Apartment Life

Home, sweet home!

This weekend we moved out of the ranch house and into an apartment that is a mile from Party Planet and 2 miles from the shop.  Compared to the 10 miles we have been driving every week, this is like heaven!  I could walk to work!  At least when I'm working at Party Planet, anyway...

Speaking of Party Planet, I worked a graduation party for some people from Graham last night, and got to talking with a couple of parents.  I mentioned that I had moved from Oregon ("Why the heck would you move from the best place in the country to Breckenridge?!") and that I had coached dance team there.  Turns out she had read something in the paper about Graham High School starting a dance team for next year.  Well, as you can imagine, I was pretty darn excited to hear that, and she even took my contact info and promised to let me know if she could find out who is coaching.  They were pretty cool people ("You're funny!  Let's take her home with us. . .If you ever need anything, you just look this company up in the phone book and ask for Randy.  We'll come and get you out of Breckenridge.  We'll call SWAT.  'We need an extrication in Breckenridge...'  Good luck, you're gonna need it."), and they sent me home with a little box of cookies and $50 tip.  Cha Ching!

 Anyway, I am hoping that meeting them was a sign.  Not only are there places in Texas that aren't cursed, as Breckenridge seems to be, but maybe dance team really will follow me wherever I go.  I love teaching my littles here, but it would be amazing to be back in a High School.
But as Ma Ingels would say "The Lord helps those who help themselves" (even though that really isn't in the Bible anywhere...), so as soon as I got home I googled Graham ISD and discovered the Bella Blues.  They have already held auditions, so obviously they are up and running without me (how could they??), but I shot off an email to the "sponsor" anyway, because I've never not gotten a job I really wanted...why should now be any different?
Unfortunately, when I read her reply this morning, she really seemed like she thought I was a student wanting to join the team...even though I specifically said "I coached dance team at Oregon City High School" and "I would love the opportunity to. . . be a part of the coaching team".  I suppose I should have said "staff", instead of "team"...maybe that's where she got confused.  She just sent me info for the second round of tryouts and told me not to be shy.  Maybe I should just show up at tryouts and say "hey, you should hire me because I am not in high school."  Why do people think I'm in high school??  She couldn't even see me, it was just an email!
Sigh.  Anyway, I sent a reply that should have sufficiently disillusioned her, so we'll see what happens from here.  And in the meantime, I will continue reorganizing and fussing around the apartment, while watching pom videos, because being proficient in pom would probably come in handy here in Texas.
The kitchen is pretty tiny, and I keep moving things around, and I can never remember where I put anything, but it's not too bad, as long as I'm the only one in it.  Not that Jesse is ever really hankering to be in the kitchen.  I made some rosemary romano crackers yesterday and they were pretty fantastic, but he dubbed them "hippie food" and won't eat them.  Whatevs...All the more for me!
I put the blue rug that my wonderful mother made me for Christmas in the bathroom and was so happy, because everything is now blue and green!  Granted, about 50 shades of blue, but blue nonetheless, and it makes me feel just a little bit classier (even though I do still use bar soap.  It's in a harochi [sp?] bowl though, so that's classy, right?)


The classiness is totally taken away when you go downstairs and see Jesse's living room decorations.  There is a hook in one corner for a hanging lamp, but since we don't have any lamps, Jesse took it upon himself to hang a raccoon tail and a coyote tail from it instead.  Totally feng shui.  Makes me want to do yoga, or something.  I am pretty excited about our new couches, though.  Got a fantastic deal on them: Two almost new leather couches for $200.  Can I get another Cha Ching?  They're pretty comfy.

 The bedrooms are a little small, but nothing too bad.  "Cricket's room" is currently a stick-everything-that-doesn't-have-its-own-place room, so I'll have to do some reorganizing before she gets here, but I'm glad we have the second room, because as comfy as the couches are, I have slept on a couch for extended periods of time and it's not great on the spine.

Next project, modge podge wedding pictures onto the surfboard so it's actually art on the wall instead of a big slab of wood stuck in the extra bedroom!  That will be my summer project...while I'm not working...