...cause I'm paranoid like that and no one had inhabited that room...ever.

I never realized how much dust accumulates in a year when you just avoid an extra room altogether. I also found the missing Christmas stuff. Never realized how much luggage we have accumulated.

Unpacked the boxes that had piled up in there and even took a gander at my wedding dress which is still in the giant JCPenney bag I shoved it into the day after the wedding...6 years ago.

Don't you hate it when you start out with a plan do one thing or clean one room and you end up going from room to room?

I can't believe you guys will be here in a week! Time flew by hella fast.

Oh yeah...Clint received a summons for jury duty. LOL!!!!

Not exactly sure yet, but it looks like our plans this week are changing.. The in-laws might not be here tonight or tomorrow for Niki's recital. If they don't show up, we can erase the following from the list:

• Friday the 16th (time unknown)
  - in-laws should arrive.

• Saturday evening sometime
  - possibly hanging out with newlyweds.

• Tuesday the 20th, 7PM
  - hoping to see Coheed & Cambria
  

...as well as some other plans that I had. These are times when I wish I could put aside my fears and hire an on-call babysitter. It might be more reliable and I wouldn't feel bad about asking since I'm paying that person. I did try to steal my 13yo cousin from my Gma during my visit to Guam so she could help me, but that didn't work out. My carry-on was too small.

*sigh*

Sucks that I already bought the tickets for Niki's recital tomorrow, even if they were only $2 each. I could have bought dinner. Or toilet paper. Or a six-pack. Anyone want to come? I've got four tickets available.

On the plus side, I have more time to get things situated at the house. Except, I don't have anyone to help me.

*sigh*

I need a drink.

I will make a token effort to ignore the bullshit but in the end will be standing next to Slavepoet when the lynchings begin cause the bat matches the car.

So much to do.
Must. Find. Water.

Had the electrician over today to assess the basement and possibly get it up to par.

Yeah...riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

He went down then and almost went running away crying. It was THAT bad. What we thought would be a quick repair and reconnection of wires turned into yet another "OH MY GAWD WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!" and more importantly... "where does THAT wire go?!". There were other statements such as "What is...ok..um...this is bad. You don't want to look back here and don't touch that hanging wire". Sighs of frustration and confusion were at every 3 feet of movement.

There were many sobering moments and as the dollar amount on the estimate soared to $4000 I felt like crying. Thankfully, the guy was hella nice and hooked us up as well as gave us options. Basically, we have to rip out all the drywall in the basement so everything is exposed and then call him to come back and completely rewire. The $4000 price tag is now considerably less.

I can breath a bit easier now but what this means is that it will be even longer before I can even think of putting in the new carpet or even trying to habitate that part of the house.