it's a big old house and there's not much room/ but there's nothing that I wouldn't say to you

Hey. We have internet! So I can blog again. We're moved into the new place, and E. is moving in on Tuesday, so there's one more flurry of box-related madness and then we can all start figuring out where things go.

The furniture Tetris is going both well and not well, but there'll be more on that after the rest of the furniture arrives. Mostly we've been working on fiddly bits. I may or may not have mentioned the bit off our kitchen at the back. It's sort of a mudroom and sort of just the stairs down to the basement...I'll post a picture when I find the camera cable. When we looked at the place, I envisioned using it as a pantry, because our kitchen is slightly low on cupboard space. But it was...awful. Grotty and dirty and full of spiders. I wish I had a decent "before" picture, because spook's been working on it and now it seems like part of the house instead of part of someone's garage. Bwah ha ha! An unpromising beginning is no match for our powers of redecorating! The major challenge in this place is the basement, which is pretty much a dank concrete box. We don't need it to be gorgeous, but it's supposed to house spook's weights, and storage, and a laundry area, so it requires improvement. We have some notions. We'll see how they go.

I am anxiously awaiting news of my niece, who ought to be born this week. There'll be pictures of her too, because she will be the most beautiful baby ever, at least through the lenses of my auntie goggles. (The rest of you are free to notice that all newborn babies look very weird, as long as you notice it privately.)

And that's really all the news. I'm looking for the camera cable, I swear. Pictures soon.