We are hooked up!

I think that we are all hooked up on the OMaha end of things as far as utilities (went for the "unlimited long distance" phone plan...we'll be calling!). Perhaps the weirdest thing about how they do things "out west" is their garbage pick-up. Here, everyone on our street uses Waste Management and we all put out our trash on Monday nights and on Tuesday morning, the truck moves systematically down the street and takes all of the trash. I was having the hardest time finding the phone number for the trash pick-up service in Omaha. Frank asked someone at work about it and here's the scoop -- there are 4 or 5 garbage pick-up companies and you just choose whoever you want. So, everyone on our street might have a different pick-up day because we all might use different companies. That is just so bizarre to me -- it doesn't seem to faze anyone out there, of course. So, we chose Abe's Trash pick-up (they all have real "local" names like that, too.) We'll see how it pans out...

I'm gearing up for my trip on Thursday to go to the closing - we are going to try to cram a lot in - another trip to the furniture mart, dinner at the "club," walkthrough, closing, cleaning, cleaning, cleaning. It should be fun to see the place again and get a good solid list going of all of the things that need to get done in the near future after we get there.

A full report to follow - :)