Tomorrow

Tomorrow we start our trek across the country. We have packed nearly everything we own into the back of our VW Jetta and shipped the rest. We will miss Utah (me more so than eric)! I hope you have a wonderful rest of the summer. So goodbye for now - I will be back in September with pictures and stories of our new great adventure east coast style!

The Sofa That Came to Stay!

Green Sofa Story:

So over three weeks ago while we where napping after our backpacking trip there was a knock on the door. The Air-conditioner had been broken so we thought it might be maintenance so I jumped out of bed grabbed a bathrobe and ran to the door. However, rather then finding the slightly stinky maintenance guy on the other side there were 4 men holding a GIANT sofa - and even worse then wanted to come in. The giant sofa which could easily seat 7 obese adults and was longer then my apartment is wide would not fit up the 1950's designed stair well, go figure. However, the men were sure that if they just brought it in a few feet they could turn it and then take it up to the 3rd floor. So being the nice neighbor that I am I said sure and in came the sofa; however the couch would not fit up to the 3rd floor, again go figure. So the men decided to take in back down the stairs, but oh now they could not get it back down the stairs so the only logical thing to do was leave in in MY apartment for 2 days until they could get maintenance to open the other neighbors door so that they would have more room to finagle the sofa. Well 3 weeks later we still had the giant green sofa but the neighbors did not leave us with the cushions so we could not sit on it (not that I would have anyway, you know bugs and such). So the neighbors said they would be coming to get their sofa but they did not, and then they said they would come and they did not, then I contemplated pushing the sofa out the window. Then when I was at my wits end and about to barrow a chain saw to cut the damn thing in half and have it hauled off I came home and the sofa that came to stay was gone!

Moral of the story don't let random people leave furniture at your house and if you do change a handling fee! Neighbors you owe me $150!

Oh Sofa!

I suck as a blogger as of lately - maybe that is because I can't deal with my life at the current moment so I am just ignoring everything. Great coping mechanism I know! So while I have been ignoring life I have also been shopping and I bought a sofa. This Sofa! - in seafoam blue (sorry could not upload a picture) and the best part is it will be delivered to our new apartment in Arlington shortly after we arrive. This is the first real and most expensive piece of furniture that we have ever purchased - oh the fun of being an adult.

Since I am slightly behind on the blogging here is a list of updates:

• Went backpacking with Mel and Jim, had a great time, lots of bug bites - pics to come.
• Went to the Ranch to play cards with Bob and Gwen (the grandparents).
• LB's family had a reunion - I had to go in a cave, it was cold - enough said!
• Marsha (aka - Mom) is visiting - she made me pack, I threw a fit, stomped my feet and then gave in - then she took me shopping and helped me with the sofa purchase.
• Got car fixed, it cost a #*%! load of money, then broke again the next week - 2nd repair was free.
• Random neighbors deposited their extremely large sofa that smells like curry in my current apartment 3 weeks ago and they have yet to retrieve it (its a long story) - I'm Pissed!
• Sold LB's car - now a one car family - it sucks!
• Locked ourselves out of the house on Sunday - 2 college degrees and we are still stupid.
• I still don't have a job in DC - lets hope Arby's is hiring.
• Oh and since my life is not crazy enough I am running another 1/2 marathon on Saturday which I am so not ready for.

One Month To Go...

The student load has gone through, the apartment has been rented and all the furniture has almost been sold. Now all I need is a job and to pack the Jetta!

bff

On our recent trip to Virginia my most wonderful friend Chira let us stay with them for a whole 7 days - lets just say the girl is a Saint! I am pretty sure Chira and her husband Chris have fulfilled their service quota to the next year just by helping us with all of our moving drama!

Thank goodness for 8th grade Orchestra and being seated as "stand partners" - I really don't know what I would do with out this girl!

This is Caden, the coolest little boy in the world. He put up with us haling him all over DC for days on end, and was super excited for just about everything including Popsicles outside!

Caden's rap/thug face.

The New but Expensive Digs

So I am finally posting pictures of our soon to be apartment. This is what our one bedroom apartment in Arlington, VA will look like. And since we have sold all of our furniture and won't be able to afford to buy more this is pretty much exactly what it will look like.

Kitchen

Living room/Balcony

Bathroom

Closet

Bedroom

Dear...

Dear Sweet Family from Detroit we met in DC,
Thank you so much for noticing us standing with our lunch trays frantically looking for a place to sit and waving us over to sit with you. And thank you for being forward and gutsy enough to come right out and ask us if we were Mormon, we knew you were thinking it when we said we were from SLC and your approach was refreshing. Eating lunch with you was one of the high lights of our very stressful trip!

Dear Cute Guy at Barns and Noble,
Thank you for steeping aside and holding the door for me even though you were with your very attractive girl friend and it would have been all to easy to just keep walking. Your mother raised you right!

Dear Nice Lady in our* Weight Loss Class,
Thank you Thank you Thank you for telling me my hair was cute - it is the one thing that I am majorly self conscious about. And Thank you Thank you Thank you for telling me I look like a ballerina!
*I was there helping a coworker

Dear Dude in the Black Pick Up Truck,
Why would you hang a giant plastic scrotum (aka - balls) from the hitch on your truck? Are you compensating for something? Because that is what we women think when we see that; this is just a guess but I am betting you don't have a girlfriend, but then maybe I'm wrong. After all nothing says: well educated, handsome, polite, all around good guy who happens to be great in bed like giant testicles on the hitch of a truck. I'm sure your mother is just so proud!