Lazy Sundays (not really) ;)

Well I am settling into my new home. Sandy and Terry (my landlords) are fantastic. It is nice to have my privacy but it is also nice knowing that if we chose to the three of us can hang out. Sandy and Terry are in Aruba right now so I am on pet duty. Blaze (the cat) and Shana (the beta fish) knock on wood they are both fine. I must say this was good practice for me. I always wanted a dog after finishing school but I realize how unfair to the dog it would be to have an owner like me. I am rarely home. So until I become independently wealthy enough to have a permanent dog walker or some such arrangement, no pets for Paula. :(

This week was busy at work. A couple of later nights. I am now in charge of advising's end of students on internship. I have also been given the responsibility of advertising programing to the students. Which is fun and a bit stressful at times since I work at a design school. You have to really be careful with advertising because if it looks bad the students won't come. I have to be creative because the faculty hate clip art and I am not allowed to use it (truth be told I hate clip art too, but it is easy).

Esther and I saw Pygmalion this week on Broadway. We liked it but we didn't love it. The supporting cast was great. Esther and I both warmed up to the leads after the first couple of scenes. It was much better once Claire Danes lost the cockney accent.

Friday night I met Esther, Michael (her boyfriend), and Mark (our friend) for Turkish food. Esther and I had been there once before but on the weekends there is apparently Belly Dancing. We ended being a very musical table. Michael loves to sing all the time. During dinner we were talking about an Ashford and Simpson concert that Esther and Mark went to last week (I was confused because at first I thought Esther said she and Mark were going to see Ashley Simpson). So Michael started singing songs from the sixties and Mark and I joined in and made a sing a long of it. The funniest moment was when we were talking about camping as children and started busting out into camp songs. Esther informed us that as a child she had asked her mother to send her to French camp so that she could get out of going to outdoors camp. I say that is the way to go.

The rest of this week has been pretty busy with getting somethings for the apartment. I made a trip to the Container Store in the village and yesterday I took the free weekend shuttle to IKEA in New Jersey. My apt is pretty well furnished I just needed a couple of things. I ordered a day bed and a dresser at IKEA. I am going to go back to the container store for some smaller items (they will deliver for a flat rate of $35.00 to Brooklyn, I LOVE the container store). Sandy and Terry gave me a nice square mirror. I am looking for a dressing table or vanity to use with it but have not found one that I love yet. But I think I will postpone on that till the daybed and dresser are up.

Today has been a somewhat lazy day so far. I have been cleaning, doing laundry (thank goodness I remember how, in Manhattan it is easier to send your laundry out but since Sandy and Terry let me use their basement it is more economical to do it my self again), later today I am going to go to Atlantic Antics which is a festival in Brooklyn. I am meeting some friends from work so it should be fun. Then it is a short work week for me as I prepare to head off to Grand Rapids on Thursday for Adam and Elissa's wedding.