Well, it appears that I am writing the first blog for March. A lot has happened since the last blog.
1. We closed on our house
We closed on our house on Feb 25, and it went smoothly, for the most part. Some of the paperwork was incorrect, so they had to change it on the spot. The whole adventure only took 45 minutes, and then we left to start work on our new house!
2. The painting fiasco
We got into the house and realized that the whole thing needed a new paint job. The first day, and 4 gallons of ceiling paint later, we had the ceiling gleaming of white.
The next day we decided to paint the main area with a light gray, which was going to be used over the exisitng light beige. So we thought one coat would be enough. Not true. We put the first coat on and the beige came through like you wouldn't believe. Perplexed, we headed back to our friendly Menards, and we upgraded our paint to a much better paint. They even exchanged it and marked the old paint as defective. We get home with our new paint and paint another coat. Same thing! We couldn't believe it. So we went back again thinking that maybe their formula was flawed because it was a custom color. We went with a little bit darker color. This time (which was 3rd time of painting a hallway, living room, dining room, and kitchen) we didn't care if it covered or not. It was the LAST time we were painting. Alas, the paint covered. After 3 coats of paint for the price of 3 gallons (Menards is good like that) we are done painting) The 3 bedrooms aren't worth mentioning because they we're a piece of cake.
3. The cable fiasco
Anyone that knows us is aware that internet is extremely important. The cable company came out and installed everything and did their magic. I guess the prerequisite to being a cable installer is incompetence. He did his thing and of course we tried the connections out. They hadn't shut off the cable for the last person. So we try the internet connection. Cable modem will not sync. It finally syncs and we find out that they had had provisioned us for the wrong internet package. STRIKE 1. Then we get it re-provisioned and try the connection again. Lousy download speeds! STRIKE 2. Hook up the digital cable box and try the on Demand service. Doesn't work! STRIKE 3. The day after the install we try the cable again (during the day the down speeds are as advertised, right when you hit peak hours (5-10) it is crap) Cable picture for TV is worse than over the air signals. STRIKE 4 (I guess the baseball example is out.)
I am really going to miss Insight Cable, we are on Charter Cable now, and they have bad customer support. For instance, I called about the Digital Box not working. They say "everything looks great on our end", to which I reply "well that doesn't fix our problem now, does it" Morons.
I am a little bit better with the cable today as the digital cable was working, the internet connection was at a reasonable speed, and everything seems to be in working order.
4. The move
We have been slowly moving the small things in. Our big move is tomorrow. We have lots of help, so hopefully the process wil go nice and quickly. We rented a 17 foot truck to move all of our crap. That hopefully will be plenty big.
We are very happy with this house. Every day I find one more thing that I love about it. Couldn't be happier. Even though we had a really rought time for a couple of days (to the point where I was a sourpuss), everything has turned out great. Here's to a new house. Cheers.