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[sophiaserpentia]

Moving. An experiment that largely confirms Murphy's Law.

The hooptie has developed a short or blown fuse or something that causes the brake lights to be on all the time. This in turn is affecting the battery, which I suspect isn't charging properly. The car cut out on me on I-10 on the way to work this morning, but all I had to do was tweek the battery cable a little and I was able to start the car up. Even got to work on time.

Note to self: pick up a battery terminal cleaner and clean corrosion off of terminal and cable. Note to akaiyume: This car talk had better earn me lots of butch points. ;->

For those of you who don't know yet, Dee and I are moving in with Dee's boyfriend James. As I was carrying things into the house, I saw a swarm of buggies I prayed weren't mosquitos. They were not -- if anything what they turned out to be was actually worse -- termites. Termites are creatures out of the worst nightmares of the producers of "Fear Factor." I had to run into the house at one point to have them swatted off of me.

The downshot of this is that chances are the house will have to be tented off for a week, and we will have to find other places to go.

Dee and James are taking Tim back to North Carolina on Friday (and attending a niece's wedding) and will be gone about a week -- and so it is only myself and the kitties that have to fend for ourselves. Chances are I will get a hotel close to where I work, although there are other ideas that are *very* tempting. (Some of those ideas you don't get to hear about yet.) For example, I've never had a room in or near the Quarter.

Now to make cat arrangements... I hate kennels.

Edit: Dee just called to say that the house WILL have to be fumigated but that it will not happen for a couple of weeks.

Comments

[sleepsleep.livejournal.com]

I am moving too... I hate moving. One of my least favorite things. I would rather go to the dentist.

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

That's a close one. It depends on how much agony I am in.

[sleepsleep.livejournal.com]

*laugh*

I refuse to let anyone near my face with a syringe, so I feel relatively safe @ the dentist.

Moving traumizes me. I need a home. I do not have a home. I do not have roots. I feel a little bit lost.

If I could round up around 1k or 2k, I could build an art studio up north that I could live in.. until I could afford to build my perm. res.

Money is such a fucking pain in the ass.

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

I hear you. No matter how much money I have, it always magically seems to be not enough, though it would have been a sufficient amount of money a few years ago.

[sleepsleep.livejournal.com]

Funny how that works.. though I was doing pretty well, with my last job...

[sleepsleep.livejournal.com]

too bad I didnt save any.. $ before I walked out of it..

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'll keep that in mind. :)

yipes

[azaz-al.livejournal.com]

A permanent move or a temporary one? Either way... yipes!

I had nearly forgotten about the termite problem in New Orleans. Although there were several memorable nights of termites in my experience there. One being when I was out walking with Aaron, about 6 months old, during one of the worst swarms I ever saw in the city. They actually were inside our clothes. Another night when I had a friend over for dinner, she peeked in the kitchen and the window was crawling with them. They had been attracted to the light and heat coming from the kitchen, and the window didn't shut properly so they were slowly entering the house. We turned off the kitchen light. Although it wasn't my fault I was very embarrassed.
And I rememebr Ash screaming at Kael to spray the termites with the bug spray as they were flying around the living room. That was kind of funny actually...

Re: yipes

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

Well, ostensibly a permanent move. I'll have more to say about that in an entry I am writing this morning.

Termites are one of the reasons I could never adhere to perfect ahimsa.