Appliances and Packing

As promised, we went by the house today to snap some pictures of the progress.

Garage Door Opener (option money well spent--because we don't have to find someone to install one for us! Thanks, Centex!)

Garage Door Window (the reflection of my arm is so awesome--very abstract!)

Dishwasher and garbage disposal

MICROWAVE (fermer)

MICROWAVE (ouvert)


Brian and I also spent the vast majority of the day packing. It's amazing how much stuff you can accumulate in two years! Our walls are so sad now! We packed up some kitchen stuff, a ton of knickknacks and picture frames, and some electronics stuff. I also packed up my fine china and crystal and snapped a quick picture of it (for your viewing pleasure...) before I wrapped it up...

I also have to take this moment to laud the uberness that is FreeCycle. (I know that I mentioned it briefly yesterday...). Basically, the way it works is that you join an e-mail list (there are about 7,000 people on the Wake County list) and people post e-mails of stuff they want or things that they want to give away. One of the downsides is that with so many people, it's also a ton of e-mails (about 700 each week!), so you have to be pretty good about managing your e-mails. So anyway, because we've been packing so much stuff up, I've had a ton of stuff to offer to the list. Today I offered up some books, DVDs, our crappy microwave, and a lot of other stuff. All I had to do was set the stuff out on the back porch once someone claimed it and that person comes and takes it away. A HUGE box of books and my DVDs were picked up within two hours of my post! It's absolutely fantastic! Tomorrow, I have a guy coming to pickup some other things that we no longer need. I highly recommend it if you have some stuff that you no longer want!

Tomorrow we have some more kitchen stuff to pack up and probably our winter clothes. I think that we're going to be in pretty good shape when May 29 rolls around!

While at the house, Brian had an artistic statement that he wanted to make to the Raleigh City Council regarding one of its more recent rulings (since overturned).

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