After pictures

Well, don't quite have things cleaned up yet, but close.I was really scared for a while that we wouldn't have room for everything. It's still a little tight, but I think we'll be OK for now. I doubt we'll be here for much more than a year anyway. I hope we'll be able to sell for at least the same price we paid, although I'm kind of doubtful... it's becoming cheaper to live in MA by the minute. On the whole, I think that's probably a good thing, but makes for a bad situation if you don't intend to be planted in the same place for a while.

NYC, here we come

We are in the Big Apple now. We will be driving down to NJ to attend a friend's wedding.

Before pictures

As promised (a long time ago), here are some pictures from before we figured out where to put everything. We still haven't figured that out completely, but getting close (see next post).

Progress.

My plan is to post some "before" and "after" pictures, but 2 things are impeding the progress of that:

  1. My computer is in the shop due to a broken keyboard.

  2. We aren't quite to "after" yet.

I thought this would be easier than a typical move, since the place was brand new.  What I didn't see, however, is that even brand new places require some work in the beginning.   The bathroom, for example, didn't have any cabinets above the sink or toilet, so J. and I had to install these ourselves (which ended up being somewhat complicated... I'll spare you the details).   We've also had to deal with the challenge of "merging" our personal belongings, figuring out what is redundant, and trying to decide which things we each  could part with, since space is at a premium in our small place.

It's all coming together... the piles of stuff in the bedroom and living room are finally shrinking instead of growing, but we aren't quite there yet.   Hopefully we'll be able to post an update soon!