So they started the interior painting. We chose three colors: a thrilling beige that they'd do (nearly) the whole house with, one color for our bed room, and one other color for the dining room. Each time they switch colors, it costs us $200, yay. When Mrs. stopped by to see how they were doing, she noticed that they were painting the dining room with the color we wanted for the bed room. Arg.

Also, last week it suddenly became urgent that we pick out all of our lighting fixtures. So, Mrs. hopped over to the lighting store, and spent three hours looking through catalogs with the salesguy. There aren't any prices in the catalogs, so the salesguy had to enter the product code for each fixture into his computer, for every fixture Mrs. was considering. Glad I missed that... Our lighting allowance is, or course, a bit of a joke and Mrs. nearly doubled it with her choices. So, we knocked a few things back, and shaved as much off as we could. We're still over, but there's not much we can do. The simple titty-shaped ceiling lights are dirt cheap; florescent lights are cheap; ceiling fans are expensive; bathroom lights are expensive; pendants are super-expensive.

We chose our garage door! Well, not so much chose it as said "OK", when the builder said "this is your garage door."

Back in June, there was huge pressure for us to pick out our cabinets, right away! And so we rushed. Last week, the builder's foreman casually mentioned to Mrs. that it was about time for him to order them. Ummm... ? Nothing makes any sense.

There's almost nothing left for us to choose, now: tiny things like bathroom towel fixtures and maybe the placement of the shrubs. Now we just wait for it all to come together.

Our future neighbors to the right are starting to build. They've cut down nearly all the trees on their lot. That could mean they'll have a huge lawn. Which means a lot of lawn mowing. That would suck. Maybe it's just a huge house. That would be fine.

Showings for our existing house have dropped off. We had one last week, none this past weekend. School started again, so that could have something to do with it. Not worried yet! Well, maybe a little.