Written by a First Time Home Owner, the mission of this blog is to both entertain and inform you of the challenges of buying and owning your first home. First dozen posts are related to the buying process, and later posts covering DIY repairs, Upgrades, and just the daily aspects of running a home Monday, November 5, 2012 The honeymoon is over... The rose colored glasses are off! So, you've moved in. There'll be a week which I called the "honeymoon" period in which everything is amazing. Then, you'll notice a few things... blemishes in walls, Shelves mounted in drywall instead of studs (that happened to hold pool chemicals right over my head when I work in the garage.) Eventually, these will build up, and you'll find a spree of these at once, because you've noticed one, and now you're looking for them. (Kind of like when you buy a mazda3 or civic... All of a sudden, every other car on the road is one) There will come a time, when you are walking somewhere, and you'll notice one of these things, and just shake your head, thinking "Double-you-tee-eff..." as in: WTF were they thinking?!?! We had SEVERAL "WTF" moments... Why doesn't the fridge water/icemaker work? The water must be shut off to it. Typically water to a fridge is done via thin white/clearish plastic tubing, which is attached to a special valve that clamps and pierces a normal copper line (like this one ---&gt;) So... the Hunt is on.