**NOTE: this was originally posted on: BLOGGER.com**
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
WE ARE OFFICIALLY MOVED!!! and a bit BEFORE schedule as well!
PHEW!!! we did it, most of it all by ourselves, or better yet...craig himself in out tiny little compact car. hard to belive but all we have left is to clean and dismantle a shelf and were done! turn in the key and were OUTA THERE and in here (where i am currently) in a slightly LARGER home, with a 2 car garage for all the OVERFLOW stuff we feel we cant live without, but barely ever look at.
we have moved for 3 weekends straight and this past weekend, we had some church assistance helping with the larger items. 2 loads in a 14 footer U-haul and most of it was here. each weekend we had either FREEZING CONDITIONS (really bad weather here) OR SNOW the entire time we were moving.
somewhere along the way we lost a red bag and my car keys to the MITSUBITCHI MIRAGE i owned. and took the better part of last night to attempt to locate.
i got up this morning, moved a few boxes in the garage and there was the bag, craig had already found the key to my car.
i have , just about non-stop unpacked and shuffled boxes about the house as i come to them. and i am completely tired now. but still have to make some more progress as the living room is STILL a room full of boxes. all-be-it has alot more space to move about in, its not a living room i feel comfortable allowing guests to come and visit right now.
theres still the adjustment period of tweeking and fine tuning the home, one of the things i think well need to do is get a plumber out here to figure out why the hot water heater isnt pushing as much hot water out when the things cranked up as high as it will go. i get about a 10 minute shower and the water gets really cold. as well as HALF the water still comes from the faucet, not completely out of the shower head...i hate that!(were still in winter weather here, so the pipes are very cold too.)
another thing i noticed is the main bathrooms so far from the hot water heater. it may have something to do with that flux in temp. but i really have a very hard time belieiving that a 30 foot length in pipe can make the water get that cold..that quick.
the DISHWASHER works great! i couldnt have asked for a better dishwasher, it also has a slight issue. its not set in the hole right..i think its too small for the hole, to be honest, and when you load it, it tipps forward. inconvienence, nothing more.
theres less cabinet space here. well have to figure something out for that. right now we have craigs table set between the oven and the fridge to act as additional counter space as well as storeage underneath. well have to get counter and cabinets with some formika top for that area at some-point.
the DOGS are loving the sidding glass door, where they can be outside and still watch us. i like it because shadow doesnt make as much noise with the glass as she did with the back door of the other house.
they also have a chain-link fence with other "doggie" friends they can actually see, we had a very old privacy fence at the other home...they had alot of holes to poke thu and watch the world, or the neighbor with. now they have a backyard looking into 5 other back yards and a way to see the traffic as it passes the house on this residential road.
daniel had his first NEW BUSTOP issue yesterday. he didnt know WHERE it was, and it came really late...but he managed to get there anyway. came home with paris about an hour late. and then PARIS spent the night.
so, we had our first OVER-NIGHT guest last night.
first visitors were: THE MISSIONARIES. i had scheduled them to eat, and they came by earlier in the day to say they wouldnt be able to make it for the dinner appointment. i was glad, too. cause the house was STILL in disaray, and i was too tired too cook fo anyone, even myself.
later that evening we had a visit from the CHOATES. they helped us move. (church ppl) and they came by to tell us they didnt know where the red bag was that craig was so desperatly looking for. spent a few minutes chatting about that.
third visitor was late in the evening..brother MANDOLIN,(church ppl--my sons teacher) he helped craig tow his truck to the driveway. and tonight will most likely be towing my mitsubitchi to the driveway as well.
we had issues with the internet and phone transfer. and had just gotten it on yesterday afternoon sometime. i was actually enjoying the silence for a change.
this house has great light. so during the day theres NO NEED to run much electric. its very well insulated too, so it retains alot of the heater right now..unless the front door is open or your in and out of the sliding glass door, or in and out of tha garage.
ceiling fans help distribute the air in here as well.
daniels room is just about done. everything (for right now) is where hed like it to be.
i still need to paint it tho. and it needs a ceiling fan as well.
may main objective is the living room. trying to manage all the boxes and figure out furniture arrangements and such. its been a task!
im hoping i do NOT have to move again any time soon. since we have cart blanch on this home to do as we see fit, as if we own it, i want to make it OURS. to me, this is the FINAL MOVE! im too friggin old for all this mess anymore.
LOL
MICHELLE
Posted by MICHELLE WILLIAMSON at 7:39 AM
