Got Craft? Was on Sunday, and was fabulously awesome.

I thought I did great in May, and this time I sold nearly 3x what I did then. Novel! I could have sold way more as well I just ran out of stock on basically everything to do with typewriter keys as well as some of the letters for the scrabble necklaces.

Parties were fantastic, house is assembled on the outside and slowly being organized, and life is good.

And while I apparently didn’t take any of my own iphone shots, here’s one of me that Tracey took:

Last day of NaBloPoMo and I almost forgot to post!

Darwin is currently on my keyboard purring and kneading away, happy as a clam. Late last night Reilly and I were downstairs and I got up to come upstairs to visit him in his nook behind the bed only to find him at the bottom of the stairs in the kitchen! He did a once-round to check everything out and has been pretty OK since. He’s been eating and drinking today and is still quite unsure of loud noises and hides when guests show up, but that’s to be expected.

Today our place actually started to resemble a home. The kitchen and bathroom are unpacked and organized, the office is mostly setup and we even have a place for Reka to work in the am (she’ll be thrilled because we bought her a new office chair).

Upstairs is a little less organized although the livingroom as it currently is (still need to sell a couple things and buy a couch) is setup which is good. The ikea assembly monkeys come in the morning, and my table should be here at 1pm!

Now, Gossip Girl!

- Darwin is still hiding behind the bed and/or under the covers, going on 33 hours or so. He had moments of bravery overnight and he is showing signs of playfulness, but only if you reach behind the bed to play. He has not eaten and we don’t think he’s been drinking at all, but I marked his glass so we’ll know for sure. I’ll be force feeding him water in the morning if not which quickly ended the hunger/water strike the last time he was this traumatized (which, incidentally, was when we got Luna)

- We got the Ikea trip taken care of today instead of tomorrow, which puts us a day ahead that way. My goal in the am is to find a company to come and assemble all of what we purchased tomorrow or Tuesday am so we can do more important things, like find clean underwear

- My fridge does this:

We are moved!

Thanks so very much to all the people who helped move all our many things. We are slowly sorting through the pile of boxes and I hope to have a proper update out soon

now I have to figure out upstairs heat and visit a very scared kitty

chat soon

The next time you hear from me we will be moved into our new place!

The truck is loaded and being guarded by one of our friendly neighborhood hobos and we are just organizing the last few pieces for tomorrow. Final painting and patching in the am, a leisurely breakfast at Deacons, then keys at noon. The parking spot out front has been secured by Darren and the previous owners are all out.

Darwin is super freaked out from moving stuff out today, we will see how he is once moved over and everything is quiet for a while. Poor kitty

See you on the flip side!

The sale closed today – money transacted and papers ruffled and whatever they do, but the sale is all complete and we get keys on Saturday.

Thanks all for the love and well wishes. We really appreciate it. We worked half a day today and have just been cuddling with Darwin otherwise. Thankfully Reilly has been on top of the game and we’re pretty much ready to move, just a few more things to pack and the painting etc. is almost done (we have to put everything back to white, and most of our place has been painted otherwise so it’s a bit of a job).

Darwin keeps looking for Luna which is sad, but he has been ultra snuggly which I appreciate. I don’t know that there’s been a single day in the last 6 years where I worked on my computer or sat on the couch *without* Luna on my lap at least part of the time, but Darwin has been visiting me all day so I haven’t been too lonely.

I hate that she’s gone, but I’m grateful that if it had to happen that it happened here rather than the new place. Sigh.

It’s been a weird day – frustrating news for Tanya and Barry, exciting news for Kimli & Ed, bittersweet day for us.

Here’s the fairly dramatic story of when we brought her home. The first time she jumped 9 feet head first with reckless abandon, she landed in a pile of clothes. This time she didn’t make it, but she didn’t suffer. She wasn’t scared of anything, which made her the kitty she was. Curiosity…

xoxo Lunacat

While today started like a typical day, I have somehow accomplished SIGNIFICANTLY more than on most days.

It’s also well past midnight and I’m still working (HAH! But I’m backdating this post to the 24th because if it happens before I sleep, it counts), but it’s worth it knowing how close I am to being caught up. Some highlights:

-  I chose images and designed 5 mockups for a client’s thank you cards, and sent them off for their review

- We got the wedding of some fantastic September clients online

- Reilly and I visited the lawyer to hand over all of the money for closing and to sign stacks upon stacks of paper. Closing happens on Thursday!

- I finished culling one wedding, I completed a second wedding start to finish, and I culled a portrait session as well – so a few hours all told. Those are ready to be sorted and organized and sent off to one of our outsourcers for next steps

- I completed all the overdue Indie I Do updates. The website has been tweaked and updated, the 2010 vendor list is online, the seldom used blog has been converted to a news section, the stats have been reviewed,  I posted all the major TV, radio, and other media pieces from the January show, and I’ve started up the online ads as we are just 2 months now officially from our 2010 event. Tickets have been coming in  (cool fact: first ticket sales happened in May for our upcoming January show!)

- I blogged on the Blue Olive side about Got Craft (you’re coming, right?)

- I went through all the current intern applications and contacted each applicant with an update on their status. I was nervous that I didn’t have many applicants at first but I’ve got a great bunch of people starting to come in with 5 great looking people on the shortlist and more than 2 weeks to go, so I’m no longer stressed as much about this

- After starting the day with around a typical 80 items in my inbox (which means to-do box: anything not requiring my action is filed immediately), I currently have ZERO remaining items. Really. For likely the first time this year. Invoices sent, vendor file requests filled, people put in touch, meetings setup and so on. It’s refreshing.

SO! That’s it for today. Heh.

(this was the promo pic I sent for my stuff at Got Craft)

Almost forgot to post!

Reilly is all kinds of incredible and the vast majority of our things are in boxes in the livingroom. Woo!

Tomorrow we take the final large LARGE pile of pennies to the lawyers and sign many stacks of paper. Side note: property transfer tax? Ya. Doesn’t exist in Alberta. Does here. I love spending near $10 000 for no good reason, which is cash by the way, not rolled into our mortgage and separate from our down payment. Anyways.

Tomorrow: Reka in the office, lots of work to do, painting, finishing drywall, lawyer, and more things I can’t remember.

Josh and Shan are all moved in!

Many boxes and loads and configuring and strategically placing later, J+S+cats+stuff are all tucked into their new home. Shan has the next 2 days to sort and unpack and settle, and we spend the next few days prepping for our own move.

Highlight of the day of course was massively dislocating my knee by standing wrong and having it not go back into place easily or quickly, so that was awesome. Really. At least I got to strip off my pants in an effort to re-locate it, a house isn’t really a home until your friends are in it half clothed.

Now – curled up with a blanket and ice for my knee and a cat watching some mindless TV. Tomorrow – cleaning the house in the chaos of boxes, buying more boxes, mail and off-site backup runs, and 2 new client meetings in the evening. They’re the last 2 booked here before we completely destroy the place over the next few days.

Cool fact of the day: on a Sunday evening with no traffic door to door Josh & Shan’s to our new place is 13 minutes. Weu!