The good news, we have one coat of primer up in the living room. The bad news, our living room, including the wainscoting and most of the trim, was a very dark green (pictures soon to be added once I find the cable for my camera). Thus, we will likely need at least another coat before we can start painting the color (we've decided on "Oat Straw" - it looks better than it sounds).
More good news, we now have most of our stuff. We used PODS because (1) we had about 45 days between selling our NJ house and moving in to the new place and (2) we are completely broke so we needed to move ourselves. It got delivered on Saturday and the move in went pretty well. Only one broken picture frame and one slightly scraped up bedside table that was a Marshalls find anyway. Moving is never fun, but we managed to get everything unloaded from the pod and into the house without any major injuries. The not so good news, later that evening (when we were relaxing), I managed to fall down the back stairs (I am a notorious klutz). Luckily again no major injuries just a bruised elbow, butt and ego.
The last good news, we finished the temporary fencing to fix the gaps in the fence along the back of the yard so our dogs cannot get out. We were feeling pretty good that we got the three sections of fencing we needed up pretty quickly. While J. finished up the last section, I went over to introduce myself to our neighbors who were out working in their yard . I was telling them that this fencing (which is not particularly attractive) is just a temporary fix until we can get something more permanent in place. A few minutes into the conversation, the woman mentioned, "be careful, that is all poison ivy" and gestured to the think bushes/vines in which we had been completely engulfed about twenty to thirty minutes earlier.
Oh dear - not good news. It didn't look like poison ivy to me, but she seemed pretty certain and, well, she obviously has lived right next to it for some time so I figured I better take her word for it. We rushed into the house and showered immediately. Then J. looked up poison ivy on the Internet - the source of most of our knowledge about all things. Mixed information, but one site suggested that showering was just likely to spread the poison ivy all over your body (acckk!, maybe we should have done our research first!), another said that soap within thirty minutes will help. To make a long story short, we are both feeling itchy, but have no true "break outs" as of yet. However, the Internet's general consensus is that the reaction doesn't start for 1-3 days so apparently we are not out of the woods. Please keep your fingers double crossed for us because if that one site is right, there is a very good chance that I will be covered in poison ivy from head to toe. Thus, the "Ugly" remains to be seen. :-P
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