House Update 2

Again the picture in this post doesn't relate to the post at all.  These little guys kept us entertained last summer on vacation.  Hopefully by the next time I post I'll have pictures of the new house.

Let's see, where to start on the house update.  Well, the beginning might be considered to be the closing so I'll start there.  The closing happened on Tuesday, June 19th, but at 4:00 pm rather than 9:30 am.  The mortgage company finally got my loan approved and to the Title Company at 2:30, so they cut it kind of close.  Luckily, I had bugged them and the Title company enough on Monday that they gave me an estimated closing costs and I got a cashier's check for that amount.  Otherwise I couldn't have made it to an open bank before the closing, especially since even though they had gotten paperwork to the Title Company, they still hadn't gotten my final closing costs to me.


Anyway, the good news is I have a new house.  I somehow figured that once it was mine, things would calm down a little and I'd be less stressed.  In fact, the house is still consuming my life pretty much.  So much to do and to get done.  And I now am a firm believer that construction-type jobs never happen on an actual schedule. 


This week I've been having the entire interior painted and I had a plumber put in a new water heater.  Monday I had cable and internet connected.  Today and tomorrow, I'm having the three bathrooms and the laundry room re-tiled with ceramic tile.    So that's where I'll be tomorrow all day, baby-sitting tilers.   Actually, that's what I'm doing right at this moment, but I haven't been here all day.  A friend of mine has been sitting with them while my sister and I worked on getting my current house and garage packed.  I began at 5:40 am, she arrived at 6:50 am, and the two of us worked straight until 2:00 pm.  Can you say "exhausted"?  I'm going to sleep well tonight.  I just hope I can get out of bed tomorrow.  Packing is hard work!


I wish I could say that we got all the packing done.  We did make quite a significant dent in it.  And we did get the garage mostly packed.  We just gave out at 2:00-ish this afternoon.  I'll still be doing some frantic packing before moving day, which is July 5th.  And the poor cat-children. They don't know it yet but they'll be spending moving day at the vet. 


After my sister and I had all the packing we could take today we came up here and looked the house over, and I stayed while my sister and my friend went about their businesses.  The tilers are determined to get the tile in all four areas laid today so tomorrow they can grout, so they'll be here awhile yet.  That means I'll be here awhile yet.  And currently I have no working toilets in the house.   They're laying the third area now.   It's going to look GOOD when it's done.


Too bad the new carpet won't be installed before I move in.  It's going to be kind of a pain to leave everything on the wood floor areas until they can get the carpet installed.  Can't be helped though.  If the carpet doesn't get here, it doesn't get here.  


So that's the latest house update.  Everything is coming together, even if it's in a slightly more disjointed manner than I would have liked.   I'll be so happy to have it all done.