Eight Days…
September 18, 2003
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Posted by Aubrey Turner
It looks like we may move the closing on my house up a few days to the 26th, which is only eight days away. That would be good, since it will give me more time to get the house ready for the move. But it finally brought home just how much stuff I’ve got to do.
- Arrange insurance (in progress).
- Submit approximately 1 million change of address cards.
- Arrange mail forwarding.
- Transfer utilities to my name.
- Arrange phone, cable, and internet service transfers.
- Purchase and arrange delivery of a new gun safe (finally, I’ll have enough space for something suitable, rather than the dinky one I’ve got now).
- Paint living room panels some other color besides pink (!).
- Replace pink (!) wallpaper in kitchen and dining area (the previous owner really had a thing for pink).
- Replace bass wallpaper in hall bath (yes, the fish; I’m not sure how this fit into the pink theme, though).
- Remove Looney Tunes border in my new office (it apparently used to be a little girl’s room) and possibly paint.
- Acquire and arrange delivery of new office furniture (I’ll be working from home a lot more towards the end of the year; fortunately my company has a discount program with one of the big office supply companies).
- Get some new bookshelves so I can tame the riot of books I’m living in now (although I have hardly any books compared to this guy).
- Go through all my stuff and throw out anything that I don’t need (not a simple task, given my normal packrat nature).
Looking at all the stuff I’m planning to buy perhaps I should just arrange to have most of my pay direct deposited to Home Depot, Lowes, and the furniture stores. It’d probably be simpler.
Categories: Domestic Affairs
HA! That’s the SHORT list.
You’ll spend more money at Lowes, Home Depot, and other similar stores, you will not believe it possible.
Congrats!
BTW, check out Robb and Stucky as a furniture source (in Plano on Legacy). Beautiful stuff. When I win the lottery… Better yet, don’t go there.
Hey now, you might just get used to Looney Tunes and bass, you never know.
Yep. Every time I turn around I’m thinking about a new item for the list. The ones I listed here were just what I could come up with off the top of my head at the time.
Heck, I just thought of another thing. I suspect I’ll need to add Fry’s to the list of places that get my money. I’m probably going to get a new wireless bridge for the home office so I don’t have to run wires.
I also realized I forgot to add getting a new bed to the list (now that I have space, my current bed will go in the guest room and I’ll get a king size one for the master bedroom).
Man just reading that list makes my back hurt. We just officially transitioned from moving to doing projects on the new place. Moving is always a bigger project than you thought.
Good luck with that moving thing. I feel your pain, and I don’t even have half of that stuff on my list.
Aubrey,
If you need boxes, let me know. We’re never moving again, so we’re throwing out our boxes. We have HUNDREDS of them. We’ll set them aside for you if you want.
Connie
Connie,
Thanks for that offer. I sent you email about picking up the boxes.