Monday, April 05, 2004
Edie helped me haul a few very important items to the new place today. My musical instruments; xylophone, old guitar, amp, synth. A box loaded with photographs. Some small artworks. A diner booth jukebox. A carousel.
(mine is different, but it's a "collectible" no longer available.) A couple of folding chairs. This stuff had to go, most of it couldn't be "packed," & it can't be banged around. We measured the windows. The ceiling fan works fine. Someone in the apartment below plays funky music VERY loud, full bass. It was mid-afternoon, which is when I play music loud, so have to have to wait & see if the evenings are more subdued. Otherwise, I have a situation I'll need to remedy in a diplomatic manner. Edie liked the place. Very roomy. I turned aside all suggestions she had that involved accumulating more furniture or imposing upon what I have designated as open space. I have special things I treasure & enjoy looking at & living with, & for once I want them to be displayed for my pleasure. If I'd been able to move stuff by car all weekend I'd have a third of the apt. emptied by now.
If you take someone from Oklahoma back to the house in Long Branch where she briefly lived as child, then drive on down the coast to Seaside Heights for a ride on the Casino Pier Carousel, & you do this on a brutally hot 4th of July weekend, she just might send you a beautiful carousel for Christmas, particularly if she's a spendthrift.
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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
(mine is different, but it's a "collectible" no longer available.) A couple of folding chairs. This stuff had to go, most of it couldn't be "packed," & it can't be banged around. We measured the windows. The ceiling fan works fine. Someone in the apartment below plays funky music VERY loud, full bass. It was mid-afternoon, which is when I play music loud, so have to have to wait & see if the evenings are more subdued. Otherwise, I have a situation I'll need to remedy in a diplomatic manner. Edie liked the place. Very roomy. I turned aside all suggestions she had that involved accumulating more furniture or imposing upon what I have designated as open space. I have special things I treasure & enjoy looking at & living with, & for once I want them to be displayed for my pleasure. If I'd been able to move stuff by car all weekend I'd have a third of the apt. emptied by now.
If you take someone from Oklahoma back to the house in Long Branch where she briefly lived as child, then drive on down the coast to Seaside Heights for a ride on the Casino Pier Carousel, & you do this on a brutally hot 4th of July weekend, she just might send you a beautiful carousel for Christmas, particularly if she's a spendthrift.
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