Ahh I'm back to the real world. TV and Internet. After a ten day hiatus amongst packing, moving and settling, the beasts are re-connected. I found out 2 things 1)the Internet controls my life, well at least my bills and 2)Ten days of no TV almost prompted me to permanently disconnect the thing, especially when we discovered what we were going to have to do to connect it! More on that later. The last few weeks have been mundane, necessary, and mindlessly busy.
#1 We sold our house. The whole process from sign-up to sign-down took about 4 months! We feel very fortunate that we found a buyer and could go through the whole process in such a short amount of time. We've heard horror stories. We moved the extremely long distance of a mile down the road. Familiar territory. Thank goodness no cross country or zip code changing here. I don't know how people move in one trip. I didn't realize I had so much crap! And I have no idea where I put it all, the Jed shed only held so much, and was not harboring any of my furniture.
Here are my favorite things about our new place.
1. The fridge has an automatic water dispenser in the fridge, with a fresh filter, which is key. Now Jara can happily help herself to water at any time and I am no longer the water girl/would you like a refill girl?
2. No carpet in the living areas, only the bedrooms. The ONLY reason I like this is because I have found a new enjoyable hobby called "rug buying" and there is plenty of flooring to rug. Oh and the fact that there are no more carpet mysteries. 3. New carpet, new paint, new tile, new blinds, ahhh the smells of new are balm to my allergies. 4. More kitchen cupboards. There may not be a single thing hanging on any wall, including a clock, and there may still be six boxes unpacked but my kitchen is organized and settled. Kitchens make me happy probably because they are the source of FOOD I mean sustenance.
Now on to the things I miss about our former place.
1. A nice hard driveway. I have had to put my car in 4-wheel drive TWICE since we have lived here all of 10 days. I am officially living on a sand dune in the middle of the forsaken desert. You might be a redneck if...?
2. My glorious yard peppered with my own blood, sweat and tears, on a quiet street. Corner lots on busy roads are limiting. As in-I can no longer wear my frightful reindeer pants to take out the trash anymore. And Jed no longer feels comfortable sporting my pink crocs when retrieving forgotten items from the car.
3. A sealed off crawlspace. Are you ready for this, we found 8 cats under the house, EIGHT!!! 3 Dead, 6 alive. Five of which were meowing baby kitties. We got four out easily enough but one was under there for an extra day or two and wouldn't stop crying, every time Jed would crawl into the crypt to get it, the little bugger would make a run for it. I was having heart palpitations listening to it, no mother can listen to a baby crying (cat or human) for that long and not lose it. Finally, the cats have been eradicated, duct work has been re-worked, and now a few days after I first began this post, the crawl space is sealed off. If there were any cats left behind, well, hopefully they will evolve into white cats with permanently enlarged pupils in order to survive.
Okay, back to the original numbered list of what's going on, and why I have been incognito, you mean you were confused. Anyway... #2 I was taking a couple of classes in order to earn credits to renew my teaching license and procrastinated my 14 written essays/journal articles until the last 10 days, of course. I thought being older and wiser I would have all of my work done in a prompt and timely manner, ha-some things never change. However, many long hours at the computer with Junior Mints got me through.
#3 My children were laid up with fevers/flu nastiness. Perfect timing. At least it was at the onslaught of everything and not during moving fun, but it did delay necessary things that led to Jed and I staying up until midnight on moving day eve, on our 7th anniversary (nonetheless), PACKING. Good thing we like each other and are perfectly content to stare lovingly at each other over boxes and duct tape.
Well that's all she wrote, I'm going to bed now because today was a 7-load laundry day (and this time I actually put it away)/mop the mass of non-carpeted flooring/supervise Jed's honey-do list and frankly I'm pooped.
You'll be seeing more of me now.
PS-Princess Buttercup is happy and she is half-way to making her debut. Yay for 20 weeks!
