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This house tried to kill me …
The VERY FIRST weekend we were in the house, it rained and poured here and we discovered that our 3 windows in the back of the house on the bottom floor leak….
Ugh.
All over our brand new floors and nicely painted walls.
Just after we closed Escrow, my brain was going CRAZY trying to remember all the things that HAD to be done to Headquarters, as well as all my ideas for sprucing up the place beyond just making it livable.
In order to organize these plans, as well as *try* to keep track of what [...]
The first Anne book I read was Anne of Windy Poplars – which I read for the first time when I was about 9 or 10….. and hadn’t the slightest idea what the ‘Windy Poplars’ of the title was supposed to be until about halfway through.
But then I really *got it* …. The [...]
As you know, we have no kitchen.
When we looked at the house initially, the kitchen was pretty disgusting but we didn’t really have the budget to re-do it. We were just going to paint and scrub and disinfect and scrub.
But, then at the appraisal it turns out the mold was pretty prevalent [...]
Everyone in our little blog world is getting into turn tables, and vinyl records, and cute little repurposed vintage shelving units for their budding collection.
Everyone in our little blog world has stylish little corner vignettes dedicated to this offbeat musical medium, emphasizing their vintage expertise.
Everyone in our little blog world has the [...]
As you can imagine, it’s been a bit chaotic around here.
We’ve got all of the unpacking to do still – since the kitchen isn’t installed we have no where to unpack our kitchen, and we don’t actually own enough bookshelves to hold all the books we own. So there are boxes everywhere. Plus [...]
As with pretty much everything, when you’re buying a house, if something can go wrong it will.
Some examples from the last couple weeks:
Mold in the kitchen:
This we discovered before we moved in, but AFTER it was really too late to back out of the purchase. It cost us about [...]
Our first night after moving into the new house was not as restful as I would hope …. a bit too cold, plus noisy birds in the morning, plus no curtains in our room to block the sun ….
But the worst part was lying in bed, in a cold room, in a cold [...]
March 10, 2012 …. Team Schubert moves into Schubert Headquarters:
First, I’ll say that we hired movers. Even though we really could have used the money we spent, I found that the expense was totally worth it in NOT breaking our backs. NOT stressing about getting our king-size bed and fridge down stairs (and [...]
Luckily for our movers, more than half of our belongings are in storage ….. But that still left a BUNCH of stuff in our little 1 bedroom apartment to pack.
I tried packing up most of it in the weeks leading up to the move – hard to really determine what/how much to pack [...]
Girl Scout cookies are in season!
And while I am still sugar free, I bought myself a few boxes to save and savor for awhile.
Some things I love about Girl Scout cookies:
They’re seasonal, so it really is an EVENT when you get to buy them.
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Sunday March 18 is the end of my 7th week of being sugar-free*
Here’s how it happened ….
Around summer 2008 I started being more conscious about the carbs that I eat …Stopped buying soda. Stopped eating pasta for a lot of meals. Lost about 40 pounds just eating less carbs/soda.
Around late summer/fall [...]
In order to move in to our house we need to do a WHOLE bunch of work.
Which we are fortunately paying our contractor Tony to do …. so we can hopefully move in by next weekend.
Here’s a look at all the new surfaces we’ve been choosing to have in the new house [...]
AAAAAANNNNNDDDD … .
We have our keys
Ok. Actually, not yet since there aren’t actually keys to the existing locks and we are getting it re-keyed.
But still. It’s ours. It’s no longer trespassing when we go in ….
As I mentioned, some work has already been started [...]
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