Arrival

After many mishaps, the kind that will be funny in 4 years but are still smarting now, i am in my new apartment and have managed to hook up my computer and get it to run without shorting out the airconditioning.  The airconditioning actually takes top priority since it is the seventh level of hell here.  Hot + Humid = -4 lbs in 2 days.  So, yes i'm skinnier but now also damp and fragil.  I am sure i'll learn to tolerate it, especially since my new friend M is also from WNY and is breezing around town with a sweaty and vacant me in tow as though its a cool spring day in Vermont.  

M, a tall redhead with freckles galore and a grin that could swallow Texas, happened upon me as i was struggling another box of what was marked shoes and turned out to be books up the stairs.  M is my new roomie, J's best friend.  She had come by to let the dog out and go for a walk to see J. She instead spent the next half hour chatting to me about you name it and then went on to invite me to a walkaround the town the next day with her, to show me the sights.

So, yesterday I take the kids to Murder-Capitol and we have great fun at the aquarium watching dolphins defy nature and poking wary sea things in a special "petting" tank.   After a long drive home, in which GPS insisted i drive into a traffic jam and then refused to give me an alternative route all the while pointedly telling me to move forward please, i dropped the kids off at home and met M for our walking tour.  It was wonderful, M is open and chatty and filled me with gossip about people i don't know, interesting little tidbits about places to shop and of course, what bars have what and when. 

Afterwards, M went off to a dinner and I laid about my new room ( which is 
adorable of course) 
and watched C.S.I. till i couldn't keep my eyes open any longer.

All in all, a lovely first day.




since i don't count the week at DGH.