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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Friday, July 23, 2010
The Move
Kris: This last week has been quite chaotic but we're getting a lot of things done as far as moving me into Mark's place. Last Friday we had a contractor in to build in a closet, make a half wall a full wall, put in a door to the upstairs and also frame in a few windows. It looks really nice and with that all in place, the upstairs is now a dog-free zone.
Mark: One of the benefits of separating of the upstairs for the cats is that now the wall unit air conditioner works incredibly well. Had to actually turn the air down to low, a first in the 10 years I have lived here because it was too cold upstairs.
Kris: We spent a good chunk of Saturday cleaning and putting in some shelving. I was cleaning floor to ceiling upstairs and Mark was working in the basement and on the main floor.
Mark: Amazing what projects I am getting done now that there is a female influence in the house again.
Kris: Saturday morning my Dad and a friend came over to take my grandfather clock. We decided the best place for it is at Mom and Dad's house. It will have to stay there until we get our new house. Late afternoon the plan was to go for a longer bike ride with a group of our friends but the weather blew in storms and tornado watch/warnings so unfortunately that got canned :( But we did have a group of our Tour de France friends over in the evening to watch Stage 13.
Sunday was a full moving day. We rented a U-Haul truck to get all of the large items moved around. We had stuff from Mark's to go to storage and stuff from my place to go to storage and another load up to the house. Kind of a bummer for me that I had to take apart my bed set and throw all that into storage. All except for the bed as we switched out Mark's doggie king for my kitty queen. Makes the bedroom look huge and my bed look small! And thank goodness we got a few extra hands to help us get the monstrous items moved. Michael helped us get my bed set cabinets into storage and then Michael and Steve helped us get the bed and couch into the house and up the stairs. (yikes I was seriously thinking the couch might not make it through the door)
Mark: If I have not mentioned it, I hate moving and it stresses me out beyond belief. And technically I am not even moving.
Kris: This week is going to be lots of car-fulls from my house to Mark's house. And since the bed is gone, our temporary sleeping arrangements are a sleeping bag and two blankets on the living room floor. We opted for the living room so we can watch the Tour de France right before turning out the lights.
So the goal remains to have me and the kitties completely moved in next weekend. And our new bigger goal..."Out by France" (Short story on that one, we want to have enough money saved up that we can be in a new house and plan on going to France in July 2013 which will be the 100th running of the Tour :)
New Linen Closet
Window for the pass through
Half wall and new Door
Mark: One of the benefits of separating of the upstairs for the cats is that now the wall unit air conditioner works incredibly well. Had to actually turn the air down to low, a first in the 10 years I have lived here because it was too cold upstairs.
Kris: We spent a good chunk of Saturday cleaning and putting in some shelving. I was cleaning floor to ceiling upstairs and Mark was working in the basement and on the main floor.
Finishing off the Basement for the Dogs
New Shelves in the Kitchen
Mark: Amazing what projects I am getting done now that there is a female influence in the house again.
Kris: Saturday morning my Dad and a friend came over to take my grandfather clock. We decided the best place for it is at Mom and Dad's house. It will have to stay there until we get our new house. Late afternoon the plan was to go for a longer bike ride with a group of our friends but the weather blew in storms and tornado watch/warnings so unfortunately that got canned :( But we did have a group of our Tour de France friends over in the evening to watch Stage 13.
Sunday was a full moving day. We rented a U-Haul truck to get all of the large items moved around. We had stuff from Mark's to go to storage and stuff from my place to go to storage and another load up to the house. Kind of a bummer for me that I had to take apart my bed set and throw all that into storage. All except for the bed as we switched out Mark's doggie king for my kitty queen. Makes the bedroom look huge and my bed look small! And thank goodness we got a few extra hands to help us get the monstrous items moved. Michael helped us get my bed set cabinets into storage and then Michael and Steve helped us get the bed and couch into the house and up the stairs. (yikes I was seriously thinking the couch might not make it through the door)
Mark: If I have not mentioned it, I hate moving and it stresses me out beyond belief. And technically I am not even moving.
