Painting and packing

Well, Big Move Number One is almost upon us. The new house is not exactly ready to be moved into yet, still quite a bit of painting to go, and all, and its utility room is still gutted from the mold remediation, but move on 8/11 we will.

Why? you ask...well...

Because we are hosting dinner for a dozen or more on 8/17 for Rice's Orientation Week. We used to do it all the time, then we moved the hosting to a restaurant for a few years, then we just dropped out altogether as we got lazy/overcome with other things. We decided this year that we wanted to get back in the groove as Sid associates.

We had waited til mid-July to make the call as to whether we'd participate so we'd be able to better gauge whether we'd be moved in, and we simply thought we'd be farther along than we are (it didn't help matters that our best worker's family decided to take some last minute summer vacation trips the past two weekends and then this week/end he is on a track field trip - apparently private schools travel for a week to some meet before school even starts, I'm not really clear on the whys and wherefores).

So I hired some MORE new workers who had recently responded to my ad. Are they Rice students? Why, Virginia, why would you ever think such a thing, just because I ran an ad in the Rice student newspaper classified section back in April and May...no, one is a UHD grad who has applied to Rice for post-bacc study and then her boyfriend, who is a current UHD student. They seem to be nice people and have worked with us painting for a couple of weekends now. We also still have Will, who may have escaped mention thus far--he's our token Rice student.

Today was spent prepping bedrooms for a painting day tomorrow, and packing up things from our old house for the move to the new house. For the remaining crystal stemware, we just walked them in our hands down the street. Didn't have appropriate boxes, didn't see the point in acquiring any, either.

That's about all the news that's fit to print; oh, we've gotten the den all painted. It came out a bit lighter than we expected, but it's so much better than the Army olive drab green that it was, we're fine with it. And we hosted the Westbury Community Garden's fall seed packaging event at the house this past Sunday, so we've now hosted 2 events (both seed packaging for the WCG) at the new house. Not exactly social events, but events nonetheless!