home sweet home(s)

*sigh* moving is hard. our move should be easy...moving from one side of a duplex to the other should be a no brainier...especially when the units are a mirror image of each other. but when you want to cut down on clutter & get rid of most of the stuff being stored in the garage that = NO FUN. i'm loving the new place. i just wish i could get rid of about 60% of our "stuff" and i just might. so for now i'm having to run over for this or that. because we don't have everything moved over yet. solomon keeps saying "can we go to the house we used to live in and look for (insert missing toy here)" and moses is still calling are 'new' house "bobs house" (the name of our landlord) it's been inserting so far...and i'm sure it will just keep on getting weirder. if only i could find my camera in this mess....

a weird week...

...i woke up monday morning with a half swollen face. after a trip to the dentist i left there knowing (what i already knew) that i had an infection in my gums and prescriptions in hand! and now 36 hours later i'm still waiting for the swelling to go down. i am healing a lot slower than i'd like to.

and then today our landlord called and offered for us to move into the other side of our duplex that he just fixed up (& for the same price we're paying for the dumpier side) so after some deliberation i think we've decided to move...next door. moving next door with either be wonderful or much harder than we think! but, i guess we will see.

wish us luck!

:/

i'm having one of those days

i'm working hard to get things done...but in the process i have TRASHED the house. and if my camera was working i would prove it. but moses decided to suck on it this morning and now it doesn't feel like taking pictures. witch is perfect since i finally managed to dig out stuff to sell on craigslist.

and my tooth (or half of a tooth) is starting to ache. the tylenol has finally kicked in and it's not to bad. but i know that i can't ignore it forever.

and now moses doesn't want to take his nap.

oh well on the bright side i went shopping for jeans yesterday and i am officially one size smaller. now i just need to get myself back up on the bandwagon so that i can get down another 2 sizes. that would be perfect. now that i've gotten all the pop outta my house this shouldn't be a problem! and by next weekend my garage WILL be cleaned out and i will be able to workout. i just need to get off my butt right now and work this done.

i got even more done!!

that's right i did it...i got even more done today. when jake got home i made him help me put up my curtain rod in the living room (it's a little odd, but i like it). jake did a wonderful job. and then we got a bunch more books unpacked. that was pretty fun because i found my old capernwray & kent view year books...now if i could just find our enumclaw year books. i also did the dishes AND started the dishwasher...which i usually forget to start. now it's only 10:20 and i want to go to bed. jake and i are feeling pretty old (and fat) after seeing some old pictures of ourselves.

oh well, my house is starting to look like a home :D yay! (that's right jake "yay" get over it)

it was a very productive day!

first off i must say that although i got a TON done today i would've much rather gone to see my kaydee and jonathan at ikea. :( *sniff, sniff*

i was suppose to get a washer in the morning and go meet my (fellow bible school drop out) kaydee and her hubby jonathan...but at about 9:30 or 10 jake calls and says his parents are on their way to our house to do yard work and they were going to help me get the washer. *sigh* i knew that i should be happy to have the help(and quite frankly i needed it) but i feel my plans with kaydee are ALWAYS falling through and it's ALWAYS because of something that comes up on my end. so with a very heavy heart i called kaydee and broke the news to her :( i wanted to cry!!
but it's quite true that there is NO way i would've gotten the washer all by my self and gotten it hooked up correctly. so i am very thankful for my willing in-laws who i love dearly! another way that they were helpful today was that i was going to go get my shelves and i planned on taking the kids with me but my mother-in-law insisted that she stay behind with the kids so they wouldn't have to be in the car for over an hour...turns out i didn't measure quite right and there is NO way it would've all fit in my van with the kids in it!

so it turns out the day that i thought was ruined turned out to be very productive. but i am still sad that i don't get to see kaydee.

but here is what got done today:

#1. I GOT A WASHING MACHINE!!!! ($50 from the nicest couple off craigslist)
#2. old washer and dryer and LOTS of other junk taken to the dump (thanks to father-in-law)
#3. most of the yards edges week whacked (thanks again to father-in-law)
#4. moses got a nap (it was short but i was a nap)
#5. i got my laundry DONE!!! woohoo
#6. i got a few things hung up on the wall.
#7. i got the shelf i've been wanting/needing off craigslist. (the living room looks almost complete)

oh and the only way i got all of this written at this time of day is because my kids are at the park with their grandparents. it is so quiet in the house my ears are almost ringing. it's creepy...and i like it.

