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Are you ready for this crazy?

*Jed has put in his two weeks notice at work and is 80% or more sure he's ready to finally hike the AT, something he's been talking about doing for a while now.

This is both awesome and sad.  Awesome that he's finally going to get around to doing something crazy great like that and get the once-in-a-lifetime experience but really sad because we love him and will miss him greatly.

This also means we'll need a new basement-renter(s).  In order for that to happen, however, the following needs to occur:

1) Move junk from Amy's/"move-in" room to living room, rendering the living room temporarily unusable.  Prime, paint and choose location for sleeper sofa thus dictating the design of the rest of the room.  (done)
2) Move Amy's office stuff from her closet corner in Clif's office to her office.  Decorate and organize to complete guest room/office combo space, a mere year after moving in.  (mostly done)
3) Move dog crate and things from sun room and "frequently needed" items (such as first aid gear and things that we need access to more than once or twice a year) from basement storage room to the newly vacated closet space in Clif's office.  (work in progress)
4) Take vacated items from Amy's/"move-in" room that are currently taking over the living room to the basement storage room.  Buy and install key-locking door knob.  Install key-locking door knob, the right way, at the top of the stairs to the basement while the necessary tools are already out.
5) Sell double papasan frame and rolling 3-shelf tea cart and move the rest of Clif's belongings out of the the sun room to his office and/or the basement storage room.  Finish cleaning, hang mirrors for Amy's dance space and call the sun room done.  (work in progress)
6) While moving nearly every belonging we have from one location to another go through it and make a whole lot of trash/things to sell and/or give away.  (eternal work in progress)
7) Get electrician to look at the west-wall outdoor motion sensor light to find out why it doesn't work and fix for new potential basement-renter(s).  Consider also making a mini interior fence in the yard so when potential renters come in and out of the back yard they don't accidentally (or intentionally) let out or have to deal with dogs if they are in the yard.  Also fence off tree mound that Teva uses to jump the fence, hopefully preventing Amy from findng her, after being out most likely all night, eating an unidentifiable bone in the neighbor's front yard without her collar again.
8) Make our front porch look less like it's visiting from a trailer park.
9) Get the manly men to actually clean up the downstairs patio and make a nice entrance for potential basement-renter(s).
10) Get entire basement ready for basement-renter(s).
11) Find basement-renter(s).
12) Maintain sanity.

*I found Jed on roommates.com a few years ago when I needed to find a roommate and was having no luck any other way.  I liked Jed the moment I met him at the door when he came to check the place out, though I wasn't sure how comfortable I felt renting to someone I met on a website.  He liked the place and came back another night that week with his cat to see how our animals would get along while we ordered pizza and watched tv for a few hours.  He decided to rent the room, followed Clif and me to the house to rent the basement and has become part of our family.  We love him dearly and are very thankful for the amazing internet find he turned out to be!