Toto, we’re home. Home! And this is my room, and you’re all here. And I’m not gonna leave here ever, ever again, because I love you all, and – oh, Auntie Em – there’s no place like home!
Archive for the ‘Moving’ Category
Been waiting to say…
Posted in Moving on May 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
So, what’s up with you?
Posted in Moi, Moving on March 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
So.
I hope you’re doing well.
Mr. TR drove away today with our pets and all our stuff. Goodbye pets. Goodbye stuff. Goodbye husband.
Hello rented room.
And I thought I was ready to get back to Pittsburgh before? That was nothin’.
Proof
Posted in Moving, Photos on March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just in case you’ve been yearning for visual proof that I hung out on the deck at the Grandview the first week in March:
Also, I apologize for not being around so much since I’ve been back in Oz-tin. Truth be told, I’m a little melancholy and a lot distracted. Ya see, turns out Mr. TR’s [...]
Travelogue: Peace, love, and a little dirty trick
Posted in Moi, Moving, WTF on March 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Good morning Pittsburgh. Time to find out if I can still be funny and interesting while I’m here.
I woke up before my alarm yesterday, which was set for 3:30 CST. Threw on a sweater (yes!) and waited for Mrs. PF to pick me up at 4:00. I owe her a kidney. She played The Clarks [...]
Explain something to me
Posted in Moving on February 23, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Explain to me… the decorative fireplace. If you have never lived anywhere but Pittsburgh, you may never have thought about what a ragingly stupid concept this is. So think of it now: it’s 19-0-whatever, you’re building a drafty brick Victorian house in a part of the country that’s under snow for 4 months of the [...]
Pittcetera
Posted in Moving, Pirates, Pittcetera, Pittsburgh Growth on February 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
1. No, no, no, no, and no. That is all.
2. Spring training is underway, and if you care, follow the analyses here, here, or here. This is the bestest time of year. Almost time for baseball joy, but no actual sucking yet.
You guys, I love baseball. I don’t know if I’ve emphasized that enough. I [...]
Resolved
Posted in Homesick, Moving, tagged New Year's Resolutions on January 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It is the year that I move home.
I’m going to say it again, because it sounds so good.
It is the year that I move home.
I don’t need any New Year’s resolutions this year, because I made a resolution three years ago when I was standing in the middle of my empty house, feeling like that [...]
Look, I started a new trend…
Posted in Homesick, Moving, Post-Gazette, tagged Allegheny Conference on Community Development, Pittsburgh Diaspora on December 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
…moving back to Pittsburgh. The Post-Gazette today reports a bit half-heartedly on an apparent initiative to publicize PGH’s reputed ability to weather the economic storm. I can’t tell if the author is trying to get us to take the Allegheny Conference on Community Development seriously or if he’s calling it out as a pointless charade. [...]
Conversion
Posted in Moving on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Folks proselytize all the time. About politics, religion, electric cars, sushi, or video game systems – anything that engenders strong feelings invariably engenders the desire to spread those feelings to others. I always felt that these efforts were a waste of precious energy. Surely no mind had ever been changed by this kind of thing.
Until [...]
When you aren’t looking
Posted in Libations, Moving, Pittsburgh Growth, tagged Boulevard of the Allies, Chevy Amphitheatre, drink tax, Penn Brewery on December 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I like change. I think it’s good, and I seek it often. But I find myself upset by changes that happen back home when I’m not there. It’s one thing to experience the changes, to roll with them, to be able to say goodbye when necessary. It’s quite another to read about change on the [...]
