Current Mood: Beautiful Day

We are here in Malibu, I have a ton to write when I get the opportunity.  My goal was a daily post but that went down the tubes quick.

I just wanted to say that it is great to actually not have the air condition on and it has been a long while since we took a drive in a sporty convertible…….cherry red mustang in fact.  We had some time to enjoy the sunset and decide to drive up the coast a bit.  It was great!

Time to get a few other things done and maybe I can work on my blog about the trip.

Current Mood: Stressing Out

We need to get on the road…….this waiting is stressing us out….gggrrr I’m so tired of doing errands and finding more crap that we need. We try to be organized, but it no where near organized as I would like.

Torn got home safe, sound and stressed out.

I went and got my hair colored and cut/styled. For those who aren’t aware, I am a natural strawberry blonde, when I spend time in the sun and pool it really brings out the blonde. The color that I love to put into my hair is the dark, dark burgundy red. It never lasts in a few weeks I’ll be back to my fire engine red. But I like that color….I just don’t like it when my blonde comes out. The red is so much more me….especially with my temper.

I tried to take a few self portraits of it but they sucked. No way near showing it off as they should. And of course, there is no way that I will be able to replica the style myself. But I like it. I lost a few inches do to bad ends and I then had him layer it, just to try something different. It adds more body to it.

I did finally get our accounts balanced. So that was nice, now some how I need to enter in the ton of receipts that have been created………icks…. It is enough to want to pull my hair out.

I need to get to bed, I have to start early to get the laundry done and get my nails done………going to do them in blues.

I’ve been meaning to update this daily, but I have been sucking at this. It has been hard to get things done during the day. For some reason, I get the burst of energy to attack things around here in the evening….weird.

I really, really need to balance our accounts…icks. But I have been doing my work online and I’ll probably be tied up with it tomorrow.

Well, yesterday I did go out to a bookstore cafe just so I can have an actual table and chair to work on. That was helpful as hell. I also did get some time in the pool and sun.

I had to get up early today to head over for my last foot doctor appointment. He says I’m doing fine and that it will take a long time to full heal up….the same thing he told me before, I’m just impatient with it.

Afterwards I came home and grabbed our laundry. The cats threw up on a comforter and I couldn’t let it sit. So I spent part of the morning, for the 1st time since my college years at a laundry mate. Unfortunately, it didn’t have any air………icks, but the lady that was there was really nice. Now, Torn doesn’t care for me going to laundry mates, safety wise. But I like how much quicker the washing and drying happens. And there is something nice and peaceful there sometimes. You can get some mental me time that you don’t get very often anymore. When I was in college, I liked the time that it forced me to focus on my homework or get some reading done.

Then it was on to a few errands that needed to be done. Tomorrow I need to go turn in our PO Box keys. I have the mail being forwarded from there to our new address, which is going to be held for the next month……lol With the unconditioned laundry mate, it tired me out and I ended up taking a nap today….sad. I didn’t even feel like getting into the pool.

I ended up getting more work done online and within the last 2 hours I attacked putting the laundry away and did a general cleaning around here.

Unfortunately I can’t stay up and attack more cleaning. I have the carpet cleaners coming tomorrow morning……..joy, joy.

I have to comment that I think I have a strange cat. Alexis keeps jumping into the cat carriers that we have out for them to get use to and sleeping……she is a nut…….lol

Current Mood: Exhausted & Sleepy

I’m totally exhausted. But I’m a hell lot better off then Torn. =( I’ll let him do his post on that.

I worked yesterday and then needed to head bed shortly after getting home. I ended up staying up a little later so I can chat with Torn…..but I still got to bed in good time. The issue I had was that after being able to sleep well last night, I couldn’t sleep worth crap. So I got maybe 3 hrs of sleep and then had to head into work at 6am.

It was my last day work. Even a former co-worker came in to say good bye. =) One of my friends, almost busted into tears on me. I keep telling her not to, because she will get me going on it….it is too damn contagious for me. Besides, I told her I’m not leaving until the 20th so I’ll be back in. =)

I did get some time in the pool and got some sun. Then ended up into a nap for about an hour. Felt better afterwards and got some of our stuff reorganized. I wanted to start cleaning, but that wasn’t going to happen….I didn’t feel that good.

Torn stopped much earlier tonight. Some how this was one of the hardest days for him, yet the least miles for a day, and he is just exhausted. So we chatted for a little bit….but he was even having a hard time getting his thoughts together. He is just outside of Utah in Wyoming. He’ll hit Oregon tomorrow.

I have a lot of work that I need to get done, but my screen is blurring. So I’m going to crashed here soon.

Current Mood: Reflective

I’m here in a very empty house, with everything that is left in the living room.  Very weird.

It isn’t too bad, except I can’t concentrate on getting any work done since I keep thinking about my husband driving cross with a 24ft moving truck, that won’t go any faster then 55mph, while towing our dodge dakota.  He actually got through Atlanta a hell lot easier then we thought he would.  That city is horrible….ggrrr  So we were stressing it. It doesn’t help that the left rear tire lost a lot of tread very early this morning and Torn had to call budget to fix it.  Then there is the fact the lack of sleep he has had.  I’m hoping that when he stops later this evening that he gets some good sleep.  But of course, even though he knows better, he is stressing getting there by the 14th.

