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Moving Day 1 & Big IKEA trip (1?)

JFJ — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 13:16:18 +0000

Mama Jan came out this week to see Jeannette’s pregnant belly and to help with the move. She boxed up the apartment while we worked this week – such an indispensable help! Today we moved all the boxes from the apartment to the nursery in the new place. We still have a bit to do: like move furniture and the kitchen stuff. But we completely filled a cargo-sized ZipVan (which was awesome, by the way). We had pretty good parking karma for the move too, so that was nice. After unloading the van, we went to IKEA to buy some furniture. We were lucky they were sold out of one of the box springs we need – there is no way it would’ve fit in the van! We’ll head to IKEA again soon, I’m sure, but hopefully it won’t be as big a haul next time. We unloaded the IKEA stuff at the condo, and Gary & Daniel were out and about and kind enough to stop by help us get the couch up the stairs. All in all, a super productive day! Josh was a super man, we couldn’t have done it without Mama Jan’s help, and G&D coming through in the clutch helped make the day a success!

Close to finished!

JFJ — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:07:53 +0000

They were supposed to be be pretty much done by the end of the day today. They almost are! The biggest things are that we still need the toilet, washer/dryer, sink and sink cabinet installed. The bathroom and laundry closet tile work is all done though! It looks awesome. The rest of the work to be finished is just smaller punch list-type items. They cleaned up the front bedroom and the nursery for us to move stuff into this weekend.

New Medallion and Bathroom Floor Tile

JFJ — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:01:50 +0000

They hung the medallion in the front bedroom and started tiling the bathroom floor – we love the tile and the tile work!

It’s getting there

JFJ — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:00:21 +0000

They started tiling the shower surround, prepped the bathroom floor further and laid new tiles in the kitchen threshold.

Condo Progress

JFJ — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:56:47 +0000

They removed the old kitchen threshold and prepped for all the tile work in the bathroom and laundry closet.

Celtics W v Heat – 78-66

JFJ — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:54:45 +0000

Fiallen Game 15

This game was brutal to watch for the first 3 quarters. It was as if two Washington Generals teams were playing each other. The Heat’s “big” 3 didn’t play, and Bosh wasn’t suited up. PP started for the C’s, and Rondo suited up, but didn’t play – so it was a lot of young bench versus young bench. The C’s didn’t score until the 7th minute in the first quarter. Lots of in-and-outs, turnovers and shots just not falling. The offense on both teams was just silly. In the 4th quarter Sasha decided to have a career game in one quarter. For awhile it looked like we wouldn’t break 60, but Sasha and the Fiala favorite Quisy got us a W 78-66.

This was our last game to attend for the regular season. We had tickets to 16 games, but gave one game away due to a family emergency.

We have a tub!

JFJ — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:24:55 +0000

They installed the tub and bath trip today! It is always fun when the progress is so noticeable.

Painting Patches

JFJ — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 21:17:22 +0000

Josh went over to the new place this afternoon and painted all the patches from where the contractor pulled the speakers from the old surround sound system. It’s looking good!

Visiting our Fenway Brick

JFJ — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 19:02:51 +0000

Awhile ago, we purchased a Fenway brick as a part of a renovation Fenway was doing. They had some “visiting hours” for donators to go see their brick. This week was Fenway’s 100th anniversary. Even though the Red Sox themselves are crumbling (already!), it is fun to have our names on display at Fenway.

Our brick is at Gate B; we consider Gate B “our gate” as it is the one we use every game we attend. We walk to Fenway from our house and the walk leads right to Gate B. Gate B is also where the new Royal Rooters club is located. Josh loves the original Royal Rooters. Our brick is in the Jerry Remy section.

Everyone got a duplicate, commemorative brick and display case when they bought the Fenway brick. We keep ours near our Red Sox commemorative baseball from the 700th sellout game we were at, our rookie year Harangody-signed mini Celtics basketball and bobble heads – gotta keep all the sports stuff together.

South Boston Beaches

JFJ — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 18:43:10 +0000

With the day starting at 6am, we had a super busy and productive Saturday. We took a little drive in the evening and walked along the beach in South Boston. It was a good day – but we are anxious about the renovations finishing on time (i.e., this week) and being able to move in this weekend.