Moving

I'm so excited! Our landlord owns quite a few houses in town and she is just awesome. She bought our duplex a couple months ago and we really like her, but we hate the duplex. So we've been looking for a house and so far have come up short, the only rental properties here are trashed and overly priced. My landlord owns a big yellow house that she mentioned to me once before, the people living in it weren't thrilled that their rent got raised and she thought they'd be out anytime. They packed up and left, without even telling her. We stopped as soon as we realized no one was there and peaked in the windows, we knew instantly we wanted it, even though the previous tenants trashed it. There were beer cans covering the front and back yard, not to mention trash thrown everywhere. They had a couple dogs and were not the cleanest of people, you could smell the house from the outside, gross right? Totally did not change our decision about wanting to move in. The landlord put a new roof on recently, completely resided the house, leveled it and put all brand new energy efficient windows in (hence the reason for the raised rent), and she has plans to tear out 1 of the stair cases to make a large walk in closet upstairs and she's going to put new cabinets in the kitchen. So for us it is worth the work. It needs a good cleaning and some new carpet upstairs but that will all be done by the time we move in. This place is amazing, its pushing 3000sqft with 4 HUGE bdrms upstairs and one downstairs (that will be my sewing room/office), the bathroom upstairs has a claw footed tub, my dream, and the bathroom itself is huge. One of the carpeted rooms upstairs is were the previous tenants kept their dogs................uh, yeah. You can imagine how nasty that was, but the carpet and padding was tore up and there are plans of putting new stuff in. So the house just needs a good airing out. Open all the windows for awhile and it'll smell fine. Oh, windows. Let me tell you about the windows! I LOVE WINDOWS. This house has a million! I'm thinking about sewing my own curtains because not only are the windows huge but there are literally a ton in each room so it would cost a fortune to actually buy nice curtains. The ceilings are higher then normal, I'd guess about 10-12ft maybe? And the windows are almost the whole length of the wall, so like I said, curtains=expensive. Right now they have these nasty sheer ones that they let their kids draw on with marker. So those will be the first thing I take down and throw in the trash! And my landlord is going to replace all of the curtain rods because almost all of them are bent really badly. Have I mentioned how much we love our landlord?? She is so nice and very understanding. She knows Patrick could be laid off at anytime and shes willing to work with us on that. She said if we ever have a problem with paying rent on time to just tell her and she'll understand. I think she likes us because we've lived in this duplex for 2yrs now and haven't trashed the place. Which is VERY uncommon here, all the rental properties around here have to be remodeled after every tenant, no joke. We've gone through 3 different neighbors in just 2yrs, 1 of which was cooking meth and selling pot out of the house, we know this because our old landlady has Patrick clean everything for her. The stainless steel sink was rusted! But that's a whole other story.

I'm just ready to have room again, we are so cramped in this duplex and we are being over taken by spiders! Huge, nasty, hairy spiders. There were 3, yes 3, giant (about the size of a golden dollar) spiders underneath B's little recliner last night. I saw a black one run under there and I yelled for Pat to come get it and he picked up the chair and noticed all 3 spiders just hanging out. He managed to kill 2 but the black one is still running around somewhere. I'm not sure what kind they are but I think they might be wood spiders, I think that's what they're called. They're relatively harmless and I don't think they bite. But that black one was NOT a wood spider because if I remember correctly wood spiders are brown. And this black one was freaking hopping nuts. I saw it before it ran under her chair, hopping. Seriously, hopping! I stared at it for a minute kind of shocked. I have never seen a spider do that. Very bizarre. It eventually ran into our hall closet and I sprayed around the bottom of the door with some bug spray so hopefully it dies. I hate spiders so much. In the new house we wont have to worry about this because an exterminator just came and sprayed the entire thing, wonderful! No bugs yay!