A So Cal Girl in the Desert

We're in, safe and sound! It's been a week now, and we LOVE our new home. My back hurts, my heels hurt from standing on the kitchen tile for days unpacking, and the house looks like a box bomb went off, but we're still happy.

Just about every day someone comes to repair something or deliver something. Right now the pool company is here installing the trim tile, the pool alarm company should be here any minute to install the pool alarms, and the closet people are coming this afternoon to replace one of our closet doors. The dogs just love all the strange visitors! Ha!

It seems like when I unpack one box, two more appear. I always think the unpacking will go quickly and I'll be all settled and comfy inside of a week, but that's never the case.

I'm ready for more money to start coming in and less money to be flying out. We purchased our home theater system--a 50" plasma TV with all the trimmings--this past weekend, and it's scheduled to be installed next Tuesday. Then on Monday we signed with the landscape company, so there goes another ton of money. Aside from a couple of small things, I think we're done spending money. We better be!

One of my favorite things about the house is the view. In the morning, the sun lights up the mountains to the west, and they look purple and crisp as can be. You can see every ridge, and you can see the moon set behind them. Then in the evenings we watch the colorful sunsets from anywhere at the back of the house. I climb into bed at night and look out the window and see stars and lights from houses across the wash. They are near enough to where you don't feel isolated, but far enough away to leave your windows open and not feel like someone is staring at you.

I haven't gotten around to taking pictures, yet, because I can barely manage to look at the mess, myself, but I'm sure we'll have everything unpacked in the next couple of hours (um...yeah), so I can post something soon.