unpacking.........for days

so I finally got most of the stuff unpacked and set up in various places. I put the books on their shelves and tried my luck as an interior decorator.....my favorite part has been climbing up the ladder into the pits of hell known as my attic. the ladder is older than the house. it creaks and shakes and the hole at the top is small so boxes don't like to go through it. plus it's awkward trying to balance my weight and the wieght of the box in a position to lift it over my head and up a ladder. whose idea was attic storage anyway? doesn't seem to safe. heavy boxes, rickety ladder, small opening, well sounds like a night in the er or at least a hole in the wall from a foot or heel slipping off of the ladder. so.....after i get up in the attic what happens.....wham! a 2x4! literally. it's dark and it's not fit for tall people. so I fumble around and find a light.....I've been up here for 30 seconds and I lose 5 pounds of sweat.....the worst is yet to come....insulation. It sticks to my arms and gets in my eyes at it's the kind of insulation that they spray in and fill...but finally after three days up and down the ladder I am happy to announce that most of the house is unpacked! i put my feet up, sat on the couch, sipped hot tea, and watched a coldplay tour documentery on the tv! it's nice to have a tv again......

home sweet...um, boxes.

so, we're moved in! yay! praise the lord! however, work schedules and exhaustion have made the unpacking a little slow. things are looking better, but the empty boxes are piling up. i can't decide if i want to throw them away or store them in the attic. so for now, they are in the floor. besides, even if i wanted to just throw them away, i have no clue when the trash is picked up at our house... something i must find out soon!

no longer on the verge of being homeless

WE HAVE A PLACE TO LIVE! i am so excited and relieved and thankful! we sign lease papers on monday and then get to move into a beautiful two bed, two bath house with original hardwoods and mature trees and a fence and yes! excited! i do realize that this means that we will be moving again (next week), but i don't even care. because it means that we will be moving things OUT of our storage unit instead of moving them IN the storage unit! i get to use my own dishes again! yay yay yay! pictures to come...

laziness, or forgetfulness, or something.

yeah yeah yeah, we haven't updated in a while. this doesn't mean that we're super busy. it kind of means that life is uneventful. but that's not even true. so, i don't know. sorry.

anyway, i think after this weekend ryan will be home for a week straight, so maybe we'll do something fun and write about it!

since last time we've both gotten to see our in-laws. so that makes me very happy. i love my in-laws and i love my parents, so getting to see them both within about a month span is fantastic! this also means that i've had two mini-vacations which is also fantastic.

right now we are looking for a house to move into in august, this is proving to be more than a little stressful. we're just trusting that we'll find it when we need it... next month i will hopefully have my final panel interview for an assistant manager position with starbucks, so i'm cramming and planning today. august is going to be busy.

when it rains......it gets wet

I was sitting at a dinner table the other night in Tyler, Texas talking with a friend about the phenomenon that I have labled the 2x4. this experience is one that Sarah and I have experienced a few times since we have been married. when we were engaged I believe that cloud nine was my favorite residence. I spent a lot of time there spacing out. I just knew that everything would be fine and things would work themselves out. cloud nine is what I sometimes call faith in a sarcastic sort of way. I have faith that everything will be okay. fast forward to being married. puppy love and adoration is beautiful. the bliss of marriage and happiness still new and totally out of nowhere a 2x4 hits me in the face and knocks me off of cloud nine. now i am still hanging on from the bottom starring at the puffy cloud and wondering what happened? well this 2x4 is called life. unexpected things that stress me out. the first experience was back in november of last year. we were living in old house in nashville and we hadn't turned the gas on yet because of the deposit to turn it on. well we got an early freeze. we woke up to ice on the inside of our bedroom window. it was cold. really cold. we used some store credit to buy a spce heater. we would cuddle and read books in the front room and an hour before bedtime i would run the space heater into the bedroom shut the door and lock in the heat. well there was no deposit needed and it became a fun story. well the 2x4 struck again. tires. we both need new tires. the ac on sarah's car went out and well we live in the hot sticky muggy summertime of the south. no ac= long hot drives and a lot of sweat. so i decided to try and be a good husband and go get the car fixed. i was gonna surprise sarah with ac for the ride home. i go to the shop and they tell me after about 15 minutes of tinkering that our car is on the old 112 freon. they don't have that. i need r134. so i need to go to the dealership and get it converted. and they try to charge 20 bucks to tell me that. haha! sooooo hot car. well the i get home and the tail lights won't go out. they are stuck on. i never turned the lights on. i don't get it. so the lights caused the battery to die. and i'm reminded of thanksgiving when I hit a deer on the way to arkansas in sarah's car. and fought the insurance company to get half of what the car was worth. add the deductible and well you see what i mean by 2x4..........2000 for a 1991......2x4. oh lord teach us how to deal....