We started early yesterday picking up the truck and trailer.  Torn started with all the boxes and I started with trying to get things done in the house.  Going by the boxes and all the organizers, it barely filled up a fourth of the truck, so we were thinking that we were going have a ton of room left.  Big mistake, once we started putting in all the odds and ends that are weirdly shaped that took care of that.  We almost ended up leaving our bikes behind.  =(  We did put our patio table, grill & our hose in the back of our dakota.  Then I put my wedding dress, my wall clock and my files in the cab.  So we packed everything tight as possible.

We did pretty good without driving each other as nuts as much as we could’ve have.  Basically I worked on everything I could away from Torn as he loaded the truck until he needed me. When we are stressing…all we do is get in each others way and with our tempers….not a good thing.  I did get everything vacuumed in the house, closed up the rooms with carpets to keep cat fur off of them.  Torn must have lost 3-4 pounds in sweat alone.  Good thing I keep the water coming.  Afterwards, we took a quick dip in the pool to cool off, ordered some very needed food and then on to the shower.

It was a rough night…I was worrying, didn’t help that our air mattress keep dieing.  I think the stress of what it went though last summer is what killed it, so even though all I wanted to do was sleep, I had to head to wally world for a new mattress late last night….crazy.  But I was able to park in the garage for the 1st time in years…..in fact, haven’t done that since 2000 when we had the camaro……lol

Today I was barely able to walk, my feet hurt so bad.  Then I was totally unmotivated.  It is hard to work without a chair for good posture and table…then with everything in disarray….  I did head out for a quick errand.  I didn’t go swimming until much later then I wanted because I waited for the lawn guys to show up and cut the grass.

I work the next 2 days, so I won’t really be able to go swimming until Monday, depending on what time I head to the movies.
Somehow I need to get my ass motivated to get the bathrooms, oven, ‘fridge and other things cleaned…..I’m really not looking forward to the oven….icks  Right now, I just don’t feel like doing any of it……just feel like laying here with my cat and listen to my HP audio books….and wait for Torn’s calls.

I tried watching some of the pre-season football games, but they don’t mean crap so it makes it harder to enjoy.

Well, I wrote a book………….enjoy.  =)

Torn posted this in our members area :

Current Mood: Amused

We saw this in a parking lot and had to snap a picture of it…..lol

Current Mood: Accomplished & Happy & Happy

I just watched my last shuttle launch from my back yard. Of course, I was totally looking in the wrong direction when it started…….lol

Of course, I couldn’t see crap in the glare of my camera screen………lol….so they aren’t the best.  But here are a few pics:

Current Mood: Chilling

If you haven’t already noticed, but we lost our other cams. =(
Torn posted this in our members area :

Sometime last night our main machine that we use to run 4 of the 6 cams we had running at one time has died, and since we move in 2 days I am not going to bother replacing them just yet. But we fully expect to have 8 or more cams running full time by mid September.

That is okay, starting Thursday we’ll be living in one room of the house to keep that cat fur from the carpets once I vacuum them. So you’ll be watching us on our air mattress……icks =)

Current Mood: Frustrated & Stressing Out & Working

I know, I know……….I’ve been horrible here.  =(  I just haven’t felt like writing with as busy as I have been.

Well, the house is nearly packed.  It is crazy……all full of boxes.  I’m here in the bedroom, I just had to get out of the office for a little while.

We had a corporate visit Wednesday.  It went very well.  I even got a hug from my district boss with an offer for any references or recommendations that I need.  That was so cool.

I had friends over from work for a bbq last Thursday.  Started later then I thought but it was fun.  I had folks show up that I wasn’t sure would, so that was real cool.  Unfortunately, some of us got eaten up by bugs.  My legs have bites all up and down them….icks.

After that day I was really able to start on some of the packing…..it is hard sometimes.  I just look at it and want to scream…I don’t know where to begin sometimes.  I really, really hate the disorganization of it.  Drives me crazy.  There is all these little things that need to be put together….then the clothes…icks!  I keep trying to minimize and it just doesn’t work…..

I had a very cool encounter with a client Friday.  Found out that she was visiting from Alaska and that she knew my old orchestra teacher from 7-9th grade!  Talk about a small world.  I gave her my info so she can give it to him.  That just tickled me pink………….grin

I’m the type that never really associates with people that work with me, much less for me outside of work.  I’m always concern about crossing that line and inviting more issues.  I’ve always been a loner even though I love spending time talking with people.  But with me only have a couple of more days and I had stepped down over the month that I figured why not.  =)  So I went and meet a few co-workers for pool Saturday night.  Of course, I sucked at it…….I’ve only played maybe 3 other times in my life.  But it was cool.

Today proved that it was Monday…….ggrrrr  I’ve been hearing noises from the front of my truck and Torn from the exhaust.  I knew there was no way in hell that it was going to be cheap…..but it ended up a hell lot more then I expected………about $1000 more…….a total of $1903!  What timing…..I can’t even spell out everything that needs to be done.  The parts aren’t that much, but the labor…..

Well, it won’t be done until Wednesday…..just in time for Torn to take it to Portland Thursday.  So we had to get the rental car a few days earlier.  The good thing is that AAA membership gave us a discount so we didn’t have too much more.  =)

I got some more packing done today, entered our receipts (less to carry later) and spent a ton of time on the phone getting utilities hooked up out in Oregon and unhooked here Florida.  But I think I got everything, except the gas & cable/internet in Oregon.  Those can wait until we actually get there.

My brain just died…………lol  So I guess I can close.

ps……I want my football season to start!!!!