And counting down...
Mar. 5th, 2009 08:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
emskThe inlaws* leave in a week. I'm pleased to have met them, pleased that I get along with them (especially Tobermory's mum, she's absolutely lovely). But also pleased, in a probably selfish fashion, that they're going home. Eight weeks is quite a long time to have relative strangers in the home, especially when working and just trying to live normally.
The weather has also started packing up. It's gradually heading into hurricane season, and we're starting to get the bad storms marching through. So it's probably good that they're going home, before the rain really comes in.
It turns out that the house has no leaking issues, which is always good to know. The front door lets some water in when it's raining sideways, but you do kind of expect that with a door that isn't particularly weather or water proofed. Tobermory wants to replace it, and that doesn't seem like a terrible idea.
The garage doors rattle in the wind. This is only really irritating if you're one of the guests sleeping downstairs, such as the inlaws, who have been stuffing newspaper in the hinges at night to deal with the incessant doing.... doing....
I've also discovered that my newly-adopted shortish haircut is going to prove problematic throughout the winter. It tends to be windy, and walking into work this morning I resembled Cousin It after a run-in with a lawnmower. I'm going to have to buy a hat**. My beloved laughed immoderately at me about this.
It's been pleasant having visitors, but I will also be pleased to return to the pleasant humdrum of our own life.
Also, when Tobermory's dad is home, i can get kitties.
*Yes, I know we're not actually married yet, thus they're not actually the inlaws, but what else could I call them?
** I also found a winter coat in a second-hand shop. It was actually for a costume party (which admittedly isn't till May), it cost me $15 and it's a glorious red knee-length coat.
The weather has also started packing up. It's gradually heading into hurricane season, and we're starting to get the bad storms marching through. So it's probably good that they're going home, before the rain really comes in.
It turns out that the house has no leaking issues, which is always good to know. The front door lets some water in when it's raining sideways, but you do kind of expect that with a door that isn't particularly weather or water proofed. Tobermory wants to replace it, and that doesn't seem like a terrible idea.
The garage doors rattle in the wind. This is only really irritating if you're one of the guests sleeping downstairs, such as the inlaws, who have been stuffing newspaper in the hinges at night to deal with the incessant doing.... doing....
I've also discovered that my newly-adopted shortish haircut is going to prove problematic throughout the winter. It tends to be windy, and walking into work this morning I resembled Cousin It after a run-in with a lawnmower. I'm going to have to buy a hat**. My beloved laughed immoderately at me about this.
It's been pleasant having visitors, but I will also be pleased to return to the pleasant humdrum of our own life.
Also, when Tobermory's dad is home, i can get kitties.
*Yes, I know we're not actually married yet, thus they're not actually the inlaws, but what else could I call them?
** I also found a winter coat in a second-hand shop. It was actually for a costume party (which admittedly isn't till May), it cost me $15 and it's a glorious red knee-length coat.
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