Kristel's Blog

The townhouse has been listed as “sold”! Hooray! That means there’s no more stupid conditions to go over, sign off on, etc. I’m soooo happy. This means that, no matter what, the house is mine. Well, on the closing date a week and a month today. I’m going camping with our cubs the weekend before closing. Hopefully nothing goes wrong and they need to get a hold of me, because there’s no cell reception out at Barber. But I don’t think anything would go wrong that weekend, though, because from what I’ve heard, it all goes wrong on closing day. At least Barber has a phone if I needed to call, and my parents know where it is if they have to come out and get me.

On a side note, my living room is slowly filling up with more boxes. I packed up all my books over the weekend (6 boxes!!!) I’m thinking of moving onto my linen closet next. At least packing all the tablecloths (who really needs a tablecloth for 2 months?) and after you guys visit (if you do) I’ll pack all the extra sheets, pillows, etc. Though the throw pillows might be packed before you get here. There’s only so many weekends between now and moving day, and some of them I can’t pack on. Dad’s insisting that I will need “the family” to come over and help me pack that last weekend. I’m insisting “no!” Mom’s agreeing with me. We’re both a little annoyed that he keeps trying to get family members booked for that weekend. It’ll all be packed if it kills me by the Saturday morning. Speaking of packing… starting to run out of boxes… again. Great. Maybe I’ll see if we can pick some up when we’re out putting a deposit down on my flooring.

It’s getting really hard to tell myself that I’m moving in over a month and a half. I want to pack everything up now and be done with it. Problem is, you can’t just do that when you’re going to be here for at least a month. Surely I’ll be living out of boxes for at least a couple weeks at the new house, so I don’t want to spend a month or so here. But I guess there are things I can pack now; like the dvd’s, maybe some of the computer games, the stand mixer, summer clothes, formal clothes, the craft stuff, maybe everything but one binder of my sheet music…. guess you don’t need to see this list, eh?

Switched to Rogers for my phone. They were in the building, and offered me a really big discount, so I took it. They’re coming to install tomorrow, because somehow they managed to talk me into installing it now instead of waiting a month and a week and continuing to pay Bell $120 a month, even after calling them every other month to fix whatever problem there is on my bill. (Plus the whole bundling thing saves me some more too) I know there’s probably better choices, but nearly all aren’t available in my area, nor the one I’m moving to.

Pepper learned to “Come” this week!!! Okay, so she doesn’t do it if there happens to be a better offer elsewhere, but at least it works for getting her out of the backyard. Wondering now if we should sign her up for level 2 of obedience classes… but I’m not sure. For one, it costs $175. For two, it took us several months after classes just to get the recall. For three, most in level 2 are tricks or advanced techniques of level 1. So the real question is, do I want to spend all that money to teach pepper some extra tricks, or just be happy that she knows “drop it”, “come”, & “sit”?