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I’ve been so busy since we moved into the new house. It’s a lot of work setting things up and unpacking everything. Most of my possessions have been in storage for so long, I forgot how much crap I really own! It’s starting to come together now. I finished hanging the light fixtures and ceiling fans we purchased awhile back. We bought some curtains from JCPenney’s the other day that should be in soon. Tomorrow we get to take the foil off the bedroom windows when the shutters get installed. Oh, and about 3-4 weeks we should have our new bedroom set delivered! We found something we liked at a local furniture dealer when we out on Sunday. I originally wasn’t going to purchase it until I paid off some other debts, but they had a new promotion where there is no interest if paid off by January 2008, and the first 12 months there are no payments, as long as I never miss a payment. Knowing how anal I am at paying off accounts like this I decided to take advantage of the offer. Besides, we got them to come way down on the set, and throw in a couple Tempurpedic pillows (to go with the mattress!).

Sunday Lowes came back and delivered our new (convection) oven. Speaking of Lowes, I found this link that will get me an additional 10% off my appliance purchase. The sales person told me this would come from the USPS with the MoversGuide, but he was confused, that was The Home Depot that has a 10% off coupon in the MoverGuide. Anyways, he said I could bring the coupon into the store to be credited the money back to my Lowes account. Not a bad deal, I bought the appliances at the best prices around and, with the rebates and coupon I saved almost another $900!

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I think our new house is jinxed. First it’s all the problems we’ve had building it, which is still not complete. The cabinets in the study have no top on them, some trim work needed to be painted, and the pool bath door is missing the blind insert (it’s sitting in the garage, until someone has courage to install it, apparently it’s very difficult to install without cracking the glass). We’re still waiting for the oven to come from Lowes. And yesterday I had an appointment with Brinks to activate the security system. The appointment was for between 8am-12pm. I took the morning off hoping he would show early and I could get to work before lunch time. That’s not how it worked out though. He eventually showed up around 1pm, and informed me that the process takes up to 3 hours to finish installing and testing everything. YIKES! I ended up having to take a personal day to stay home while the security system was setup. He ended up having several problems with one door (the pool bath door, go figure!) and drilled several holes in the door frame looking for the wires. Apparently when the builders put the door frame on they cover the wires up. He had a bunch of other problems from there, and eventually finished up around 8pm.

The day wasn’t completely wasted, I put some more things away, fixed some smaller stuff around the house, and hung a ceiling fan. There’s still alot more to do though!