We is Moved!!!

We are now settling in inside of the Cheddar Curtain! I'm so excited and can't wait to post pictures of my room! I didn't end up with the ittsy-bittsy room, like was the original plan, thank goodness! It is a lot smaller (the other room) than I had remembered--about 8"x11". Instead, I am living in a much larger room that is slightly minty-green. The new house has dark original wood work with glass doorknobs and most of the original light fixtures. It was built in the 1920's or 30's and is very square, with a little closed-in porch on front and a small mud room on the back. The house faces east with the garage on the north side, just a little further back from the road than the house. Behind (west of) the house is an empty lot, then a newer neighborhood with a small park.
On Monday we headed off early. Dad woke me up at about quarter past four in the morning, and I hurriedly changed, gathered my things together, and we left at five oh two a.m. Isn't that time awful? We drove for not quite half an hour to the friend's house where we left the truck. Then we tried to avoid little kitties who enjoyed sitting in front of the wheels of cars. We managed to not hit any. Then Rapunzel and I drove in the Astro, following Mom in the Maliblue, following Dad in the U-haul. Alllllll the way up to Cheddarland. About three hours. It was a long drive up there. Mom said at first "NO RADIO!" because it would distract Rapunzel. But for the last half-hour/forty-five minutes we listened to my Go cd, after begging Mom to allow us to. We had a cell phone in each car, so we could keep in touch. Anyway, we made it up here without trouble, did the final walk through of the house at eight-thirty, signed papers at ten, and owned the house by eleven. Busy, huh? But we weren't done yet. We still had to un-load the HUGE moving van. We started cleaning house right after our early lunch (actually my very late breakfast) because the previous owners had a cat. It shed all over the place! Even in the freezer! It took a lot of sweeping to get it decent. Several people from our new church came over and helped us move in, including my Bloggy Buddy Owan.
Yesterday we went back down and got a smaller truck load from storage and a friend's barn. (Hey Avalon! Did you get the note I left on your counter?) We're back home now, watching The Bourne Supremecy on TBS. It's interesting. Mom wants us to go to bed, but I think Dad'll let us watch the rest of the movie.
The first thing I unpacked on Monday was my paint supplies. There's space in my room for my paint table! And I can stay up later than usual because it doesn't affect anyone else. On Tuesday night, I stayed up until ten-thirty (instead of my usual enforced lights-out by nine-thirty) catagorizing my paint and deciding what I need more of. Part of yesterday and today I designed this year's Christmas card. It's all designed in my ideas notebook, all I need to do now is do the actual painting, scan it onto the computer, and design the inside of the card. My brain is working on next year's card already, although Mom says maybe we won't use it next year because it's so similar to this and last years' cards. So I came up with a fourth.
Judi tagged me the other day, but because of the length of this post, I'll fill it out tomorrow or day after.

Operation Post-It Update:
The latest count is sixty-six (66) comments. We're doin' good, peeps! I even left a note for Avalon while I was at her house picking up boxes, mentioning that she hasn't been on her blog in a while. She would have gotten it about five and a half hours ago, but there is still no new post. After I finish this, I'll go add a few comments, bringing it up to seventy. There have been quite a few clever comments on there! Maybe I'll do a 'Kommander Kiwifruit's Klever Komment Award' for those of you who came up with the wittiest words.

I need to get off now. The movie is ending, which means I'll have to go to bed soon. I will post with pictures of our new house as soon as possible.

TTFN!
~Kiwifruit
P.S. Did you know today is 'Talk Like A Pirate Day'? I thought it was later in the year, but it's not. Sadly, I missed most of it. SO.... I declare September 20th "Talk Like An Aussie" day. Tell me if you do it!
~Aussiefruit

I Drove Today!

Just a quick little note to keep Miss Judi satisfied. ;-P
We had a load of junk that we took to the dump today, so guess who drove! It was my first time on the road, and let me tell you, fifty-five miles/hour is a LOT faster when it's you behind the wheel! My brother, who comments with the name 'Asdef' so I'll call him that, rode along, and it wasn't bad enough that I was rather a little freaked, he had to whimper and squeal too. I'm not taking him along next time. He's too distracting.
After we went to the dump, Dad had me drive out west of town to Avalon and Catfreaks' place, so I could show off my new skills and get a bit of practise driving on gravel. That was better, because the road was deserted and I could drive at a more comfortable pace--about thirty-five to forty. Unfortunately, they have cats and a dog, which made it even more frightening trying to avoid hitting one. I think I killed a butterfly, but thankfully, that was it. A moment of silence for the poor butterfly, please.

Okay, that's enough. So I still find driving fun, but it is just a little nerve-racking. We need to find a nice, large, yellow magnet that says, in black letters, "WARNING: STUDENT DRIVER". Dad said maybe we should get some flashing yellow lights to put on top while we're at it.

I packed up all my paint supplies yesterday. :-( I miss them. Hopefully, I'll get a good enough sized room to put my paint table in.

Well, my friends, that's all I have to say at the moment. Comment away! By this time, a week and a day hence, we will be either unloading the u-haul or done with that and on to organizing the boxes at the new house. See ya!
~Kiwifruit