Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Year: 2006

  • We have the key

    And nobody took it back! we started moving some stuff over yesterday.. It’s nice to finally be in there, after all of this. When we went out to the realtor’s office to pick it up (again with that!) it was really weird. We were met in the lobby (after about 10 minutes of waiting for…

  • The Lilac Parade

    Last night I participated in the Lilac Parade. I was in the Summer Reading Program Book Cart Drill Team. I really had no idea what this was all about when I signed up for it, but I knew it would involve book trucks. We practiced doing drills every Thursday evening since the end of April.…

  • oh. my. god.

    We had to give the keys back. Can you believe that? WE HAD TO GIVE THE FUCKING KEYS BACK. Apparently our loan funded today but didn’t record. Or it didn’t fund and didn’t record. Or something like that. So they made us give the keys to the house back. And since it’s Friday we won’t…

  • you are not going to believe this…

    Okay, so Raf drives out there (ugh!) to pick up the key this morning. He kind of thought about talking to him when he got there to kind of try to smooth things over. He didn’t even get the opportunity. Our realtor sent HIS ASSISTANT out to the lobby, where my husband was waiting, to…

  • Exhaling can now commence

    Okay. We closed. we signed all of the paperwork this morning at 8:00AM. We don’t have they keys yet. we will get those tommorrow. Would you believe that our realtor didn’t show up for the closing? Isn’t it customary for them to show up? And he is making us go down to his office to…