In the past 4 days I think I have spent more time on the house than there are hours in the day!  We have been to home depot 4 times (and 2 different stores), the rockery, the shower door store, 2 appliance stores, lumbar yard, tile store, the mall twice AND managed to fit in a doctors appointment, selling our Corvette, taking the dog to the kennel, washing the car, 2 Target runs and somewhere in there still managing to eat and sleep, although just a little bit.

Tomorrow morning we get on a plane for Ireland to take our house-hunting and orientation trip.  The day after we get back (at 10 PM) we hit the ground running and have movers pack half our stuff, sort out all of our stuff to sell at our garage sale, clean the house, get a floor installed in our bathroom and have our house video taped and photographed for the real estate listing - all in 10 days - yikes I will be ready for a vacation and a really good massage!

Reeves and I went to lunch today with one current Dubliner and two ex-Dubliners. All three work for Microsoft and were able to give us some great insight into the working environment Reeves will encounter (no more 80 hour work weeks!) like actually having a work-life balance.  At this stage, being on the receiving end of someone who is constantly working, I think this will be the best benefit of all in moving to Ireland!

We met with our real estate agent today - we decided to put our house on the market June 1st. Eek! That means, in the next three weeks we need to do the following:

• Finish the bathroom that currently has only a tug and partial tile installed
• “freshen” our master bath with new flooring, new shower glass surround, all new paint, new mirror, new lighting and new trim around the base boards
• Have the front portion of our house landscaped where we pulled out a huge tree about a year ago, add many flowers and bark to both front and back and do some general tiding
• Have several things in our house painted including the ceiling in our kitchen/dining room, all the new trip (that still needs to be put up) and both bathrooms
• clear out about half of our possessions for the house to show well
• and schedule a ton of inspections!

Sure, why not, we really have nothing to think about, let’s say like, MOVING TO ANOTHER COUNTRY!