Like a day off!

Wow, sunday was a beast. We had about 12-15 people over at the house out in the yard doing yard work, inside doing house work. Laura's uncle installed some celing fan's (he's an electrician, and actually had to run the wires to the switches and cut holes in the ceilings of the 2 rooms). My dad helped out with locks, and cutting down a gigantic bush with a chain saw. A ton of people helped out with yard work, and a bunch more hleped out inside.

Still more fun, I got to break in the new grill. We fired it up and cooked 12 burgers, and about 15 hot dogs. (not all at the same time) Worked well though. I finished getting all the new locks put on the doors, and I got the new kitchen faucet installed. I patched most of the holes, tightened the railing on the front porch, we tore down the defunct swingset in the back yard. Granny got that a bunch of that ugly ass wall-paper down from the master bathroom, and Ellen got a lot of the grass cut.

The grass is thick as hell in the yard, and it's that nasty clumpy kind too, so it's hard to cut. Her lawn mower kept cutting off, so she only got about half of it done. My boss at work is going to give me one that he had that stopped working. He dropped it off with someone to get it fixed, so as soon as that's done, hopefully I'll snag that from him. HOPEFULLY it'll be this week so that I can finish cutting the grass, because having HALF the yard cut looks kinda funny. Though, it is the half of the yard that's visible from the street, so it makes it look way better than it did.

Laura and her aunt and my mom and several others tore up a bunch of the bushes, weeds, and spider grass from the front yard lining the driveway and side walk. That improved the look of the front of the house dramatically. Anyway, sunday was a crazy day. Today, we didn't do ANYTHING, and it was good. Nice and relaxing.

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So!

We got in there today. We had a painting contractor come by to give us an estimate on some painting that we wanted to get done, and she was able to give us a lot of little pointers about fixing up the walls. There are tons of little holes in the walls where the previous owners had pictures hung and shit. They had a LOT of pictures.

Anyway, so we got some stuff to fill in the holes and a bunch of other shit we're gonna need for painting, calking (!?), etc. We spent over a hundred bucks there, but it's okay. There still aren't any chairs. We need to take some of those over there. Hehe.

Anyway! Good times. We didn't do any work tonight because Dave came over and so did Mom and Dan, and we showed them around. But it was good times.

Yay!

We just closed on the house!

Off to work.

Just a typical, lazy weekend

Laura and I pretty much just hung around here all weekend. It was pretty nice, very relaxing. We just got back from her choir thing at church a while ago. It was really good. On the way home, we stopped by Chung Hing (or whatever) to get chinese for dinner. Omg, awesome.

I ended up with some boneless spare ribs and pork fried rice. I only ate about half of it, but that was still more than enough food. Anyway, it was really good.

So, back to work tomorrow! I reeeally hope we hear back from the attorney about the house pretty early in the morning. I hate just not knowing what's going on with things. it's always easier to just KNOW one way or the other. Anyway!

Hope everyone has a goodnight!

Mother F*ckers.

So, our whole weekend's shot. Here's how it went.

We got to the attourney's office at 12:30 on Friday, all ready to sign the paperwork to close on the house. We sit there for about 15 minutes before the attourney (who I really don't like, because he seems like an arrogant jerk, but I only got to talk to him for about 15 minutes anyway, so no matter). We get back to the back conference room thingy to start signing the papers, and he tells us that the sellers haven't approved the HUD (?!) and haven't wired the money that they owe and have to have wired before we can sign everything to close. Apparently, the closing attourney for the sellers was slow getting the paperwork to them, and so they didn't have time to look over it and approve it before we could get in there to close.

Since the house is actually owned by a relocation company, and not the people that live there, they're closed ont he weekends, and thus can't do anything over the weekend. We'll have to wait until Monday at the earliest to hear whether or not they've seen, approved, and paid the costs that they're required to pay before we can close on the house.

Needless to say, I was peeved. So, we sit here all weekend, without a house, and without any plans, because our plans DID include cleaning, patching, etc the house and working in there.

SO! I guess we'll be waiting until next week to do anything. In the meantime, we're going to see Shrek 3. Which, should be fun, but it doesn't help the fact that we have no house. :/

Woo, got the keys!

We went and did the final walkthrough on the house tonight, and ended up walking away with the keys. We're closing at 12:30 tomorrow. I have to work, but I can't imagine doing too much at work. I doubt my mind'll be there.

The house was about what I was expecting. It looked significantly larger without all of those people's huge furniture in there. The back yard is really nice, and I'm really looking forward to getting out there and working on it. The walls are all so plain and drab, and there are little holes everywhere where there were pictures hung and stuff. We're going to have to do a bunch of patching, and a shit-load of painting. it's going to look amazing once we're done though. And, we've got TWO MONTHS to work on it. :D

I can't wait. Some of you should come by and see the before picture. hehe.

Wowsies

So, I'm sitting here on the sofa watching a program on how fish sticks are made.

Amazing.

We're closing on our house in less than TWO DAYS. I can't believe it. Also, I can't wait. It should be so much fun to get in there and do some work on the place. :D That's about all I've been thinking about lately.

Greetings from the home front.

Yeah, I'm sitting on my sofa getting ready to play WoW again. I haven't played recently.

That's about all, we ran a shit-load of errands today to pick up a butt-load of cleaning supplies and some food for next week. (The food was for next week, the cleaning supplies are more for next weekEND after we close on the house. :)

It's like 90 degrees outside today, it's insanely hot. I just want to stay in here in the air conditioner and not do anything. Although that would get somewhat boring. :)

I know, I know.

It's so spotty when I get a chance to post. It's really crazy. I guess if I were more consistant with it, it would be more fun to read.

So, let's see. Been married for a month and 10 days now. It's about the same as it was before, nothing really changed. It took me forEVER to get used to wearing my ring, but I feel sorta wierd withOUT it on now. So, I guess that makes it pretty official. I would say "I love the married life!" and I do, but it really isn't much different than it was before. :D

We're closing on our HOUSE on Friday (next Friday), June 1st. I can't wait, it should be a total blast. I'm really looking forward to having something to really work on and "customize" or whatever. It's a pretty nice house, built in '92. It's a 2 story colonial out in the "far west end" near ridgefield and john rolfe parkway (for those of you familiar). It's all white (as far as the walls, AND the outside go), and it has dark green shutters. We're going to leave the outside pretty much as-is for a while, though it's going to need to be re-sided sometime in the future.

The inside is getting a facelift though. We're repainting pretty much everything. It has new carpeting in the family room (sort of the normal tan-beige color). The dining room and entryway/hall is a hardwood. The Kitchen and eat/in area is a linoleum tile, but it's not too bad looking. The entire upstairs is also newly carpeted. It's about 1500 sq. feet, and should prove to be quite an adventure in adulthood. haha. Although I'm a few years into my career, married, and just about to buy a house, I still feel like a kid half the time. :P Nutzo.

Anyway, that's what's going on in my life. And, I guess that's all that matters, since it IS my journal, after all. :P

Wow.

I'm getting married in 2 days.