radish times

If only the days could be stretched out. If only one hour of sleep gave the strength of two. There seem to be simply too many things to do these days. With work, and school, and fixing up the apartment, and trying to relax, there is no time for anything else (and the trying to relax doesn’t seem to be going too well).

Anyway, with all of that, there are little points of peace and pleasure:

- Our closet has shelves! We no longer have to live out of boxes, which is where our clothes have been since we moved in a month and a half ago. When we will find the time to move our clothes from the boxes to the shelves is an open questions - but at least it could be any time.

- All our doors have door knobs, except one.

- There is the reasonable hope that next weekend all our kitchen cabinets will have handles and we will be able to get rid of the electrical tape tabs which work only when your hands are dry.

- We have six new little plants which are ever bloomers, meaning that if they are carefully looked after they will have flowers all the time. That makes our sum total 14 plants now, 12 little ones and 2 big ones.

- Pippin has not recently attacked anyone. We have had several guests in the last month and he hasn’t been mean at all. He even let a male guest pick him up and cradle him like a baby TWICE. Maybe he feels happier in this apartment.

- We walked across the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday. It was beautiful and we figured out that it would take me only about an hour to walk to work that way, which is not too bad. It would probably take Peter 1 1/2 hours, which is long.

- We met the very cute 21 month old son of our friends who just returned to New York from Michigan. He is not very talkative yet but he is a power walker and he likes cats.

- We tried an Indian restaurant in our neighborhood which seems to be pretty good.

- Peter made an extremely tasty lamb and bean soup, which we will be eating for the next two weeks. I am unsuccessfully trying to make tasty salads to go with it every night. So far, the best dressing we have had has been plain sour cream. I think my love of Marie’s Bleu Cheese salad dressing stunted my ability to made good tossed salads.

- We found a bakery that sells fresh bread we like. It stays open late enough for us to buy it after work.

- We have the ugliest front door in many a block. I set out to paint it green. But we ran out of paint and I tried to creatively apply it so that it would cover the whole door. I failed and the door just looks sad and stupid. We will have to get some more paint to fix it. Of course, our landlord chose this day (the first day of the dumb looking door) to drop by and see how things were. He didn’t mention the door but it probably wasn’t the best introduction to his new tenants! He did mention that our cats look healthy. I wonder if he meant that they look fat.

Anyway, as I seem to be digressing from nice pleasant things to sad stupid things, I will stop and get ready for bed.