oh god the crackz0r

Breakfast without Internet connectivity has been a sad and sorry affair. This is how it should be - it's so nice to wake up to you all again, finally :-) I shall celebrate by doing something I almost never do - a diary-style LJ entry.

Today is the US version of Mothers Day, but for us mother's day was yesterday. First my Mum and her partner Chris came to drop off a lovely LG fridge freezer, which should mean we actually have enough space to make things cold. They also brought lovely posh cut glasses and some bubbly, so we had a small celebratory drink with lunch before moving the fridge freezer into place - there's also been some good news in her life which was worth celebrating.

We haven't actually turned it on yet - we haven't opened enough boxes to find an extension cable. But we will soon.

Next ergotia's mum Cherrill came to inspect the new flat. I was sorry that we hadn't plumbed in the dishwasher she's given us - we're still faffing on the washing machine issue and we want to do both at once - but we'd bought new covers for the sofa she gave us as she suggested and she approved of the colour. She's a good person to get flat advice from and she enjoys doing it.

While they were here I got the call from the Internet cafe next door, and went over to talk about getting us online. After a certain amount of back-and-forth to fetch things from the house I'd forgotten, like Ethernet cables, we got it all sorted.

After my Mum left, the booze hit me and with a slight headache I went for a little lie down, while spikeylady and lilithmagna went to visit Leviathan. Once rested I got up and started mainlining the Internetty goodness like a man who had not been online at home for a week.

Once spikeylady and lilithmagna got back, we watched some BSG and then the four of us ate Thai food with spikeylady's mum yerbury and her sister buttonmeup, who had just returned from a trip to Paris. A very nice evening, though again one cut short for me by a headache - I had to leave spikeylady and lilithmagna to entertain each other while I went to bed...

The other thing that happened yesterday is that the movers turned up at our old flat, and put absolutely everything into a Transit van. I bet they didn't check things against the inventory and I'm sure most of it will be thrown away, which makes me wish we'd taken the things we'd find useful before they left. We've now handed over our keys, so that's goodbye to the old flat - the end of an era!

Today's plan is something like:

• Tidy up a little
• Have a shower
• Investigate the curtains question, including a possible trip to Tooting
• Put some IKEA furniture together
• Watch some BSG

Life is pretty good!