Got 2 poetry postcards in the mail yesterday, so I guess the list isn't dead. Still, these were my first in about a month. I think it was the end of April that I last sent any out myself, though, so I'm as much to blame. So even though I am moving on Saturday and I still have a ton of packing left, I will try today to write up a couple poems and ( Read more... )

We spent a lot of the weekend shuttling stuff over to the house. Today we finally got the pantry shelves up. See behind the cut for a pic! I think they look pretty good... now if only they don't fall down....

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David and I haven't even started living together, but already financial issues are tripping me up. He hasn't ever had to live out on his own, so while he has covered things like his car insurance and cell phone bill, he isn't used to covering all the usual household expenses like electricity, rent/mortgage, etc. on top of them. We sat down last ( Read more... )

Painting is done. We got the new dining set on Monday and it looks awesome! It is a strange, strange thing to walk into a store and pick out anything we like, without considering cost. The new stove gets delivered today. I think David's uncle set up the delivery time, which happened to be when neither he nor I could be there. I guess his ( Read more... )

Painting a room is tough work, particularly when you are doing it by yourself. Lots of climbing up on a ladder, reaching, bending, more reaching... My whole body is tired, so I'm taking a break today before tackling the master bedroom tomorrow. Unfortunately, the master bedroom is bigger than the office was, so what took me 6 hrs yesterday will ( Read more... )

Since closing, the house has really been stressing me out. A lot of this is because I don't have any say in what is being done with it. David's father lives 3 blocks from it, and he has been going over and doing things like ripping out the landscape beds and re-keying the locks. Maybe some of the things need to be done, but I would like at least ( Read more... )

House stuff is getting closer to being done. We had the inspection last night, and there's nothing big wrong with the house. Quite a few smaller things that will be more labor intensive than expensive--all of the outlets in the house should be converted from 2-prong to 3-prong, for example. We need to put a screen on the chimney so we don't end ( Read more... )

We had an offer accepted on a house ( Read more... )

Still waiting to hear back from the bank's agent--heard it was supposed to be Wednesday, next week I guess. Even though I know that it usually takes a long time when dealing with foreclosures, it also feels kind of ridiculous, like they're trying to keep a "non-performing asset" on their books for as long as possible. I just need to use the same ( Read more... )

Today was positively manic--after a very long day yesterday of work and then several hours of looking at houses, we had decided we would probably put in offers on 2 of the houses we saw. Both houses were nice but had been on the market quite a while, so we were hoping to play them against each other, trying to get the best deal. When I checked ( Read more... )