Second Day of Moving

I started the day by going to the Thrift Shop on base at around 10. I got a nice round side table, a crystal table lamp, and another piano bench with a tapestry top. I was really excited with my finds. I went to Target and got a lamp shade, a beaded round top for the round table, and a tray to put on the ottoman. I am attaching some pictures of my handy work today. I moved two trailers of light boxes and a lot of single items in the Jeep. The chairs to the table and my huge teddy bear. I got plenty of exercise in today!! Oh, I put the trestle table together and somehow I bruised my knee on it, anyway, I got the damn thing together. Had to put the legs on the ottoman and that was easy thank god. David is home now and we just finished eating and are getting ready to take some more boxes over. I am only going to unpack the boxes, I am not carrying any in, my knee really, really hurts now. All right off to supervise the loading of the trailer!

First Day of Moving

We didn't get much moved from the house today. I spent most of the day shopping. I got a nice old piano bench from the thrift shop on base for $15. I got a stainless steel can opener from the BX (our old one is OLD). A new toaster, two canisters, some cabinets for Jack's bathroom and a couple garbage cans from Target. I bought all the replacement light fixtures, medicine cabinets, ceiling fan, couple of rugs, and shower heads from Lowe's. I got a doggy door from Home Depot. I picked up the ottoman from Value City Furniture. I bought a sofa table from Sauder. That was enough buying for one day. When David got home we went and got the sofa from Value City and swung by the house to pick up the carpet that goes under the table. I am going to clean it with the rug cleaner tomorrow. So also took the rug cleaner and the small Oreck vacuum and of course my stereo so I can rock out tomorrow while I clean the carpet and arrange my new furniture. First tomorrow I am going to the thrift shop again because people were bringing in some nice stuff for consignment as I was walking out so I am going to check it out. I am going to load up the trailer with light stuff tomorrow and make a couple trips over. Jack is going to have a friend with a truck help after school. So, we will get there sooner or later!

All right I am tired, goodnight!

Monday! Signing for the house today

It is an exciting day today! I am doing a walk through at 10 this morning and am going to take measurements for the appliances. We are going to go to Lowe's tonight to order them. I bought a new sleeper sofa and large ottoman for the living room yesterday. We needed the bed for Dave's mom because she doesn't want to climb stairs when she comes to visit. We have another roll away bed for the guest room upstairs. I think we have enough other furniture to fill out the house.

I painted the small bathroom last night. I have to go back and redo all the cut in work. I thought I might need to put another coat on but it looks pretty good this morning. I still need to paint the ceiling white. I am going to pick up another color for the family room today,something that will coordinate with the red in the kitchen. I have all of the patches painted in the kitchen I just need to roll a couple coats on and it will be done. I am not going to do the family room until I get all the furniture out.

I am still looking for the carpet. I didn't like the first guy who gave me a quote. Got another guy out here and he called me back with an okay price but then said they wanted the money all up front! I don't think so, I wasn't born yesterday. So, I am going to Home Depot for the extra paint and I will check out what they have to offer. It seems that it is going to run around $700+ to do just the family room and hallway.

Well, I've got to finish up some homework and then get ready for the walk through. I will try to take some more pictures today to post.

24 April - Gray Saturday

It has been raining on and off today. I had my hair done this morning. I am only getting it trimmed now because I told David I would grow it out when I retire. I'll have to put it up for a few days but that is okay.

The packing is going well and I only have a few more bits and pieces to go. We have to get into Jack's room and see what needs to be done in there. I did not like my first carpet guy so I just had another one in to measure who was much nicer. I will get that estimate tomorrow. I started painting over the patches in the kitchen and it appears the color will match very well although it will take a few coats to cover up all of the patches but I am overall happy with it.

We have the walk through Monday morning. I plan to get measurements for the refrigerator, microwave, and stove. I will go to Lowe's and order them on Monday as well as they have a 10% off sale and a 10% military discount. We will start moving boxes Tuesday. I don't think it will take long to move the house stuff but the garage stuff will take awhile.

I still have not seen a message saying my boss has approved my retirement application. I though I would see it this weekend because he will be in Orlando next week. I am afraid I will have to resubmit because they only give you a week to 10 days to reply or they cancel the application.

Well, David has gone to get us dinner and then I am going to sand the 1/2 bath and get it ready for paint. I hope we have a nice day tomorrow, at least some sunshine!

22 April - Paperwork is in

Well, I have submitted the paperwork and it is sitting in my bosses inbox to be approved. I will keep everyone updated on the progress. I asked for and was given another week of leave so I will be able to do some moving and cleaning next week. I believe that my retirement ceremony will be either 30 June or 1 Aug. I am not exactly sure until I get my orders and see finance to determine terminal leave. So, I am pretty much done at work except for a couple weeks next month before my surgery, I'll have 6 weeks off after surgery and then will go on terminal leave within a couple days. I am very happy!

I of course have had no chance to do any crafts and I am sure I won't until I am on my convalescence leave, some kind of knitting probably. Maybe I will finish my dress.

Okay, I just took care of all the utilities change over except for the AT&T UVERSE for the television. I believe I will leave that one up to David. I am going to load the Jeep up for hopefully the last run to Goodwill, I did a pretty good job cleaning out all the old stuff this time. I am going to try to paint the kitchen tonight but it may have to wait for tomorrow because I also have homework tonight. It will be a toss up.

21 April - Retirement Maybe?

Well, yesterday was very depressing. I received my medical board results and they did not retire me. I was very upset as you can imagine. There was some crying. Then I took a nap. When I woke up I grabbed my Blackberry and asked my boss to please allow me to retire early (5 months). Today, I got the word that he is going to say yes to the waiver so I am very happy about that. I have to get on the system tomorrow and put my application in and hopefully it won't take too long to get an answer and I should be totally retired by 1 Aug. I no longer have to go to Orlando which makes me very happy. I get to be here to sign for the house! I can also get everything finished painting and cleaning up. So, everyone wish me luck in getting through the paperwork jungle to get out of the Air Force.

19 April - Another Sunny Sunday

I forgot to mention that yesterday was my 22 AF anniversary! Woo-hoo, pay raise and clothing allowance coming my way. What will I spend it on?

David and I had fun yesterday going to see Date Night even though the movie wasn't as funny as the trailers made it out to be. It was still nice to get out and not worry about packing or cleaning for awhile. We then went to BW3 and had early dinner.

I was supposed to work on my homework last night but I decided to finish the latching on the pillow. Now I have to get a pillow form and some material to make the entire pillow. I will take a run to Hancock Fabric today.

I will spend most of the day doing laundry and homework. David is going to start cleaning out his garage. That should be interesting. Plans tomorrow are to finish packing what I can and get all the boxes to the front room. Tuesday I will start touch up painting and painting the kitchen red wall and the half bath.

All right, going to start homework while David is still sleeping.