woohoo!

After a solid week of stalling everything finally cleared and I picked up my keys yesterday! So exciting! Can’t believe I just bought a house… now I get to move again. Yay. But first I have to clean it out and do a bit of fixerupin. Being a short sale, the seller really doesn’t give a damn how the place looks because all the money is going directly to the bank. So that means as they pack up their stuff, any junk they didn’t want to keep gets left behind. The bank sent them in there to clean it out before I moved in, but that just meant tossing it all into the trashcans until they ran out of room, then just pile it up in the garage. So that’s nice. Plus the back yard was a bit of a mess, rotting particle boards resting against the fences acting as cockroach incubators… so all that’s got to go.

Yesterday was a lot of sorting junk into piles out back, testing light fixtures and bulbs, and walking around grinning while thinking “this place is MINE!” Before I left last night I set off about a dozen bug bombs and left the house sealed to take care of the resident critters inside – still need to get a big bucket of kills-every-goddamn-thing to spray the yard. My mom is in there today with a gallon of bleach to tackle the first wave of cleaning, and I’m taking tomorrow off work to clean more, repair nail holes and such, and possibly paint some walls. Saturday morning I’m getting the carpets shampooed and having my cable installed that afternoon, then I can start moving things in.