The one with HaRVy

Fri, Oct 23 2009 by Vanessa.

Well, I am very sad to say that I have not kept up with my postings and now I feel very far behind.  The point of my blog is to chronicle important life events that take us further away from Section 1 and closer to Section 2.  I really don’t want to look back on this time without any clue as to what really happened so it’s time to start writing again.

Things really started moving quickly around the week of September 27.  Our beautiful house really started shining with the addition of a wood staircase, painted baseboards, new carpet in the bedrooms upstairs and even a bit of power washing to the outside areas.  Many people ask if I feel attached to the house or in some way possess a desire to stay.  The answer is an unequivocal no!  Well, I guess I should back up a bit.  I really love our master bathroom.  It’s absolutely gorgeous.  I try to remain humble with all my actions but we did that bathroom right!  I also feel at liberty to boast about the beauty of this particular bathroom because I didn’t really construct any of it.  The design belongs mostly to our (John and I) own little heads but even our contractor helped out quite a bit with ideas on tile arrangement.  Since I can’t take credit for actually installing the tile or the granite counter or the shower doors, I feel quite boastful about the end result.  However, as I take a look at the rest of the house, in all its beauty and with its face lift 99% complete, I have no desire to stay.  I love my house, don’t get me wrong.  I just don’t love it enough to continue working so hard for it.  If I woke up every single morning tickled pink that I live in “this” house and I walked around all day feeling overwhelming satisfaction because I live in “this” house, I’d stay in a heartbeat.  Sadly, over the last (almost) 3 years, I’ve come to view the house as a burden.  We have to work X number of hours to pay for it each month, we have to clean all 2700 square feet of it continuously, we have to maintain it and fix things when they go wrong (which they inevitably do each month) and I feel a slave to my house.  So no matter how pretty the counters are, no matter how gorgeous the bathrooms are, no matter how spectacular the new kitchen appliances are … I’m ready for HaRVy.

So during the middle of the week of September 27, John turned to me and said, “Maybe we should go talk with Griz this weekend and get him looking for HaRVy.”  Our list of remodeling to dos had dwindled down to almost nothing so I agreed, it was time to start searching for HaRVy.  I remember feeling very excited that Saturday, October 3 as we drove around Ancira in Boerne, TX, talking with our old friend Griz and looking at his selection.  Nothing quite jumped out at us although we did see one very interesting 5th wheel that had granite counters.  I couldn’t believe it.  Why would you haul that much extra weight all over the place?  But that’s the practical side of me which is also the side of me that has no attachment to our newly remodeled home.  Needless to say, we passed on the granite counters.  However, one RV kept pulling us back.  Neither of us believed it to be HaRVy because it had just a couple flaws.  For me, the biggest flaw is a storage cabinet that extends out from the kitchen wall into the living room.  I absolutely hate those layouts because the cabinet hanging from the ceiling, into the living room, prevents you from have a nice open space.  Your field of view is severely obstructed.  The good thing was that it was just a half cabinet in this case so it really wasn’t too bad.  Sadly, I can’t remember all the flaws John saw but I know that one of them was the fact that this particular RV did not come with an inverter.

We eventually looked at everything Griz had in stock and John asked if we could go back, one last time to look at the one RV that kept standing out.  Funny though … the RV stood out but it didn’t exactly stand out enough to be jumping up and down saying “It’s me!  I’m HaRVy!  So nice to finally meet you.”  After looking one last time we went back to Griz’s office.  As any good salesman would do Griz asked if we were ready to do this.  We both said Yes and then I realized, I wasn’t sure if John meant he was ready to find HaRVy or buy the RV that kept calling us back.  Upon further clarification, a rather stunned John confirmed that we just met HaRVy.

HaRVy became a member of our pack on Saturday, October 3 but we couldn’t actually drive off with HaRVy until Tuesday the 6th.  After all, HaRVy had to be prepped, cleaned, tested and generally made ready to meet his new pack.   The dogs of course new nothing of the many ways their lives would drastically change in the next few days but John and I did.  I felt giddy that night as I tried to fall asleep, knowing that Section 2 was right around the corner.  We found HaRVy!  I often thought, “I wonder where HaRVy is right now?”, as I went about my way during the last year and a half.  I guess where HaRVy had been is no longer important because he’s with us now.

And with that, I must continue with the day.  However, the next post will be coming shortly … The one with the Turbo.  So much fun and excitement awaits!

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