July 25, 2014

This morning I finally got to see the inside of the new house and I like it. It has a lot of room but it isn't big, has nice views, and I like the layout. I am getting two rooms in the basement. I think the smaller one will be my bedroom, so I'll just have my bed and dresser in there. And probably a bookcase. In the larger room I'll have my computer, the rest of my books, and my musical instruments. I also think I might be getting the writing desk, a couch, the loveseat, and maybe a chair from my grandma's. The chair could go in my bedroom, the writing desk and loveseat or couch in the bigger room. Of the couch and loveseat, the one not going in the bigger room and go in the family room. I like both of them because I think they're comfortable and more importantly, they remind me of my grandparents. While we were at the house I noticed that the bigger room downstairs didn't have a air vent or the outlet for cable and internet. The realtor thought that the vent had possibly been put in but they had forgotten to cut the opening out of the drywall. The cable and internet were possibly forgotten as well or it might have been to save some money. Either way, he made a note of both and was going to talk to the builder. I'm just glad I noticed.

After the house visit, I ate lunch and then met my sister, dad, and brother over at my grandma's. My brother got some of my grandma's paintings and turtles, but there wasn't a lot of looking around. My sister showed my dad the photo album she found and we spent most of the time just talking. When my brother and sister were off looking at stuff I talked with my dad for quite awhile and learned a lot about his younger days in college. The eclectic friends he hung out with, the spur of the moment roadtrips around the country, the day he was elected to be a church elder. It was an enlightening discussion. His life has been way more interesting than mine.

We were all still a little uncertain about what was “up for grabs” so to speak because my aunt and grandma had said everything but we didn't know if that meant they had already taken everything they wanted or if we were just deciding what we would like and then if someone else wanted it as well then we would have to talk about it. So we didn't really take much today. I grabbed a book, I think my brother took some paintings, and my dad took a billy club. My grandpa brought it back from WWII and never talked about it but when one of his friends was visiting, when my dad was a kid, he mentioned to my dad that one night they had been out and there was an altercation where the MPs got involved and somehow at the end of it my grandpa ended up with the billy club, which belonged to one of the MPs. It is a solid little piece of walnut and could definitely do some damage.

Anyway, my sister texted my aunt just to get a final clarification and when she eventually responded, she said we could take anything. So we are taking that to me everything is available, no ifs, ands, or buts. My dad really wants the grandfather clock because he helped build it with my grandpa. We looked around today for the weights for it but couldn't find them anywhere. They were normally stored in the clock but they weren't there so that was strange. One theory is that they somehow ended up going with my aunt and uncle, which doesn't make any sense but it is a possibility. Either way, my dad is getting the clock. It is rightfully his.

At first I thought it would be nice to get the loveseat for my new room but after seeing how big the bigger room is downstairs it also seemed like the couch in the basement of my grandma's house was an option. It is the one that was in the family room of my grandparents old house, and it is an old couch, but they were really strict about it so it is still in really good shape. It and the loveseat don't match with anything and some might say they're ugly, but I think they're awesome.

We all left around five o'clock and I headed home to eat dinner before going to work. For two hours. It felt kind of pointless to get dress and go in for such a short period of time. Two hours can seem to drag on forever but it goes pretty fast when it is six o'clock to eight o'clock on a Friday night. I don't think I finished the trailer report until almost seven o'clock so that was an hour gone. And then for the next hour there were movies starting every five or ten minutes so I was constantly getting up to go make sure everything started alright. I did have enough time to finally beat the first level of the last movie in LEGO: Pirates Of The Caribbean. Third time's the charm. It almost bugged out on me again at the very end when I had the “bad guy” down to one heart and they were stuck in the back wall so even though we were fighting I couldn't actually get a hit in to trip the next cutscene. I was eventually able to bump into them enough and pushed them to a point where I could get a hit in. Thank god. I don't know if I had it in me to once again be foiled by a glitch. I sincerely hope the other LEGO games aren't this buggy.

I clocked out at eight o'clock, went home and changed, and then went to Target. I've had things I wanted to get at Target for a week or two now but kept putting it off. Tonight I used the excuse that I needed to get a coaxial cable for the TV in the living room. The old one broke when Tanner bumped into it one too many times trying to get to the window. He did the same thing with an old TV except in that case the cable connection broke off the TV. Fortunately this time around it was the cable that broke, not the wall connection. The TV stopped working sometime yesterday and restarting the DVR didn't help. I didn't think to check the other TVs because I don't really watch much TV. Today it was learned that the other TVs in the house were perfectly fine so it was obviously a isolated incident. The first place I happened to look was at the wall connection and immediately noticed the broken cable. My mom went and got a cable today but it was too short so I went and got longer one tonight. Along with connectors for joining two cables together, in case something comes up in the future and we're short again. I also got all the other things I have been meaning to get.

I spent the rest of my night watching YouTube videos and looking at Ikea furniture. So much fun. I kind of would have preferred to be at work because I would have been getting paid to read or play video games, but we had midnight shows tonight. It is just now 2:00AM and I would have still been at the theater. And then up for another hour or more after getting home. Now, however, I can finish this and go to bed, because I'm tired and not at work.