Owning my own home has been a dream come true for me. I am not sure what part of my body hurts most due to all the cleaning, painting, crying and swearing I have been doing these past couple of weeks. However,I am sitting here in my new bedroom with a big ol' smile on my face (wondering how the heck I am going to decorate a room the size of my old living room and dinning room put together).
I have to give a shout out to my family (not that I give them the link to this blog or anything), for being such great troopers and helping me more than their retired senior citizen bodies could take. Preparing and moving to a new home is not for sissies.
1. It took me 2 days to find the box where I packed my underwear....you don't want to know more than that.
2. I wanted to add a security screen to my front door, which took my step dad, my mom, my niece and I to figure out how to install. As my step dad was trying to screw in a screw and was doing it wrong my mother uttered these words: 'You are screwing it wrong. I know because I went to school to learn how to screw things!'. (Just so you know...English is not my mother's first language (and she actually did go to school to learn how to screw in parts when whe worked on an assembly line)...nuff said.
3. Did you know that high cealings are great....unless you have to paint them twice!!
4. My hips hurt...I wonder if I can buy some knew ones at Home Depot.
5. The guy who layed the tile was shocked to learn that I don't have nor do I want to have any children....he justified my decision by saying that my motherly insticts have not awoken yet.....I almost told him he could kiss my 'motherly instincts'...but I wanted him to do a good job on my tile...so I just smiled (but I was thinking 'fuck you'!)
6. I lost 5 pounds (I need to move 12 more time and I can be at my goal weight!)
7. My mother and my niece are fighting over who gets the next best bedroom ....they don't realize they are ALL my bedrooms!
8. My new neighbors are great! One of them gave me permission to call the cops on her daughter, the other is going to fertilize my lawn.....can't do better than that!
9. Paint does not come out of your hair as easily as you would think.
10. I suck at caulking!
Despite all the hard work, the pain and spending more money that I thought I would...it's all worth it. I love my new house! I might even invite people over to visit me.....(or not because they might get my new carpet dirty...)
