JPEG GHOST

We got cleared to start moving stuff over to the new apartment. I am happy and excited, especially after talking to the neighbors briefly. It's an old lady with cats next to us and I LOVE OLD PEOPLE SO MUCH. Quiet, non intrusive... I had a nice time talking to her and she let us borrow a standing dolly (we had been using a flat dolly which just made every box fall over). I told Alex we gatta let her come over for drinks when we are set up. Or I'll at least make her cookies... Or beer bread...

I am however devastated because the hideous mustard yellow paint in the kitchen is GONE. My 70s dream kitchen VANISHED beneath eggshell white. No I'm not going to paint it back it's too much work.

My two coworkers are in a pissing contest. Well, a one sided one. The shop bully, C, hates another artist, B.

B is a nice guy and I get along with him well enough. B specializes in blackouts and his fun personality has him hanging out with my mentor a lot. C used to hang out with her a lot, but now that B is there she is having more fun with him. C feels replaced so he's been acting out and trying to drag ME into it. It feels like choosing parents in a divorce. He drags me into talking shit (I give vague responses) and he tries to one up everything B does. B doesn't care about him and thinks he's annoying, and knows that I have his back.

Shop drama is ANNOYING but at least it doesn't involve me. Fully. C is trying to get me on his side and I have expressed constantly that I don't want to be brought into whatever shit he's doing.

That about sums up what's going on. I'm using this post as an excuse to keep from moving boxes for a bit more...

Still moving. A lot of things are thankfully falling into place right now; 50% of the plants are here, the shiba is here (and uncertain about it all). Me and Alex are getting comfy but I'm so tired from it all that I'm kind of a blob when I'm not at work. I'll take a picture of our place soon. It's very parallel; on one side, the kitchen has copper jello molds hanging from the walls and cast iron pots while on the other side we have a TV playing RuPaul suspended on a comically small archery block.

I want to sew up some placemats or table runners or table cloth soon to make the place more inviting but that will probably have to wait since we have piles of books and no bookshelf. We can make furniture out of the amount of books we have. We could make a miniature castle. There's just so many. And we ... Probably need a TV stand. The archery block can only take so much abuse.

I desperately want to start growing kale but they're all sold out at local stores! Are people growing stuff now during the pandemic?! After 8 months?! I JUST WANT TO GROW KALE IN EGG CARTONS!