TimesToCome

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.

This homeless stuff is pricey.

We should be back online Friday, if not use the cell phone email if you need me.

We spent yesterday and today furniture shopping. So far we got the big stuff for the gym, office and master bedroom. We still need to do the guest room, living room, family room and library. We also have to do all the lamps, end tables etc. So we’ve a long way to go yet. It’ll be easier once we move in and can empty the cars.

Today driving around we went by a church, the sign read “Women come and learn your place”. Yes, it is still there, I’ll wait and visit one day when I’m in a tear about something or other and have a chat with the minister.

We also saw a cute church sign “God give us another oil boom and we promise we won’t screw this one up”

Driving is much easier here, the highways all have hov lanes, plus 4-6 lanes each way going in and out of the city. Beside each highway is a 2-3 lane access road. So that is 7-10 lanes each way. The interchanges are like something out of a cartoon. Highways are stacked on top of highways on top of highways, and there is easily 30′ between each road way. If you are on the top interchange you might be on a banked one lane on ramp 60′ to 90′ in the air. I’m still a bit skittish on highs but I expect I’ll be flying around them at 80 mph in a few months. The thought of being on the 6 pm news in a fully loaded Lincoln with Mass. plates being talked down by the local pd scares me more than driving over them.

The owner of the waterbed store was a trip. He looked like a stereo typic Italian man, short, way over groomed and with lots of gold jewelery. Every time we liked something he clapped his hands and said ‘butta-bing’. He was ~50ish and felt like an old hippy. He must’ve wound up here after the 60s wound down.

We bought the gym stuff at Sears and were waited on by a little old man who clearly didn’t use gym stuff much. They had a sale going on $99 rebate if you joined some weight loss thingy. After he rang up the order he handed me the rebate slip and I asked if he was trying to tell me I needed to lose weight. Great fun, he stopped dead.

After visiting zillions of furniture stores, we finally found one with modern furniture in a color other than red at a reasonable price. We’ll hit there Monday and put in an order for the family room and living room.