The Big Haul is Done

We finished getting all of the big trash out today. All that was left was boxing up the rest of the books in the living room, cleaning the pantry and finishing up the kitchen and bedroom. We found some pretty interesting old Christmas stuff stashed away in the pantry from Tony's grandparents. I also pirated some of the cookware that was left behind: some glass casserole dishes, a big set of cookie cutters and some souffle cups. We also found some porn mixed in with the kids coloring books. Lovely parenting skills guys. After we got all the big trash out we started on dusting some of the living room pieces. It didn't seem like a lot but it took forever. But I think I'm just in a negative mood today.

The county workers won't take any of the trash bags. It turns out they will only take bags up to 32 gallons and ours were 42. Lazy fucks. Tony's mom is going to try to contact the city, but chances are we are going to have to pay someone to haul it off.

I wanted to note a few tips we got from people. We heard that we should wait to sand and varnish the floors until spring because the varnish won't dry right in the cold. That stinks because we wanted to do the floors before we moved big stuff in. Tony's going to check up on this and find out if we can find away around that. Also a friend of ours, Ray, suggested we knock out the wall the stove is on and put the stove on the further wall to open up the kitchen. It sounds good to me, but we'll think about that in time.

Tony's mom also told us that she rescued some of the stuff we put out for trash. This really ticked me off because that means she's 'checking up' on what we are doing. It angers me for all kinds of reasons I've been venting about for hours now and would be too long winded to explain. Lets just say I hate being treated like a child. We are mature, intelligent adults. We can handle this. We don't need to be babied.

No pictures today. I forgot the camera and the results, to me, weren't that impressive. Next we need to figure out whether to start cleaning the first floor or moving trash out of the basement. I think we need to at least move trash away from the heater because we are calling someone to look at it and clean the ducts. I don't know when we are going to get time to go back over. Hopefully tomorrow, but if not next weekend.