Back online... sort of

It's been a light week for posting, I know, but we finally have Internet set up at the new house now and so we're able to post an update from someplace that's not a Starbucks.

Unfortunately, there's a problem with the phone cabling within our walls and so we couldn't get the equipment set up in our actual office. The wireless router will have to live by the window in our living room unless we decide to rip the cable out of the wall and replace it. *sigh*

More unfortunately, our apartment is of concrete and brick construction so the signal at my desk is anemic at best. Sarah's computer, which is by the window, gets a full power signal, mine, a mere five feet away, has almost none.

Taken Monday while I was home sick

Other than that, however, the move has gone very smoothly. We're completely in our place now, all the boxes are gone and, for the most part, we've even found space for most of the crap we brought over.

We even put all the art up on the walls.

Our final task (aside from finding homes for the last of our errant things) is to get some curtains we like up. We will be replacing the blinds and the cheap, worn and ugly curtains that belong to our landlords with canvas Roman blinds - most with blackout liners.

We've had Lilian, our wonderful curtain expert lady in already and we should have some nice, neutral, sound absorbing, light blocking and all around warmer window treatments up soon.

On her play mat on Monday. She loves her mat.

Margaret has settled in nicely as well. She was a bit clingy to SAM for the first couple of days, but she's now back to her good old self, smiling, gurgling and acting as cute as ever.

Also from this past Monday. On the couch.

I'm not quite sure if any of you out in blog land can tell, but she seems to be changing day by day. On more than one occassion this week I've looked at her and said to SAM, "She's different today than she was yesterday."

Her newest thing is that she actually wants to have a conversation with you. No, she can't form words yet, but she will now vocalize in response to when you talk to her. She even knows to do it when you pause your own speech and will change volume and inflection in response to yours. VERY cool.

"Who me?" This one from Friday.

The new job is going well, also. Things have been very busy but I've been learning a lot. I'm starting to take on interesting tasks now and am feeling like I am actually making an impact and making other peoples' jobs easier.

Let's hope my boss notices.

Yes, that's Sarah's phone hanging with the toys.

Having to work half day aside, today was really fun and productive.

Sarah and I went out and bought a convection oven as our new apartment doesn't have an oven :(

After a brief stop at home to feed Margaret (and read her a book), Sarah and I went out for Hot Pot with our friends Bill and Molly and Lindsay and Graham along with Lindsay's father, Barry and his wife Dottie.

Communal cooking was followed by gelato at XTC.

Now, unfortunately, we're already into Sunday and I'm already dreading having to go back to work on Monday.

Funny thing about that - as much as I love my new job, the fact that I have to work Saturday makes me feel like I don't have enough time over the weekend and makes me not want to go to work on Monday.

A happy baby (happy to see mom, the photographer).

Oh well. At least I get a weekend. Plenty of people don't.

I count my blessings.

Reading Goodnight Moon tonight before we headed out.