Kris: This week is going to be lots of car-fulls from my house to Mark's house. And since the bed is gone, our temporary sleeping arrangements are a sleeping bag and two blankets on the living room floor. We opted for the living room so we can watch the Tour de France right before turning out the lights.
So the goal remains to have me and the kitties completely moved in next weekend. And our new bigger goal..."Out by France" (Short story on that one, we want to have enough money saved up that we can be in a new house and plan on going to France in July 2013 which will be the 100th running of the Tour :)
Sunday, July 11, 2010
A Really Big Change
Kris: So it's been awhile since we've been doing a whole lot of adventurous type things. And there is a very good reason for that. Well...two reasons. 1) No Money 2) I'm moving Mark: Sigh to #1 Yea to #2
Yes folks, the short story is that we came to the realization that with a little remodeling at Mark's house, myself and the cats can move into the upstairs and get out of my townhouse. Cats will NOT come into contact with dogs. That was my #1 priority.
It's one of those things that is going to save us a ton of money so we can start crawling out of debt, pay for the wedding and start saving for the house we really want. But I have to admit it was a very sad decision for me. Don't get me wrong, I am looking forward to getting us all into one house and having more time at home and with the cats and with the dogs but I love my townhouse. I guess it will still be my townhouse because we also found out a few days ago that I can't afford to sell it so we are going to us a rental agency to rent it out for now. I don't feel like I got much of a chance to "live" in it and I've grown very fond of Eden Prairie. It's such a wonderful city with all the conveniences a person needs. (Especially now that they finally got a Brueggers :) Plus my place doesn't need any fixing up or remodeling where we are going to have to do a number of projects at Mark's while we're there to get it ready to sell sometime in the future as well. My "previous life" included a lot of remodeling projects and I guess I sort of would like to be done with that for awhile.
But I know this is the right decision for us and to get us going in the right direction so that some day we can go find the house we want. So we're hoping to get me all moved in by August and have it rented out beginning asap.
Wedding plans have been halted for a few days, our training has taken a back seat as well but I just try to keep thinking that everything will get better in terms of our scheduling as soon as this move is complete and I become an official resident of Robbinsdale, MN.
Mark: I will confirm that this was a very tough decision to make and the ironic part was that we each came to the conclusion separately and it was during a stressful talk about wedding expenses that we realized we were both thinking the same thing. But now that we had made the decision it is full speed ahead and trying to move what we can, put stuff we won't need or don't have the space for in our new storage space while we wait for the contractor to make a few remodeling modifications to the house (new door and extending a half wall to a full wall, a new linen closet and putting a window in a the pass thru from the bedroom to the stairway). And a day yet to be determined in the next couple weekend, renting a truck to move all the big stuff around. I will post before and after pics of the remodeling and as we move Kris in.
Yes folks, the short story is that we came to the realization that with a little remodeling at Mark's house, myself and the cats can move into the upstairs and get out of my townhouse. Cats will NOT come into contact with dogs. That was my #1 priority.
It's one of those things that is going to save us a ton of money so we can start crawling out of debt, pay for the wedding and start saving for the house we really want. But I have to admit it was a very sad decision for me. Don't get me wrong, I am looking forward to getting us all into one house and having more time at home and with the cats and with the dogs but I love my townhouse. I guess it will still be my townhouse because we also found out a few days ago that I can't afford to sell it so we are going to us a rental agency to rent it out for now. I don't feel like I got much of a chance to "live" in it and I've grown very fond of Eden Prairie. It's such a wonderful city with all the conveniences a person needs. (Especially now that they finally got a Brueggers :) Plus my place doesn't need any fixing up or remodeling where we are going to have to do a number of projects at Mark's while we're there to get it ready to sell sometime in the future as well. My "previous life" included a lot of remodeling projects and I guess I sort of would like to be done with that for awhile.
But I know this is the right decision for us and to get us going in the right direction so that some day we can go find the house we want. So we're hoping to get me all moved in by August and have it rented out beginning asap.
Wedding plans have been halted for a few days, our training has taken a back seat as well but I just try to keep thinking that everything will get better in terms of our scheduling as soon as this move is complete and I become an official resident of Robbinsdale, MN.
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