Nesting...

We've been out here almost three weeks now and we've got just about everything we need to feel settled. We got some great furniture on the cheap - a chaise from Craigslist and a cool COMFY brown loveseat from Honey's, a used furniture place we came across one day while driving in a sketchy part of town. And the best part is they don't smell bad!

We could probably use a vacuum cleaner, but the broom is working fine for now, and we would like to get a toilet paper roll holder- actually we have a holder- we need the piece that goes through the roll. We thought about stealing one from a public place but haven't had the opportunity yet. It would be nice if we had some enemies here so that we could steal from them, but everyone here is soooo nice! Except for the person that stole my gardening table. James put an ad up on Craigslist for a bunch of our books and other things we decided to get rid of AFTER I already dragged them up the stairs. He put it all outside on top of and around my grandma's gardening table. He put a sign up that said take anything "IN THE BOXES" and someone up and moved the boxes and took the table. I was LIVID! DIRTY HIPPIES STOLE MY GRANDMA'S TABLE! So I put another ad on Craigslist that made me feel a little better telling whoever did it to bring back my table or they get bad Craigslist karma. Bastards. They never brought back the table. But lots of people called and emailed to say how sorry they were that someone took my table and they would be on the lookout for it in case someone tried to re-sell it or something. That is just the way people are out here. Craigslist began in San Francisco, so every neighborhood here in Oakland and San Francisco has it's own listings- it is CRAZY. People give away good stuff here! Sharing is a lot more prevalent too because of the cost of things like gas, food, rent, etc. People are just more open here. We have also met our fair share of stereotypical Californian people- hippy-ish drug addicts, gay couples, free-thinkers, hard-core cyclers, old hippies, and people who are in their own world (like our landlord). And they are just as cool as we thought they would be.

We have some excellent neighbors with little babies for me to hang with while their parents play music with James on the drums too.

Here's a tour of the place since we've settled in a little... And you'll meet our neighbor's (Steve and Sue's) baby too! He likes to listen to Steve and James play music...