"To open a bookshop is one of the persistent romances, like living off the land or sailing around the world."

hmm let me try that again

https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=23182

goddamn it

good thread

we are doing this. not off the grid by any means, just a different one. better, we hope. and no grand plans for opening any shops, etc., just making a new life in a new place. destination amsterdam, spring 2023. start making plans to see us there or meet up nearby!

are u 4 real

we just said goodbye to the jarbl, this is getting really real

!

Hard to wrap my brain around you two not being in seattle.

this is so amazing and exciting! and weirdly sad too even though seattle is a million miles from here, but i know we will meet again which is joyful and i wish you both a wonderful new life <3

i still don't know what a jarbl is, except that i think i'm taller than it?

i think it’s a harbl-designed or introduced jar for catching fruit flies so if that’s correct it’s probably quite short

tbf harbl is quite tall. but so am i

at the risk of needlessly referencing 'highlander' this seems like 'the quickening' in which we all converge on amsterdam, but to have beers instead of behead each other

our house is for sale now, it’s a very strange feeling. maybe someone will buy it? i don’t know.

oh wowow
and our heights are marked in the basement in perpetuity

they made it through our cleaning (of course), agent’s cleaning, staging, viewing, offer, second offer, counteroffer, mutual acceptance, and pending. next up, inspection, appraisal, and sale (knock on wood fingers crossed). so far so good!

sandboxlers forever!

i just regret mookieproof and deems didn’t come to have their heights recorded. there’s
still a little time?

i was sure mookie's was there?

hmm

I checked and no, which I'm actually glad about because otherwise it would mean I am having major memory failures.

i had beers in seattle but no measurements

perhaps we might do both in amsterdam?

definitely! <3

well now I'M having major memory failures ;_;

yeah but not about something you experienced + something you walk past multiple times a day!

true i guess it would be only a very minor memory failure

lxy has sold our data but we still <3 her vv much

<3 the data has been preserved and will travel with is where ever we go.

we’ll leave this house forever on june 5 and leave this country not forever (but maybe we’ll never live here again) on june 13ish.

v. jealous

just walking away

― lxy, Wednesday, May 2, 2007 11:19 PM (sixteen years ago)

getting close. this has been hard but i know it’ll be worth it.

<3

bon voyages

best best wisjes and so much love <3

sandbox, we made it

pix or it didn't happen <3 <3 <3

why is everything to do with getting or getting rid of a home so stressful?

i took myself to the apple store to buy EU plugs for my devices. now i am a dutch?

you aren't truly dutch until you post on de subjectivisten

lxy is a dutch treat

love you all, miss you all

<3

let op!

drempels

updates pls!

we move in to our apartment tomorrow! one month and one day after we left our house for the final time. it has been a ~journey~ in all the ways.

pretty sure our jergins has changed his mind about this one:

nonstop travel with my life in one suitcase

― jergins, Thursday, May 3, 2007 2:19 AM (sixteen years ago)

and i have definitely changed my mind about this:

live in a hotel. be super swanky.

― lxy, Friday, May 4, 2007 4:41 PM (sixteen years ago)

friends, it is not swanky.

we once did six weeks in a damp grimy room in a comfort inn in orlando so i second this

magic kingdom my arse sez u