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New House Factoids
- Lowe’s and Home Depot now posess a freaking tractor-beam like magnetic pull. I can FEEL them assimilating me, just like the Borg.
- First thing we “cooked”: Kraft mac ‘n cheese (high class, huh?)
- Number of times we’ve ordered pizza for delivery since we got here: 3
- Items unpacked and put away in our huge master closet so far(including clothes!): about 5
- Number of times we’ve watered the poor scraggly back lawn: 0
- Spaces that I’m totally in love (obsessed) with: the Harry Potter-esque pantry, and the upstairs laundry room
- Number of hours before we had DVR service going, and everything connected/working: approx 2 hours after the movers left. (not that we really have had much time to watch TV, but you know, DVR is pretty damn important)
- Neighborhood annoyances so far: a yippy dog that lives behind us and has a tendency to bark outside until 3 or 4am some nights. Also, one weekend night, there was a party next door with some mexican polka music going until 5am. Seriously.
- Daily commute time: 15 minutes or less one way (KICK-ASS!)
- There are outlets and light switches EVERYWHERE. We are not used to this gluttony of electric control, compared to the old house where we probably were violating 18 different fire codes.
- Number of fans we used to have running at the old place 24/7: 8
- Number of fans we have set up at the new place: 0
- That last factoid is slightly misleading, because here we have several ceiling fans which are totally awesome, btw. But we haven’t needed to supplement with any noisy hurricane or stand fans. Because, you know, the A/C actually WORKS.
- A momentous occurence: George has retired, and I was actually able to drink lemonade the other day without severe pain!
- We are really happy and excited to be here, and I’m sure that isn’t apparent at all from this list.
Ugh
So, it’s all like, “YAY, new house, yada yada yada!”
…And then the next day, you are still ridiculously sick with bronchitis or possibly pneumonia, and your kitchen looks like THAT (see above), and you have a mini fridge masquerading as a full size, which actually looks kind of funny….
WE DID IT!
After months of torturous delays, the genesis of George, and other assorted unbelievable shenanigans, we are FINALLY homeowners! So today felt a lot like this:
But now…we have 2 days to finish packing the house. Double OH-EM-GEE. And I have come down with bronchitis. 
Friday Misc
Yeah, daily posts are way out of my league right now and I find that to be sooo pathetic. But hey, constraints are constraints, self imposed or not.
Anyhoo, the house thing is moving along but we still don’t know the exact timing on when the deal will be sealed up and the keys to the kingdom get handed over. Probably sometime towards the end of next week. Guess we better REALLY try to motivate and push through the heat-induced lethargy and try to get the rest of our junk packed. I so wish that I would just, like, wake up tomorrow and it would be December, and a lovely 50°, partly cloudy day. Sigh, I can dream.
Took the day off today to do a hundred and fify errands, and the bright spot was GETTING OUR NEW FRIDGE ORDERED! I don’t know why this is like the most exciting part about the new house, but I am really stoked. Silly, ridiculous, I know but somehow it makes me feel like…wow, we really OWN something. A huge, HUGE thanks goes out to Aunt D for all her help. You have no idea how happy you made me today.
So long, you lying, scoundrel Sprint wireless b*stards! My contract was up last week and today I went and got my new iPhone and ported my # over. Not that I have any illusions about the corporate practices of AT&T wireless. But hey, I figure after 9 years with Sprint, it’s time to let some other company piss me off for awhile. Plus, iPhone, HELLO! Family share plan with work-affiliation discount is way cheaper too, even with the data plan. All in all, a win-win, I think, and K now has TWO iPhones to kill batteries on while playing games.
K is pretty much over her little cold, but still coughing a wee bit, and has been more restless than usual while sleeping. (FF would say VERY restless, as evidenced by the thrashing knees and feet invading his side of the bed.)
I have discovered that quite possibly one of the cutest things in the world is K singing and dancing to Laurie Berkner music videos. Recently, Noggin ran a 1 hour special of her music videos and so we DVR’d it. K and I have been rocking out all week! Her favorite song…”I’m not perfect”. She sings it perfectly! Ironic, isn’t it?
