More Craziness

We spent the weekend moving furniture around as per the stager's instructions. We got a Pod delivered to our driveway to store the furniture that the stager did not want in the house (kitchen butcher block, 2 arm chairs, guest bed/ night table) and got those removed from the house. (When the Pod came and Ben asked what it was for, I told him we were going to turn it into his bedroom. He might have actually believed me for about a tenth of a second). We also rearranged our bedroom furniture which ended up being rather aggravating because in order to rearrange it the way she wanted we had to disconnect the modem for the broadband phone/ internet access and also disconnect the DirecTV receiver in our bedroom. When we tried to relocate both pieces of equipment, neither one came back online. Not only did the DirecTV stop working in the bedroom, it stopped working throughout the entire house. So we are phone-less, TV-less, and technically internet-less (connected to a neighbor's network at the moment) until tomorrow when both DirecTV and Time Warner are scheduled to make house calls...

Joel and I met at the granite installation shop at lunch time and chose a granite color. Then I had to drive back home, eat lunch, feed the baby, go to the bank, then go back to the granite place with a 50% cash deposit. This ate up a couple hours of my day, but the good news is our granite will probably get installed on Wednesday. Besides getting the granite situation worked out, I packed 2 boxes of random kitchen stuff we never use to go in the Pod, but there is SO MUCH MORE TO DO!