Life is such a sweet insanity.
I love life and people. This is a place where I can write down what's happening, what I'm thinking, what I'm seeing and what I'm feeling. After all, life is just one blog entry after another.Monday, December 08, 2003
Home, Sweet, Home.
If's officially been one week today. Earl and I have been in the new house for exactly one week. Home, Sweet, Home. It's a nice fit. I look forward to spending 30 years here!
We started last Monday early with the moving crew arriving around 8 a.m. These guys were efficient, and had everything out of the old house by 10:30, and everything in the new house (mostly stacked in the garage) by 12:30. Nice! A big check, a big tip, and off they go. That gave Earl and I about an hour to get cleaned up, meet the owners of our old house for their walk through, and to the lawyers to close on the old house by 2:00. Sign, sign, sign, whip through McDonalds drive thru for french fries, and on to the lawyers to close on the new house. Sign, sign, sign and whoops, there it is! Thank GOD everything went smoothly!
Last week we spent each night after work getting the house organized. I'd love to say that everything is now in it's place and it's like we've been here forever. But, I would be lying if I said that.
We still have 35 boxes and all our old furniture in the garage. Sorting through boxes makes me realize that I kept a lot of junk over the years. So I'm working on throwing out more stuff. And more stuff. And another load just for good measure.
We are all set up on high speed internet and it is working wonderfully! I've accomplished more online in the past week than I did the whole month before. I'm still tweaking away at my computer to live up to my new netidentity of "unixcub", but it's going really well. I'm feeling pretty good about things.
On Saturday the new washer and dryer was delivered. We're very pleased with them... they washer is the base-model front loader from Frigidaire, along with the matching stackable dryer. Pretty much the same set that we had in the old house, except for the controls being mounted on the front, and the Frigidaire name badge (instead of the Kenmore on the old set).
One thing we did do is go a little crazy on the home entertainment system for the Great Room. We decided to treat ourselves and buy a Sony Wega 42-inch plasma television, with a Yamaha surround sound system with Kliptsch speakers. This is going to be sweet. It's delivered tomorrow... I CAN'T WAIT.
My folks came in installments over the weekend to see the place, and it was nice visiting with them. Everyone seems to be in good spirits.
And now we can buckle down for the holidays. We bought an artificial Christmas Tree tonight at Wal*Mart of all places, but I wanted something that we could put our own lights on, yet something very tall. We decided on a 9 foot tree, rather than the 12 foot tree we were originally looking at. I can't wait to see how that looks!
As soon as I figure out how to get pictures from my camera to this computer, I'll be sharing photos of the new house. I'll also use that talent to sell a bunch of crap on ebay.
Home, Sweet, Home. How sweet it is.
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