And the beat goes on.......

Woke up this morning in our deflated air mattress (Michael, Butters our Pug and Sammy our cat) at 4am. Had to get ready it is going to be a busy busy day again. Honestly, I have been out of work (at my job) for a week and have been working longer hours getting this all set up! 8am and the flooring guys come, so we had to move the one stick of furniture we purchased here so we had somewhere to sit (a couch) onto the deck so that the first floor, floors could be sanded and stained. I feel like I am on the set of Close Encounters of the Third kind it is so loud and makes the whole house shake! Yup 8am!! Poor Butters has pooped all over the master bedroom (we put him there for safety so he is on the third floor while they are working on the first floor). He never poops in the house! Poor thing was that scared. Michael ran up to take a nap with him and calm him down a bit. Then came the Comcast guy to install our internet, cable and phone (finally Verizon take that! We don't have to use your rip off internet tether any longer!). While the floors are being done and the Comcast guy is here, the garbage people call to come pick up for the first time. We also had another furnace/boiler issue we had to address so the James and James oil guy came and of course....the cars are arriving from CA (yup all of this at eight o'clock in the morning!). It is now 1:09 in the afternoon, Michael and I were able to drive to Claremont,New Hampshire to return the rental car we have been using since we arrived a week ago. Yeah Ding Dong the Mini Van is gone!! We had to get a new wireless router, the three year old one I had was not going to 'cut the mustard' in this GINORMOUS house. Matt the Comcast guy set it all up...real trooper. Despite my issues with Comcast in the past I have to say Matt redeemed them in my book...for now. We had a great time yesterday, we went grocery shopping at the Manadnock co-op in Keene, NH. It is a bit like an upscale Whole Foods...can you believe that! So we are going along buying all our natural organic foodstuffs and I see a bottle of Peanut Butter and I reach over and grab it. It says "Vermont Peanut Butter" on the label so I throw it in the basket. I get home and Lo and Behold.....(there really is a God), not only did I grab a bottle of Peanut Butter which is all natural and made with USA peanuts, yadda yadda....it has DARK CHOCOLATE mixed in!!!!! OMF'ing G!!! yes Peanut Butter with Chocolate in it!!! YUUUUMMMYYY!!!! I cut up some local Macintosh apples and drizzled this nectar of the GODS all over them and finally...all was good with the world! The other funny thing that happened yesterday was that I had to use the restroom so I go and do that which needs to be done and I get up and all of a sudden I hear a 'jingle', and then another 'jingle'. I pull back the shower curtain and there she was with big 'Doe like' eyes looking up at me...Sammy the cat. I was so embarrassed, and then realized it was my cat and she was in the shower why am I embarrassed?? I guess it is just the lack of privacy living in a house, while people are coming in and out working on it. It is no longer your 'Fortress of Solitude'. Even the cat had to find a place of respite, a place to hide. Things are so very different here, really I feel like I am in a different world. Things that used to matter no longer do and seem silly and unnecessary. I have only seen one BMW and two Mercedes (all old and one of the Mercedes was a station wagon). Michael's Audi TT seems a bit surreal and out of place. Practical things for practical people...what a concept! Maybe we aren't so crazy after all. And the beat goes on.....