So we live in Brooklyn now! Ah! Have for a bit more than a week. We’re homeowners! (And yes, that’s our bold red couch against the Williamsburg, Brooklyn skyline…) It’s so strange — we own this apartment. It’s still shock-inducing.

The unpacking has gone quickly. We’re all but settled in. Last week I didn’t sit down much. This week I’ve finally had the time to spare and I’m slowly realizing all of the things I need to catch up on doing, things I put off when we were in the midst of moving that I can’t ignore any longer. That stack of old mail… yeah…

Several things have happened in the last week to make it even crazier. First, the air conditioning unit in the living room broke. The transformer inside melted, surprising even our Super. Needless to say it’s in the 80s in New York so I wish it was working, but we’re surviving. Next — and probably the most ugh-inducing — was the death of my netbook. Yes, my 10″ Dell Inspiron Mini, purchased in April 2009, is dead. (The harddrive makes the most awful noise and it can’t find the OS. Grr. I’m pretty techy but even I can’t fix that.) The bad news? It died two weeks out of warranty. The good news? American Express may be able to help us with their extended warranty program. Sweet! But that said, I essentially haven’t had my own computer with internet in… a while. We wouldn’t have any internet at all (thanks to the ethernet wiring we still need to do) if the husband’s souped up computer didn’t have a wireless adapter as well as an ethernet port.

The last and most exciting thing this week is… I’ve caved. I’m getting a MacBook Pro. I’m converting to Apple! Ah! It’s exciting! (I was hooked in college, always preferring the Mac clusters of public computers to the PCs, though I’ve wanted to own one since the Mac computers came in bright colors. Eons ago, now…) I didn’t want to invest in one for another year or two yet, but with the death of the Mini, the husband and I felt it was time. It’s supposed to arrive today. I can feel the productivity it’ll inspire in me already. FedEx hasn’t dropped it off yet. (And no: refreshing the FedEx website will not inspire their packages to move any faster. I’ve tried. My magical powers of persuasion via Internet still need to be honed, it seems.) Once it arrives, I’ll be in geek heaven for a little while. Probably for a long while. I’m still geeking out about my iPhone 3GS and that’s almost a year old.

I’m hoping that after today, once I have a real computer again, I’ll be able to jump into work seamlessly. I’ve got a lot to catch up on and I’m very excited to get back to writing. (Thoughts of plots and dialogue have been popping up lately and I need to get them down into a document before they flutter away.) I can’t wait!