TimesToCome

The water bed is helping, now I don’t wake up sore every day. It is the tallest water bed I’ve ever had, kind of strange I’m used to low sitting beds.

We found a living room set that should mostly come Friday, a stereo, tv and assorted little things yesterday. We got the built in stereo up and running, sounds great. I think they are the same speakers we had in the old house.

I’ve two clogged drains, I think from the contractors using them to clean up. I did get the two broken blinds fixed today.

I’m glad the gym is coming soon, we got a scale yesterday and I was not happy, much more of this lifestyle and we’ll be waddling.

The new water heater was installed yesterday, the installers tried to tell us the old one wouldn’t fit through the attic door and had to stay up there. Right. I’ve seen that trick before, out comes the tape measure and they go through a head scratching routine. But since the new one was the same size they couldn’t make much of a case.

We have an amazing pile of styrofoam, cardboard and other assorted packing material. I’ll have to call the junk man to get that this week. The house is starting to feel livable now.

The closing went smoothly, though it was long at ~2 hours.

Thursday we ran back and forth through department stores, stocking the kitchen, baths, and misc. stuff.

Friday the water bed showed up, and the guest room bed, and 6 desks, and small kitchen appliances, and the washer and dryer. Needless to say it was chaotic. Most of the stuff is set up now, we’ll finish off the rest today.

We are back online, next week we will dig into the living room, family room tvs, stereos, and whatever else we have missed. The gym stuff shows up Thursday and we have to put the universal together. Yuck, they always come in a million pieces.

The contractors working on this place left us a huge pile of junk, and a huge box of half filled paint cans. No idea how I am going to get rid of them. You are allowed one good sized trash can per week. A truck comes and it is auto dumped by the truck.

We’re getting the hang of the garage thing too. Both Lincolns fit inside, with 2″-3″ at each end ( ha no problem for us city drivers ) and about 6″ between them. Good thing we didn’t gain too much weight on the trip. We have not figured out the garage door opener thingys, but The Husband had fun using the wall button to make the door go up and down Thursday night.

The Post Office was a nightmare, but progress was made. There are 7 small and 2 large mailboxes across the street, numbered 1-7 and 1-2. Which one goes with house 215 is a mystery, and still a mystery. They will drop off keys and info one day next week, I’ve no idea what is happening to my mail in between?

The new water heater is being installed. The one we have is 15 years old, so we figured we’d just take care of that before it leaked and crashed through the ceiling. The two AC units, heater and roof are on borrowed time as well. I’ll start on those after we furnish the place and as money comes in.

There is a ton of stuff in the house we haven’t figured out how to use yet, there is an air filter system and built in stereo speakers. I’ve not a clue where and how the stereo hooks up.