shopping list/check list

So, next weekend, our errands will include a trip to get cleaning supplies. Rubber gloves, bleach, a bucket, hard wood floor cleaner, a hard wood floor dust mop, and lots of paper towels!

Closing is just over a week away, and the first order of business, on that day, will be to clean and disinfect the place top to bottom.

While in the house that day, we will determine what painting, if any, needs to be done, and that afternoon/evening, we will go choose colors.

(we really, really hope the closing is in the MORNING! Don't know yet....)

Then, the next day, which is my birthday, I will go back to work, and Dave will get the locks changed, and will start the painting projects.

He's got so much vacation time that he can take Wed. through Sun. of that week off without any trouble, and then take more days off around Memorial day weekend for the big move.

I don't earn nearly as much time off as he does, so I'm only taking the closing day off, and have to wait til the weekend to go do stuff at the house. Then, I will see about taking extra days off around Memorial day, too.

Sigh.

But, all's well and in order. He's called the utility companies, and we already have a phone number, even though the line isn't ours yet.

Oh yeah, we will need to buy a phone, too! HAH!

(I insisted that we get a hard wired house phone once we have a house. I think we NEED to have it for the security system to work, AND, I'd like the peace of mind of knowing that if one of us has another heart attack, ahem, the other can just dial 9-1-1 and they'll already know where we are calling from....)

The house is already vacant, and we are champing at the bit, but can't legally get inside until the 27th.

Anyway, that first weekend, we will also go pick up the dressing table and hoosier we have on lay away at the antique mall. Thanks to our dear friends Cathy and Mike, we can now pay for the hoosier!!

Which is nice when you've laid something away, and need to either pay for it, or lose your deposit!

During May, Dave and I can take car loads of stuff over to the house and gradually settle in over the course of the month. It will be great to be able to take non-essential items over and put them away! Like winter clothes, and stuff that's just being stored in the closet, etc.

If we need to, we can even bring empty boxes back and use them again. We can easily move small furniture in my car, too.

We can take it slow and easy until the final weekend of May, when the pets and the furniture and the humans will go to the house for good!

Unfortunately, our apartment complex will not let us out of our lease 2 weeks early (lease ends June 15 for some reason), so we have to pay June rent and our first house payment, even though we will be out before May 31st.

Thankfully, Dave's parents are going to help us out with that....we would be in a tight spot for the month of June without their help.

THEN, we will eventually hopefully get a refund from the apartment complex for the deposit Dave put down 5 years ago.

That's about it for now...just trying to think of everything and be sure everything gets done....it won't be long now!

Oh, and p.s. don't ever go to "Dental Depot." They were horrible.

The assistant I had on the day I went in for my crown (who was, of course, different from the assistant on the first visit who made me bite down on bite wing films and impression material with a painful broken tooth!) ignored my telling her FIRST THING that the tooth was sensitive.

She came at me with pliers to try to get the temp off. I looked at her skeptically....why wasn't she numbing me up? She said it should come right off. She reached in and grabbed the tooth with the pliers, and the nerve pain was so intense that I jumped and pushed her arm away.

Of course, it didn't just "pop off" like she said it should, and she went at it again, and tried wrenching the pliers back and forth to loosen the temp.

I literally screamed. Then, I said "I TOLD YOU when I first walked in here that the tooth has been sensitive."

She seemed exasperated and put out, but ultimately, she agreed to numb me up, like she SHOULD have the instant I told her the tooth had been bothering me! Again with the three shots of novocaine, like the first time.

My scalp and neck were numb by the time I left there....rather than giving one shot and giving it time to work, she just filled my head with the stuff.

Finally, it did pop off, and then the dentist came in for about 2 minutes, to fit and mount the crown. Then, another half hour with her in there trying to remove the excess cement.

I could not open my mouth the next day, and once again had abrasions and injuries around the tooth and on my lips and tongue.

It was horrific. Never been through anything this awful in a lifetime of dentist visits. The only reason I will ever set foot back in there will be to collect my films.