Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Is it a rule of the universe that there's always a downside?

I've mentioned that we're waiting for our new house to be completed. Originally, we were hoping to be in by Christmas this year. Then, the builders moved the date up to early December (the weather had been good and they were not having trouble getting plumbers and electricians to show up). Then they moved it up two more weeks - we were going to be in before Thanksgiving! Now, work is going so fast and so well, we should be in the house by the first of November. These folks are great. What's the downside?

They need all the appliances so they can be installed, plumbed, hooked up, whatever. Everything is ready except that our washer and dryer are buried in storage. In the back of a 10 ft by 20 ft room. So, somehow, we've got to dig through all our furniture, pull some of it (most of it?) out and pull out the washer and dryer and put the other stuff back. Then we get to do it all again in a couple of weeks.

But how can I complain? We're going to be moving into a fantastic, new house and we'll be eating Thanksgiving dinner in our fantastic, new dining room. It only seems fair that there should be some problems to overcome or we'd just be too happy.

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