I'm at the new house, at last.
Of course, things couldn't go smoothly. Years ago, when I moved into a tiny apartment with barely any closet space or room to put storage furniture, I bought this big bed that has a base that opens up to store stuff. Problem is, it's huge and heavy and it's always been a problem when moving. This time? It's too big to put it in my room. It would fit just fine in the room, but it's to the right of a hallway, and there's no way to maneuver it into the room, or any other room for that matter.
So I had to buy a bed that fits my mattress (one of those with two bases, so I can easily put it in the room), and I'll have to try to sell the big fuckoff bed base.
Another thing is, I think I mentioned it in a previous post, but the deal is I'm coming in to live for a few years for free, and use part of the rent savings to fix up the place.
The thing is I had an idea of some of the things I had to fix, but now that I'm here, I see that I'll have to fix damn near everything. Already had the backyard gate fixed, which was necessary for the move to begin with. But now, from memory, there's getting rid of a ton of shit that was left on the backyard, genocide the spiders, fix the kitchen door to the backyard (closes with the wind and can't be opened from outside, I got stuck today and someone had to come open it for me; to my shame, I had been warned about it), the room I'm using as office needs the entire floor replaced, gotta do something with the stairs for my dog's safety (he's blind and I don't want him trying to climb and sticking his leg between the steps and getting hurt, or just falling, so I may make a gate), fix some plumbing issues, fix the downstairs bathroom shower's tiles (which were broken in an earlier attempt at fixing one of the plumbing issues and just left there, broken), put something on the outer fence to block visibility and, again, protect my blind dog from potential accidents (like a metal sheet, wooden plans, some kind of straw thing I do not know the English name for, etc), get an electrician to I don't know what the term is but enhance the electrical stuff so it has more capacity and it won't trip the breaker if I, say, use the air fryer and the microwave at the same time, also install some more power outlets, replace the downstairs bathroom sink for a better one, replace the completely warped downstairs bathroom mirror, and more.
BUT
My dog loves the front yard. That alone makes this worth it.
And not paying rent. Definitely not paying rent. I have to spend on the repairs but still, I can do it at my pace and still save money.
