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So if our breathing wasn’t bad enough with our recent sinus infections / head colds – whatever you want to call them, we decided to tear down a wall.

We moved everything into the guest room – and I have to admit that after living in the master bedroom that was without wallpaper, primer, or paint (a nice WWII theme), that it was nice to stay in a room (albeit smaller) that had paint on the walls and curtains.

We started demo on Friday – removing the plaster from one wall. We removed the lath (thanks Andrew!) on Saturday, and put up some drywall (thanks Pete!) and reboxed the outlets on that wall last night. We have about 80% of the wall done – but the edges are going to require a bit more work because we’ll have to demo the connecting walls to find the studs.

If all goes well, we’ll be on our way to finish up the remaining walls in the room soon enough.

Seriously?

We just got a letter in the mail to the previous owner “or current resident” from Maytag / Jenn-Air. It states that if your dishwasher falls within certain serial number ranges:

Liquid rinse-aid can leak from the dispenser of certain Maytag brand and Jenn-Air brand dishwashers and come into contact with the dishwasher’s internal wiring which can short circuit and ignite, posing a fire hazard. Maytag Corporation has received 135 reports of dishwasher fires resulting in product and/or property damage. Four injuries have been reported, including three reports of smoke inhalation and ne serious hand laceration when operating a fire extinguisher to put out a dishwasher fire.

There’s a voluntary recall. Steve’s emptying the dishwasher now.

I’m *SO* glad that DST is done. We’ve been busting our butts working on updating all of the server OS’s, applications, databases, etc., in preparation for DST for… 2 months now? Thank god it’s over. Maybe now I’ll be able to get some sleep or have some form of a life outside of work.

Granted, I didn’t need to work as much as I did. But the UNIX team had it tough because all of their servers’ patches were so out of date that they needed additional resources – and I volunteered to help whenever I could.

Maybe now we can finish the upstairs bedroom walls. We moved in, removed the wallpaper, and then got sucked into work projects and DST remediation for 8+ weeks and haven’t even finished unpacking. At this point we’re thinking of canceling the house warming party and just having a big outdoor bbq party or something in the summer.

If you were wondering why you haven’t heard from me in a few months it’s because I’ve been pretty busy these days… We are now proud to be first-time home owners! =D

We found a great little place in a nice area that’s just close enough to everything to be convenient (and close-ish to work), while being far enough away to be quiet. It’s on a 1/2 acre of land that even has a vegetable garden! It’s a 2 bedroom, simple white colonial built in 1890 – so it has character. It has 2 full baths, a breakfast nook, dining room, living room, office, and 1 car garage. <3

The cats are going to love it. ^_^

The house is old, but it was very well cared for. It had all of the important updates done already semi-recently – new-ish roof, updated electrical, new windows, etc. So we don’t *need* to do anything to the house – just move in! But, at the same time there’s lots of potential. We just have to find the time and money to do all these “little” projects – like removing the wallpaper in almost every room, putting a window in the office, adding a coat closet near the front door, relocating the office door to accommodate the ginormous TV (hahaha), replace the ceiling fans/lights in most of the rooms – especially the dining room, etc. Oh – and completely redo the upstairs bathroom because it was redone in the 50′s and looks completely hideous! hahahaha

Anyway. We’re thinking of having a house warming party around the end of February / early March. Hopefully we’ll be able to get unpacked and settled in enough by then.

If you want to check on the house, take a look here in the photo gallery. Keep checking in because we’re going to continue to post new photos to document our progress. =)

Guess I won’t be moving out to California anytime soon. That’s ok – I’m always up for a visit.