New House Update

Our floors look fabulous. We went with a water based sealer instead of oil for lower VOC's. They don't look like those hardwoods that you can ice skate on, but you can really see the wood grain which is pretty. We still need to have someone put in the shoe molding. The cable gets turned on today. Yay! We hope to unpack a lot this weekend. We are also going to get some new low-profile light fixtures so Nick can quit ducking and maybe buy some Daisywire to repair the fence. We really need to paint at some point. We wanted to paint before we moved in, but we still can't decide on colors. Our couch is currently blending into our den walls and we have a bathroom that is so orange you look jaundiced when you are in there. I noticed yesterday that even the ceiling is orange. We also noticed that we have a room of every color of the rainbow in our house.

We found out the other night that our microwave doesn't work. It makes all the lights and noises, but the food comes out cold. I wonder if it is cooking me? I'm thinking about replacing it with a stove hood and putting a microwave in the pantry or on my kitchen cart, but I'm not sure. Do I need a built in microwave? We don't use it that much, but that could change when we have kids.
This is the Sir enjoying the new 'hood and defying gravity. He is about 20 pounds and that ledge is tiny. I don't even know how he got up there.

Sick. Moved. Back at work. Still sick. House is a wreck. Everything in boxes. Can't find my makeup or work clothes. Hungry. Tired of pizza. Daisy is sick. Nick is sick. We all want to curl up in bed and cry (except Nick, he doesn't cry).

We got into our house and a few hours later the air conditioner wasn't working. I called and AC repair person who came out to look at my AC, said that there is nothing wrong with it and figured it was a broken wire, so he called an electrician for me who came out and found a burnt breaker instead of a broken wire, but it was an easy fix. I have been advised that we may need to replace the whole breaker panel at some time, but it's not a big job. We are just glad we didn't have to buy a new AC before we even moved in. Now, on to the next project. We have to pick out paint colors and look at furniture this weekend and the hardwoods start getting refinished on Monday.

I Want to Ride My Bicycle

So, moving into the house is getting much closer. We get the house on Monday and we think we will move in about 2 weeks later. After we move I will be about 3 or 4 miles from work and school, so I am going to attempt to ride a bike to save gas and the environment and all that stuff, not to mention, parking is a pain. The problem is that I haven't ridden a bike since I lived with my parents. And I don't have a bike. That will soon be solved. My dad found a bike for me and has fixed it up and my mom will be cramming it into her GTI in July and bringing it up to me. Isn't it cute? It's a 1975 Scwinn Collegiate. My dad posed it in various locations so I could get the full effect. He also put the biggest baskets ever on it. I suppose my books will fit in there, and Daisy, and Nick. Now, to get the guts to ride the thing, on cobblestone no less.

5 more days to go until we can move into our house. Yay!

Do you ever get that moment of panic when you can't figure out what day it is for a minute and when you finally do figure it out, it's only Wednesday and not Thursday? I haven't worked full-time since Nick and I left Texas and it's hard to get used to again. My days are blending into one and I spend most evenings asleep on the couch. There is no way that working full-time can be more tiring than going to Grad school full-time and working part-time, as well as taking care of the house, so I don't know why it's tiring me out so much. It must have something to do with doing mind-numbing work all day instead of doing something to stimulate my mind, like class. I leave work thinking "do I have to go back there? why did I say that stupid thing at lunch?" and I leave school actually thinking.