Haven't Forgotten About the Blog -- Just Busy With Uchi

Wass up people - one day before the year changes. Time to complete last year's blog!

We finally moved into our Uchi.  The last 2 months have been craaaaaazyy, so I didn't have enough time to work on the blog. So here's what happened so far:

1. Our home was complete on November 2nd, and it took them several days to do touch-ups and a final walk-through and inspection.
2. We officially became home-owners on November 3rd at 2.30 PM
3. We didn't move in right away since the days after our purchase were really cold. We did several stages of moving, the first one was November 9th where just for ceremony we boiled a pot of tea in our kitchen for the first time, and then we officially moved in on the weekend of November 13th, half the stuff by ourselves, and the other half with some help from friends.
4. Our first project was replacing the basement door knob (door between first floor and basement) with a knob which we can lock. This project was done before we moved anything.
5. For the first few weeks, we were either sleeping on the bed without any linens or sleeping inside our sleeping bags. We were really slow in buying our furniture.  But we already had a sofa and dresser from a bit furniture sale earlier that month.
6. The first bigger project was replacing the carpet on the second floor. At the same time, we completed painting our laundry room prior to Best Buy's appliance delivery.
7. We didn't have a refrigerator and washer/dryer until our 3rd weeks living there (the garage was our fridge for a while). The first appliances we bought were refrigerator, washer and dryer from Best Buy which we returned a week after that - they were either too expensive or too big. At the end we got everything from Lowe's.
8. We celebrated our Thanksgiving with our nice neighbors, who invited us to eat dinner with them. The next day we spent going around buying furniture for the house and cleaning out our old apartment, a huge chore.
8.5. I lost my phone a week before Thanksgiving and finally found it on Thanksgiving when we were going to use our dryer (yup, first electronic device to be ruined inside Best Buy's washer). Finally we bought $8 cellphone from Best Buy during Thanksgiving.
9. One week after Thanksgiving, Jermaine & Russian built a new desktop computer and painted our guest bathroom.
10. We put up our first blinds in the master bathroom.
11. The kitchen was the first room we completed unpacking. The second one was our walk-in closet.
12. Early in December, we finally got our furniture (dining table and chairs, tv stand, bed frame and mattress)
13. We completed painting our loft before Christmas.
14. We spent our Christmas vacation building book cases and rearrange the loft library. We also didn't really do Christmas gifts, since we had bought so much house stuff at random sales during the holidays.  Whenever there was a good deal, we'd buy games and books and comics as well.
15. Russian experienced the joy of shoveling the driveway three days in a row!  We had lots of snow during Christmas weekend.
16. We've managed to avoid the swine flu so far, but both of us got colds during Christmas weekend.  First me, then gave it to Russian.


As you can see we have been really busy taking care Uchi, our selves and working to earn bacon and eggs. Slowly we started to decorate and clean and unpack.

So far we really like Uchi and really glad that we decided to purchase this lot.
HAPPY NEW YEAR And See you next year ....

P.S: I still could not find my usb reader, pictures from above home improvement/mess will come soon.