Mid July Update

Okay, it's been two and a half weeks since the movers moved most of our things into the house. It is reasonable to expect that I would be totally unpacked and settled in. But NOOOOOO! I'm still unpacking - I'm in unpacking hell, to be exact, since it just can't seem to get finished. In my defense, the following rant is the cliff notes version of what's been going on. You may want to just skip to the last line.

So far, there hasn't been a day (except for last weekend) that we haven't had someone in the house looking at this that needs fixing or that which needs replacing. It takes several hours a day some days. It's unbelievable how unproductive it can be.

On the outside, many of the driveway pavers had to be replaced because they were deteriorating - apparently a manufacturing issue. Most of our grass looks great, but the St. Augustine is dying.....

On the inside, about 80% of the door frames have to be replaced due to a manufacturing defect that we didn't notice until we moved in. Odd that no one else noticed it....... I put blue painter's tape on all of the places that were a problem and it looked like we had blue spotted door frames everywhere. Anyway, there have been no less than 5 different people or groups of people over to look at them.

The floor is still warped. We'll still waiting, and waiting, and waiting.....

The septic system had a line cut (or something) so I ended up with standing water after a shower one morning. Was this a septic or a plumbing issue?? That took sorting out. Fortunately, the water was contained in the shower and did not leak out onto the bathroom floor.

The ice machine was not properly hooked up. That took two or three trips from the plumbing company.

We can't unpack many of the boxes because we are waiting (and waiting) for the painter to be finished with painting the entertainment center that will go in the den. It is huge and is the focal point of the entire room. It was custom built, and delivered several weeks ago. It just sat, disassembled, in the garage of the new house for a few weeks as the painter tried to figure out where and when they were going to paint it. We finally moved it to the garage of the house-across-the-street so they could spray paint it there. It's been over there for about two weeks and we learned today that it will probably be another week before it is installed and totally finished. After that, the electronics guy can hook up the entertainment system, THEN I can unpack the boxes of things that go on the shelves. (Beginning to get the picture???)

I could go on and on, but will stop here. Oh, the joys of a new house. It really is fabulous and we are really ready to enjoy it. NOW!!!!

Oh, an ironic thing is when I originally heard (back in May) the delivery date of next week for some more of our furniture, I thought it was wayyy out into the future and that we would be here and settled and just waiting for the furniture. Little did I know!

Whine, Whine, Whine, Wine, Wine, Wine. Life is good!!!