oh i must have! <3 u stuart! ;-) ;-) ;-)

i will finally be living on biddle st. so i can lol at it to myself like i did in this thread http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=44&threadid=1701

!!! well done<3

now wondering if i really can carry all of my belongings 1.5 blocks or if it’s worth getting a van. i could do it over a couple days maybe............

i was gonna say, don’t you already live on biddle st?!

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i bet you can carry them, slowly. enlist friends.

this thread is broken

now it’s not. hmm.

now i have to find a fax!

There’s a FedEx\Kinko’s above the Metropolitan Market on Mercer!

:D

i thought i remembered a ups store on roy, but i’ll just go there! thanks!

a ups store on roy

Yes! There is—it would be closer. I always forget about that building, it was still being built when I lived there so somehow doesn’t quite exist in my mental universe.

if i were you i’d go to the one above met-ma just to have an excuse to go to met-ma

i went to the one above met-ma but i did not go to met-ma why bc it is $$$$

yes. i love it very much, though.

that’s where i buy my fancy soap! fortunately my fancy soap lasts long, long time.

what kind?

when i first got here i bought a fancy cheese. rosemary asiago. it was so good. so $$$. i can’t buy it anymore.

I used to buy giant expensive olives there, when it was Larry’s. Grandiose Cerignola. Also, v. spendy butter. Those were the days.

walked by new apt on the way to the library. so exciting!!!! it’s 2 doors down from a gay bar though am i gonna be kept awake by gay every night?

lol @ kept awake by gay

you’ll probably be ok

it’s not the hippo is it?

nonono i am smart enough not to live by the hippo! it looks like a more quiet bar, not a “club”

is it wrong that i’m a little disappointed?

i don’t know why but the hippo has fascinated me ever since

eman i meant to ask you about this—i had an acct at work for the HIPPO CLUB in baltimore. it is for the gays. do you go there often?

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that’s like asking “do you still beat your wife?”

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loooooooooool eman (rip)

well if it makes you feel better i live 2 blocks from the hippo tbh. if i had known you were so interested we could have had our fap there!

so disappointed.

next time!!!

lol.

ok stu4rt called me today and it’s on. i got a little scared because the co-application thing took so long in the mail but we’re good. AND since i’m not moving in until 2 weeks after the other girl (also a lawyer) moves out, i get new carpet! i’d rather have no carpet at all but you can’t have everything. can’t wait to be in my new place with no furniture! might have my brother come down and help me move bc he is bored and unemployed so maybe we can get some furniture with the car. like a table and stuff.

i also joined freecycle baltimore yahoo group

oh you lucky girl! they mentioned maybe putting new carpet in mine, but they just cleaned it instead.

are you gonna build a fort?

maybe....how do you build a fort without furniture? i will spend some time in the loft probably. but i should get a tv for that.

with the moving boxes, duh!

haha, yes. i am also considering knitting a new blanket for a housewarming gift for myself. since i ruined my comforter by washing it according to the instructions. maybe like this but not a baby blanket obv http://brooklyntweed.blogspot.com/2009/07/tweed-baby-blanket-pattern-now.html

is there a baltimore tweed?

like the brash, tweedy impertinence of detective freamon?

i am so jealous of ppl who can knit!!!!

trust me, if i can do it anyone can. i am getting better at it but i never finish anything. but perhaps if i had a real purpose such as a bed covering i could finish it.

smoove it seems like it would be right up your alley. i mean if you’re interested in making books you’d probably be interested in making knitted goods, i think that’s how it goes.

for some reason i think the knit stuff looks cool but i’ve never been inspired to take it up.

my friend made these two for wedding presents, they’re nice but i don’t like round blankets and they are too lacy and old-fashioned—looking for my taste (bc i am always up to date)

http://brooklyntweed.blogspot.com/2008/12/girasole.html

http://brooklyntweed.blogspot.com/2007/08/hemlock-ring-blanket.html

when my mum tried to teach i just couldn’t get it. i’m not very coordinated.

