We is Moved!!!

We are now settling in inside of the Cheddar Curtain! I'm so excited and can't wait to post pictures of my room! I didn't end up with the ittsy-bittsy room, like was the original plan, thank goodness! It is a lot smaller (the other room) than I had remembered--about 8"x11". Instead, I am living in a much larger room that is slightly minty-green. The new house has dark original wood work with glass doorknobs and most of the original light fixtures. It was built in the 1920's or 30's and is very square, with a little closed-in porch on front and a small mud room on the back. The house faces east with the garage on the north side, just a little further back from the road than the house. Behind (west of) the house is an empty lot, then a newer neighborhood with a small park.
On Monday we headed off early. Dad woke me up at about quarter past four in the morning, and I hurriedly changed, gathered my things together, and we left at five oh two a.m. Isn't that time awful? We drove for not quite half an hour to the friend's house where we left the truck. Then we tried to avoid little kitties who enjoyed sitting in front of the wheels of cars. We managed to not hit any. Then Rapunzel and I drove in the Astro, following Mom in the Maliblue, following Dad in the U-haul. Alllllll the way up to Cheddarland. About three hours. It was a long drive up there. Mom said at first "NO RADIO!" because it would distract Rapunzel. But for the last half-hour/forty-five minutes we listened to my Go cd, after begging Mom to allow us to. We had a cell phone in each car, so we could keep in touch. Anyway, we made it up here without trouble, did the final walk through of the house at eight-thirty, signed papers at ten, and owned the house by eleven. Busy, huh? But we weren't done yet. We still had to un-load the HUGE moving van. We started cleaning house right after our early lunch (actually my very late breakfast) because the previous owners had a cat. It shed all over the place! Even in the freezer! It took a lot of sweeping to get it decent. Several people from our new church came over and helped us move in, including my Bloggy Buddy Owan.
Yesterday we went back down and got a smaller truck load from storage and a friend's barn. (Hey Avalon! Did you get the note I left on your counter?) We're back home now, watching The Bourne Supremecy on TBS. It's interesting. Mom wants us to go to bed, but I think Dad'll let us watch the rest of the movie.
The first thing I unpacked on Monday was my paint supplies. There's space in my room for my paint table! And I can stay up later than usual because it doesn't affect anyone else. On Tuesday night, I stayed up until ten-thirty (instead of my usual enforced lights-out by nine-thirty) catagorizing my paint and deciding what I need more of. Part of yesterday and today I designed this year's Christmas card. It's all designed in my ideas notebook, all I need to do now is do the actual painting, scan it onto the computer, and design the inside of the card. My brain is working on next year's card already, although Mom says maybe we won't use it next year because it's so similar to this and last years' cards. So I came up with a fourth.
Judi tagged me the other day, but because of the length of this post, I'll fill it out tomorrow or day after.

Operation Post-It Update:
The latest count is sixty-six (66) comments. We're doin' good, peeps! I even left a note for Avalon while I was at her house picking up boxes, mentioning that she hasn't been on her blog in a while. She would have gotten it about five and a half hours ago, but there is still no new post. After I finish this, I'll go add a few comments, bringing it up to seventy. There have been quite a few clever comments on there! Maybe I'll do a 'Kommander Kiwifruit's Klever Komment Award' for those of you who came up with the wittiest words.

I need to get off now. The movie is ending, which means I'll have to go to bed soon. I will post with pictures of our new house as soon as possible.

TTFN!
~Kiwifruit
P.S. Did you know today is 'Talk Like A Pirate Day'? I thought it was later in the year, but it's not. Sadly, I missed most of it. SO.... I declare September 20th "Talk Like An Aussie" day. Tell me if you do it!
~Aussiefruit

Closing Date!

Dear friends and readers of mine, I bring thee joyous tidings: we have a closing date! We are closing on the Cheddar Curtain house (if you don't get that, read the post from Wednesday, August 27, titled "IT'S DONE!!!!!! WE'RE DONE HERE!!!!!!!!") on Monday, September 15--the same day the renters close on this house! Isn't that great?!?! We're packing up a U-haul and cleaning house on Saturday. I think Mom said the renters want to move in a day early, so on Saturday night through Monday morning we'll be at my grandparents'. And then on Monday we'll head up to the new house and, after signing a few papers, start moving in! I can't wait!
So we might have an extra Sunday here, and we might not. It all depends on how fast we get everything out of the house and clean. One item of good news is that this means we will get to go to the ball game on the 26th.
I need to get off now, this was just a quick update. TTYL!
~Elated Kiwifruit

IT'S DONE!!!!!! WE'RE DONE HERE!!!!!!!!

This was written on Monday afternoon:





WE SOLD OUR HOUSE!!!! We are finally moving out of here!!!! Praise God, the house is sold! Okay, not exactly sold, but we're renting it out for a year, then the people renting it are going to buy it!!!



That's what Mom and Dad met with the realtor about today, some people who came through and looked at it two weeks ago came back on Saturday, and made an offer on it! I'm sooo glad, but now things are going to be moving very quickly. We have to have all our stuff out of the garage by September first, so the new people can put their things in there. Then we have until Monday, September 15th to vacate the premises. But Rapunzel and I are both like "Oh, my, goodness, that's WAAAAAAY too soon! Only 3 more weeks???" AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!! That means only three more Sundays, only three more days of youth group!!! This is almost too fast! But it means we will get The House we want, and I'll get a room of my own! But it also means I have to tell all my friends, which I don't think I'll enjoy doing. Rapunzel has been emailing back and forth with a girl inside the 'C.C.', and she (Rapunzel) says she can't wait to tell her (the friend) that we'll be seeing each other every week in a little less than a month. I have to get off now. I was cleaning part of my room earlier, and I've got to finish that and then get down to the bus stop. My friend, Megan, had her first day of High School today, and so I'm going to try to meet her when she gets off the bus. I'm not looking forward to telling friends, especially Katlynn and Kim, since we're just beginning to get to know each other well.

That was typed at 3:00 on Monday. I waited to post it because I had to tell certain friends first. If I don't post regularly for the next three weeks and y'all get impatient with me, just keep in mind why I'm not posting!

So that's what I've been doing. I have to pack my paint supplies, which shall be sorely missed for three weeks, the decorations in my room, my books, my STUFF, and my life. And my three porcelain dolls, which I'm really nervous about, because I don't want there to be any chance of their breaking! My glass bell. My jewelry box (without the most used jewelry in it). HOW AM I GONNA LIVE FOR THREE WEEKS WITHOUT MY STUFF??? *sigh*

This is going to be the hardest three weeks of my life.

Well, I now need to go work on my room some so Rapunzel can start packing her things, and then my grandparents are coming for lunch and to help with clearing the garage.
Goodbye! I'll write again when I have the chance!
~Excited-yet-somewhat-scared Kiwifruit