April 21st – 30th photos

This was the week of total insanity – fun and extreme work – with my brother visiting, getting the keys to our house early, Bridgetown Comedy Festival, and the move!

21st + 23rd – Packed all day, dropped off a ton of stuff (almost literally, hah!) at Value Village, then picked up Matt and Chelsea at the airport and brought them to check in at the Jupiter – definitely one of the coolest hotels in Portland, so I was excited to see the inside of a room there.  Tiny, but super cute for sure, with the mustard yellow mural-ish painted wall.  A bit out of order for aesthetic reasons, on the 23rd we got the keys to our house, spent some time moving a few things in and checking it all out, then that night was the most packed-with-shows night of the festival, so I shot the schedule:

22nd – The first night of the comedy festival, we spent the whole night at the Bagdad for opening night funniness – this is the ceiling:

24th + 25th – The 24th was pretty darn beer-filled, as the city of Portland encourages – we each got sampler trays at Hedge House with our dinner, to try all the deliciousness that New Old Lompoc has to offer.  Also on the 24th, we scored the elusive Voodoo $5 bucket!  We had stopped by Voodoo to grab a dozen for a small empty-house gathering we hosted on Saturday afternoon, but how could we resist paying less for a ridiculous bucket instead?!  Well, each of us ate a donut, and what you see in the photo was left over… so on the 25th, we took it with us to the festival and passed it on to the comedians:

26th + 27th – Bonus of the house closing early – time to paint!  Spread over 2 days, we did the primer coat then 3 coats of orange, to get the bright and bold final result!  Yay!

28th – Moving day!  We highly recommend Thunder Movers, by the way.  It was our first time ever hiring movers, and after countless moves, between the two of us, doing it all ourselves, it was such a relief after all the packing and house-buying stress to have the bulk of the moving done by pros.

29th – Pete was unexpectedly called into work a day early, so I spent all afternoon, till 10ish at night, at the old apartment getting everything off the walls by myself, the job we’d saved for last – I don’t think either of us realized how much we had screwed/nailed into the walls of that place!  Not a fun time, but it got done…

30th – Our final day getting the apartment cleaned out as much as possible to hopefully get our deposit back, that part of the day sucked, but then I got to finally spend the remainder of the afternoon and night resting in the new house!  Banzo had a bit of a tough time adjusting for the first couple of days, as most cats do, but I think the biggest reason she was freaked out was that after moving her over, we weren’t able to be there with her much, since we had to deal with the apartment, and Pete had to go back to work.  So, on her 3rd day in the house, once I was there with her for a few hours, she started settling in and acting more like herself:

Ok that’s all for this set… not much else to say… I went yard sale shopping today, that was kind of awesome – scored a great coffee table, painted teal with 3 levels, a couple other house items, some great vinyl, and some rad toys!  Maybe a thrifty finds post is in order!  Oh yeah, I also bought The Big Ass Book of Home Decor at Powell’s, so I’m super excited to spend some time with that!