round blankets are useless

oh neither am i—i first learned like 6 years ago and was so bad at it, i kept forgetting how and starting stuff over because i didn’t know how to fix mistakes but in the past year or so i’m getting better. starting is a big hurdle but after you get knit and purl down you can do anything: cabling, lace, etc. anything! the possibilities are *endless* xp

hey it’s jergins being otm

when is he not?

only about house plants, i think.

i have a huge, huge, huge afghan my great-grandmother crocheted. theresa might have seen it when she was here but i didn’t point it out. it’s bright neon orange, puke green, and yellow. she used to just crank them out but was really tacky (greek) so she made interesting color choices. it’s also acrylic so it will never be destroyed.

the yellow is not really yellow, it’s more “mustard”

i love that combo! it makes me nostalgic for my parents’ poor decorating choices when i was a kid.

my friend’s mom made me a gorgeous afghan a couple of years ago and there was wool leftover so she made a surprise little afghan for my dog<3<3.

do you wear them around the house together, pinned around your necks, tsking things?

lol sort of.

i don’t have anyone to teach me how to knit :(

my father taught me how to knit when i was 5 and during the lesson i made sexist remarks and questioned his manhood.

tsk

why you little

i should remind him, he will be gleeful.

why you big

he <3s trouble.

your father’s daughter

the more i am like him the better, he is <3<3.

is this you estela??

no, that is harbl wearing a wig.

lol definitely not!

a gorgeous afghan

just realized i don’t know what an afghan is

gis safe search off isn’t helping

an afghan is just a knitted or crocheted blanket basically. they are often hideous (except estela’s gorgeous one). i think you would recognize one if you saw it

here u go http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=off&um=1&sa=1&q=afghan+blanket&btnG=Search+images&aq=f&oq=

damn those are mostly ugly huh

not so into afghans, me.

signing lease tomorrow :)

can’t wait to get my very own one of these

a) round blankets make no sense to me whatsoever

b) recycling bins are completely fucking awesome

with images off i thought harbl got a blog for a sec

harbl’s very moving day blog

harblog

would troll

ugh WORST moving day on friday

saturday rather

it took us 3.5 hrs to get from NJ to brooklyn in the pickup truck, which was terrible because ari had an interview that afternoon so instead of spending the afternoon packing and loading beforehand she basically showed up, packed 2 boxes and had to go, i had to enlist some bros to go way above and beyond their duties as friends to help me pack and load and it took forever and they were pretty annoyed with me by the end BUT we ended up getting all of the shit into the truck so it only took 1 trip AND ari got the job which is just a crummy tutoring gig but its a job nonetheless

and since most of the crap in the apartment was aris and not mine i was really afraid of throwing anything away so i brought home probably 2 boxes worth of stuff she didnt want saved—also she accused me of breaking her lamp but we all know it was already broken

THE REALY WORST BIT THO is that we moved out this weekend because we thought we had gotten out of our lease early since another man was going to come move into the apartment and sign a lease from august first but we found out this morning that the guy has backed out and no longer wants to move in for the first so unless we can find someone who wants to sign a year long lease or sublet an empty apartment for one month were on the hook for august! which doesnt really save us any money at all!!!

LYFE!!!!!!

there is a cute little one bdrm cottage right behind our apartment building that has become available, even has a miniature front yard and a really private back patio that looks out on trees and shit. ytth wants to move, and so do i, but even just thinking about the hassle of moving makes me feel sick ;_;

max, that does sound like a miserable day. This is the first year we won’t be moving since Mr. Jaq and I (have moved 10 times in the past 9 years), because I signed a 2 year lease. I’m still looking at craigslist all the time though.

oops. since Mr. Jaq and I met

you are addicted to moving!

pretty much. Though I don’t especially like the trauma of the actual process, I do like pruning out the stuff to donate/pitch, the thrill of the hunt for a new place, and getting everything set up once the move is done. But the idea of staying where we are for now is also very appealing (as long as no one moves into the unit above us, which may not happen for awhile in this economy...knock wood).

max where did you move?

i used to be like you, jaq! i think i will not move for a while because a) moving is $$$ b) this place ain’t so bad c) i have not even reallllllly moved all the way in yet!

although every day i walk down the street and look at all these beautiful buildings and think ‘oh i want to live there!’ like this one with a fountain in front. a fountain!

