Well we've moved on uh-up.

I feel somewhat responsible for the sudden onset, blacked-out-sky downpours we've been having all week. Because I've been praying for them ever since we moved here. Manifesting, my mom would say.

See, there are two reasons we picked this apartment. The first and most important: it's three blocks from G's work. With his sixty hour (minimum) work week, proximity translates into being able spend time with me and his child--literally ever--or not. Ever. Well, odd Sunday mornings.

Second: This window

Which, with few key exceptions, is about my most favorite thing that ever there was. OH yes it's a hundred years old and the panes are cracked and the casings just gaping holes, and yes it leaks all of the heat out (which we now pay) and will no doubt make the apartment impossible to air-condition in summer, but I don't care. The floor to ceiling kitchen window overlooking a yard I can't use makes me deliriously happy. It's also the reason I've been doing dances for dark, rainy weather since we arrived. Just so I could stand there. And watch it.

The downside of the window is having to train ourselves to dress properly (read: at all) before heading to kitchen or the bathroom off the kitchen. I'd forgotten about the "if you can see them, they can see you" rule of Rear Window physics until I spied the Occasionally Naked Rabbi* one night, across the way, getting a book off the bookshelf in the all-together. He's not creepy or anything, no exhibitionist, there's no "hey lookee mee!" about it. Just a man at home, who, as I said, occasionally walks through his living room nude at night, who I never would have seen at all had I not made it a habit to stare out my window all hours hoping for rain.

So. That's the update. We're here. Safe, sound, happy and penniless.

* I have no proof he's a Rabbi. It's an assumption based on how he dresses (like a Rabbi) and where we now live (the epicenter of Judaic/Rabbinical study). And it makes a better story.

Posted by Antigeist at May 17, 2006 11:14 AM