Kait Nolan

Today is closing day.  We close on the old house at 9:30 and the new house at 1:30.  EEEEEEEE!!!!

Yesterday I finished moving the kitchen (by which I mean it’s moved and unpacked at the new house) except for my pots and pans and a handful of dishes that were in the dishwasher, and the food.  I’ll do all that this afternoon.  We’re also going to move the bedroom stuff and the dining room furniture this afternoon to actually spend the night at the new house tonight.

The closets are empty and all that remains is furniture and chaos.  I’m not as well packed as I’d like to be but that’s not too big a deal.  We’re just moving across town, so it’s not like moving out of town.  The stuff in the shed and storage room isn’t in any way packed or organized.  That’s probably all going to just get tossed in random boxes and dealt with later.  The point is to just GET it there.  I’m less concerned with most of the stuff remaining because all the closet stuff is moved and UNPACKED, so the rest will be just sorting out where the best place to put pieces of furniture and artwork and such, and then all the random stuff I’d forgotten about.

Gonna be a lot of running around this morning between closings, dealing with utilities and sorting out last minute stuff before the second closing.  Then the next round of work begins!

I’ll be internet silent after today.  It’ll probably be Tuesday before I’m back to work and have internet there, and a few days after that before we get the internet sorted at the new place.  But I’ll be able to check mail on my phone.

So yesterday went better.  I finished painting the library and the gym room, as well as the laundry room (which wasn’t even on the list to get done before we move but I decided to do because it was easier than painting around the washer and dryer), and I hauled over almost everything from the closets and got them set up.  Let me just say, these closets are not made for short people.  I need a stool to reach the top bar.  I essentially caught up to where I’d intended to be by yesterday afternoon.  Still have the hall linen closet to go.  I also got my new curtains hung in the library.  My mom gave me these gorgeous embroidered curtains that I haven’t been able to use before because I’ve never had more than 8 foot ceilings.  They’re PERFECT in this house.

Today’s plan is to move the kitchen.  I’m also swinging by Lowes to pick up another gallon of paint.  I have a gallon of the guest bath paint, which is the same color as the entryway and our bedroom but the wrong finish (eggshell instead of flat).  So I’m picking up a gallon of that in order to touch up the spots that need it in the bedroom and the entryway.  That leaves the kitchen, hubby’s office, and the guest room that will need painting.  I figure we can get all of those done over a couple of weekends down the line after everything is PUT AWAY.

The closing on the current house is at 8:30 in the morning, and the closing on the new house is at 1:30 in the afternoon, so we’ll have the afternoon and evening to move stuff.  We decided we’ll go ahead and take the bedroom stuff over and sleep there tomorrow night.  And then, THE REAL WORK BEGINS.

So, for those of you suffering under the grand delusion that I’m awesome at everything, this post is for you.

I unbelievably SUCK at cutting in (you know when you’re painting).  LIKE REALLY REALLY SUCK.  Yesterday’s plan was to get both the gym and library finished.  Well, it turned out that the 10 foot ceilings in the library are really 12 foot, and the 8 foot ceilings in the gym are really 9 foot.  Which meant there was a lot of precarious balancing, necessity for retrieving other ladders, and a great deal of general swearing because it took me FOUR HOURS to cut in 2 rooms.  The actual rolling on of the paint took only an hour.  But of course I lost about 3 hours, picking up supplies, toting dogs to assorted places (Daisy to PT, Callie to grandpa’s, then Daisy FROM PT to grandpa’s, then picking them both up at the end of the day) and swapping vehicles around for assorted reasons.

There was a lot of swearing being done yesterday about the fact that I’m short and can’t reach stuff; that if there is anything in the vicinity that CAN be tripped on, I will (I have a lovely assortment of fresh bruises ); that I can’t just HIRE somebody that knows what they’re doing so that it’s all DONE; that wall anchors make such a damn mess.  I’ve never seen so many nail and anchor holes in my LIFE.  It took me over an hour to get all the hangers down and the walls patched and sanded (and I’m GOOD at that).  We’re going to have to repaint the entire house because we only know one of the existing paint colors.  Which we don’t have time to do before we move in other than what I’ve done, so we’ll just be living with patched walls for a while.  It’s not really THAT big a deal–the walls really needed repainting ANYWAY as it was the original paint from when the house was built in 2004 but just UGH.  I was NOT good company.

Guh.

Today’s plan is to finish coat two and move all the closets.  Then we’ll see where we are.  After the painkillers kick in…