September 4, 2010, approximately 17 months ago, I bought the Crappy Little House with visions of selling the house I had, renovating the CLH and living mortgage free. It has been a long path involving selling a house in a down economy, losing my first builder, hiring another and then going through this process. I can now truly say that there is light at the end of the tunnel. I will be able to remove the parentheses around the word "home" within a month and possibly less. I could not be happier about this. There were times when I lost track of the fact that I was ever going to be able to move into this house. And now I know that I will! I have had to exercise patience for a long time. I'm getting pretty good at the delayed gratification thing.
Today the kitchen cabinets were installed. I love them. It's so strange to order a kitchen (in my case I ordered two kitchens) with all the choices involved, then wait for the cabinets to be built and the house ready to receive them, and then go in and see just exactly what it was that I had selected! And I love my choices! Jim the Kitchen Installer was great and did the job single-handedly within the course of the day. That includes getting all the pulls installed as well. Tomorrow they will be measured for the countertop. I would include pictures but it was too dark when I got there tonight. Hopefully tomorrow.
Appliances come on Thursday with the master bathroom vanity. Waiting on some extra flooring that might delay things a bit. But paint colors have been selected and painting starts in the next few days. When you have a house this small it only takes one day for most projects. This is heady stuff. I'm going to have a home!
And I'm looking forward to tomorrow for another reason. Because I'm well enough to go to choir. But also because tomorrow is the first of two rehearsals when we aren't practicing for a concert, but rather serving as an audition vehicle for a potential new Artistic Director. Two finalists will rehearse us tomorrow night, an hour and 15 minutes each. It will be fun to sing with two excellent musicians who have made it to the finals of this search. I'm really looking forward to that.
One of the philosophies of my life is to throw out to the universe that which you want, and then (and this is important) be patient until it arrives. And I can see the "ship coming in" on the house deal. And I can begin to anticipate what life will be without the choir. Unless I get so enamored with the new guy that I have to give it one more year. I can't wait to see how this works out. No wait. . . . I CAN wait to see how this works out. Patience.
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