So it has been a little over two months from my last blog. I'm guessing no one missed me, but if you did, awwwww,thanks! The trouble is, I just haven't had that much to say. Maybe I'm mellowing with age, or there just isn't enough going on in my life that I need to vent about. That's good, and well, who am I kidding, there's always something to vent about. I just haven't had the motivation to write about it.
We are building a house. We are very close to signing a contract, and I imagine we'll do that in the next week or two. It's at the lawyer's office now (the contract), being checked for some weird or bizarre thing that would come back to bite us in the keister later on. Scott and I are really getting into the whole thing now, and are past the sticker shock of how much it costs to build a house. We have the lot, paid for in full, just waiting for action. It's a nice lot, level, bigger than our current lot, and I'm finding that I'm really looking forward to the building process. I know it is supposed to be a very stressful time, and I think it will be, but I'm really anticipating getting this done. We were talking about where stuff is going and laying out the house yesterday, and it really started hitting home for me. This is it, once we sign, we'll be put in the builder's queue and off we go!
We are building an ICF home. Insulated Concrete Form house. They will build the "frame" out of foam sections, pour in concrete between the form walls, and let it set. Both the foundation and the exterior walls will be made this way. Then, the interior walls will be traditional, except for the wall between the LR and master BR. That will have sound dampening insulation in it. Mainly so Scott can play his video games later at night after I go to bed. One of the hazards of waking up at 4am, is that I got to bed around 9pm. Scott doesn't go to bed that early, so yeah, he's doing his gaming thing or watching tv. Anyway... ICF will also make the media room almost sound proof so he can crank that 120lb sub-woofer all he wants and the neighbors shouldn't hear a thing.
I will be doing the painting, when it gets to that point. My hope is that I can get in there to paint before they put in the flooring, wood trim, doors, or anything else we don't want painted. Then, I can just tape off the windows, and the use a sprayer to prime and paint hopefully in two weeks time. It's a bigger ranch style house, so it will take some time to paint. And prime. I haven't forgotten how much paint is sucked up with new drywall. Luckily, the lot is only six miles south of us, so it shouldn't be a big problem to go there right after work to get stuff done, check on progress, and take pictures. It should be interesting to see how things go together.
I am not looking forward to the actual move. We have a lot of stuff that needs going through, sorting, and packing. I think we'll be getting a POD or container of some sort and then packing that, moving it and unpacking at our pace. The furniture, big stuff, appliances, and bulky, heavy stuff we are going to have moved professionally. Neither of us will be lifting that stuff.
I can't wait to set up my room. I can finally put stuff in a permanent system of organization instead of just leaving things in bags and waiting. Plus, I have a lot of stuff in my room now that doesn't belong in here, that is taking up space, and needs to be in other parts of the house. That will be nice to get my room organized so when I have friends over, we can actually do project stuff in my room instead of crowding at the DR table.
So, that's about it for now. I will have pics and stories as they come through, and it will be interesting to see if I will be as positive about the whole process once we're done. Hopefully, 2016 will be the year of the move, gone smoothly, and our old house will sell within a week. Well, we'll see about that...
