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So, as of 3-ish pm on Friday, I became a home owner!

I've started pulling up the carpet, but need someone to finish the job and make the floors nice again...shouldn't take too much work, but I don't know how to do it or have the equipment necessary. Yesterday I cleaned and met with a contractor I met at the paint store on Friday morning. He's a nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn whose dad is an Orthodox rabbi and his mom teaches Hebrew at a NYC college; he's running away from being Jewish and being a New Yorker. I'm pretty sure he asked me on a date, but when he came by the house for the second time yesterday, he reeked of pot smoke, and I just can't see myself dating a burner here.

Anyway, today I spent 3+ hours removing layers of contact paper from my kitchen shelves. I still have two more shelves to go, but I ran out of steam...and need my step-stool. Several times I almost fell off the counter.

Tomorrow I'm hoping to move most of my boxes into the garage to save time later.

I also have a neighbor's son who's going to give me an estimate on cleaning my gutters later this week, and a couple of other kids on the block who a cutting my grass. They stopped half-way through on Friday and didn't finish today since it was pouring all day. I may have gotten hosed on this one. Live and learn.

Hopefully I'll order appliances this week since my bro gets back from Israel first thing in the morning; he has a great hook-up for me.