First of all I want to thank everybody for the emails about my health. I’m fine. I’m just afflicted with seasonal allergies, and when I get tired, they seem to flare up more than usual. I appreciate your kind words chicken broth recipes (I’m a vegetarian), and even that one guy who set me a code for 50% off a Netty Pot. Thanks.
I won’t disgust you with the amount of snot that comes out my nose, or the wonderful colors that emerge from the back of my throat into a wad of kleenex. Some people are eating as they read this, so I promise I won’t get into all the vivid details.
Instead, let’s talk about the million little things that need to be done immediately prior to moving into a new house. I truly had no idea at the amount of work. You see for the last 20 (geez, has it been that long) years, I’ve rented. Sometimes It’s been a room in a house full of guys, or a mother in law cottage behind some old geezer my grandma’s friend knew, or most recently an apartment in a shopping mall above Tiffany’s.
So I thought it would be easy – clean a little here, paint a little there, and boom. Well now it’s a day and a half before the movers come (yeah, I’m never moving with a truck, a bunch of fiends and and a cooler full of 6-packs), and I haven’t even packed a single plate from the old apartment. The house just sucks so much of my time up. From the moment I get up until the second my head hits the pillow I’m either working on someone’s wedding photos or sanding. Designing an album or washing cabinets with TSP. Answering questions about destination wedding packages, or hanging curtains.
Sure I could do all these things once I move in, but we were lucky enought to have a month of overlap and instead of living in a construction zone, we opted to put hardwood floors in, and remove all the popcorn from the ceilings.
But, man it looks good, and to all the neighbors who come a lookie-loo, no we aren’t flipping this place. We are moving in!
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