Alive...
Yes we are still alive and kicking at the HOM. Which really is now a house... a whole damn house. We have been battling roaches, neighbors that act a bit like roaches, other neighbors that are afraid of the other neighbors that act sort of like roaches and just generally learning to live in our new abode.
It's sort of like camping... with 4 walls around you. Yeah sort of like that.
Currently I am down at the shore taking a couple of days to sit in the air conditioning, in a clean house. This is where our son has been safely stashed for the summer while we make the home livable... Thank god for Grandparents!
Uh... have I mentioned the roaches?
Anyway... Friends have come over and tell us that's it's not as bad as we feel like it is right now. We are walking around in a heat exhausted daze wondering why we emarked on this adventure. In time it will all come together, we are taking it one hot hazy day at a time. Our evenings are spent in the yard, what I've been able to weed out so far, drinking wine and licking our wounds from the day's hard labor.
A few disjointed thoughts and tidbits about the house before I flee to enjoy this respite and my kiddo.
We have three stray cats who have adopted the house. We named them: Orga, Meka and we have not named the last. Maybe Rocky. He seems to be the leader. Good name for a leader.
We are fairly sure that the basement is haunted.
Dragging a water soaked matress out of an already moldy basement is NOT a fun job in summer heat.
The sidewalk caving into a sinkhole in front of the abandoned property next door may be a blessing in disquise. The city has been called... 7 - 10 days till they come... I have a complaint number... and so it begins.
Underneath possibly 3 or 4 layers of linoleum there is a hardwood floor... we think, we pray.
Most construction jobs take about twice as long as you planned. Especially if your husband decides there is no way that you will be able to get that screw out any faster than him. 45 minutes later you will remove the screw in under 3 minutes. He will stare at you in awe. You will explain that gentiles have a knack for these things and perhaps you might want to leave the screws removal up to me from now on.
There is beauty here, we will try to reclaim it from underneath at least fifty years of abuse and neglect.
"Nothing Without Great Labor"
This has always been our motto... it certainly fits this chapter in life.
8 caterwauls:
SO glad for a House update!
for reals? a haunted basement? In a good way? (wait- can hauntings ever be good?)
So effing sorry for all of the quirks and ROACHES- but how I imagine the house will thank you for restoring her to her original glory.
xo
wait to come see it.
and to see you.
xo
I want to hear more about this haunted basement!
WOW so sorry that it's been rough and YUCK on the roaches. I'll pray it all works out and gets settled before ALL your hair comes out. Enjoy the beach while you can!
That is something I'll have to remember. Whenever I really think that my "Chosen" self can unscrew better than my Gentile wife, I will hear your voice telling me "Schmuck, hand over the drill"
Also "down at the shore" can only mean one place. NEW JERSEY!3
Now I'm homesick
Haunted basement? Hope it is a good haunting...not all spirits are mean. We know - we are sure Hubby's great-grandfather mills around our house and plays with Chris from time to time.
ICK about the roaches... If it is any consolation, we have a mouse again. We are hunting him down now...
I SO GET THIS. We had to rent our house for 2 months and couldn't touch anything. Now that it's ours, we are overwhelmed with projects and the hiring of people and the choosing of fixtures. And the baby... I sort of wish I could ship him off, off of my body even, until this is all over.
Camping with 4 walls is a perfect description. Perfect.
If another friend tells me it is not that bad, I will scream.
Recently stumbled across your site. We've been TTC for over a year and people like you have made it very helpful for us during this time. Keep the stories coming.
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