All depends on how you look at it.

I should start over.

17 December 2004 -- the day of 'closing' on my house.

Shortly thereafter, we started moving in, but we were 'technically' still at the old place until after that. Somewhere between there and New Years Day, which would've been when the lease finally ran out at the old place.

I don't remember what the first night we spent here was. It was the day before we got bed here, though, and the day before we moved the computers, got cable, and moved Zombi....

Anyway...aside from a few quick little things, I've been kinda...idle. I made the tub faucet stop leaking, I replaced all the unreasonable 100 watt lightbulbs with nice, energy-saving CFs ranging from 2.5 watt to...13 or 17. I could look, but I don't remember.

But that's about it, until today. Or yesterday and the day before....

I finally put up some decent weatherstripping around the front and back doors [the door leading to the garage was already done], and the doorbell that was bought shortly after closing is finally up.

Isn't it pretty?

It GLOWS!

I also managed to get around to replacing the refrigerator lightbulb, which has been burned out since we moved in.

The little bastard wasn't easy to get out, either. I actually had to pull out the entire thing, and the bulb still broke. But I have a light now, see?

Yes. I took a picture of the light bulb in my fridge.

I also added a nifty little clippy thing to the door -- actually, it's a magnet, and I just sorta stuck it on the door and it didn't fall off...so I assume something in the door is metal.

I got these things thinking they were hooks, not clips. I was a little fucked up at the time -- it was December 23rd, and I was in a grocery store like an idiot -- so it was an honest mistake -- and they turned out to be useful anyway. I was looking for something to hold mail that was ready to go out to the mail box, and it works just fine for that.

Oh yeah, that's something else I did 'right away-ish'. I bought a mailbox flag 'kit' the same day I bought the doorbell [both from Lowes]. The mailbox flag went on right away, because I was positively giddy about being able to walk to the end of my driveway not just to get my mail, but to send my mail.

Such things count as a vast improvement, when you consider that I was walking more than a block to get mail, and more than twice the distance to send important mail, and having to drive to a PO Box just to get the really important stuff, because if anyone found out I was getting good meds through the mail, my mailbox would've been broken into more than just that once.

Stupid little things make me almost-happy....

At some point, I'm also going to [finally] be putting up house numbers where they're actually visible from the street.

I won't be getting pictures of that....

I wonder if that will turn into a fun adventure like today's weatherstripping fiasco. The back door's stuff went up fine, but the front door gave us some trouble. I found out that it wasn't closing properly when I was trying to hold up the uppermost strip, and I ended up falling through the door....

I hurt now, and I wasn't fully un-hurting from the other night, when we walked a few miles to EB Games...and then ended up at McDonalds, then Lowes, then...Borders, was it? One of those big bookstores, where I finally picked up a copy of Invisible Man. I've been looking for a copy ever since highschool....

I think I might go read that now, since I'm done with the Dark Tower series....