New Year's Eve, another favorite of mine. Last new years was no fun at all, and the year before that in Vegas, fantastic! This year, we planned for it to be fantastic (it still could be, I should have hope) but upon waking up this morning, everything was white! I knew we were expected to get snow overnight, they said 3-4 inches, and instead I think we got anywhere from 4-8 depending on where in the city you are. At my house, I'd say maybe 5 inches? My friend Aaron Speed (generally referred to as A. Speed) was supposed to be here by now but his flight into Albany got cancelled from Baltimore. He tried to find out if he could get a later flight in but they told him all the flights were cancelled. I checked the Albany website and not all flights are cancelled. I'm still even shocked that they cancelled his flight because it's not like we got 10 feet or anything. And besides, they are used to this up here so it's not like a shock or anything. So to avoid the potential of spending his new year's in the Baltimore airport, he told them to send him back to Norfolk.
So, Marisa and I are planning on either still going out downtown or just hang out at her apartment. It's only 1:45pm so I think by the time we plan on going out we'll be good to go. It's no longer snowing and it looks like the sun is trying to come out. Hopefully we'll get downtown. After all, it's Wednesday which means dollar pints at our favorite bar Trotter's! New Year's Eve and dollar pints, what's not to like about that!!
I guess I should put some things away in my house since I don't have to stop to go get Aaron from the airport anymore. Happy New Year's to you all and I'll be putting up some pictures now that I found my cord! Stay tuned :)
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
It's been a while
I can't really remember the last time I posted something, I know it's been a while, but I'm here to tell you....I baaaack! Well, at least I think so.
My time in Cincinnati was great. I got to see some friends (unfortunately not all of them though), made a little bit of money working at Trashgate (that's Northgate for those of you that aren't familiar with my ghetto terminology) mall at The Children's Place and enjoyed every second of Christmas being with my family.
On Saturday the 27th, I left my parents house at 5:10am with a full tank of gas and a car full of crap and headed East to New York. The drive up wasn't too bad for the most part. Hit some heavy rain in Buffalo and the surrounding area for about an hour or two, and the rest of the way wasn't too bad. I got to my friend Marisa's apartment around 4:15pm. I changed clothes, stunk up her bathroom (sorry for the TMI, but I have a hard time pooping in public) and then went to meet my landlord at my new house. He gave me the keys, showed me a few things, and then it was all me!! I unloaded my car and left to go eat dinner and have a few pints at my favorite bar downtown called Trotters.
Marisa spent the night with me that night and we slept in my room on air mattresses. We both had on sweat pants, t-shirts, socks, and hoodies with the hoods up, then covered in blankets. My room was super chilly for some reason. We woke up the next morning to some banging noise downstairs. We sat up and looked at each other. I thought someone was in my house. I later found out that a ceiling fan outside on my porch is missing a paddle so when the wind blows, it knocks around back and forth and makes this crazy loud noise. So the next night, I asked Marisa if I could crash on her couch since it was a little bit breezy and I didn't want to hear the fan beating around. Not to mention I just wanted to sit on a couch and watch some TV after being in a car for the whole previous day.
The movers arrived on Monday around 10am or so and were here until 3pm unpacking 90% of my boxes. Some people think I'm crazy for having them unpack me, but I'd rather them unpack me and me have to just put thing away rather than me unpacking a few boxes a day, and then having all those empty boxes and paper sitting in my house until they came back to get them. So my house is pretty much in shambles right now. My bedroom is set up, or my bed I should say. Everything else is pretty much strewn about. The walk in closet looks like it threw up all over. The den is a wreck and my downstairs dining room table is a clutter catcher right now. I'm estimating that it will take me about a month to have things looking the way I want them too. I wish they looked that way now.
