Moving in

I feel like every post for the past couple of weeks and for the immediate future is going to start out with “I’m exhausted” or “Things are really hectic” or something of the like.  Because it truly is hectic up in these parts!

·         Friday we spent one last night at my parent’s condo before getting up early to meet the movers at the new house.

Saturday was a circus show of people in our house.  The movers dropped off all of our furniture.  Our electrician showed up early with two guys to bang out the can lights we put in the living room.  

Our new can lights in the living room look great!  Check out the Miami Vice paint colors- can't wait until those are gone.  :-)

·         Thank goodness the electrician did show up because all of our kitchen appliances showed up on Saturday too.  However, the guys that were supposed to deliver and install everything didn’t want to do more work than necessary, so right now we only have a working oven.  But the only reason that it is working is because the electrician was a rock star, not because these guys did anything.  The new washer, dryer, fridge, cooktop, and microwave/hood combo all are sitting around, doing nothing.  It’s a bit frustrating.

·         Needless to say, we are kind of bleeding money right now because without a working kitchen and fridge, we can’t make any meals.  I’m trying my best to eat healthy every time we go somewhere, but even the healthy options have more calories than something we would make at home.

·         I originally thought that we were going to be unpacking most of Sunday, but the electricians need access to all of the sockets and lights this week, so we had the movers put most of the furniture in the center of rooms so that the entire house can be rewired and all sockets changed from two prong to three prong.  Instead, CP and I did some landscaping.  I’ll wait to show you the after pictures because we have the before pictures on our nice camera with no internet, but the whole day was cathartic, taking the chainsaw to huge overgrown bushes and ripping out overgrown ivy. 

·         Our neighbors loved the new landscaping (even though we had to leave the stumps)- especially our next door neighbor because we had a very large bush in our front yard that blocked our view of the sidewalk.  We have kids and dogs on either side of us and certainly didn’t want to be known as the new people that ran over someone’s dog or kid!

·         Speaking of our new neighbors, so far everyone has been very nice and no one cut down any trees before we moved in!   One neighbor brought us a bottle of wine and an orchid, another one brought us homemade cookies.  Score!  The houses in our neighborhood are a bit closer together than in CT so I suspect that we will be hearing people on both sides a bit more.

·         No internet or cable any time soon in our house because cable wires have never been run to the house (I’m totally missing True Blood and my Real Housewives shows!).  So far Comcast is a bunch of idiots (why are all cable companies so hard to deal with?).

·         I’ll leave you with my random thought of the day.  CP and I went to both Home Depot and Lowe’s this weekend.  I went to the bathroom in both stores and in yet another Home Depot, I notice there is something wrong in the bathroom (the store in CT always had something wrong/dripping/falling off/etc. in the bathroom).  This time it was a leaky u-tube below one of the faucets so someone stuck a bucket underneath to catch the water.  Shouldn’t a store manager think to themselves that because they are a HOME IMPROVEMENT STORE and supposedly have people experienced enough to answer your questions that they should and could find someone to fix the leak?  It’s not like they are lacking the tools available- they are only feet away!  On the other hand, I noticed no problem in the Lowe’s bathroom.  Guess which one CP and I will probably frequent more for all of our home improvement items??

Did you have a busy weekend?