This House is WARM!

Yesterday was the latest in a long line of big events that have been looming large in the minds of, well, at least the adults in the big old house.  The much anticipated "Housewarming Party."  I have never managed to have one before, nor did I ever feel much of a need to have one, but in this case, it felt important to have people over to see the new place while it was still new, and also before the next round of  Total Theater Smack-down started up.  Pretty much....oh, any second now, really.

I lost track of how many people came through the party but suffice it to say, in spite of rather bad-going weather, there were quite a few! It would have been a very different party without the assistance and awesomeness of Jenny Johnsen.  She pushed us through that last push of getting the house sort of party-ready (ignore the piles of boxes in the corner...) and food prep.  Again, thank goodness for Jenny.

Andrew and Scott gave many, many tours, I kept an eye on things in the kitchen and watched the doors as best I could to greet people when everyone else was off on tour, at least until I started in on the bourbon, and then the party got a lot more fun, but I was probably a lot less useful.

Andrew and Scott both separately and in the course of about 30 minutes asked me "Are you going to bake that brie?"  Well, I had not been sure if I would or not, but two requests, I figured I'd better.  And people ate the baked brie with cranberries and almonds and did not seem to be suffering.

Next up, the moving company is coming to pick up the boxes we have already finished unpacking.  I don't know how many we have unpacked or how many we had, but I know that whatever it is, it is not as many as it should have been.  Sigh.  They will give us a rebate on boxes we return tomorrow.  And yet here I sit, typing and typing instead of unpacking.  Brilliant, I know.

We are now at exactly one month since the move and while many aspects are going very well, I find myself wondering "Just how long are we going to be able to maintain this level of goodness?"  Because, like Stitch, I tend to be a little on the low side:

And there is a lot of goodness to maintain here, like keeping up with laundry for seven, keeping the dishwasher either washing or empty.  Not putting paper on the island.  Making dinner on a regular basis instead of eating a LOT of pizza and you know there are more things on that list but you get the idea.

We're also in the thick of production for Completely Hollywood (abridged) and I am realizing how I need to be building a set for that.  And tonight was a meeting about the show after that one, which I am not even ready to think about yet but really must because....or else!

So my goodness level is probably about to take a nosedive as my insanity level increases.

It helps a lot to have a lot of things still contained in boxes.  It helps not at all to realize that my "free time" is about to be a lot less "free" as we start into the second half of Chameleon's season.  Good thing we moved when we did because trying to move right now would be nigh impossible!