My friend Aaron is coming to stay with me tomorrow for the next week so the guest bedroom is the most put together room in the house. Mind you, there's not much more than a bed, night stand, dresser, and tv/stand in there. But it works. I thought about sleeping in there tonight, not because it's together, but because it's warm! There is something wrong with the heating ducts in the house because our bedroom gets very little heat. During the day today I think it might have been 50 in here? I kept the door shut because it was making it drafty downstairs. I figure that I might as well not try and heat it from the other rooms and save my propane versus having the furnace keep running to try and heat it. Apparently there is a guy coming on Friday to fix it. I hope so! I had to buy a space heater to heat it up tonight, but that's not even doing a very good job. But, it's better than nothing though.
I'm super tired and need to get to bed. I've got lots of things to do before I head to pick my friend up tomorrow. Not to mention John will be calling sometime in the middle of the night/early morning. He was supposed to have been gone today from port, but he said something broke, so....they are back in port for repairs. I told him they should just let him come home! To my surprise, he said he thinks they might let him go at the end of January so that would be good. He is offically done at the begining of January but they're keeping him for another month, until the end of February, so if he gets to leave late January I'd be happy!
With that being said...I'm off to bed. Now that I'm here in NY and not traveling for a few weeks or so, I should be back on track for posts!
My time in Cincinnati was great. I got to see some friends (unfortunately not all of them though), made a little bit of money working at Trashgate (that's Northgate for those of you that aren't familiar with my ghetto terminology) mall at The Children's Place and enjoyed every second of Christmas being with my family.
On Saturday the 27th, I left my parents house at 5:10am with a full tank of gas and a car full of crap and headed East to New York. The drive up wasn't too bad for the most part. Hit some heavy rain in Buffalo and the surrounding area for about an hour or two, and the rest of the way wasn't too bad. I got to my friend Marisa's apartment around 4:15pm. I changed clothes, stunk up her bathroom (sorry for the TMI, but I have a hard time pooping in public) and then went to meet my landlord at my new house. He gave me the keys, showed me a few things, and then it was all me!! I unloaded my car and left to go eat dinner and have a few pints at my favorite bar downtown called Trotters.
Marisa spent the night with me that night and we slept in my room on air mattresses. We both had on sweat pants, t-shirts, socks, and hoodies with the hoods up, then covered in blankets. My room was super chilly for some reason. We woke up the next morning to some banging noise downstairs. We sat up and looked at each other. I thought someone was in my house. I later found out that a ceiling fan outside on my porch is missing a paddle so when the wind blows, it knocks around back and forth and makes this crazy loud noise. So the next night, I asked Marisa if I could crash on her couch since it was a little bit breezy and I didn't want to hear the fan beating around. Not to mention I just wanted to sit on a couch and watch some TV after being in a car for the whole previous day.
The movers arrived on Monday around 10am or so and were here until 3pm unpacking 90% of my boxes. Some people think I'm crazy for having them unpack me, but I'd rather them unpack me and me have to just put thing away rather than me unpacking a few boxes a day, and then having all those empty boxes and paper sitting in my house until they came back to get them. So my house is pretty much in shambles right now. My bedroom is set up, or my bed I should say. Everything else is pretty much strewn about. The walk in closet looks like it threw up all over. The den is a wreck and my downstairs dining room table is a clutter catcher right now. I'm estimating that it will take me about a month to have things looking the way I want them too. I wish they looked that way now.
My friend Aaron is coming to stay with me tomorrow for the next week so the guest bedroom is the most put together room in the house. Mind you, there's not much more than a bed, night stand, dresser, and tv/stand in there. But it works. I thought about sleeping in there tonight, not because it's together, but because it's warm! There is something wrong with the heating ducts in the house because our bedroom gets very little heat. During the day today I think it might have been 50 in here? I kept the door shut because it was making it drafty downstairs. I figure that I might as well not try and heat it from the other rooms and save my propane versus having the furnace keep running to try and heat it. Apparently there is a guy coming on Friday to fix it. I hope so! I had to buy a space heater to heat it up tonight, but that's not even doing a very good job. But, it's better than nothing though.
