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My weekend: solo

Posted in September 17th, 2007
by ournewoldhouse1 in Clear Lake house, bathroom, bedroom, budget, dining room, wallpaper, washing machine

While Brandon is in San Antonio for two weeks training for his job, I’m making a lot of little steps of progress that will hopefully amount to a lot of transformation by the time he comes back.
On Friday after work I drove up to Clear Lake to take care of some cleaning, check on the […]

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A little pizza and beer gets you a lot of labor in this town!

Posted in August 10th, 2007
by Kelli in dryer, washing machine

Last night I planned to meet up with my Uncle Phillip who has a pickup truck, and two guys that I work with to move the washer and dryer that my Uncle Matt is giving us. We all met at my Grandparents’ house, which is about four doors down from my new old house. […]

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General pre-closing update

Posted in August 9th, 2007
by Kelli in carpet, chimney, contractors, dryer, electricity, fireplace, garbage, landfill, neighborhood history, paneling, washing machine

This week has felt really busy but I can’t for the life of me figure out what the hell I did besides work. I have been putting in a few hours of overtime this week to make up some of the scratch I overspent last weekend up at the lake.
Last night, however, […]

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