It’s been a long couple of weeks but we survived!
The closing came down to the wire thanks to rain and a few minor issues with the final inspection (our town requires two trees in the yard and the builder had only planted one. No joke!). We packed up the other house and landed here with the movers before we could get into the house. Nothing worse than paying guys by the hour and watching them sit in their truck, unable to do anything.
But finally we got permission to unload into the garage, and then the inspector finished up and we started hauling into the house. I was hoping to have the POD delivered early and have most of that done first, but that didn’t happen either. We left for the closing and the POD still hadn’t showed up yet. Bad news, because That Man is physically unable to do that much hard labor to unload it ourselves and our movers were gone.
We signed paperwork enough to kill a few thousand trees and returned home to find that Papa and the girls had unloaded the entire POD into the garage. I was dumbfounded!!
We returned to work on Tuesday, which was hard because I still didn’t have the house put together yet My office is a shambles but I knew where my work equipment was enough to work. I still have a ton of work to do in there and I need to rearrange a few things. I have a cheap bookcase I’ll probably have to relocate. I just don’t seem to have room. This office is bigger than my other, but I have a window to work around and that changes the configuration just enough that I’m not sure where to put things yet.
With the three-day weekend, That Man put together Middle’s basketball goal (that was a seven hour job) and then organized the garage enough to get the van in. I still have a ton to unpack out there, but most of it is stuff we don’t really need but also couldn’t part with.
Today, I finally finished the kitchen. It was quite the challenge. I have more cabinet and counter space here than the other house, but I lost a HUGE pantry. (I had two at the other house.) I do have a pantry here but losing that big walk-in pantry really hurt. I love to cook and eat whole foods, so I have a ton of stuff. Five gallon buckets of wheat. Masa. Oats. Buckwheat groats. The list goes on and on. I finally moved in a smaller pantry cabinet we bought years ago (I’d planned to leave it in the garage) and that helped.
We also have a large walk-in closet in the master, so I plan to shift a few things in there that I don’t use very often. My crockpot is in the coat closet on the shelf for now. I’ll figure it out eventually.
I spent a lot of time thinking about how I use things, what goes together when I make bread or bake or cook dinner. Hopefully things are organized enough that I won’t lose my mind when I start cooking dinner.
For That Man’s birthday we also replaced his rusted out grill, so now we can start shifting some of the cooking outside this summer.
Tomorrow: steak on the grill!
Writing update: I haven’t accomplished much with the move, but I did do something stupid. Raise your hand if you’re surprised? As you know, I love a good challenge. I saw the Historical Heroes Writing Contest and Jeannie Lin’s post encouraging POC characters, and yeah. I wrote something completely out of left field for me. I don’t typically write straight historical (I much prefer fantasy or steampunk where I can tweak history to suit my needs) but Dante Silent Crow walked in and took over. He’s half black, half Apache, and his heroine is in serious need of his protection as a gunman. I had fun with it. We’ll see how it goes and if nothing happens with the contest, maybe I’ll write it for fun.
Okay, that’s a really long post but I think I’ve updated on the most important things. Do help an author out and maybe post a review of The Billionaire Submissive if you can? I’d appreciate it!