Its been a while! I feel like I haven't posted in a month! Last Thursday, we closed on our new home in The Colony TX. Thursday was odd, the way they do things in Texas is strange. At closing, we did not get to meet the owners, nor did we get the keys to the house. We had to wait for the loan to fund, and the our Realtor would get the call from the closing people. Then we had to meet up with the sellers Realtor to get our keys. Needless to say it threw a wrench in the plans of how we were going to do the move from the temporary apartment to the house. After we had spoke to our mortgage company and they told us it would only take like 20 mins to fund the loan. So with that information, I didn't wanna go to far from the closing company. We had lunch close by and then went to Home Depot to look at a few things for the house that we knew we needed. Still no call and with 2 hours wasted, we headed back to the apartment to start packing the cars and cleaning. Luis packed the cars, while I cleaned the bathroom ( I hate cleaning the bathroom!!!) Then we got the call - we could get our keys! We had agreed that we would leave the cats at the apartment and take the two vehicles to the house and unload. Since all of our things were still in storage and not being delivered until the morning - we needed something to sleep on. Quick trip to Ikea ( love that store) and got a sofabed brought it back to the house. By this time it was close to 8. I still needed to vacuum and get the apartment set up the rest of the way. Luis also did one last load to his car. We left the apartment around 10PM completely finished and done with the apartment. My plan was to turn in the keys to the apartment that day, since we were going to be receiving our things in the AM.
Friday AM - the movers were almost 2 hours late. I had sent Luis to turn in all the things for the apartment and get us coffee - I was literally running on fumes! So since I did not know the movers were going to be you know 2 hours late, the cats and I sat out in the garage listening to Pandora while Luis went and got us breakfast, coffee, and returned the apartment things. Our new house is in a cul de sac, and its a rather narrow street. I see this huge 18 wheeler coming and who else would it be but the North American Vanlines with our stuff! They had one hell of a time getting in. Literally, it took about 30 mins for him to get into the street.
One thing - WE HAVE SOOOOO MUCH STUFF!! Its stuff I really like. Our furniture is giant compared to this house. It took all the had to get the living room furniture in. Also, the refrigerator - its a little too big for the kitchen, but I need it! The thing I was most concerned about not fitting was the washer and dryer - I love my washer and dryer - they fit - kind of. We are going to have to remove the doors on the laundry room, since we cannot close them. But thats not a big deal anyhow. Our dinning table has to go. Its huge, its almost the same size as the dining room.
We had bought furniture from a place called The Dump here in Dallas. We got a great price on a bed, night stand, and dresser - the bed even came with a huge pull out drawer. The plan was it was going to be delivered on Saturday. Friday, they had contacted us to set up a time for it all to be delivered. Saturday Morning we get a call from the salesman that they lost our bed, but they had a leather one they could give us. Dude, I have 2 cats - leather is not an option in this house! So I said no, that we would come down there to look at the other options. There was nothing I wanted there. Not a single person even spoke to us - so you know me, I was pissed and just went and got a refund. Told Luis lets go to Ikea and see what they have. Long story short - we got a complete bedroom set, bed w/storage 2 night stands, 1 tall dresser, and 1 smaller dresser withe media area, my kitchen pantry, kitchen utensils, curtains for the laundry room, and bed sheets for $500.00 less than the stuff I returned at the dump. That also included delivery and set up. Just for the record - the people that build the Ikea every day still have trouble with it! It took them about 4 hours to build it all at the house on Monday - I'm glad to know its just not Luis and I that have problems with it.
I have not be online all this past week and this week because I have been unpacking EVERY box and reorganizing everything. The kitchen in the new house if VERY small compared to the one in our other home. So I had to get creative on how to house things and had to purge a lot of stuff to the yardsale boxes. I am happy to report that all boxes have been open, unpacked, boxes broken down, and either put up or put out for the yardsale. I have been very busy! I honestly thought I was going to have problems with this house, but I actually love it. Even if it is smaller and older, it really is wonderful.
The previous owners are so thoughtful and sweet. They left little notes around the house, an emergency pizza in the freezer, and a bottle of champagne in refrigerator with a red bow for the cardinals. They are so sweet, and I wish we could have actually been able to meet them and actually really talk to them! I mean we bought their baby of 30 years! I plan on sending them a card and just address it to this address and hope it gets forwarded to them.
We are also officially Texans now, we have new car license plates, drivers license, and even toll tags for our cars.
More to come later - we actually have friends coming to visit this weekend! Yay to our first visitors!
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