First off, the u on my keyboard doesn't work so I have to copy and paste a u everytime I need it.
I've tried to fix it and I can't. It's a PITA.
We moved into our house a week ago sunday with out furniture because our youngest started school on monday and it would have been too far to drive to take her to school from our hotel. Our furniture arrived last tuesday. I have crap everywhere. Our dryer doesn't work because there is no 220 plug, they had a gas dryer and ours is electric. There was no more room on the electrical panel so we would either have to have a new panel put in or buy a new dryer. Had two electricians come out, having a new panel would cost either $1700 or $5600 depending on who we used (how they were that far apart I will never understand) so we bought a new dryer. It wont be delivered until the 18th so in the meantime I've been using a clothesline to dry our clothes. My old dryer is only about 6 months old (for those of you who remember my dryer escapades) so it really pisses me off. My parents are going to drive out here sometime in the next month and I'm going to give my Mom my dryer and she is going to get the matching washer so I guess it will end up ok after all. I was pissed at the thought of selling it and only getting a couple hundred bucks for a basically brand new dryer that costs $1200.
The carpet in this house is absolutely the grossest carpet I have ever seen. The majority of the house is wood except for the kitchen (travertine) and the bedrooms. They had a bulldog who slobbered and must of walked back and forth in the same areas over and over again because the carpet is absolutely BLACK in areas. Had it cleaned but it didn't come clean enough. It smells still (even though the carpet cleaner guy used something to get the smell out). So we are getting new carpet, an added expense that I wasn't counting on. It's really too bad because I can tell that the carpet wasn't cheap. How it got as dirty as it was is beyond me.
Next the travertine in the kitchen. There is grout everywhere on the tiles. I can't believe the previous owners let whoever installed the floor get away with leaving the grout on the tiles. We are going to eventually have to have the tiles refinished. There is some way they can kind of lightly "sandblast" the travertine and put either the original finish or shiny finish back on the tiles.
Let's see, what else..... Oh the master bathroom is the weirdest configuration I have ever seen. It would take me too long to explain it all but the weirdest thing is the bidet. How do you clean the whole thing so it is sanitary? It seems so gross that I can't get to every crevice. I want a new toilet...besides aren't bidet's passe'?
The schools here are so underfunded. My daughters elementary sent home a note begging for donations. There is no bus for my high school kid because of budget cuts. The classrooms (even my 5th grader) is well over 30 kids (her GATE (gifted and talented) class has 34 kids). How can they have so many choices and options in Texas where you know they have less money via property taxes than CA (the cost of housing is 1/3rd of what it is in CA). The state government must be robbing the school system because there is no other excuse I can think of. They have less hours too. My 5th grader gets out every wednesday at 1:00. WTF is up with that? She doesn't go to school until 8:25 and gets out every day except wednesday at 2:55.
I could talk forever about this whole move but I have to run to the store to get some salmon for my husbands birthday dinner tonight. I'll be back later to tell you all more if you want to hear it.
Oh yeah, I got uveitis AGAIN. Been to the doctor twice already in the past week. It is much better already so I must of caught it early. Probably got it from the stress of this damn move.
