Two weeks now. Only two more weeks til we will be in our new home, and still so many little stumbling blocks in the way., and so much to pack.
The marble for the downstairs fireplace had to be installed prior to installing the flooring, and it was two days late. We ended up needing […]
I’ve been sick the past few days. Sore throat, stuff nose, and absolutely no energy. I was feeling so draggy that I stayed home from work yesterday and today, knowing I could still dial in on the conference calls and thereby not miss anything. Not, mind you, that there’s much to miss this week anyway. […]
Only three days and the pressure is mounting. There’s still so much to pack and so many things to do. My cold is lingering, settling into my sinuses so that by the end of the day my head is pounding from the pressure. We’ve chosen a mover and need to call PG&E to set up […]
Minor setback. They won’t release the gas inspection report until the house is finalized. They won’t put in the order to install the gas meter til the inspection report is released. They need 24 hours to assign someone to come out and do the installation. We can move in, but there will be no gas […]
There are stars, so many stars. We can see them from the windows. It’s something we’d noticed long ago, coming out here late at night with flashlights trying to see what progress had been done on the house. And now, inside, they are still there. Such a small thing; such a large and beautiful sky.
I […]
I got DSL a while ago, back when it first came out in my area. This was prior to all the known problems - months of wait to get it installed; poor connections; etc. Two weeks and I had a nice young technician at my door who turned my phone outlet into a double jack, […]
After the flurry of all the must-unpack-now items, I’m unpacking slowly - organizing, shifting things around, getting settled. The kitchen has empty cupboards I don’t know how to fill. I have more counter space than I expected. I am in awe of how much space is in this house. I feel as if we rattle […]
We had our first official guests in our new house today. In a mass get-measured-for-wedding-outfits exercise, my older sister, her husband and her two sons, Richard’s sister, her daughter, and her significant other, one of the groomsmen, and my parents came over, along with the seamstress, her assistant, and her adorable little 6-month old baby […]
Saturday we loaded a rental truck full of all the junk left in the old house and carted it away. We stood in mud ankle-deep and flung old furniture and trash into an untidy heap. To our right a pair of men emptied piles of branches from a beat-up trailer. To our left, another truck […]
I’m trying to figure out where the time has gone. It seems like only yesterday we were still planning our move and now it’s been a week since we moved in. A whirlwind of activity over that time and suddenly there are less than two weeks til May 5th, when Richard flies away.
One weekend […]
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