UUUUUUUGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

That sums it up. That is how I feel.

I am frustrated.
I am annoyed.
I am not annoyed, that is too mild.
I am just angry.

You can't even imagine

So I left the old house last night about midnight.

Basically the garage and basement were full of LOTS of stuff.

There was just so so so much. Too much for me to deal with. So I posted my ad for a Garage Free Sale on Craig's list this morning. You wouldn't believe it! It was hilarious the amount of people that showed and loaded up. I had enough to fill a trailer and several pickup trucks. People just loaded and loaded and loaded. They took anything I would let them. There were so many trucks lining the street my neighbor came to see what was going on (since we moved out and all, lol). It is hard for me to give stuff away like this, but it was absolutely necessary. It feels so good to be rid of all of that.

Now things are controllable. Whew! Such a relief.

All functioning

Yippy! Everything is working now! Got the new dryer and laundry is in process. The fridge is cold and makes ice and gives me water on demand. Cable has been working since Schaun fixed it. Ahhhhh, now that feels good.

I have until next Saturday at noon to get my other pit cleaned out. Ugh! It is horrible the amount of stuff that is there. It is not just trash, but stuff somebody could use. Today I am having a garage free sale that I'm listing on Craig's list. I hope that people will come take some things. I have some place that calls me all the time coming on Tuesday for a pick-up and Catholic Charities is coming on Thursday to pick up some large things (sofa and loveseats).

Week in Review

Friday, this is when THIS week started. This was moving day. I was frantically packing up until the last minute, while Schaun's priority was getting the cable hooked up in the new house. So he was gone all morning. It was nice (for him) that evening when the cable was all set up, but the living room tv only worked for a few hours that day and then it went out. The cable company informed me that my tv had gone off-line and we would require a service call to fix it. They were so sorry for the inconvenience that they set the service appointment up for Tuesday. Great--no tv babysitter for me.

Saturday, was alright. I was very sore, but enjoying the house--even with all the boxes and chaos.

Sunday, the dryer was plugged in and promptly blew up. I didn't get that upset though, I'm still enjoying my new house so much. Much more important this day, Bridget lost her first tooth without any drama. I did take pictures, but I cannot locate my card reader right now.

Monday, got the girls to school in the nick of time. Had a meeting at the Scrapbook Page and I will be taking a break from teaching this quarter. Got my hair cut and colored--love that. Took the minimal amount of dirty laundry and washed it at my mom's house. Went and bought a new dryer that cannot be delivered until Saturday. Normally this would seem okay, but since the same place was delivering my new fridge on Tuesday, I thought maybe they could come together--nope, not a chance. Finally, get back to the house with a few articles of clean clothes and relax a bit.

Tuesday, big day--cable and fridge get set up. First the cable guy arrives and spends about 10 minutes here and has the cable working. Great! Next, the fridge gets here. It is big and perfect. Oh wait--the water line in the house doesn't fit into the fridge. The dude starts to tell me how to resolve this issue in some plumber language that I guess I should know since I bought a refrigerator right? well I don't. I nod at him like I knew what he said and sent him out the door. Shortly after he left, wishing I had a full functioning new fridge, the cable went out again. Ugh! I need to fix dinner though, no time for that now. It is like the house is rejecting us. It doesn't want the things we are trying to hook into it. I still love the house though. Just a little frustration setting in.

Wed., Becca woke in the middle of the night VERY upset. She fell asleep Tues evening about 5:30. She was zonked, I could not wake her to eat or potty. So the poor thing had an accident in bed. It wasn't terrible. She woke up a little wet, but managed to get to the bathroom to finish. She was still upset thought. And now I have potty sheets and clothes and no damn dryer! Grrrrrr! Oh well, I can wash them at least.

I get the girls to school and immediately head to Home Depot. The nice lady there knows me and knows something is wrong. I tell her about the water line issue and she calls the delivery company to find out what I need (because I could not even start to repeat what the dude already told me). She proceeds to get this guy on the phone who somehow knows what the problem is. She hands me the phone and tells me to get the info from the guy. Ummmm, okay, I'll play. I take the phone, he tells me the same plumber talk the other dude told me that I didn't understand the first time. I'm super frustrated now. I tell him to hold on. I tell her to go get somebody that understands plumber talk over to this phone. The issue was resolved after I had the entire Home Depot staff putting their heads together on this. The delivery people are now set up to return to my house and instill the water line on Friday.

Then I headed to the Time Warner office to return the stupid box. I get there and they switch it out for me. They don't even ask why I want to switch it. Great job there folks. Funny thing here. The girls were with me and their mascot is the Road Runner bird. There are also these commercials with the Road Runner for a car dealer place (I think) and it is BeepBeep.com. The girls see the big painted Road Runner on the wall and get all excited about seeing "Beep Beep dot Com". It was funny to me at least.

This is dance night. So after, I spent some time cleaning the old house and about 40 minutes taking out trash, 2 hours in the waiting area at the dance studio, we got back home about 7:30. Schaun hooked up the cable and it has been good since. Ahhhh, it is good to be watching tv in my new (still chaotic) house.


