Halfway moved in...

Gutentag from Sidney...

Well, we're halfway moved in and I have to say that it's wonderful! This house is exactly the style of house that I've been wanting. It's about a 3,000 sq. ft. ranch with a mostly open floor plan. Granted, it's a few years old (1994), but it's in really good shape.

We spent the last two days changing things around: I installed a new faucet, replaced the kitchen chandelier, installed two ceiling fans, and replaced the two outside lamp fixture thingies. I also installed a new dishwasher because the old one wouldn't drain. So, we ran down to the nearest home depot (40 miles away), and grabbed a pretty cool GE ($315).

I brought it in and installed it in a mere 2 hours (yikes), only to find that the new one wouldn't drain either. That's when I decided to do a little troubleshooting. It turns out that the new garbage disposal that was installed before we moved in never had the drain plug removed. 12 seconds later, it was draining like a champ. Had I looked a little closer when the first one (that was in perfectly good shape) wasn't draining, I could have saved myself a few hundred bucks and a lot of self-respect.

So anyyyywayy. The vast majority of our stuff will be here Thursday. Suzanne is madly painting the house before all the furniture arrives. She's got most of the living room done and has set her sights on the bedrooms. Sadly, she's a little on the (what's the polite euphemism?) sloppy side, so I might have to step in and help her clean up her margins. It's a dirty, thankless job, but somebody's got to do it.

Also, my finger is almost completely healed! I think I'll always have a bit of divot, but otherwise it's looking pretty good.

Oh, and the house still hasn't sold, but I'm told that April and May are the best months to sell a house, so I'm really hopeful that we'll be in good shape soon.

Please buy my house!