I got my first furniture, woo hoo!
 

I've been camping out in a single livable room in my rental property next door to my house since a week after Katrina with a mattress pad on a bare foundation and a couple of plastic yard chairs.

My brother-in-law took me to get something to get my (new) TV and computer off of the floor. The TV cabinet we got (from Walmart) had no instructions and 100+ little bolts, clips and other doodads, so it is in limbo. But I now have a computer stand and chair (from Office Depot) in the corner of the room and it is so nice to not be hunching over the monitor on the floor :thumbsup

I was trying to not buy any furniture until I can have warped wood floors and disloding floor tiles removed and replaced but the FEMA trailer they told me would be would be days away several weeks ago is likely to not arrive for many more weeks, if at all. Most of the people around here that have actually had them delivered have them sitting locked up on their property, not hooked up. My mom's has been like that for weeks.

Anything I buy while living on this rental side needs to be able to be moved without major disassembly over to my place when livable or be left here. Anyone who has ever had rental property can tell you why I don't want to furnish it too extravagantly :upsidedow

I've got to go get at least a single bed for over here tomorrow or the weekend. My back is about dead now:(

I'm trying to coordinate finding a car and getting my brother (the family mechanic) to make sure I don't get screwed. Once I get there my whole day to day will get so much better!!!

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Glad to see that you are starting to get things back together. It was a horrible tragedy that you went through, and I don't wish that upon anybody. Keep your head up and you'll be back to normal in no time!

That's devastating. Glad to hear that you're getting on with your life

So glad you're able to get up off the floor, it sucks working from the floor. Hope your FEMA stuff arrives soon and things can get back to normal.

Thanks guys! :thumbsup

I'm not holding my breath for FEMA. It's another one of their snafus. They had 2100 trailers delivered in my area but had only been able to get 185 hooked up by last week so they suspended delivery. One of the guys they sent a week or so ago to locate my sewer outtake picked up a 4x4 that was blocking the dogs from digging under the fence and tossed it aside, busting the pipe behind my outside faucet. I duct taped it as tight as I could but it is still leaking. :mad: I had been turning the water off at the outside overnight and for portions of the day, but I finally got the break down to a slower drip and now am just leaving it on. It fills up a place the dogs had been digging and so far has only come a few inches outside the fence. I've been keeping an eye on it and am only going to cut it off again if it the water gets too close to the door. Grrr.