Movin' On Up

You have no idea how that song's been playing over and over in my mind the past couple weeks.  For those of you who are unfamiliar it was the theme song from one of my fave shows back in the day:  The Jeffersons.  If George Jefferson's character tried even half the racial or male superiority stuff today, he'd be booted right off the tv.  Let's face it he wouldn't even get on in the first place.  Unless he was crazy like Charlie Sheen, but that's another story for another time.

No friends, today is the true story of me moving up to Level 2 of the 30 Day Shred (knees are throbbing and I think I pulled my achilles, but I managed to make it through) in the same weekend the landlord and I reach an agreement on the upper unit of the duplex I live in.  Now after last week's hell I realize  many of you may be thinking, 'giiiiiirrrrrl you just need to get out of there.'  And the truth is at some point I will, but summer is coming and I'd like to spend this one close to the beach.  It's tough to relo feral cats - even those that are semi-tame - at the best of times, never mind when the Chef is in full swing opening a restaurant.  On top of that I want a dishwasher, and this place has it.  

It may seem like a little thing, but here in SoCal unless you live in a human filing cabinet (large apartment community) it's tough to swing a dishwasher.  So some of my dreams are coming true. 

There's a great outdoor space above the garage right outside my backdoor.  Even though

it's a hot mess right now I plan to remove the debris, clean it up, 

and the Chef will put his carpenter's hat on to build some built-in lounge areas. 

Here's to days in the sun reading a book with SPF 7000 slathered on.

Morning tea, afternoon lemonade, and evening cocktails? Yes, yes, and yes.

Another big thing on my wish list was more natural light.  I've lived in this building
almost 6 years and have been fortunate enough to have only 2 different upstairs neighbors.  
Anytime I visited them I noticed how bright it was up there.  It might be 
a biznatch in the summer heat, but hopefully my A/C units + the cross breeze 
will tackle it.  I sure hope so.

And there's a deck that runs the width of the building just off the living room!
My cats can have their own outside space and hop in and out easily.
Now to find a nice person for my current downstairs place...

I hope you don't mind me sharing the details - after last week I felt like I owed you some sort of update.  Argh.  And now I have to zip off and keep prepping the tax pile for Tuesday's visit with the accountant (is this over yet?).  In the meantime I hope you all had a great and relaxing weekend in the sun.  To those of you shredding, shred on!