As of this past Sunday, ware moved in! We are still in remodeling hell on the front part of the house (living room, dining room & upstairs guestroom/playroom) but the rear part of the main level (kitchen, family room, home office, bath) and the entire lower level (3 bedrooms, bath & garage) are open for business. It has been INSANITY getting this all together so quickly. The amount of remodeling we did in the past 7 weeks was wacky - we had an inside crew, outside crew, roofers, painters, carpet installers, designer at the place at all times. Now that we are in it, and there is so much work left to go, it's like a ghost town. HRM. We are hoping that it will be done by end of May.

Anyway, this means that for now I have no excuse, at least for the time being, for not focusing on my *real* job, which is of course why I didn't post to announce my move-in until four days after it happened. Put it to you this way: work is so busy that I don't even have time to hire the person whom I was finally given permission to hire! Or did I mention that already.

Meanwhile, we have new photos of Elan to point you to, once we have them on our Mac.com home page, hopefully tonight. Hurray!

Tomorrow we finally move into our new home in Noe Valley. I should be really excited, but I am filled with a feeling of dread. So far, the only things *today* that went wrong are:

- the roofers filled up the vent where the carbon monoxide escapes, but they at least replaced it with a temporary flue (or something) which should hold until they get the real one installed on Monday (or sometime). We are still paranoid about this. We brought PG&E over this afternoon, and they checked it out ok, but we are still paranoid about carbon monoxide.

- we won't have internet access until Thursday the earliest, since SBC cancelled our DSL order without any reason or notice. HAVE I MENTIONED HOW MUCH SBC SUCKS LATELY? And of course by the time I learned this (even though I made the order a MONTH ago), it was too late to go with one of their competitors. ARGH. SBC. ARGH.

- we won't have TV until lord-knows-when, since DirecTV refuses to install our satellite dish until our roof is done, and we have no idea when the roof will be done ... and for the LIFE of me I can't understand why they just won't install it on our upper deck, which has a perfectly fine line of sight to the southern sky. GRRR. CRAYS ELECTRONICS - GIVE ME DIRECTV! We would totally abandon DirecTV and just go w/comcast digital cable again, but we already made the big investment into the satellite dish and receivers - gotta love how they manage to suck you in like that before they SCREW YOU COMPLETELY

But there are a whole 45 minutes more in today!

In addition to those joys, we can also already tell that the sellers must have badmouthed us around town. Our neighbors are cold as ice. Well, I guess we are used to that kind of thing by now.

Today I am packing. That means I am home from work while Tatiana, whom we are paying to pack, is packing for us. She has actually finished already. Now I am posting to the blog.

I shall now upload a few "before" photos of the house. Note - these are photos from the listing that was supposed to be showing it off. Ghastly!

It is a fundamental truth of a compulsive that the busier you are, the more work you make for yourself. I, a compulsive, have never been so busy in my entire life. We are moving this weekend from the rental where we have been staying while we put our old house on the market, and remodeled our new one, into our new house, which is still in the middle of being remodeled. Although there are roofers, painters, carpeters, contractors, and a designer in there as I type, we are somehow moving our stuff in in two days. Currently our phone line doesn't work, our DSL order was cancelled mysteriously by SBC, and we are just entrusting that our TV, DirecTV, TiVo and all those other necessities are going to show up on schedule and be installed easily.

Meanwhile, Elan's school is on spring break, so my parents are in town watching her all day. Curtis's mother is also in town, staying at a hotel in Union Square. And work is so busy that I don't even have time to interview people for the job requisition that was finally approved for me! But somehow I'm able to type here. I'm amazing!

Hello all. I have been wanting to have a blog to post about life as a working mom, lawyer-wife, commuter-slave, but never got around to it. With complete gratitude to Beca, webmistress of the world and owner of bossanova.com, now all of you can read about my loco life! Pardon me while I get the hang of this. Feel free to peruse a video of Elan while I feel this out.

http://homepage.mac.com/rebeccacurtis/iMovieTheater8.html

(We're still just figuring out how to use the Mac.com suite of tools as well.)

I'll introduce all of us next time. Welcome to my world!

Rebecca E.