Hello, Again!

Whew! It sure has been forever, hasn't it? Goodness, you'd think that I fell off the face of the earth or something, if it weren't for the occasional text-posts made from my phone.

Well, to update the world, on June 11, John and I finally closed on the house! Yay! Adventures in Adulthood #312: Buying a home and dealing with a mortgage. Well, we won't be dealing with a mortgage for a few more weeks, but that's besides the point. Since closing, we have been spending every waking minute not at work in the townhouse painting the walls (paint costs a lot when you are doing a whole house, but paintERS cost more!). The previous owners (POs) were none too gentle with their walls (or carpet, or hardwood floors for that matter) and there were just so many nicks and scuffs on the walls that paint was our first thing to tackle. As of this post, the ceilings and wall color are done, as well as about 90% of the moldings and doors, too. John's parents are being super great and helping us when they can and they have churned out the trim pretty quickly. Also at this point, we'd used about 30 gallons of paint (of the various colors).

Then, last week, Mom was down in FL helping grandparents downsize their house (now that they are in an apartment) and clean out some of the stuff they did not take with them. I met her for the weekend and ran away with loads of furniture like a bandit! Thank you, family! We got two fabric chairs, a loveseat, a rocking chair, two twin beds, a matching dresser and chest of drawers, and a few pieces of patio furniture. Whew! John and I went from no furniture (except for mega-couch) to a whole house full in one weekend. (Mom and I driving a 14 foot U-haul home in one day is another story entirely.)

Then, Adventures in Adulthood #182: buying appliances larger than a coffeepot. The townhouse came with everything except for a washer and dryer. That was made my job... Do you know how much the whole kit and kaboodle cost?! It's a racket, I tell you. (I am afraid what someone would have spent total if they bought one of the fancy thousand-dollar models.) Those were delivered yesterday and they look so fancy! I am excited.

Now that the paint is pretty much done, we can move onto the carpets. Upstairs is the only part carpeted, but we theorize that the POs had never heard of a vacuum cleaner ... and held bonfires inside regularly. I kid you not, people, there was a black ring around the carpets when we moved in. You could tell that they cleaned the carpets before they started showing the house, but the edges were still super gross. Due to the unknown level of gross-ness living in the carpets, John and I decided to just rip it up and put in new before we moved the furniture in. These are the same POs that put the air filters backwards in the vents... kinda defeats the filtering purposes of the filter, don't you think? It did explain why the place was so dirty.

So.... now we are at the "recovery from painting" and "waiting for carpets to be ordered" stage. We're going to start moving stuff into the lower floors and getting the new furniture re-upholstered before we use it. Exhausting!