Are We Done Yet? Page #2

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How I Iook?

How do you feel?

I feel good.

Feeling good's good enough.

You be okay in there, Nick?

Just give me one minute.

So, now, Suzanne here tells me

that you're in the publishing game?

Oh, yeah, I did sell a magazine

to OmniHouse.

An entrepreneur.

A budding William Randolph Hearst

right here in our midst.

I don't really know who that is,

Chuck, but, hey, I guess so.

Modest too? They broke the mold.

I'II tell you what, Suze,

I'd hang on to this one.

Oh, yeah, he's a keeper, Chuck.

Oh, way to stick the Ianding, Kev-o.

The Hacketts, of course,

used this as a guest cottage.

But with just a "scootcharino" of work,

it could be easily converted...

...into the perfect creative nook for,

you know, a....

A publisher.

You know, I was thinking about

writing in that bathroom up there.

Oh, yeah?

-Oh, honey, this is so charming.

-This'II work too.

Just for a second, Nick,

just for a second, imagine....

Imagine watching

a blue-throated hummingbird...

...suckle the nectar from a fresh

hydrangea blossom...

...while you free your mind...

...to the creative impulses that have

made every publishing empire great.

This is not a dress rehearsal, Nick.

Live the dream, baby,

Iive the dream.

Would you guys Iike

to see a tremendous view?

Would you? Come on. Come on.

-It's the coup de grce. You'II Iove it.

-Come on, baby.

You're gonna wanna get Iow

coming through this door.

The roof-- Think you'II find the roof

needs a Iittle bit of work...

...so please be careful.

The property includes

an apple orchard.

There's some wild blackberries

over here, some cedars.

And I don't even wanna tell you

about the view of the Iake from here.

Breathe.

Breathe, breathe in that rich,

fresh air, Mr. Publisher.

How about it?

Oh, not so incidentally, they just built

a brand-new school down the road.

Really?

Newburg is a really amazing place

to raise a family.

Oh, it's just so beautiful, Chuck.

Well, you should see it

in the middle of the winter...

...with a blanket of snow covering it.

It's pretty as a postcard.

Personally, I Iike to power-walk

through these woods.

Never mind the fact that, of course,

I used to do the walk competitively.

Really?

Yeah, I was an alternate

to the '94 Goodwill Games in Russia.

Like I say, she is a fixer-upper...

...but I happen to know the finest

contractor in these parts.

You give that gentleman

a call and....

One way to make your Iife

a whole Iot easier.

So, now, where do

we stand there, Nickster?

I don't know, Chuck.

I'm not really sure if this is

the right place for us, you know.

It's a Iittle high-priced

and you're a Iittle weird.

Oh, gosh, I actually scheduled

a couple back-to-back with you guys.

Larry, Bernice. Hello! Come in.

PIease, make yourself at home.

-Okay, Chuck. Thanks.

-Thank you.

I gotta go.

So, what you think?

I don't know. I don't know.

Can we really afford this house?

Of course.

Baby, with the advance,

plus the money we saved on rent...

...we can buy this place

two times over.

And have money to fix it up.

And guess what.

I can do the fixing.

I can barely get you to change

a Iight bulb at the apartment.

So what? Look, Iook.

Take a Iook at this.

-A house is Iike a painting.

-Yeah.

You can't really buy with your head,

you gotta buy with your heart.

Yeah, honey, but we have to think

with our heads right now.

We gotta think about the kids.

We gotta think about

it's the middle of the school year...

...Lindsey has her friends and she just

met that nice boy in her math class.

There's plenty of stuff

around here for Lindsey to do...

...that have nothing to do with boys.

And Kevin, this is perfect!

Look at the nature.

Look at the wilderness.

We got a blueberry tree, baby.

Are we talking about the same kid?

Kevin doesn't go outside for recess.

That's why he needs a place Iike this,

to toughen him up.

PIus, I can take him fishing.

Who's going fishing?

-Me.

-You fish?

Oh, I can fish, baby.

Oh, when's the Iast time

you went fishing?

Last time-- Matter of fact,

it was before I met you...

...Iast time I went fishing.

And....

I don't know how to fish,

but I can Iearn.

And then I could teach him,

and we can bond.

-"We can bond."

-We'II become a true family.

-"A true family."

-Picture it.

What you think?

I think there are a Iot

of rooms in this house...

...that are gonna need breaking in.

Oh, yeah?

Well, what about the roof?

The roof isn't a bad place to start.

Well, come over here,

drop it Iike it's hot, girl.

Baby!

We'II take it.

Good boy.

Good boy.

-Where'd she go?

-She was just.... I don't know.

There.

What you doing?

Stop! Coco, stop!

Help!

Hey, honey, do you know

how this garbage disposal works?

Because I've tried every single one

of these switches.

What about this one?

See? Everything is working out

just Iike I promised, huh?

I can fix that.

Oh, you can fix that?

Hey, I hope we're not disturbing you.

I'm Mr. Rooney, this is Mrs. Rooney.

Oh, so formal.

PIease, call me Mrs. Rooney.

We wanted to be the first

to welcome you.

Oh, we sure did.

We are the first, aren't we?

You're the first.

Yes.

-That Iooks gross.

-Kevin.

That fish put this town on the map.

Oh, yeah. Sturgeon tastes

a Iot Iike chicken, only fishy.

-Nice.

-I think you're gonna enjoy it.

And even if you don't, it's dead.

Did you wanna come inside

for something to drink?

Oh, that's so sweet.

But we don't really drink so early

in the day around these parts, but--

-Right. No.

-No, no, I meant, Iike, just a Iemonade.

Boy, get them fish.

Thank you. CIose the door.

-Welcome.

-For you.

Tastes Iike chicken.

Sturgeon, right?

Give me the fish, man.

Y'all get out of here

before I call the cops.

Hey, Nick.

I can't find Coco anywhere.

Give me that.

Don't worry about Coco,

he'II show up sooner or Iater.

There's a Iot of trees

to pee on out there.

What you want me to do?

Coco!

Where's that dog?

Maybe we should go back.

It's kind of scary out here.

Scary? Boy, it's beautiful out here.

Look, you with the man. I was the man

in the city, and I'm the man out here.

Trust me, when you're with me,

there's nothing to be scared of.

But that.

Run! Go! Go!

Can you hear me now?

Hello? Can you hear me now?

Off the phone, please. Here we are.

Oh, Iook at this.

-That's nice.

-Yeah.

And Iook at us.

One big, happy family.

Yes, one big, happy family.

Lindsey, would you Iike

to give thanks?

Why, are we going home?

This is our home.

Our real home, Mom.

Where my friends are.

Where I can get cell phone reception.

Lindsey,

put away the phone, please.

Kevin?

-I don't Iike this fish.

-Me neither.

But we're gonna be eating this

every day for the next six months...

...so get used to it.

Now, Lindsey. Grace.

Dear Lord, thank you for all the

blessings that you gave us.

Before they were taken away.

Like my friends,

cell phone reception--

Time-out, I got this.

PIease, honey.

Oh, patient and heavenly Father...

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