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--> I have taken 5 truck beds full of boxes and packing debris to the dump. It's great because they only charge .03 cents a pound for trash. So you drive up, your truck (or should I say Casey's truck) gets weighed and then you drive into the dumping bay*, unload your trash and then drive back over the scales to be weighed again. Usually the tab was about $2-3.

*The dumping bay*
I must say, it's an odd smelling place. The odor isn't pleasant but not overwhelmingly stinky. Like a sickly, sweet, damp smell. I once got dump goo on my shoes; ugh, I went home, hosed them off** and let them dry in the sun all day.

**another tangent**
Can I say how much I LOVE using that phrase? Hosed off. There have been so many times in my married life when a messy situation would have been so much easier had I been able to just "hose it off". Poopy baby blow-outs, muddy anything, an experiment I called dinner once that had the pot needing a good hosing, I could go on and on. This house thing is pretty great.

--> I have taken 5 truckloads full of things I don't need to the local D.I.; or Deseret Industries (to call it by it's full name and those who are not Intermountain West natives or transplants) D.I. is like a Goodwill shop. You bring by things to donate and then they sell them. I could have had a killer yard sale and (maybe) raked in a couple hundred $$, but really, my time is more valuable than that. I'm a salary girl now, not a by-the-hour drone. And then after the yard sale I STILL would have been taking multiple trips to D.I.

--> Amazingly, I have only ordered pizza twice. Yes huh! Once, last Monday when we were at our empty house for 7 hours, waiting for the trucks that never arrived. And again this Tuesday when I had been up since 7:30am unpacking boxes, taking truckloads of stuff everywhere, moving 135 sheets of sheet rock through the basement window and keeping track of 4 kids that just want their toys!! That doesn't mean I haven't missed Otlob. I have. I just dabbed back the tears and threw something in the crock pot, one of the world's greatest inventions.

--> I have bought 2 window air conditioners and it makes a world of difference. The highs have been between 88F - 95F. I know, mild for a Cairo girl, but when I don't have a cool basement to retreat into and 4 hot, sweaty, tired children, comfort comes first. The past few nights, the indoor temp at 9pm was 80F. I put one in my bedroom and one in the living room (they are at opposite ends of the house) and boy, is it deliciously chilly in here. It has been an even and comfortable 72F all day. I even thought about putting some socks on this afternoon! Then I tried to put my flip flops on.

Here's some quick progress pictures. One place I am completely moved into is the kitchen. It's my base of operations. And if the base isn't in order, nothing is.

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