Inspector lady came today and said I didn't even need a certificate of occupancy since it was not a new construction. She must not have seen it in its "complete gut job" stage.
George the Trainer is on board for tomorrow after my workout. We'll make one trip to the storage unit for a pick-up truck's worth of furniture. We'll unload that. I'll take George to lunch. Then we will return for load #2. That's all I want tomorrow. And with any luck, we will make it to the back of the left hand side of the storage unit where resides my bed. Even if I have nothing but a mattress on the floor, I'm sleeping there tomorrow night. I'm going to contemplate myself sleeping there tomorrow night. I'm pretty good at this contemplating stuff.
Today I took a few things from the storage unit. Small bags of stuff. Like my new pots and pans that I bought at Chautauqua. However. . . . BEWARE! The bags from the storage unit are inhabited by quite a large number of stink bugs. I discovered this today. So each and every item will have to be inspected thoroughly before admittance into the house. And that will slow things down a bit. But an infestation of stink bugs is unacceptable.
Today was distinguished by two main house-related events. I unpacked and constructed the table I bought at Pier 1 Imports and picked up yesterday. It was not difficult, but it was awkward. I could have used a third and fourth hand in the putting it together process. Sandy was going to help me but Bill is back in the hospital with a post-surgery infection. So she had an excused absence. And me being me. . . . well, I just don't let that kind of thing stop me. And voila. The table is built and in place in front of the triple windows in the living room. My first set piece of furniture.
The second event was that my new neighbor, Chelly, came over to see the house for the first time. She is bubbly and friendly and I'm so excited to have this neighbor next store. I have all my wonderful neighbors at Chautauqua, but have never had close neighbors outside there. She's happy I'm there and vice versa!
Besides that there is mud everywhere, although Duncan the Builder has done a good job of putting in drainage and mulching the hell out of the surrounding land. But the wonderful cleaning job of this past weekend is a thing of the past. There will be a lot of mud to get off the floor. Trying my best to keep the carpet clean.
So I expect I'll be moving in and getting settled for weeks and weeks as I decide what items that made the cut last spring will not make the final cut. Nesting. One of my favorite things to do. Couches aren't due until 6 and 8 weeks respectively. So there won't be much of a place for anyone to sit for awhile. And the island counter top is still not back. So there's not much place to eat yet.
But my house is mine. And I will, hopefully, tomorrow be able to take the quotation marks off the word "home." I could not be happier.
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