joel visits.
Next, must determine what's missing and whether it can be
I also brought back my collection of SCA scrolls, including my awards and the verious other pieces of artwork I've won over the years for things like singing really pretty 'n' shit. I have a lot of art! I never realized how much there was until I got it all together. This isn't even everything, because I know there's a few pieces I wanted to frame as a triptych that aren't here because they aren't framed. This includes only a few pieces of non-SCA art, too, like my Chocolate Frog Card artwork that I bought at Nimbus and my degrees. The degrees will go into work, once I have a shelf to put them on.
Wow. Speaking of the art, I'm going to lay it out to figure out what I want to hang where. Hm. Maybe I'll eat first. Hee. New flat!
