Two Weeks in the House!

I'm not sure it has totally set in yet that I own this house. The first two weeks, honestly, have been pretty exhausting. Here's some highlights.

• There were a fair amount of things that we didn't notice prior to occupying the property.
• Door is missing a trim piece.
• Outdoor light seems to have a wiring issue; won't turn on.
• Pass through in dining room has splitered trim.
• Toilets both have problems.
• Plumber said we'd need one new one, but we fixed it without having to get a new one.
• The second toilet still needs to be fixed.
• There were several missing light fixtures.
• The dining room pot lights locations make absolutely no sense.
• There are crazy wires coming out of the floor in several places. In one case there's an extension cord and two cables. Who walls up extension cords?
• There are all new windows, which rocks, but they easily go off the tracks.
• Our backyard is apparently Wild America. Oh, Sadie.
• Sadie, our dog, turned into a hunter and treed a racoon. Occurs 5:30 AM
• Barked at something outside the back fence like a maniac and we couldn't get her to stop. Occurs 3:30 AM.
• Goes nuts, we go out to see what's wrong and immediately are hit with skunk smell. Despite the fact that the skunk already spraying her. Sadie is still viciously going after the skunk until she has it cornered in our shed (which we plan on getting rid of, apparently a good idea). Bear was finally able to convice her to come to him. Wow, did she stink! Occurs 12:15 AM. Yeah, I'm sure our neighbors are too happy about our arrival.
• Whenever we think that we've decided what to do with the very outdated and poorly planned kitchen, someone else gives us a great idea. That's fantastic, but our heads are spinning a bit.
• We buy a pendent light for over the sink to replace one of the missing fixtures that just had a hard plate and a bulb - no outlet box. Nice.
• The light in the garage doesn't work, which is quite problematic considering we still need to get a lot out of there and I work during the day.
• We need window coverings on all the windows. None of them had curtains, blinds, or anything. The front rooms of the house all have these beautiful big windows, but the large middle panels are not the same size. So, after quite a bit of time at Home Depot we figured out that there was no way to get the same blinds for all three rooms. We got ones that we thought were similar for the room that didn't fit the other blind type. Well, that one was completely see through. What the heck?! Why have blinds if they are see through? Weird. Back to Home Depot to return them. After checking with two different stores, I finally found some blinds that looked fairly similar, but they're not bamboo like the other two sets.
• A fairly big thing -- we found out a few days before closing that we needed to replace the carpet in two rooms. There were several issues regarding what flooring we wanted to do or could do. End result - carpet in both rooms, but it couldn't be put down until a couple days after we moved in so furniture for those two rooms were strewn over the rest of the house.

You can see why I haven't been blogging! Please don't take the above as complaining. We love the house! Bear and I are pretty much in laughing mode at this point.I could perhaps rename this blog The Adventures of Home Ownership.

As for my last post about my no alchol experiment, I decided on 30 days. It has been no problem at all. Actually, I'm really liking it. Having come from a family that we joke "drinks for a living" (love you Mom!), alcohol is present at every get together/function/meal. So, this is definitely different. Maybe I'll introduce the idea to them. Theresa mentioned that her friends did Dry July. That sounds interesting.