When I walk through the house - no matter when it is or what I am doing, I am in awe that THIS is my house and my life. Like, complete and utter excitement and joy. Squeeee!
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MisterMoonbeam and I have been sleeping at the new house all this week and I am in absolute love with this place, and with him. Weâve had sex two nights in a row, and had so many deep conversations about our sexualities, our preferences, and our relationship. I feel understanding, acceptance and so much love!
I am going to miss him so very much, when he leaves for Arizona on Sunday. Heâs going to be gone for three weeks. Iâm determined to get things set up as much as possible in that time frame, so when he gets back, he just has to enjoy the house. Lately he has been extremely swamped at work, as they just had an internal audit with a lot of findings, which means he has to follow up and whip other departments into shape, making sure they correct the issues. Heâs in the process of losing two team members as well, so heâs got to fill those positions so he can actually do the work. Arizona is both an internal audit, AND an audit by NASA. So heâs super stressed. Having the move right in the middle of this activity has not been easy. Especially when on top of all of that stuff, heâs being hit with survivorâs guilt, and other emotional issues.
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DarkKnight and I actually locked ourselves out of the house yesterday - the front door has a chain lock on it from the inside, and since I left from the garage in the morning, I didnât take it off. This ended up being a blessing in disguise, because when we couldnât open the front door, he went around to the back. There he discovered that BOTH solarium doors had an issue - they have two locks on each door (handle and deadbolt) and he had only rekeyed the deadbolts. And of course, both were locked on both doors. Thankfully the back door into the garage existed, or else we would have been screwed. Of course, the clicker to the garage was in Dulles with MisterMoonbeam!
It looks like DarkKnight tossed the packaging and the original keys to the door handles into the trash a week ago. So this means - I think - we have to go to the store and buy every package of these particular door handles still on the shelf with a different number sequence, and hope that we hit on a match. He can rekey them, but theyâre the smart key type, so he needs an original key. Sigh. Hopefully he can find it, and early on, so we arenât returning a ton of open packages in our search. If he canât locate a match, that means we are buying two new door handles for keeps, which is like $60. Sigh.
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Today my focus needs to be on the garage at the new house, and getting things cleared out for staging. The left side is currently filled with a couch and two HUGE TV stands that belong to my son, who we moved into our old house on Sunday. The space is also stacked up with trash and miscellaneous seller reject stuff. I need to move out EVERYTHING, as they first thing being moved to our home on Saturday is MisterMoonbeamâs storage unit. It all has to go on this side of the garage for sorting at a later date. His storage unit costs us $283 a month, and we have paid that for the last time! Itâs a bunch of random furniture but like 95% of it is jewelry pieces and art supplies for his late wifeâs business. The majority of it needs to be sold off, but we havenât had time to do that in the past 3 years.
Anyway, once his storage unit is unloaded here by our moving crew (we paid for movers!), my sonâs furniture is being loaded up and taken to the old house. Thatâs the plan, anyway. Then the movers can load up the old house and we are good!
The right side of the garage is going to be my new Blessing Box space, so again, I need to get everything cleared out to make room. Thereâs a perfect stretch of wall for the extra fridge and stand up freezer, but thereâs a hose holder screwed directly into the wall, so I will need MisterMoonbeam to remove that today.
I have not done much in the garage at all so this is going to be a doozy of a day! Thereâs no working late either, because tonight we have tickets to see the new D&D movie in Frederick, and thereâs an event there at the theater where the space will be set up as a tavern with items for sale and cosplayers present. It should be a good escape from the insanity here - if we can shut off our brains and focus on fun!
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Both DarkKnight and MisterMoonbeam have Friday off, so we can get the old house ready to go. The kitchen is only half-packed, and most of the basement needs attention. Ahhhhhh!
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