jebbypal

Sooo, new house
Last Saturday: movers can and moved all the furniture and boxes. No major issues and a very good crew. Did a few loads of laundry including a vinegar round to clean everything off. no issues. /foreshadowing

Last Sunday: Had already arranged with Trainer to have her help me unpack and organize the kitchen. This was EXCELLENT call as I woke up with a migraine that was really rather bad given that my new meds only really dented the pain and prevented too much light/sound sensitivity. But a good 4-5 hours and that was sorted (and finding out how small of cabinet space there truly is, so the mostly finished room in basement is becoming a pantry

Monday: all the work fun combined with leaving early to go to old house where i was hoping to meet someone who take my desk off me. They had car trouble and backed out so instead i spent 2 hours rounding up the last of everything I needed to.

Tuesday: all the work things continued, including a client going nuts on us and recounting every past mistake (which we addressed in the past, and haven't repeated) resulting in a fun emergency meeting with senior leadership to see what the root problems was (which boils down to the client wants perfection, exceedingly pretty slides that stand out against competitors, everything NOW, and to nickel and dime us on every little thing. these objectives are NOT compatible)
Used dishwasher for first time. some gurgles, nothing bad. everything clean. yay.

Wednesday: all the work things return. Most accounts continue to be crazy busy, but not only did the new hire for my team back out last week, but we've had another resignation. None of them individually were huge losses, but they are starting to add up especially when we have potential large business wins staring us down the face.
Plus leaving work early to go to old house for junk removers to come and remove furniture i wasn't taking and couldn't sell and various and sundry other junk. so that was a good 2 hours.

Thursday: all the work things. stayed at work late finishing some stuff up. Went home and needed to do laundry so i had face masks and figured let's do this while i stay awake to finish something else up.
Heard some gurgling, but didn't think anything of it after checking sink (as it was loud enough that that's where i thought it was from) and nothing doing.
Went downstairs after 10 pm to put stuff in dryer as the washing machine was finishing and -- water all over floor and coming out of the toilet next to it (in basement. there's a pump on toilet and complex stuff.).
Washing cycle seems to have completed but seems like it overwhelmed the pump that attaches to it and the tolilet to pump things back up to the outflow pipe that is above both. Call a couple of friends, get talked down about immediacy of threat of mold (really mostly a large spreading puddle).
Put down a few towels. Turned on the dehumidifier i've kept for 6 years despite not needing at the old house, went upstairs did some work for another hour or so until tired and went to bed.

Friday: notify everyone my availability for day is fubar. Called emergency plumber. Drug nasty rug from the laundry area that was soaked (it was nasty before, just hadn't gotten to it yet) upstairs and out to driveway. dried up all that. Most of the water was caontained to it at that point except a puddle or so, so emptied the dehumidfier and left it going.
Went to colleague's place for WIFI for a bit before i had to come back over for plumber...

end result after lots of poking, running the washing machine to reproduce it, and deciding there must be a main pipe clog, out came the snake.
A lot of noise later and my plumber takes me outside to where the snake has come up in the middle of my yard. Seems like the house pipe has become disconnected from the main sewer pipe. this is all of 3-5 feet away from where the digging for the tank removal happened. So either they broke it, or the displacement of dirt plus weight of equipment did....presumably. And every time the ground around it got saturated, things would back up into the toilet directly under the main pipe.

So my Sunday will involve having a sewer guy come out and look and see what's happening.

So that's my first full week living in the house I've owned for less than a month. Hopefully this is my house's way of baptizing me and there won't be anything else too major. *knock on wood*

Gutters have been clean, deck has been powerwashed (and is now brown instead of grey and green), adult patio furniture has been delivered, and today I hooked up all my electronics while the guys assembled mmy new standing desk (who's power motor isn't working so there will be ANOTHER appointment for that. But no internet till October 2 anyways so. yeah.

Still to do -- get kitchen floor regrouted, see if we can figure out why the kitchen ceiling lights flicker since the installation of the new fan, and waiting on neighbor's son-in-law to replace the basement window.

so with the moving in / decorating / etc options, there is a double edged sword:
1) Anxiety caused by making choices (and wondering if said choices will fit up the stairs on occasion)
2) Anything housing related does reliably cause my brain to completely switch off and stop thinking about work

So, yeah. there's that. And i'm putting most of my stuff surrounding all of this behind a cut because i realize that times are hard. But this is a first for me so it's pretty consuming and will be good to have to look back on. Plus, conversation with my dad range from "you shouldn't buy a house" to "you're doing it wrong" with very few anything positive. (and i'm pretty sure the only ones of those i've gotten because my aunt and uncle probably made a point of saying that he was being a dick about it). ( Read more... ) So yes, bear with me here and skip it all as you need to

Friday fun involved getting to show house off to a real live person (vs virtual facetimes which probably don't show dimensions well.) ( Read more... )

Saturday was furniture shopping and 2nd floor furniture decisions -- ( Read more... )

the rest of the weekend i spent playing with my room design plan program (magic plan. definitely helps for the spatially impaired, and on Sunday had L and R over so R could help with the removal of the chandelier of doom! and determine what was up with the kitchen fan that wouldn't fan (which i noticed on walkthrough and should have pushed more on, but i thought it was likely a switch and we didn't have a ladder...)

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So yeah, With the help of good friends, I have accomplished the actual 1st upgrade / redesign of my house. Whoo.

Now, it's the last day of a 3-day weekend, and I need to do a little bit of actual work and mow the lawn (transferred my lawn service over to the new house).