oh shoot i can hear them coming...

falling off the wagon...sorta & other random thought

so i've been on the "ashley diet" (no pop & no eating after 7pm) for 2 months. it has worked great i lost 20lbs. but since i have moved i have had one to may orange fanta's & grape soda's...i actually miss drinking water. so i think later today i need to go buy some bottle water and get re-hydrated!! i have been REALLY good about not eating past 7. even when jake is offering me cupcakes at 10 o'clock at night (JERK). so i don't feel like a total failure.

i also need to get busy cleaning out my garage so that i can use my elliptical machine that is burred somewhere in there. that would really help. oh i need to go tanning too. because i know that the warm weather is closer than i think and before you know it i'm gonna be wanting to wear shorts...and i don't want to blind anyone.

besides those things i have a lot of other things to do today. like get these damn toys outta my living room and find places for them in the boy's closet. i am beginning to HATE toys. the weather is suppose to be good this weekend but i don't know if i'm quite ready for a garage sale. maybe i should just GET ready huh?

OOOHHH yes, a few days ago one of jakes moronic students gave him a bag of 12 goldfish before they went on their drive....gurrrr. solly and moses LOVE the fish but what the heck?!?! now i have a stinky bowl full of fish that needs to be cleaned and i had to find food for them. to top it all off now that they are eating...they are POOPING!!! fish are gross. oh well it's really cute when moses watches them swim around. oh yeah, and of course after having to ride in the back of a drivers ed car for a few hours and then ride all the way home they were quite traumatized so the next morning i had 2 dead fish to deal with (jake wanted me to put them down the garbage disposal...isn't that SICK!!!) they went in the garbage. so we're down to 10 goldfish!

still no luck finding a washing machine. but i did get my laundry done at my moms yesterday so i have a few more days to look for a washer. keep your fingers crossed.

i really need to find my camera and cord & figure out how to put them on this stupid "new" computer of ours(i kinda hate mac's...except that it makes me feel like carrie bradshaw HAHA yeah right.) we're practically twins!! well at least our computers look alike!!

i'm lost without a washer...

that's right, my washer broke down. for those of you who may not know. i do a LOT of laundry and i (most of the time) love to do it. but of course the washer that was in our unit when we moved is NOT working. but technically it's our responsibility because the landlady found this washer and dryer for free because we didn't have a washer. so now i have 2 loads of wet laundry and about 4 loads of unwashed laundry to do. this means i might have to take a trip out to my moms...sigh.

my weird landlady DID however jump right to work and get a whole new hot water heater when jake went over and told her that ours was only giving us 20 min of hot water at a time. so this afternoon her and her weird sons installed a new one. so i am thankful for that.

to make my day even better...for some reason i volunteered to make cupcakes for sollys class for st. patty's day. and i made plans with his teacher to bring them in at 1:45 today. jake was SUPPOSE to be home during that time so that mojo could continue to nap...but NO his jackass of a "lead" needed him to meet with him for no good reason. so i had to wake moses up from his nap and take him to a school with 40 cupcakes in tow. WHAT WAS I THINKING?!?! so now i am being punished by him. he is doing everything that he can think of to get into trouble. what a stinker!!

oh yes, and it was also my morning to babysit at church during bible study. luckily there were not very many kids. but still its almost never a good time. and do you ever have those days where you just feel like you can't get yourself to shut up no matter how annoying you sound in your head(and i'm sure to other people as well)?? well it was one of those days, at least this morning. i'm sure my fellow babysitters were thinking "jeez switch to decaf woman!" oh well. i'm starting to feel like this blog is a little like me this morning...rambling with no real point.

maybe i should switch to decaf!

i still have a TON of boxes to go through in my garage AND storage unit....ugh i need a babysitter just so i can get things done in my own house. thank goodness for solly! he has brains enough to put in a move for moses and now he is totally spaced out!! ahhhhh peace...at least for a moment!

6 days later...

