Oof

I know it's been a long time, because...my session was expired, and I had to enter my password.

I want to say "sorry guys, I slack" but, that's the last thing I've been doing, lately.

Minutes of the Month:

Sealed the deal with the bank in the first week of December, got a check for $13,800.00, and that was that. No more Jim Graef. No more phonecalls from Romeo, no more begging extension, making excuses. No more saying "really, there's only about a week's worth of work left to do, if everyone got on the stick" It's over.

A few days later, we passed our final building inspection. Finito, done. Paid Joe the Contractor from Hell his last pennies and got them out of our hair. Buhbye. Good riddance, don't get into any fatal car accidents, hightailing it down to Florida, or anything...

Mixed in around there, we took some of that huge slab of money, and went on a buying spree, all the stuff we still needed for the house; curtains, carpets, little things to make life livable, like shower racks, towel holders, shelving, etc. Still a few curtains short, but...it's getting there.

Got the carpet in the living room, and 20 minutes later, went out to buy our Christmas tree. Perhaps we went a little crazy...it's 9' tall, and more than 5' across. Hell, there was no furniture in the room at the time... Got the couches moved in, and my desk, finally. It's rough, but it's a living room.

Also during all this time (you knew it was coming) I've been playing World of Warcraft. Yes, that's why I haven't been blogging. I look at it this way: I have little time to spend at this computer. Life is moving so fast right now, and rather swimmingly, I don't feel like I want to vent, or rehash the days events, or whatever. Sometimes I do, and I really get the hankering to blog, but it dissapears after I plunk down, here. So, with the little downtime I have, I dive into the most immersive 'take me away from it' thing, I can do, which is play WoW. Very theraputic.

The holidays this year are so abbreviated. We trotted out our 20 boxes of decorations, pulled out the tree ornaments, looked at the rest of the stuff...looked around the utterly pristine house, and put all the clutter back. Next year for clutter. Alden didn't ask for much this year, and he's growing out of the "I need 9million toys" phase, so we went low key on his gifts. He's getting a stereo, some CD's (that he specifically asked for, from Santa. Blew our minds, when we read his letter, too...KISS, The Ramones...wow, I don't even listen to those bands.) A few GI Joes, a handful of DVD's and this really cool Fire and Ice dragon playset from Megablocks. It comes in this dark wood chest, it's like the ultimate playest, two huge ships, one each of fire and ice, and two huge dragons. Sweet. I think I'll be playing with it more than he is. That's about it, really. Some stocking stuffers, but not a whole lot.

The mister and I aren't exchanging gifts this year either, really. He doesn't really want anything, and neither do I. Instead, while we're shopping for other people, if we see something that we like, we'll just grab it. Like "ooh, Seinfeld first season...awesome *grab*" and we're wrapping it and putting it under the tree as combo gifts, for us, from us. He bought me the Nirvana Boxed Set, I bought him Pierre Cardin's latest scent, the one in the brown case. That was about the only 'personal' suprise type gifts, and we exchanged them already, haha. Otherwise, it's DVD's, music, fancy drinking glasses, all that kind of stuff.

The House Saga is by no means over. We're barely moved in here. Next door is still 80% full of crap. We're bringing stuff here randomly, as we need it. "Ooh, I'm making chicken tonight, lemme go get that pan" and throw a few extra things in the pan, while I'm at it. I make two or three trips a day, carrying armloads of random stuff.

It's all quite casual, and unhurried. Been living out of Rubbermaid totes, and laundry bags, in the bedroom for over a month, now. Our mattress is still on the floor. No big deal, because I want it Perfect. We're not moving that shoddy old furniture in here. We inherited a really nice suit of antique dressers, that we plan on stripping (they're REALLY dark, and my bedroom is white, sky blue, and buttery yellow) and the bed frame is an oak box, that has to get put together properly.

That house is still miles away from being rentable. We have to remodel the kitchen, replacing the cabinets and the flooring, paint the bedroom, and lay a carpet, and replace the rug in the living room. Also, it needs all new heating, and new electrical service. Sooo, yeah, it's a ways off. I'm not worried, the biggest headache is over with. If the guy who's been interested in it, stops being interested, there's always a renter out there.


And now, keeping with my "omg no time! no time!" theme, as of late, I gotta split, and get Alden from school. I did miss blogging, and I promise to put more of an effort in.