I Do Not Live in an Apartment posted
Well, I moved into my house.
Friday I took off work at noon to start moving, then my parents showed up around 8ish to help out for the weekend. We moved a lot of stuff. It was lame. I'm so tired and sore. Plus I had to buy a washer and lawn mower, and pay mortgage and rent. I am broke. Then we had to run a gas line to my dryer because my house is setup for an electric one... BUT my dryer is setup for LP and I have natural gas... So then I had to order some parts and change those out sometime this week. Working with gas sorta makes me nervous. On top of that, I have a LOT of unpacking to do... :(
Saturday night kari's family met up with us (and gave me some pretty nice house warming gifts). We went to my aunt's house for an awesome dinner and then to Foxboro for this karaoke contest. My uncle won it, haha - It was awesome. $500 prize too.
So yeah, being in a house is pretty awesome. It's weird that I don't have to walk 200 yards to get to my garage or storage unit. And I don't ever have to put quarters into another load of laundry. And I have so much room to do whatever I want. I mean going from 720 sqft to 2000 sqft is pretty freakin cool. I can't wait to have parties... However I really need to get more things done first. I.E. I really have nowhere for people to sit in the basement. I have no spare beds for people to crash on. I have no TV stand anymore. I need a cooler TV to occupy said TV stand. I have gold door handles (lame). Plus I need a workbench, pool table, bar, pinball machine, foosball table, poker table, a whole house stereo, a bigger deck, some more furniture, things to hang on my walls, and some nicer light/fan fixtures. And I really really need internet.. and wireless.
That said, yall can come over in about 5 years or so and my house will be both accomodating and sweet.
Friday I took off work at noon to start moving, then my parents showed up around 8ish to help out for the weekend. We moved a lot of stuff. It was lame. I'm so tired and sore. Plus I had to buy a washer and lawn mower, and pay mortgage and rent. I am broke. Then we had to run a gas line to my dryer because my house is setup for an electric one... BUT my dryer is setup for LP and I have natural gas... So then I had to order some parts and change those out sometime this week. Working with gas sorta makes me nervous. On top of that, I have a LOT of unpacking to do... :(
Saturday night kari's family met up with us (and gave me some pretty nice house warming gifts). We went to my aunt's house for an awesome dinner and then to Foxboro for this karaoke contest. My uncle won it, haha - It was awesome. $500 prize too.
So yeah, being in a house is pretty awesome. It's weird that I don't have to walk 200 yards to get to my garage or storage unit. And I don't ever have to put quarters into another load of laundry. And I have so much room to do whatever I want. I mean going from 720 sqft to 2000 sqft is pretty freakin cool. I can't wait to have parties... However I really need to get more things done first. I.E. I really have nowhere for people to sit in the basement. I have no spare beds for people to crash on. I have no TV stand anymore. I need a cooler TV to occupy said TV stand. I have gold door handles (lame). Plus I need a workbench, pool table, bar, pinball machine, foosball table, poker table, a whole house stereo, a bigger deck, some more furniture, things to hang on my walls, and some nicer light/fan fixtures. And I really really need internet.. and wireless.
That said, yall can come over in about 5 years or so and my house will be both accomodating and sweet.
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yeah... i only have about 4 years until people can come to my house!!
kevi posted
That's fine, I can crash on the floor. See ya tonight!
vanwinkle posted
sweeeet...you know, you won't end up getting half of those things...i had the same dreams when i moved into my townhouse, but now i'm just counting down the days til i can get a nicer place...
nick posted
Yeah I still need to buy a house so your like a year ahead of me. working with gas sucks.
Aaron posted
Congrats..and welcome to Ankeny, good neighbor
r00 posted
almost halfway there!
have: basement seating, spare beds, tv stand, workbench, pool table, internet, wifi, shed
need: a cooler tv, door knobs, bar, pinball machine (or some arcade game), poker table, bigger deck, things to hang on walls, light/fan fixtures, desk, shelves
scratched: foosball, whole house stereo (wireless solves this).
derek posted