Congradulations on the new house Deb25!!

Dear Everybody,

Thanks for all your good thoughts. It's coming along. That's all I can say. I'm kind of at a standstill until this weekend is over, and the garage sale hopefully nets a mass exodus of unwanted stuff. Then I want to get painting so that I can start getting my stuff over there. I feel it's pretty pointless to cart stuff over now that will just be in the way as I paint. All I can say now is that I'm tired! Working all day and then running up there at night is taking its toll. It will all be worth it soon, if I survive it! I wish you all lived closer and could come to the housewarming!

Ah, Yes, A HOUSE WARMING ! You know how we love to PAR TAY!!!!

Maybe we could hold an internet housewarming via an instant messenger service where we could take turns signing on and talking. A sort of Round Robin as it may be. I'm not sure how we do it but maybe someone is. . . . . . .

Good luck with the garage sale!

3LK:

What a cool idea!

Tonight was interesting. While at the house continuing to dig out, one of the service managers from the dealer where I bought my new car called and asked if she could look at a table I was selling. So over she came and $175 later she bought a ton of the stuff that I was selling. She's a garage sale junkie! Hope the rest of the sale goes this easily. I'll be done in no time!

Deb25

that is great news! i will hope that everything goes as smoothly as you first sale inky:

LOL one mans junk is anothers treasure!!!

Hey Deb,

Congrats on the new house! I hope you make lots of money at the tag sale.

Well the garage is stuffed and ready for tomorrow. I only hope to live through this whole thing. I am exhausted. I haven't had a quiet evening at home in more than a week.

Deb

i wanted to say Congratulations as well! i read through this
thread, and wow, what a task, hey? i think you handled it
well, better then i would, i think i would have fallen on my face
the first day! i wish you luck on your garage sale

my mother used to love to have garage sales, when i was little
i would just be giving things away - not fully understanding
people were supposed to pay! needless to say i wasnt asked
to help out at too many garage sales :laughing:

Blue; Your story reminds me of my sister who had a sale a few years ago and sold all of the first release Beatle albums I had left at home with Mom ad Dad for $1.00 each. Do you know what some of those babies are worth today!!!!!

Darlene..OH NO!!! YIKES!

You know I still have a Incence & Pepperments 45 by Strawberry Alarm Clock!!! LOL...The Letter too!
It's sing along time....
I don't care how much money I gotta spare...ain't got time to take a cab there...lonely days are gone...I'm going home, my baby she wrote me letter....

I'd say "he" though...:laughing2
I think those were the correct words...

Catarina; Sing on, Girl! Do you remember "Just Walk Away, Renee" by the Left Bank? I still have that album. A friend of mine and I in 1968 once played it over and over until we memorized the words and I know them to this day. (wish I didn't, but they just won't go away-not unlike Renee) Also, as stupid as this may seem I still know how to sing "Sukiaki" in Japaneese. I would be a show stopper at a Tokyo Karioke club.

How's it coming along? I read in another thread that you only have 2 more rooms to paint before you can start moving stuff in. that must make you feel great! the colors you chose sound beautiful. I really wish I could get that creative at my place. :jarswim:

AP;

Thanks for your concern. It's coming along. Living room and kitchen are left to paint. I am starting to stress about getting it all done in time. Plus, let's not even talk about the exhaustion!!! Let's just say I'm burning the candle on both ends and running low on wick. The colors were a gamble, but I am satisfied. Now I'm kind of in the stage where everything I touch breaks. Today I had to buy a new light fixture for the bathroom (broke during painting) and a curtain rod for the bedrrom valance (stepped on and bent). I am longing for the day when I can veg out in front of the tv. I don't think I've even turned it on for over a week! By the time I even get here to post, I'm falling asleep at the keyboard! That's the big update. I'm off to paint!

When it's all said and done, it will be well worth it. You did it all by yourself and it's a big part of you now!! I am very excited for you.

I don't know how you are doing it. I can only imagine how exhausted you are. you are going to feel such a huge sense of accomplishment when it's all done.

I am a walking disaster area so I can totally relate to everything falling apart around you. my boyfriend will hear something crash in the kitchen and he will yell 'what has my little bull in a china shop done now?' bless his heart.

Dear Darlene,

I have no idea why I never got that posting...YES YES YES, of course I do...those were the days for music I don't care what anyone says!!! Harmony was so tight! Walking harmony too! How about, one of my very favorites "California Dreamin' by the Mommas & the Pappas...oh I could go on forever...fun songs like: Manfred Mann..Do Wah Diddy Diddy..lol Tommy James and the Shondells..Hanky Panky, Lemon Pipers..Do You Believe in Majic...wow...I'll stop I'm driving myself wacko....not a long drive.

Love :

Catarina: We needd t get together some summer evening with a good bottle of wine or a tall glass of lemonade and sing along to old songs. Of course, we will have to pass out ear plugs to the neighbors, but let them be forewarned. . . . . . One of my cats loves Beach Boys songs and Jan and Dean and she dances and meows when I sing. She would have a great time. . . :mm:

I loved the Mommas & Poppas and don't forget Fleetwood Mac. . . . . . . .

how's it coming along? I hope you get a chance to just sit and relax this weekend!

The painting is done!!!!! Ok, well, uh, almost done. I have to paint some doors and rehang them. I think I'll get them painted tomorrow and rehang after the furniture is in.

The cable guy comes Tuesday, which will put me in contact with the real world.

I will begin moving small stuff over tomorrow. I think I will be ready to truck the furniture over next Saturday!

This has been a long arduous process, but you were right, I have a gigantic sense of satisfaction.

I can actually see the end in sight! I will keep hanging in there and hope that the stuff I ordered from Earthlink arrives this week so I don't have to go any time without internet access.

Whoo hoo!

Yesss, glad to hear the house is alllmost there!!!I am a fairly new poster and I read your entire thread-----what a saga...Good Luck on the decorating...and endless good vibes for the move next week!!!
DebbieA and the Kids...Tai-Tai, Zoe, and Baby..