Final Countdown

We have a move-in date.  We will be moving in to our new-old house on December 3, whether it's ready or not (it will be [fingerscrossed]).  Did you know, by the way, that movers are cheaper on Wednesday?  Now you do.

This feeling I'm having about moving in, I know it.  Not the crap-crap-crap-I-hate-moving feeling, though I'm having that one and I know it well, but the crazy-giddy-with-anticipation feeling.  I haven't felt it in years.  I think I felt it as I realized that I was going into labor with my son, and the morning of my wedding, but I know it best from childhood.  You know it, too, I bet.  The feeling you'd first get on Thanksgiving, when it would pop into your head, "Next comes Christmas."  Tummy butterflies and a little dizziness.  And the same wobbliness as the joy washes over you every time you think, several times a day, that Christmas is coming.  You can't help thinking it, and every time it almost knocks you out how excited you are.  Remember that?  Yeah. That's how I feel about moving into my house.

I drove by (stalking patterns well-established) today and realized that two weeks from this minute I'll be sitting in my shiny shiny wonderful house and I made some kind of weird beeping noise.  I don't know what it was, but it was a happy sound, and I couldn't help it.  SO EXCITED.

Here's some stuff I'm excited about:

New water line!  Ok, this is a picture of a ditch that I took in the dark.  But there's a shiny new PVC water line in there, and that's super awesome.  100-year-old cast-iron supply and drain lines sometimes break, you guys, and then some poor plumber, who even at $85 an hour is underpaid for this kind of job, has to come fix what's been escaping when you flush your toilet and it makes a really terrible smell in the yard.  Not OK.  This is SO exciting.

Shower glass!  Super sweet.

Appliances! An actually functioning dishwasher is so amazing.  I can't wait.  

Shiny floors!  They're actually curing right now.  I took this picture through the window, and they'll get another coat of whatever (shininess?) after Thanksgiving.  So pretty.

So soon I'll have to take you room by room to show you all the goodness, but not until the floors dry.  Do you feel a little of my Christmas-is-coming butterflies now?