May 25, 2006, 13:27
All the stuff pictured in the last post has now been stuffed into our house. Much of it has taken up residence in the garage, pending final distribution to various cupboards and shelves. It’s odd, actually, because even though the house has 1.5 times the square footage of our apartment, it seems like there is not enough room. Hopefully over the next few weeks things will find a place and I will be able to clear out that garage. I cringe every time I see a garage stuffed with boxes of crap and I refuse to be forced to park my car in the driveway all the time.
After officially living in the house now since last Saturday, we’ve found a few things that need to be fixed that we didn’t know about ahead of time. The most nagging one is the sprinkler system, which was reportedly fixed just before the previous owners left the place, but is still not in working order. We’ve been using a hose and small sprinkler to water the lawn, which also now needs to be cut. Funny how that works.
One thing I hadn’t counted on was how gingerly I would find myself walking around on the floor. Let me explain: we’ve been living for our entire married lives in apartments built on concrete slab floors and our house has a normal floor with a crawlspace underneath, so every creak and squeak seems awfully loud!
May 13, 2006, 08:01
We closed on our house on wednesday and so far no one has come beating down our door demanding to know how we, of all people, managed to qualify for a mortgage. So, I guess I’m now a home owner. The American Dream, right? Today is the first day of moving and I proudly present many of the items that fit under the category of “Things that kept us from buying a house,” or “Stuff that, had we not bought it, would have seen to it that we owned a house two years ago when interest rates were still good and before the market bubble.”
Erica has been packing since the night we found out they had accepted our offer and she started with all the stuff that she figured we wouldn’t need easy access to in the next few weeks. In an ideal world, we would sell it all on eBay.
May 6, 2006, 08:57
My favorite humor on TV at the moment comes from Moose A. Moose and Zee from noggin, which is written for 5 year olds. That says something about the state of American comedy writing. Anyway, here’s a great example of the kind of stuff they are doing over at noggin. You have to wait for the punchline:
Moose A. Moose and Zee visit Connie the Cow
When I first saw that I turned to my wife and speculated that noggin must have somebody British giving them material, cause that might as well have been out of a Monty Python sketch. Our kids get better humor on TV than we do.