I'm super tired and need to get to bed. I've got lots of things to do before I head to pick my friend up tomorrow. Not to mention John will be calling sometime in the middle of the night/early morning. He was supposed to have been gone today from port, but he said something broke, so....they are back in port for repairs. I told him they should just let him come home! To my surprise, he said he thinks they might let him go at the end of January so that would be good. He is offically done at the begining of January but they're keeping him for another month, until the end of February, so if he gets to leave late January I'd be happy!
With that being said...I'm off to bed. Now that I'm here in NY and not traveling for a few weeks or so, I should be back on track for posts!
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Why Did I Ever Leave.....
Las Vegas that is. Dark and early this morning at 6a.m. I boarded a plane with a final destination of Indianapolis, IN with a layover in Las Vegas. Coincidence? I think not. I purposely booked that flight because even though it was only for an hour, I wanted to fly in, be surrounded by the desert, and then fly home. Once I got there, blue sky, sun shining, I asked myself why in the world I ever left?! Yes, I left because I got married and I don't regret the getting married part, but leaving there really made my heart sad and nothing reminded me more of that than today. I seriously entertained the thought of just skipping my connection to Indy and staying the night, but I didn't have any clothes in my carry on and I didn't want to spend the money on a rental car. Had I picked up the phone last night and called my friend Leigh Ann and told her I was seriously going to think about staying a night there, she said she would have played hookie today to come and hang out with me since she's got 30 sick days. I'm so dumb...I should have planned it better. So instead I tourtered myself with being there for a measly hour in the airport. Although it made me sad, for that hour my heart was full and I felt at home, even in the airport.
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Boxes....boxes....boxes!
My house is empty, the bathrooms, walls, linoleum, cabinets and counter tops are all clean. The only thing left is the carpets, however, they should already be clean and almost dry by now and I'm starting to panic that they aren't. I went over on Friday to take care of all the cleaning before the carpet people came and at 1pm, a kid from the company shows up when my appointment isn't until 5 or so. I told him I would just grab all the stuff and get out so he could do the carpets and he advised me to just finish cleaning and call him when I was ready. He asked if I knew how long I'd be and I told him no more than 2 hours. So about 2 hours and 10 minutes later I call this kid, get no answer, so I leave a message and say the house is clean and empty and ready to have the carpets cleaned. I was a little worried that he didn't answer, but figured that maybe he didn't since he didn't recognize the number.
Today, at 11:30, my friend Mary and I are out running errands and I told her I wanted to stop by to see if the carpets have been cleaned. Yeah, not cleaned. The check was still sitting on the counter and no clean carpets. I'm less than happy about this because my walk out is on Monday at 3pm and I am leaving at 6am on Tuesday. It states in our little check out paper that the carpets much be clean and dry by check out (and if they have to come and reinspect, they want to charge you $50!) Mind you, I even used the company THEY suggested. So I don't know what I am supposed to do if tomorrow afternoon rolls around and I go over there and my carpets still aren't clean! I called the company today and left a message on the cell phone (I'm assuming) of the guy I originally spoke with and set up the appointment with.
I'm starting to stress because I will not be changing my flight, nor will I allow them to charge me extra money for something I didn't do, and is the company THEY recommended. I just hope that tomorrow when I wake up and go over there, that there is a carpet cleaning truck in my driveway, doing their job!!
In the mean time, all the things I did not have the movers pack are in random boxes. I feel like I have boxes everywhere! My poor friend Mary is probably going to throw me out on my ass before Tuesday morning. I promised her that by Monday I will have dealt with them all and have them in an ordly pile. She said she is not worried, but I am!
Today, at 11:30, my friend Mary and I are out running errands and I told her I wanted to stop by to see if the carpets have been cleaned. Yeah, not cleaned. The check was still sitting on the counter and no clean carpets. I'm less than happy about this because my walk out is on Monday at 3pm and I am leaving at 6am on Tuesday. It states in our little check out paper that the carpets much be clean and dry by check out (and if they have to come and reinspect, they want to charge you $50!) Mind you, I even used the company THEY suggested. So I don't know what I am supposed to do if tomorrow afternoon rolls around and I go over there and my carpets still aren't clean! I called the company today and left a message on the cell phone (I'm assuming) of the guy I originally spoke with and set up the appointment with.
