Crunchy Thoughts

Ahh, Potential House House is now officially New House House! Over the past few days we’ve been slowly moving stuff about to make the house a home. Who would’ve thunk that a little over a year after getting our first home we’d be moving into a second one? I hope this one stays the ‘second one’ for a long, long time.

So far, this house has compared well against the Auburn house. For one, we have a full basement, which is handy for all this moving goings-on. Secondly, the house seems to flow better overall. Steven is very pleased with how well the kitchen can hold all our stuff, and I am very, very, VERY pleased with the yard. It turns out we are the new owners of quite a bit of land, according to the survey we got at closing. It’s nice to have some woods.

Another nifty thing is we have a ‘land line’ again, but this time we don’t have to mess one iota with ol’ Bellsouth. We’ve signed up with Vonage so we can use our regular phones that we haven’t unpacked since 2003. Our family is pleased ’cause they don’t have to dial long distance and they don’t have to worry about our phones being charged. I am amused.

Everything else is going well. Steven is enjoying his job and I mine, and maybe maybe maybe we might just be settled. Wouldn’t that be grand?

I must send out some major kudos to people who have helped us tremendously throught these crazy few months. First off, I send my upmost thanks to our parents, both Steven’s and mine, for giving us tons and tons and tons of support, advice, and lodging. You all helped keep us sane and well-fed. To Cathy and Jason, you two are so awesome to help us that day when we moved out of the Auburn house. We greatly appreciate the time you took out of your schedule to help us drive our stuff to Birmingham. We owe you a sushi dinner. To our parents again, TigerWeather Jason, and Ken and Lisa, thank you so much for helping us move in to the Chelsea house. Y’all were incredibly fast and the whole process went very smoothly — I am so grateful. To Kevin, thank you for helping us get our furniture from World Market and helping us assemble it. The furniture manufacters sure don’t make it as simple as it could be — adjusting chairs can be tedious.

Lastly — to Steven — you have been my greatest support for a very long time and I am so very glad that you were wiling to take a major plunge to make a better life for us. It was certianly hard for both of us to make this decision but I have no doubt now that we made the right one. You are astounding. You also have a very nice butt :~}

I’ll post pictures of the whole Birthday Moving Extravaganza later this week when I get my computer hooked up.

Today our Potential House House has the very strong possibility of becoming our New House House — we will be closing on it in Columbiana later on today. I hope the kitties are ready to move one more time. I know I’m ready to stop living out of a suitcase.

We closed and sold the house in Auburn yesterday, which went fine. I wasn’t actually there to do the paper-signing, so I said ‘bye’ to the house when we moved our furniture out on Saturday.

Always remember this: a 24′ moving truck will NOT hold all the stuff from a three bedroom house. Don’t believe their lies.

I must go. Before we close today, I’ve got to meet with a client and possibly go sod a yard. Unless it rains. Please, please, please rain — at least until the afternoon.

Fake banana flavor reminds me of my sister. Weird. Maybe it’s because she always got the banana flavored powder at the Hartselle Pool.

I know I haven’t updated in a while, but it’s been an extremely busy week, what with work and house stuff and kitties. I think I’ll be busy until we settle into a house up here.

I never got around to mentioning it when it happened, but we lost our contract on the house in Chelsea that we liked about a week before we got a contract on our Auburn house. I was very sad for a day or so, then we began looking again. Earlier this week we got a contract on a house in Chelsea that we like even better, and what’s really amusing is it is in the same neighborhood as the first house we liked — in fact, you can see the other house from the backyard.

Once again, barring anything catastrophic I think this will be our house for some time to come. Have a clicky and check out the pictures.

We will close the day after we close on the Auburn house. All of this will be going on less than a week from my birthday, so I dub thee The Birthday House-Moving Extravaganza!

Coming to a city near you in less than three weeks.