today is the first day of a bunch of days that we will be moving! we get our keys today at 2pm and get to start paying rent and moving in :o). our lease does not end at our apartment till august 11 so we have an overlap of time that we can slowly begin setting up. however, i just found out that dave rented a uhaul over the weekend so it looks like we are going to try and get a majority of the work done this weekend! yaaaay. i am so ready to get out of this apartment, we just need more room and a yard. We have been living in 920 sq. ft. for the past 15 months and now we will have just over 1,300 square feet....woooohooo. 3 bedroom, 2 full baths, 2 car garage, fireplace (in central texas??? i know.) and a privay fenced in yard for Thor!!!! now we are only renting so i can't get too excited about decorating things and making it our own, but i am pretty excited about being able to do up our room and the guest room.
the best thing about getting out of our apartment ASAP is that we will have time to make the apartment like new again. it is going to take some SERIOUS work....in retrospect, we should have done some things differently in this apartment that primarily surround raising Thor. i use to hate locking him up for long days in the kennel so we would gate him in the kitchen...well he ate all of the molding there and has destoyed a cabinet door and our laundry room door, and our bathroom door (not in the kitchen area and a different incident.) we also have to repaint the accent wall in our living room that we painted sea green....and we need to fill a BUNCH of holes that Dave and JonO have drilled into the walls when setting up the surround sound. and then there is the carpet. which was brand new berber carpet, but not the high quality type that doesn't shed, and clogged up our vacuum after just 2-3 strokes everytime we vacuumed. it even continues to shed like that to this day, 15 months and tons of vacuuming later. so there are lots of little projects that we need to work on to hopefully not owe the apartment anymore money!
i also need to prepare the new house for is to move into it. the bathrooms and counters need to be cleaned and i want to vacuum everything before we start putting furniture down...so that is our plans for our busy weekend. yipeeee. i plan on taking pictures today before we start putting things in the house that i can hopefully upload here.
on a sad note, hardin has a growth on his foot that looks very much like a big blister...its disgusting and it's causing him to limp. a lot. i have an appointment scheduled for him at 2:20 today to hopefully get it taken care of...which reminds me i need to find his leash.
Yay for moving into a bigger place! and how awesome to have a fenced in backyard and garage. I wish we had those things! I can totally relate to leaving your dog confined all day. I'm in the process of potty training our new puppy and i feel awful when I have to lock him up in his crate. I usually leave him our kitchen too but he still has his baby teeth and isn't quite that good at chewing things yet. He's SO full of energy though. Made me realize I'm so not ready for a kid either!
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