Thursday, today. I have located my card reader so maybe tomorrow I will get some photos on here. I finished painting the touch-up I needed in Becca's room today and assembled some shelving for the scraproom. Stayed home most of the day. Becca enjoyed being able to watch her shows during the day. It was almost normal. I (hesitantly)asked the girls if they liked our new house and thankfully they said they did. Tomorrow the fridge is suppose to get hooked into the water line and Saturday we get a dyer. I have never looked forward to doing a lot of laundry, but I am right now.

I'm so sore!

Thursday night I slept about 3 hours. I sat down to eat a sandwich about 2:30am and I fell asleep, sitting up on the sofa, with the plate and sandwich in my lap. I didn't plan on sleeping at all, but my body said otherwise. I got up and moving about 6:00 and packed more boxes non-stop until 11:15 when the moving company called and said they would not be to us until 1:00 (we had a window appointment set from 11:00 to 1:00). So then I took a break. We managed to fill that entire moving truck and we didn't bring out master bedroom set or the 2 sofa and 2 love seats we have. Sheesh we have alot of stuff! I will admit that A LOT of what was moved went to the scraproom, but hey, I gotta have it. And let me just say that again-- I HAVE A SCRAPROOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!YIPPY!!!!!!!!!

Now after a full night of sleep, I woke up and my legs are so sore! Yowzers! Guess I was running on adrenaline and didn't notice how hard I was working.

So right now, we have 2 houses in chaos. At least I get to live in the nice one now though. We have a few things that need to be done asap. Most important to me is getting the washer and dryer set up. We have to switch out a plug and get some hoses or something. We need a fence because walking dogs is not fun. The poor dogs are a little freaked out. They just walk around and whimper and cry (Belle more than Daisy).

Becca started to cry last night, she wanted to go back to the other house and sleep in her yellow room. Bridget realized that Becca's room is bigger and she was unhappy about that. This morning everything seems better though. Bridget slept on the sofa because we didn't get her bed set up, so she thought that was fun. Becca slept all night in her room. I think we were all a bit tired yesterday. So now to clean the old house and unpack and organize the new one.

As my sister pointed out, I forgot to say how great it was to sleep here. That was great, but even better was waking up here all refreshed!

House photos

Birthday Events

Since our furniture was delivered early, I was able to make it to lunch with Bridget. I have never gone there and had lunch with her before, so this was a very special birthday thing. I'm posting this photo of us together even though it is a terrible pic of me.

For dinner we went to the Rain Forest Cafe as planned. It wasn't crowded and the girls were both excited. That being said, Becca took excited to a whole different level while we were there. The birthday fairy told the staff that it was Bridget's birthday so they came and sang and brought her ice cream that she so willingly shared with Becca. She is such a good girl! I'm so proud of that kid!

Happy Birthday Bridget!

Today our sweet Bridget turns SIX! That is amazing. Six. Wow!

First thing this morning she got to open a present from us. We gave her a necklace with an amethyst (her birthstone) flower pendant. She thought it was cool to get real jewelry. I'm going to eat lunch with her at the school today and for dinner we are going to Rain Forest Cafe. What a fun day!

Blog Challenge

Kelly wants to know the following:

If you had to give up one of these things, which would it be:

1. Cell Phone
2. Hair products/curling iron
3. Toothpaste

Okay, I honestly debated these 3 options. I decided the rational, realistic thing would be to give up the cell phone. I wouldn't like it. I use mine ALL THE TIME. It makes me feel connected. Of these three items, the cell phone is the only one that I have ever actually lived without before, so I guess I could again. Like I said, I wouldn't like it though. I have horrible hair and it must be blown dry and curled or it is stringy and flat. Toothpaste, well, that is something you take on Survivor as your luxury item and I like my teeth.

Painting

We got to the house on Saturday, got supplies and started painting. I have not been good at taking the before photos. In fact I haven't been good at taking any photos--and I know you all have noticed. I don't have a photo of the front of the house yet. I'll get it soon though, I promise.

I did take a few of the painting going on and the cute decoration on my mantle. As my mother-in-law stated, we have been color repressed forever, and we are letting loose. Schaun wanted one wall in his basement to be red. I made the master bedroom a brown, the girls rooms are each going to be two colors. Bridget's room is pink and purple and Becca's is pink and yellow. They both got the same pink and it is a no kidding sort of pink.

I need to say a special thanks to my father-in-law for all his help on Saturday and to Kristin and Mark for their help painting on Sunday--THANKS!

EDITED TO ADD: This freaking blogger keeps eating my photos! Three times I have loaded a bunch of pics and it just keeps showing me these two. Sorry, I'll have to try later. I have packing to do.

FINALLY!

We are homeowners!

It's official! The papers are all signed.

I'll get pictures soon.

