New Basement, Dishwasher & Backyard Cont'd....

More pics of the new house.

The living room with Keira looking on.

The dining room with way more space then our last one (a few less boxes though!)

The new kitchen with the dishwasher!!!!

Keira enjoying the backyard, she's really liked it so far as there is lots of stuff to explore and a few peices of wood to chew on. She actually asks to be let outside so she can sit in the sun and explore. We just have to watch her digging!

New Basement, Dishwasher & Backyard

The three most important things for us - a basement, backyard and most important a dishwasher!

This as you can see is the basement, it's 3/4s painted with a tan (Pyramid is the name) epoxy garage floor paint. Very nice, much better than the yucky floor that was there before.

Our new washbasin, which I very much like as it means I don't have to clean paints or other stuff in the kitchen sink - which means Becky really likes it too.

All the crap that we had to move to paint the floor - some of it is garbage, but alot of it will be moved back after 72 hours of curing time.

Painting the inside of the kitchen drawers with Killz - much needed, it may actually need two coats of Killz to cover all the grease and crap. Man is that stuff thick, it's got to be as bad as painting in Mexico in 30 degree weather.

More Pics to come as apparently Picasa only uploads 4 at a time :-(

New House, Here We Come!

Today is the day... we get possession of our new house and it's great!

It has everything we are looking for, backyard for Keira to run around in, a dishwasher to wash dishes and a basement to play trains in. And all for a low, low price... well maybe not that part, but this is Calgary!

So today we take possession, and at 1:30 we get the keys - and at 2:30 we start scrubbing the basement floor to paint :-) No rest at all, but we can do it, simply because it's our house, and we aren't painting someone else's property - no more rentals for us!

As you can tell, we are excited, which is the best we've felt over the last few weeks - buying a house is a lot of work. But today it's ours, so we can really, truly feel excited.

And so everyone who reads this blog can come see it (all six of you, which we can all fit, all at the same time, even with a dog and a cat!)

-E

Future Shop Extended Warranty

So is it worth it? That's a good question, I've only ever bought it on two items - the first being a printer that I was using when I was contracting, the second on our 40" LCD (I still drool over the thought of it). So why do I question it's value?

Well, this morning I called Future Shop because we have a pixel that is shot, since pretty close to day one. What does Future Shop say? Well it's still under the Sony warranty - ok fine, please fix it - you have to call Sony. Ok, so I call Sony and say my TV has a dead pixel - Sony says you have 2 million pixels - we wont' fix one dead pixel - I say that's fine but it's Bright Green not black - Sony says ok, but you have to call Westpeak Electronics! Ok, so I call Westpeak Electronics, get the one lady at the shop who hasn't had her coffee this morning (or I think for the last week) and she says we'll send a guy tomorrow - we'll call you tomorrow to let you know when he's coming.

Ok, so why is Future Shop Extended, In Home Warranty worth it? Well, for one, to keep me happy (or make me happy as I have not typically had a good relationship with Future Shop) they could've arranged all this crap for me. They already probably know who is the repair shop that I'm going too, so take my information (which is on file, even though I didn't buy it at Northlands Edmonton) and route it through Sony to the Westpeak electronics. Is that hard? Nope - it's straight forward, and considering in Canada we only have a few really big electornics realtors (two of which is the same company) it should be really easy to implement. Sure it'll cost a few bucks, but you may not have to advertise as hard to get me to come back next time. And then everyone might just be a bit happier (including me). Service is becoming the most important thing now, not just price so these companies might want to pay attention to that. The shareholders are not the ones who are buying the majority of products, and keeping your company afloat, so it might be a good idea to consider someone besides just them.

But that's enough of my ranting - all I know is that I don't want to have to wait 6 weeks for it to be fixed and have no TV. I don't watch a lot, but if I don't get my Avatar before bed, I do get grumpy.

-E

Stacks

Just in case some of you didn't believe me that we have floor to almost ceiling stacks of boxes :-) No Mailbins this time!And the only one who is more excited to go to work than me:
Someone is not as helpful as he looks:

Dogg Tired...

Just in time for the spring time change, the one where we have to get up early so that we can drive to see our beautiful goddaughter Emma's 2nd birthday I thought I'd share Keira's feeling's on getting up:
Rusty, in general tends to concur:
Click on these for Holy Moses size for certain people's desktops :-) (Hint, Hint Mom)

Moving can be stressful....

For everyone except the pets apparently -