back home for a month to save money for our trip

italy?

max is moving back to la

i had to take my window screens off for the washers and now i don’t know how to put them back oopsie

croatia/hungary

my friend moved into my apartment in ohio and she said the other night she went to a bar a couple blocks away and a guy caught up with her on the way home and followed her to the outside door leading upstairs and wouldn’t leave, then tried to hold it so it wouldn’t lock. ugh. now i feel like, why did i move somewhere more dangerous? barf.

yikes! i’m glad you don’t live in that apt anymore, though!

i like to think of danger as relative. in your current location, won’t there be more people around on the street to deter things like that from happening?

can’t believe it is rent day again already!!!

Dude Croatia is going to be exciting. i like that the sandbox is taking late-summer vacations.

nothing bad ever happened to me there though, that’s why i’m like whoa. but yeah there are more people out at night around here and i am a lot less likely to walk around alone. there i did too many times. it was a quiet-ish residential neighborhood. also aggravated by the fact that she didn’t scream at him because she was drunk and just wasn’t thinking, she just kind of scolded him she said. so creepy.

only like 10 days till moving day

yo moving day phase ii is here. i got the keys! gonna wait until it’s less hot to move stuff tonight though

the kitchen has bright green walls <3

it also has a “shelving unit” made of cinder blocks and unfinished lumber <3 <3

moved

are you gonna get a cat now?

sometime. have to pay $30 more per month though. i will after i get a vacuum maybe!

dear harbl, i hope you <3 living at your new place.

i do! i’m in new york now but i will go back soon. my bed has not arrived yet. it will be even better after that, and when i can afford more furniture. i got a table from used furniture store and i got 2 lamps from value village but that’s about it. i also need some curtains. but i am loving how big it is!

i need some mason jars of my own too

i finally have my own internet!!!!!!1

how about mason jars?

no :(

i need a car to get to a hardware store or something. shipping those things is expensive.

overstock.com has them more expensive than other places but shipping is just 2.95 for your entire order! i want to buy hundreds and can stuff but i don’t have a pressure cooker. all i can make is pickles and tomato sauce w/o that :-/

also whytf are curtains so expensive????

i am sitting here internetting and some college-aged kids seem to be snooping around and a girl climbed the stoop and looked in, and i looked at her and she said to her friend “oooh look there’s a person!” and ran away. i really need curtains.

you can make them pretty easily!

yeah i’ve thought about it but i fail at sewing. might have my mom do it but i don’t want to bother her about it, too busy

i have my own bed now :)))))))))

the delivery company had jesus fish under its name. i gave them a nice tip for 3 minutes’ work :D

ok i almost made a friend on the street today and we were having some nice chatz but then he was like “i’ve been reading some objectivism” and i almost barfed

i made a new friend on wednesday :)

how did you do it? teach me how

you don’t wanna know ;)

puzzled

i think tehresa means she did him, like had sex

i did not.

(mean that or do that)

tsk to you, max. tsk to you!

ok, i lied.

it was thursday.

i bought a loveseat!

soon this house will be a home.

i need one of those

LOVESEAT! I LOVE YOU!

Are you sitting on your loveseat looking out the window watching the world go by?

soon. very soon.

i forgot there’s no overhead light in there. i need to get a lamp. lol!

i feel nostalgic/homesick :(

i have been missing people a lot lately but happy to be where i am.

also i went a little nuts today and got a bookshelf, side table, and desk! but no chair lol.

yeah i am happy i moved but miss ohio people :((((((

desk and side table assembled!

do i dare the expedit cube (only the 4-square one cause i’m a wimp)?

just the presence of matchy furniture in here is starting to make it look so much better!

lol i see what u did there

yeah my apartment would be a lot funner and better with furniture. someday! some stuff is still in boxes. i used to have two bookcases and now i just have one. i want to get a tv too.

yeah the whole having a couch/living room setup thing makes me want a tv now, too. slippery slope!

my expedit came out weird. it’s mostly right but i got to the LAST screw and it wouldn’t go in so i had to take out 3 and then do the last 4 over, but there’s a weird gap where they did not want to go in properly. gahhh.

love having a desk, though! it’s so big and i imagine lots of productivity :)