Glory be, we have the cable internet at the new condo! It is fast and splendid and delightful! I am sure I will never leave the house again. Is incredible. At my old apartment, I was too thrifty (cheap) to pay for cable internet since I lived alone, but now that we will be splitting the bills we have made a splurge. And oh, it is worth every penny already.

The odd thing is that we still have an appointment for a cable guy to come out and “install” the internet (or whatever the parlance is) next week, but just now this Self-Install Kit arrived on the doorstep, and by some miracle E and I got it to work in, like, five minutes. So does that mean that we do not need the official guy to come out? What is the point of him, if two bumbling Amish people like ourselves can set it up? I mean really.

Also, just now E’s female friend M came over to check out our new place. The two of them had plans to go out this evening, which E made when he thought I’d be working all day. So she just stopped by and now the two of them have left, for dinner and a movie.

On the one hand, I did NOT want to go with them, because M is fine in small doses, but I have a low threshold for very self-involved people. (E is sort of a saint, and therefore can tolerate her for longer periods.) On the OTHER hand, seeing them off while I stayed behind to play on the internet, so that they could go to their very date-like dinner-and-a-movie, felt really odd. Like, “Have a good time out there, Fiancee and Other Girl! Use protection!” or something.

Not to mention that the two of them are both about six feet tall and I am 5′4″, so standing there between them while they debated where to go out felt like being the child staying home with a babysitter while the parents left for a night out.

Eh, never mind that. I have an evening all to myself in our new place, with internet and lots of fun food in the fridge! I am off to try our new Big Cheez-Its. (Have you seen these?? They are massive.) Have a good night!