I'm starting to stress because I will not be changing my flight, nor will I allow them to charge me extra money for something I didn't do, and is the company THEY recommended. I just hope that tomorrow when I wake up and go over there, that there is a carpet cleaning truck in my driveway, doing their job!!
In the mean time, all the things I did not have the movers pack are in random boxes. I feel like I have boxes everywhere! My poor friend Mary is probably going to throw me out on my ass before Tuesday morning. I promised her that by Monday I will have dealt with them all and have them in an ordly pile. She said she is not worried, but I am!
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Hollow house
39 degrees outside on this beautiful, surprisingly sunny Thursday morning here in Silverdale, Washington! Temperature inside my house....maybe 58 by now? The movers are taking the remainder of my household goods and I am left sitting here (for now) in my recliner, writing this post. The front door is WIDE open so they can continually carry things out in an efficient manner, but damn it's cold in here. I turned off the heat because it's pointless to have it on while the door remains open, but there are moments that I'm thinking I don't really care if it's a waste because IT'S COLD!!!! I has almost lost the feeling in my fingers, toes (with socks on) and for all I know my nose has fallen off of my face. However, I am ok with this, as it means I am on my way to being one step closer to moving on and away from the dark city (as I like to call it anyways, althought today looks to be a beautiful sunny day!) and on to newer, better, much colder things in New York.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Tornado
12 hours from now there will be movers in my house, packing up my belongings while I sit helplessly and watch. Not that I'm complaining about not having to do it myself, but it feels odd to be in your own home with strangers around packing up all of your worldly possesions. This will be the 4th or 5th time John has moved, but the first time I've been the one here by myself to deal with it all. I'm completely overwhelmed right now. It looks like a tornado has come through and just ripped my house apart. I am NOTORIOUS for having lots of papers shoved in drawers, and I'm trying to get a handle on that before tomorrow. I don't see it happening.
On top of watching all of my household goods packed up, I'm also taking my husband to work at 6am knowing that I won't see him again until sometime in February. That kinda sucks. I feel like it sounds mean to say I won't miss him, because I will miss him, however, I have SO much on my plate the rest of this week that I won't really have time to think about missing him. Then, once I get back to Ohio, I'll be with my nephews and family and once I get to NY, I'll be busy getting the new place in order and catching up with old friends that before I know it, John will be back. So....that's what I know for today. It's 8:30 and I'm heading up stairs to spend the last hours with my hubby before the darkness of morning falls upon us!
On top of watching all of my household goods packed up, I'm also taking my husband to work at 6am knowing that I won't see him again until sometime in February. That kinda sucks. I feel like it sounds mean to say I won't miss him, because I will miss him, however, I have SO much on my plate the rest of this week that I won't really have time to think about missing him. Then, once I get back to Ohio, I'll be with my nephews and family and once I get to NY, I'll be busy getting the new place in order and catching up with old friends that before I know it, John will be back. So....that's what I know for today. It's 8:30 and I'm heading up stairs to spend the last hours with my hubby before the darkness of morning falls upon us!
Monday, December 1, 2008
Dinner of Champs
On tonight's menu:
Turkey burgers....on hot dog buns. With the remaining few squirts of the ketchup bottle for me, a piece of cheese, and John, a piece of cheese and some leftover mustard before chucking it in the garbage can. Leftover rice from a night or two ago and 2 pieces of garlic bread for each of us (to use up what was left in the freezer). Pictures will follow in a few weeks when I can find the cord to upload my pictures.
Turkey burgers....on hot dog buns. With the remaining few squirts of the ketchup bottle for me, a piece of cheese, and John, a piece of cheese and some leftover mustard before chucking it in the garbage can. Leftover rice from a night or two ago and 2 pieces of garlic bread for each of us (to use up what was left in the freezer). Pictures will follow in a few weeks when I can find the cord to upload my pictures.
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