I'm not even sure what they should be, so I'm kinda making these up as I go along. Family and friends, feel free to make suggestions (but be nice ( Read more... )

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I'm in the process of moving into my new house. It's been painted and carpeted, we've gotten the bed, the washer and drier, the microwave and a mini-fridge, but we're still waiting on the main fridge. We also don't have internet there yet, not until next week, so I haven't been able to get online much ( Read more... )

The house is coming along. I'll post more pictures when I get the chance.

Last night, I suddenly fell ill. I spent all day in bed today sleeping the glorious sleep of the NyQuil medicated and I'm already feeling a lot better.

We got some more quotes on painting, and one of them was lower than all the others (including our previous, late painter) by a wide margin, so we're hiring him to paint the whole house, upstairs and downstairs ( Read more... )

A couple weeks ago, we got a few quotes on painting the interior of our new house. Today, I called back the painter who's quote we liked best, only to find out that he passed away just yesterday. What's worse, it was the painter's retired father who answered the phone and had to give me the news. Awkward!

We got new tile floors in the kitchen/dining room/entry and both the bathrooms. It was just finished today.

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The work on the new house has begun! Yesterday we had granite counter tops put in and today we had the new sink, faucet and garbage disposal hooked up.

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