It's hard to believe, but we've been in the house a month already. The weeks are just blowing by, but it's starting to feel more and more like home.
This weekend, we put up the last of the light fixtures we were changing out and made some more progress on the laundry project, which required yet another (expensive) trip to the hardware store. Hopefully that will be up and running by next weekend, the laundry's really starting to pile up.
Today was a cleaning day, and I'm exhausted. Our neighbor told us how the woman who used to own this house was pretty messy, but the house didn't seem too bad to us, until we started to notice little things. For instance, how the stove had tons of burnt on crumbs under neath the cook top. We decided to tackle that today, thinking it shouldn't take too long. It was so gross once we took the top off, like no one had cleaned under there for 10 years or so. Crumbs, carbon, burnt aluminum foil, rust, spider carcasses.... pretty sick. It took 2 hours to clean the thing! It's 1000 times better, but I didn't go totally crazy on it because we hopefully will be getting a new stove soon with our home warranty. The oven doesn't work, and we found out that the warranty should cover it, as long as we say it just stopped working and not that it never has. So in order to secure our chances of getting a new range instead of just fixing this one, D decided to "crack" the oven window, since he knew someone who got a new stove when that happened to them. So he whacks the window w/ a hammer, nothing happens. Does it again, still nothing.... Third time.... CRASH!!! I walk into the kitchen to see a thousand bits of glass all over the floor. That took a while to clean up, because when we though we were done, we put the door up an more glass fell out. So we had to clean up again, then mop. I swear, it's been like that since we moved in. I'm finding out this is what they call the "joy" of home ownership. Funny how no one mentioned this before.
On top of dealing with all the house stuff, the social calendar's been pretty booked the past few weeks as well. Last Friday was Hot Buttered Rum at Moe's which was alot of fun. I really like those guys with drums. Then Saturday was Amy's surprise 30th, which I had such a good time at, I was down for the count by 10:30! Sunday we spent at the Lipperts for the Super Bowl, then D's uncle Mark came down to stay w/ us Monday night because he was working in the area Tuesday. This Friday, we took our mortgage broker and our realtor out to dinner at Cafe Vida as a thank you for all that they did for us. It was alot of fun, the food was great, and we found out we can refinance very easily and free. With our type of mortgage if interest rates drop, we can get a better deal and get some money for energy efficiency improvements like dual pane windows, so we were stoked to hear that. Last night was another birthday party, this time pirate themed. And they say you don't have a life once you own a house! ; )