Bored out of my mind

Posted by Leigh on September 5, 2008

The kids started school on Tuesday. We’re still not in our new house. And I’m bored out of my mind.

I still spend most of my days up at the new house with the dogs, because they can’t be kenneled all the time. But we’re getting close to being done, Just waiting on the final inspection, which can’t be done until the electric company comes and hooks us up… And in our experiences with them, it could be weeks. It took them six weeks to get my sister’s house hooked up when they built a few years back.

I’m tired of all this waiting! Come on already, the house has been finished for weeks now and we’re still not allowed to live in it. It’s bullsh*t!

Up until Tuesday I had my kids to keep me occupied. We took the dogs for long walks, and sat around on the floor in the living room just talking, or playing board games. Now I spend my days on the living room floor with a blanket and pillow and the boys, usually dosing off or playing some fetch, but they have a short attention span. They’d rather just devil amongst themselves than play with me. I can’t take much more of this in activity. I’m used to working twelve hour days, not sitting around.

It’s starting to feel like it’s never going to happen, I’m never going to get to live in my new place, I’m going to forever be stuck in my parents basement, sleeping on an air matress and working from a pool table. My dogs can’t take much more of it either, they hate being separated from their family and act up because of it.

Yes, I know, I’m wallowing in self pity… But I’m allowed! My whole life has been turned upside down these last few weeks, and I’ve tried to make the best of it… But hasn’t it been long enough already?

The good news is that it’s pretty much finished, our part at least. The house is complete, save a few little things that the home dealership has to do, like install my central air!

Plus, I have something that I never thought I’d have…. A level yard! Living on the top of the hill, I thought I’d always have a sloped lawn, but now that the remains of the old house have been done away with and the excavation done, I have about two hundred feet of (almost) level yard in front of the place. It looks amazing, and we’ve still got our awesome view, which you no longer have to step outside to see. Of course it will look even better once it actually has grass on it instead of just dirt.

Yesterday my uncle, our excavator, covered over the stone pit down by the garage. The place where we dug up all the stone for our new lane and to level a spot for the house. He dug up a bunch of big rocks that we used to line our driveway (two foot to five feet across, most of them) and he found two even bigger ones that he was actually able to move that he sat at the end of the lane, the biggest one standing on end so that we can get our names carved into it. It looks really cool.

Of course now that the excavation is done, it doesn’t even look like the same piece of property. I just can’t wait to get to live in it, although at the rate we’re going, I’ll have grass before I have an occupancy permit!