Settling in

it's only been a few days but i feel like we're beginning to settle in a bit. we've cooked three meals here now so i think in some weird way that equates settling. i've posted some pictures of the house it's not perfect by any means but it's coming along.

today we fixed breakfast and sat for a while watching tv. i unpacked two or three more boxes and put some things away. then we left here in the big Penske truck to run errands. (let me plug Penske right now... they're great. the truck was relatively new and their rates are so much better than the other rental places; we got discounts for reserving online and for AAA. we had the truck from wednesday to sunday which is much longer than the others too. So what i'm saying is, rent penske if you need a big truck.-- enough of the shameless plug.)

So we ran errands in the big truck. We headed out and went to U-haul to return the six dozen furniture pads we rented for the move. We left there and went to Lowe's. I bought the parts to put up wire shelving in the laundry room. They make charcoal shelves now supposedly for the garage, but i'm all about matching and since the washer and dryer are black i went with the super duty shelves. I'll tackle that project maybe on my lunch break tomorrow. We also picked up a super cool water sprinkler. It has this track thing where you can create a water pattern so it only waters where you want it to as it goes around. It's hard to explain, but it's super cool. We also picked up a sprayer for the hose. It's going to be a challenge to keep this yard as beautiful as it is so we are trying to gather the tools to keep it looking good.

After Lowes we went to Wal-mart. I must say it's nice to be back in a place where wal-mart isn't a bad word. We bought an outside trash can and got a discount because they didn't have the lid. We also bought a weed eater and some other miscellaneous stuff we needed but forgot yesterday when we were there.

After depositing the purchases at the house we took the truck back. i think kelvin was a little sad; he had become attached to driving it, and he did a great job.

Of course at this point in the day it was about 3 and our orange danish and sausage was long gone. Kelvin grilled up steaks and i fixed sliced potatoes with Tony's. It was a yummy meal, and luckily we didn't run out of propane.

i have lots to do tomorrow for work. it'll be my first official day on the job as a telecommuter. We'll see how that goes.