Time flies

Events back in March started a chain reaction of events that has only recently begun to subside allowing the concept of free time to enter my thoughts. In fact, I don't have free time, but everyone needs a break now and then.

While in China the judgement processing on the home foreclosure whose auction we'd won finally cleared, thus allowing us to finally close on the house. This pushed our schedule up as we'd been planning to not close until April and now had to find some homeowner's insurance fast. I must admit, it's fun to call up insurance folks who ask you to come in and fill out some paperwork and tell them: "I'm sorry, I can't at the moment as I'm on the other side of the planet, how about you email it to me instead."

The trip to china was eventful, complete with getting sick the night before I flew out, which I'll save for a more disgustingly graphic post at some point later. We got back, closed on the house, moved into the house, proceeded to finish painting, purging old broken appliances, buying swank new appliances and getting them delivered, cleaned, scrubbed, replaced 2 toilets (1 completely on my own!), learned the new area, and finally ran out of energy and money to continue renovations.

During this time, the project at work took a radical shift in direction which required a lot of attention that I didn't necessarily have. Fortunately, they brought in someone with a lot more experience to help me out and between the two of us we managed to keep it together and on schedule.

Julie has started her garden and I've finally mowed my own lawn for the first and second time. The finances have started to stabilize and we have a better understanding of what we're up against regarding this mortgage thing. Our cats continue their dichotomy of peace and chaos, and I managed to go camping for memorial day. Huzzah! I think the world is once again downshifting into a manageable pace!