...i finally have internet!!
it's funny, i missed it at first and now i'm sitting here and i can't think of anything that i wanted to do on the internet...it's just nice to know it's there :)

so we've moved and we LOVE living alone again! solly and moses couldn't be happier and life is good. we managed to live without internet for almost a week and we still have no plans for cable. and i haven't missed tv that much (yet)

i got a LOT of unpacking done on the first day...and then i stopped. i got the important stuff out and now i just don't feel like seeing what is in ALL those other boxes that are now taking up WAY to much room in the garage. and my storage unit isn't even empty yet. i haven't done any yard work (due to the flipping snow) but we're hoping for good weather this weekend (that's what i was going to do on the internet: check weather)

so for now that is my update of my boring life...don't worry there is plenty more where that came from!

excitment's gone...i'm just tired!!!!

so we finally get to start moving stuff in...but jake has to work for the next 2 days (all day) so it looks like i'll be doing it all by my self :( jakes dad and brother are coming to move big stuff for me on saturday but for me that it almost more to worry about becuase i'm picky!!

i got a tiny bit done tonight...but then next 2 days are going to be brutal!!

if i could just find someone reliable to watch moses on saturday and would be all set. oh well. i guess i'll just have to get out my "super mom" cape and hope for the best. i'm gonna need a vacation...or a massage when this is all over.

i did get to take solly inside the duplex today for the first time...and he loved it!

dude, is it bedtime yet?

getting excited!!!

so tomorrow i am going to start cleaning and unpacking in my "new" kitchen!! i hope i can also get some other rooms cleaned too but i can always do that on friday. but it sounds like our first night there will be saturday. i'm so excited i can barley contain myself!!!

i hope to talk lots of before and after pictures. and i hope to have lots of visitors (that means all of you)

i can't wait!!!!!

is it over yet?

the answer is NO! sadly it is not over and it wont be over for quite some time. moving takes forever!! it's going to be at least until this weekend before we are sleeping there and then probably another month before we feel moved in. we have so much work to do on the house it's not even funny. but i will be relieved to be in my OWN place. no grandmas or moms interrupting family meals with their stories of when they used to live in ephrada. or an obnoxious dog drooling on my pant leg while i'm trying to eat. or my dad hanging out in his bath rob on the weekends. ahhh it will be nice...

well i have managed to have a little fun today. i went to solly's class and helped make green eggs and ham for all the kids in honor of dr. susses birthday. it looked sooooo gross but most of the kids gave it a fair shot and tried it while other kids practically licked their plates clean. there was only about 2 kids that WOULD NOT try it. oh well i guess we'll just have to call them "sam" from now on. :)

so tired...and sick of packing...

i hate packing.

i've been doing it for 3 days and i DON'T want to do it anymore. i would post a picture of the wall of boxes that is in the middle of the living room...but i'm to tired to turn around and take the picture.

i guess the good news is i'll pretty much be done tomorrow. but the bad news is i have to get everything done by then. so the real question is: why am i waisting time blogging about it when i could be finishing up?

ya, ya i'll get back to work now

i hate this word...

...but i am going to be 'busy' for the next week. it's sad but true. on sunday jake wants me to have pretty much everything we can't live without packed up and ready to move into our new garage. it'll wait there until the landlords son has all the repairs done on our new place and then we will start unpacking, moving in furniture and cleaning. once we have the essentials unpacked and usable we'll move us, our beds & clothes on in. i can't wait! we should be living in our own place by next weekend...it has been WAY too long. but we'll never have to live in my parents house again.

by the way...i hate the word "busy" because my mom always says she's "soooo busy" when she's not...so jake and i like to imagine she is saying "lazy" anytime she says "busy" and it's not only funny but it makes more sense!!!

here we go.

i've really been dragging my butt this week. i know that i should be packing but i just don't want to (not that i don't want to move, packing just sucks) so today i dove in...sorta. i cleaned out my desk and under my bed. i think that's a pretty good start. and i found someone giving away moving boxes on craigslist so i'll be picking them up tomorrow and then i'm gonna get crack-a-lacklin. i think once i get started it'll go quickly. or at least i hope so.

church, barf & costco

yep. that sums up my day.
church was good. moses was feeling good. he was looking like he wanted to sleep forever by the time we left so i brought him straight home and put him down for a nap. about 45 min later he was awake and i went to get him and the next thing i remember was an explosion of barf and then a few small aftershocks. after he was clean and dressed we went to costco to stock up on diapers.
he is now happily sleeping...i wish i was.

i am going crazy. i know that i am moving soon...but it just doesn't feel soon enough. people in the house are acting more annoyed with me. i am as always more annoyed with them. i don't want to do anything but pack and get outta here!!! i suppose that means i should start packing...boy am i in for a shock when i start and realize how much crap i have laying around here. i don't care i'll pack it all up, get the heck out of here, then have a garage sale when i move!!!
hurry time, move faster!