Our bags are packed

we're ready to go...well actually just ready to leave the old place. My dad, my cousin Brian aka Commander and the Princess came by today. I think it took 3 truck trips and lots of packing, but I believe everything is out of the old place and now in the new place. It will take days to get unpacked, but it's OK. We can take like 5 boxes a day and unpack them. This way we won't be overwhelmed. Penguin is going to the old place tomorrow to clean and run the vacuum and paint the doors where the dogs scratched the paint away. Hopefully Friday he will be able to run the carpet shampooer and then I think we will be done. I will probably do one last check of the apartment over the weekend, and then we will turn in the keys on June first. Finally, the end of one adventure and the beginning of a new one. My sister J is coming in this weekend for her college reunion which means my folks get to watch my nephew. Well, actually I think my niece will be watching him..after all he is her best friend. Anyway, I hope to take lots of pictures this weekend. Hope everyone has a great Memorial day!

New Place

So, things are finally getting settled into the new place. Well, kinda. The hubs moved the clothes from the closet on Friday, and today, sometime between 2 and 5 the cable man is coming. We will be back to having the internet and much needed television. Just kidding on the much needed, but something other than movies to distract me. Hubs called and had the electric switched to the new apartment, and because Hubs' friend has not been able to help us move and it is.getting.old sleeping on the air mattress, my awesome father is helping move the bedroom furniture to the new place. Heck, I don't even care if they only move the bed today. I just can't sleep in the air mattress anymore. So, to thank him and my Uncle who volunteered to help in anyway, we are cooking out again. This time, it won't be an all night affair for me, I work again tomorrow night, but at least my folks will get to see the new place while it is still "the new place." Hopefully this time there will be some pictures, and maybe just maybe my Sister R and her Husband and Peanut will come along too. No pressure R, we will have many other times to hang out. Hope you all have a good weekend. I guess I should get back to work. Take care and have fun.

Saturday

So, I missed posting yesterday. Sorry. Let's recap the last 2 days shall we. On Thursday, after we went and saw the folks we went to visit a friend. Let's just say that after dinner I fell asleep on her couch so we went home. We got home around 9, where I passed out again and slept until Friday at 1130. 14 and a half hours of sleep! I guess I was really tired. Why...because at 3 pm on Friday I feel asleep for another 45 minutes. We got zero packing done, but I have off Monday so that is what Monday will be. No worries, we will get it all done. Work has been crazy busy, full one day not full the next. Hopefully things will just keep on keeping on. Oh, and I found a care package for my cousin Abbz, that I was supposed to mail her for finals. Yep, epic fail. I guess I can either mail it or wait til I see her. I hope nothing has gone bad in it. Guess that teaches me that when I get an idea in my head I should follow through before I forget. Aricept anyone? Anyway, hoping the weather gets nicer so it starts to feel like summer again. Hope everyone has a good weekend!

Well hello there

Happy Hump day! Yep, we made it. Half-way through another week. What have we learned this week so far? Time is going by way to fast. I have also learned that after work tonight (wed) I will have worked 48 out of the last 96 hours. So, what does that mean...well, lately I have been sleeping a lot, which I love. Working nights is really hard, and getting a good "day" sleep is often even harder. We do have black out curtains, but that doesn't mean that it won't be trash day, or lawn cutting day, or everyone in the building go in and out day and make the dogs bark all day. However, lately, sleep is all I have been doing. For example on a typical day, I am usually a sleep no later than 0830, and then usually up by 2:30-3:00. Umm, yeah, not Tuesday. Tuesday I didn't get to sleep until closer to nine because well my other job is 45 minutes away and Penguin and I wanted breakfast, but...then I slept until 4:30 and even that felt like waking up too soon. I know that I will be asleep by 0800 today since I live approximately 2 miles from where I am working, and maybe that means that I will sleep until 4 again and that will be another daysleep of greater than 7 hours! Wahoo! I love it. It also means that we are thismuchcloser to moving and have nothing backed and ohh man the panic. It's alright, I have my quasi day off on Thursday to get some packing finished and we really don't need to be officially out of the current place until June 1st, but seriously, I would love to be in there tomorrow. I promise, I will take pictures of the new place sans furniture so that you can see our new Igloo. We will now have a first floor apartment with no neighbors behind us and a dishwasher and new conditioners and did I mention it is on the first floor so our dogs can go out on running leashes while I clean and I can feel like I am really cleaning?!!? Yes, I am really excited about being able to clean and bar-b-que and just be in a bigger space. Well, that is all for now. Hope you have a great hump day! What's on your plate?

It's all happening...

Yeah, I admit it. I have not been blogging like I used to. Hopefully, this will be the start of something new. Things have been crazy busy around the igloo, and I hope to be able to share some of that with you soon. I believe I will be relying on this blog more in the coming days, but again, this is my outlet right?!? Anyway, the latest in the igloo is that I am working a lot. Not a lot a lot, but enough that I am trying to put some money away and not need it. That is always the catch. I am currently able to put money in savings, then something comes up and I need to borrow from it. I wish either I could go without eating (just kidding) or that groceries would be cheaper (so not kidding here). Anyway, besides that Penguin and I are getting ready to move next week, we actually pick up the keys this Saturday and to say that we haven't started packing is an understatement. We.have.not.packed.a.thing. No, scratch that, I have packed the linen closest because apparently to me, that is a must do. So between work and sleep I need to go to my parents house and get some boxes. It won't really take a long time to pack, it's just getting started that is the problem. Once I get started I know it won't take me long. Then it's the moving and the cleaning of the current apartment and making sure that maintenance can fix the things in the current apartment so that we don't lose our security deposit. Penguin and I are hoping that this is our last move, unless of course we get a house by the end of next year. Again, just put that in the way back burner for now. Nothing else is really going on right now, just excited about moving and helping my folk's watch my nephew for a couple of days while they are in town. Life is kinda hectic right now, but I hope my readers (if there are any out there) haven't given up on me yet. I hope to make this a regular thing, even if it is just a line to let you know that I am alive. So please, bear with me and I promise, hopefully soon there will be more to read about.