Archive for the 'Kvetching' Category

Ah, the suburbs….

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

Today on my walk, I passed the Scottsdale Marsh about half a mile from my apartment and saw a man taking a shit. Okay, I didn’t actually see any poo accumulation, but the guy had popped a squat behind a tree, pants down. About five feet from the sidewalk. It’s nice to [...]

New York!

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

So there goes the weekly update.  But I have a really good excuse–I was getting ready for my first trip back to NYC since moving out here.  I had planned this trip a couple of months ago, just to get in some face time at the office.  It was sooo nice to be “home” again. [...]

Pictures (at last)

Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

Here are some long awaited pictures of our apartment. I took them about a week ago so things are in slightly better shape now (the trash on the deck is all gone, for one thing!). Please don’t ask me about how I dented my car when I hit a bush, or about the [...]

Moving sucks

Monday, September 10th, 2007

Between unpacking (which is sooo much harder to do while pregnant), buying and assembling new furniture, getting phone and cable service installed, and getting a new driver’s license (according to California, my name has remained Haselkorn, even though I changed it over five years ago, so now I have to go back to the DMV [...]

What happens when a native Brooklynite moves to California…