Tomorrow my sweetie and I are picking up the keys to our new home in Alameda, a island suburb off of Oakland. After almost 10 years of living in SF city limits I’m moving to a house with a proper back yard where I can plant flowers and herbs for cooking.

The house is a three bedroom single story arts and crafts house. It does have a garage, but the driveway was built in 1911 between the houses when the only cars on the road were model Ts, so it is too small for modern day cars! Garage = gardening/bike shed. Good enough for us!

It even has a laundry room–no more dodging traffic as I run across the street with 30 lbs of black clothes stuffed into a garbage bag! The kitchen is huge with this strange box under one of the counters that you can put dirty dishes in and soap–then flick a switch and they magically clean themselves! Crazy!

And hard wood floors. And a fire place with built ins. I have to pinch myself to believe that I’m going to be living there.

For more pictures check out this site my sweetie created.

www.loupehole.com/alameda

We feel very lucky to have found this beautiful house and we look forward to turning it into our own dear home.

And I swear I’ll get to more knitting stuff soon.

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My sweetie just started his new job. But he is still freelancing his old job and going to school. So he is busy. Too busy to help me post pictures and do all that stuff. I promise that in November I will be much better about posting pictures and making this blog look far more charming than it looks right now. Yeah, Maybe, I’ll do that 100 things about me thing. And other stuff. Yeah!

But right now the next month is going to be painful for me because:

1.) We are moving from SF to Alameda into a classic California bungalow
2.) Devil-Ettes are putting on Tease-O-Rama, the only burlesque convention in the world!
3.) I’m going on a stressful business trip

All by Oct. 1st. So bring on the packing tape and fancy dance move. Sleep–that’s so five minutes ago. I’ve been waking up at 4:00AM every morning thinking about stuff. It’s driving me mad.

What STRESS-FREE knitting project can I do through all of this madness? SOCKS! Yeah. I’m going to knit socks! Yeah!

And I promise wonderful pictures of fun stuff tomorrow. I promise!

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1. Counting stars at night from the hot tub and breathing in the distinct scent of the ocean mixed with fresh herbs and apples hanging from the tree above us
2. Starting and completing all the knitting for my Kim Hargreaves sweater—with size 17 needles it was the fastest thing I’ve ever knit up!
3. Rediscovering the joys of reading while diving into The Historian (while sunning myself outside
4. Falling asleep to the sounds of water lapping outside our window (and sleeping on a properly firm mattress as opposed to the deadbeat one at my house)
5. Eating apple pancakes while watching jelly fish casually swim by the house—they are so graceful and beautiful—from a safe distance
6. Deciding to plant tons of mint in the backyard of our dream house we are hoping to rent in Alameda—after finishing our second round of mojitos, of course
7. Taking naps during the day because I can
8. Dining on the best BBQ oysters served at the Marshall General Store, which was a short 10 minute walk from our house
9. Not having access to a computer or even a telephone for five glorious days
10. Just being with my sweetie

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Today I received not one, but TWO packages in the mail full of yarn today. Be still my heart! And just in time for my six day vacation on Tomales Bay, where I have nothing planned but knitting and hanging out in the hot-tub–well, not at the same time, but you get the drift.

The first package was the Kim Hargreaves sweater. Her presentation won over my marketing heart. A darling little card was tucked in between the sheets of tissue paper and ribbon wrapped around the yarn. I took an awful picture of the package with my phone at work, but have yet to figure out how to put it on the Web.

I can hardly wait to get my needles into that yummy Rowan yarn. And since the needles are HUGE–size 17–and the pattern is mostly garter stitch, I’m hoping to have some nice pictures of my progress to show when I get back Tuesday.

But the big news is that Sweetie and I looked at houses yesterday. One in Alameda, the sleepy island town just across the Bay. The house is darling on the inside–lots of space and a very sunny back room and a nice back yard too. After ten years of city apartment living, this little house looks like heaven. The outside could definitely use some help, but there is promise of paint. So, cross your fingers everyone–we send our applications in tomorrow. Let’s cross our fingers that those few late payments on my Visa card don’t keep me from my dream house!

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