We're In....

and it is nonstop craziness!! It's amazing, the things you don't notice, no matter how many times you look at a house before you buy it. We have run into, what feels like, a million roadblocks since we moved in Tuesday. First, the moment we walked in the door we realized something we didn't notice all the times times we looked at the house.....the smell of dog urine!! GROSS!! It was in every piece of carpet in the house. How someone lived like that is beyond me. We spent 3 days steam cleaning carpet, and it did us no good. The carpets were too far gone to do anything with, except the living room. We were able to salvage it, but it will only last , are for a short time. My hallway and all my bedrooms, however are now concrete; not the best feeling when your feet hit that cold stuff first thing in the morning!! So, next weekend will be spent ripping up the rest of the carpet in the living room and laying new floors. Luckily, I used to do that very thing for a living with my uncle so at least I won't have to pay for labor, even though I swore 5 years ago, when I quit, that I would never lay another floor again in my life! I think I can handle breaking that promise to myself if it is going to save me a nice little chunk of change. I just have get back in the rhythm of things and remember the tricks of the trade, but my uncle swears that it's like riding a bike. I guess we will find out Saturday morning. The carpet is by far the worst thing we have had to deal with. Other things have been small compared to that. We have had to paint every room in the house. Some people's taste in colors is crazy to me, but then again they may think the same about me. The painting is almost done though. Only thing left with that is the trim which will probably take a while to get done, but what better time to do than when there is no carpet on the floor? You can drip paint on concrete and not worry about it, which is good because I am quite clumsy. Other problems have been things such as projects done by the previous owners being "half-assed." They started things and then, it looks like, they finished them as quickly as possible. One example being; they took down all the kitchen cabinets to strip and stain them. Now I have one cabinet that is so crooked it is an eyesore and half of my cabinet doors do not close. This means we get to take them down and rehang them with the hinges being screwed in correctly. Now, don't get me wrong; we have a nice house, and I love it. It has just been a little bit of a disaster getting everything together. Good news is, I did get my kitchen all finished and stocked this morning so I can cook and actually use that room of the house. I am also watching Tim drill holes in my wall right now because he is about to hang our TV and hook everything up. Once he is done with that, I will be able to organize my living room and I will then have a second room of the   house that I can actually use. So it is coming along nicely; just a little slowly and painfully. I'd say by next week, we should be good to go. Now if I can just get my dang dog to figure out where she is and what she is doing here then I will really be winning!!