Jeremy and I are now officially home owners! Woohoo!! We closed on our house on Thursday afternoon, have given in our keys to our old place and are moving in! Well, we've already moved everything into the new place - now we're just slowly wading though the piles of boxes, trying to get everything in it's place. Jeremy and I have both decided to never move again - moving is the absolute worst! Not to mention a health hazard - I was certain that Jeremy, myself and one of the moving boys were going to die yesterday as we moved the couch. Imagine the position they were in - Jeremy and the movers had somehow managed to squeeze our rather large couch up to the top of the stairwell (which was no easy feat, let me tell you!). However, once the guy who was going backwards up the stairs reached the top of the staircase, he was faced with a dilemma - there's only about 4 feet of room between the stairs and the wall, and to get into the living room you have to take a sharp right turn. Of course, an oversized couch doesn't lend itself well to taking sharp right turns. So there they were, couch wedged in our staircase, Jeremy and the moving guy bracing themselves against the bottom of it trying desparately not to lose their grip and face certain death by couch-squashing. The boys decided that the only way to get the couch into the living room was to stand it up on one end and just kind of slide it around the corner. Geez!! Here I am, standing at the bottom of the staircase, and all I see is a giant couch slowly but surely raise up to stand on one end - a scary sight! All it would have taken for the couch to come crashing down on my poor husband and his helper (and ultimately myself at the bottom of the stairs) would be for one of the boys to slip or lose their grip. My stomach was doing somersaults the whole time - I was certain that we were all going to die terrible deaths!! But we didn't, and the couch eventually made it to it's designated spot in the living room. Good job boys!! Jeremy has now decided that when it comes time for us to move again, he's either cutting the couch into pieces with a chainsaw, or he's pushing over the balcony. Both are excellent ideas.
So, after many (many, MANY) trips up and down stairs, in and out of doors, and a whole lot of grunts and groans, we are in our new place. We slept here on Friday night on the floor - not the best idea but oh well. We had champagne and take-out Thai food last night as a celebration. Now today it's more unpacking and putting beds and futons and desks back together, as well as a little grocery shopping and all that fun stuff. Woo!
Here are some pictures of us and the new place - you'll have to forgive the fact that we look like homeless people in some of the photos (12 hours of moving can make you look a little disheveled).
Everything else is going great. I've been at my new job for going on three weeks now and I love it! I'm busy all day long, which is nice, and the people I work with/for are great! I'm really enjoying it. Now all I have to do is find 10 people to refer so I can get a $40,000 bonus. Ooooh yeah!
Jeremy also started his new position on Thursday. Well, I guess Monday is really when he'll start, because on Thursday he spent his day meeting people and going out to lunch (and then left early to go to closing) and he had Friday off. I think he'll really enjoy it though - he's mentioned that the people he's met so far have been nice. Hopefully it will all go smoothly!
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