From House to Home

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

They Came Bearing Muffins, Fruit, & Juice

Sunday morning we arrived and Bone Daddy had already arrive with Aunt Debbie AND had already started cleaning house.

At times the work was 'fun.'

Other times it was downright scary.

Mostly it was exhausting.

But after those moments of spite and rage against inanimate objects subsided...

...there were moments of victory that made it all worth while (yes- I found and destroyed yet MORE wallpaper).

Victory or slight delirium?

All in all we got some trim painted, the yard and house perimeter largely cleaned up, the downstairs bathroom primed, kitchen scrubbed, and one toilet taken apart/one toilet put together. There was caulking and scrapping and disposing of sorts. The muffins were awesome; we need a wegmans up here in the boonies.

Coming up... the big move!!!

Packing? or Something Like That

Brendan sweeping the mountain of dirt left behind from our carpet we brought to the house.

A few last looks at the yard I will soon be leaving.

Gaining closure...

...and besides, my new yard has charm.

Passive Progessiveness

Saturday was marred by a dentist appointment midday (I have 4-5 cavities), but otherwise we had the carpet area measured and the cable guy.

Surprisingly the wires leading to the house were old and needed to be replaced. Fortunately this was not MY problem. The Optimum peeps took care of it.

Brendan put the mirror/medicine cabinet in the wall in the upstairs bathroom.

This is the vanity I am putting in there.

My bedroom now has cable & baseboard.

The living room has cable as well. (I know what you are thinking... cable in my living room AND bedroom? That's right, I'm a fatcat banker.)

This is the cover for my plumbing; it needs to be painted. Also, as you can see-we've started taping for trim painting.

New Pics & Updates coming soon!

So this one time Brendan & I were driving our friend to the train station after he had come to visit. It started out well but we ended up dealing with some bizarre intermittent rain storms that were so heavy, the highway of traffic slowed to like 5-10 miles an hour due to lack of visibility.
For hours we were in that car, continually on the brink of being late- then making up time. We dubbed it the lamest race against time ever. We lost it. Had to drive him all the way into the city to catch his bus.
But this feels like that. I have all the stress of running late, lacking time, needing to get things done... but I can't really do anything until Friday. So every day I come into work exhausted and moderately panicking and can't do anything about it. I've been distracting myself googling bathroom vanities. LOTS and LOTS of bathroom vanities.

Booked the moving truck. Budget (name of the brand): 250$ with tax and all for 2 full days, unlimited miles. I think that will work well. I was going to use U-Haul but it was like 130 for the truck and included 48 miles for one day. Just the trip from my apartment to the house is greater than 48 miles, never mind storage space or making more than one trip, ... so I went with Budget. Doesn't come with the dolly cart like my UHaul one would have, but I can try to get one of those myself.

Anyways... back to work. :)