Bit the bullet

It has been quite a weekend around our place. We've been getting the house ready to put on the market for a couple of weeks now. I'm in the midst of repainting most of the rooms in the house. Nothing like a nice, fresh coat of white paint. Man, even if we don't sell, I just feel so much better about the newly painted walls and baseboards. So easy to cover nearly 4 years of wear and tear with a gallon of paint. Anyhow, so, we finally filled out the forms, sent in our $595 and listed our house on the local MLS. It's a bit daunting to think about packing up and moving, but as I paint wall and pack up all of the personal items, it feel less like my "home" and more like the place I store my crap. Hubby doesn't know, but tomorrow's project is to pack up all of the John Deere stuff in the office. Once my parents get back from vacation, I'm moving a bunch of furniture into their shop. Yep, it's not very home-y around these parts anymore. We go to look at another place tomorrow...so we'll just have to see. I'm getting pretty picky about the places we look at. I don't want to settle and be stuck w/ my choice for the next 40 years. We feel like whatever move we make at this point will be "it" until...well, until a long ways off. So I don't want to say it's "good enough" and be cranky about it for...well until. :)

And wouldn't you know it, as we're trying to get ready to sell and open up our home to the critism of strangers, our dryer dies. Yep. Apparently lint got stuck in the paddles of the dryer and basically was scortching every load. All of our clothes smelled like burnt crayons. They STUNK!! The repair guy said, "if it doesn't go away, you'll have to buy a new dryer". Well, after an expensive box of febreze dryer sheets and only running the dryer after letting it sit for at least 2 hours, all of the sudden yesterday at 3pm, my house was filled with the stench of burning crayons...again. So, we threw in the towel and went to the appliance warehouse. We decided that if we were going to buy a stupid dryer, we might as well just buy a complete set and be done w/ it. I've always wanted an energey efficient washer, anyhow. So after running back w/ the F350, Hubby brought home our "ding & dent" Whirlpool Duet dryer and the brand new Duet HT washer. Apparently this washer only costs $10/year to run. We'll see how it does w/ all the spit rags! :) Of course, then I had to run to RiteAid to buy new HE laundry detergent, so my pair cost me $1860, plus an $9 bottle of new soap. It is always something around here!!

In other news, work is busy for me and my office is a mess. Buddy is getting big. We carved pumpkins the other day, and he did not like the oozy innerds of the pumpkins. :) Little Miss is almost ready to sit by herself. But, she hates to use her legs. Goofy girl. Okay, minutes until Hubby & Buddy come back from the play ground, then it's the gourmet grilled cheese before church.