Spring Break

This year, over Spring Break, I am taking the girls to see Disney on Ice, Princess Wishes. They don't know and are going to be so excited. I'm excited that it is at the Sprint Center and I will get to see the place.

I bought the tickets a few weeks ago and forgot to tell Schaun. I saw a commercial last night and told him. I think he was very relieved to hear that he was excused from this princess event.

Tomorrow is the day!

Tomorrow is closing day! I'm so excited. It is hard to focus on anything else for any length of time. I went to Lowe's yesterday and picked out a bunch of paint swatches. That is what I'm doing first--painting. We are putting off the official move in day so that we can do stuff like this before the furniture gets there. The utilities are taken care of and today the sellers want to meet us at the house so they can tell us stuff about the house.

I'm not going to miss this house at all. The noise from the highway--ugh! Yesterday the garbage disposal stopped working and the day before that the bathroom sink went wonky. So glad I don't have to deal with the problems here any longer!

Anybody need any stuff?I have random amounts of fabric I don't want, baby toys and chairs, a diaper bag, a birdhouse collection, a bag of 18 months girls clothes, a coffee pot, an old printer and scanner, and that is what I can think of off the top of my head.

Fun World

We took the girls to Power Play (they call it Fun World) last night. I had never been there before. Schaun has taken the girls there in the past while I was at crops. We ate dinner at the buffet, which was decent. Then we went out to the arcade part. It was a mad house in there. I didn't take the big gun, just my little camera, but here are the few shots I got. The girls had a blast.

Different priorities

So last night Bridget asked when we were going to Disney World. I told her we just bought the new house and going to Disney is expensive, it wasn't going to be this year. Her response:

"Ohhhhhh- you guys wasted all the money!"

Not my lettuce!

As I'm sure I have said before, Becca loves lettuce. Sometimes if she asks for a snack, she will tell me she wants some lettuce. It is a bit odd, but it's better than candy. Tonight we were talking to the girls about pets. They were telling us about the things they want to own. I explained that nobody would get anything until we lighten our current load. But they just kept wishing. Bridget settled on a guinea pig. She asked Schaun what they eat and he told her special food, carrots, and lettuce. Becca looked startled and said "NOT MY LETTUCE!".

I had to tell her that if this little animal comes to live with us we will have different lettuce for it--not hers.

New Furniture

So exciting! We picked out all the big things we need for the house. We spent about five hours at Nebraska Furniture Mart today. I have only been there one other time and I had forgot how big that place is. It is a good thing that I had some idea what I wanted. Going there without a plan would be over-whelming. We choose a sofa that is a 2-piece sectional with a chaise attached (that is the second piece). I wanted a big over-sized chair and AUTOMAN (LOL, this cracks me up! I saw this spelling in a Craig's list ad and I'm still getting a good chuckle from it)--okay, chair and ottoman is what I had in mind. I really love the whole chaise thing, so I got another separate one. (It is the one in the picture here)

We agreed on a white bedroom set. That will look so pretty with the light blue walls I am going to paint. I hope that I have a good memory of the color of the wood in the kitchen. I think we picked out the perfect table. I had my heart set on a table with chairs and a bench on one side and they had it.

They had some cute kids beds. Becca really needs a bed. She just has a frame and mattress, no cute headboard. She decided she wants sort of a garden themed room and I hope we can hook her up with a picket fence headboard. But today we saw this bed she loved. It was a loft bed (not as tall as a bunk bed) with a SLIDE attached to it. Under the bed was just space but there was a curtain that pulled closed. It was a cute bed and very reasonable price, but it was bright red, blue, and yellow. Not very garden like. We'll see if she keeps talking about it.

Very exciting stuff!

Enough already

I'm done with Winter. In the past, I enjoyed wearing my coats and sweaters. I generally like to bundle up. But enough already! I am T-I-R-E-D of snow and cold. I am tired of shivering all the time! I have not scrapbooked anything in months because it is just too cold downstairs. The few warmer days we had I spent cleaning off a space in the mess and got nothing done. Now it is just getting packed.

Packing is a slow process. I'm really purging stuff. I am a pack rat at heart and it is hard for me to let go of things. Some people understand this, others don't and think it is crazy to be attached to sweater or some other random item. So as I go thru my things, I have to question whether or not I want to actually pack it, take it to the new house and find a place for it. Most of the time I answer no. So now I am having to get rid of all the stuff I'm letting go of. Too bad it just doesn't disappear when I no longer want it.

Packing and counting down. That is really all I think about these days. Two weeks from today is when we close on the house!

A royal good time

Bridget was invited to a birthday party that was yesterday. It was for Maya, a little girl she spends a lot of time with at school. Maya had a true princess party. Each girl got to choose and wear a princess dress. They all got their nails painted and a little sparkly make-up. They played games and had a tea party with real tea cups. Bridget LOVED this. All the girls were so cute, it was really a lot of fun!

Off to a GREAT start!

February that is. The offer we put in on the house we want was accepted! Closing is scheduled for February 22. Schaun said last night that this was not a fun process. True, but the the end result is so great.