Moving In: Couch Potatoes

First day in our new house.  Priority #1....breakfast at IHOP.  'Cause who can function without pancakes and coffee!!  Next on the agenda....(ummm....not dealing with the mass chaos of stuff in our garage)...instead we hopped into our moving truck and headed straight to Ikea to pick up our sectional.

Again...we have priorities...and cable tv requires a couch.  A really really big one.  Besides...using our moving truck saved us a chunk of change in delivery fees.  The only problem:  our new couch required assembly.

So I spent the rest of the day getting beaten up by Karlstad while the hubby bravely tackled the garage.  The little bads???  They supervised.

Ahhhhhh....the joys of moving.

Timing is Everything

Soooooooo glad our emergency fund has an emergency fund.  It usually helps keep Murphy's law away.

However, right before we moved, we found out that the timing belt on one of our cars had some cracks and probably should be replaced...sooner than later.  We decided to go ahead and get it fixed asap because I didn't want it breaking while I was driving the car. Thus me being stranded.  

  

Well...Murphy must have been bored 'cause I was driving our other car and...yep...it died on the interstate while driving north to wrap up my last day of work.  Me = stranded in the middle-of-nowhere.  1.5 hours between my new home and my old home.

Diagnosis:  the timing belt broke.

Ohhhhhh...the irony!!!

Moving Sucks!

What d'ya miss?  A whole lotta packing.  More packing.  And still more packing.  Then the joy of loading our never-ending crap into a moving truck, driving it all 3 hours south, and unloading it into our new garage.  Which was supposed to be organized into zones.... but...ummmmmmm...instead turned out to be...a massive cluster f*@#!!!!  Uggghhhh!

But we didn't have time to worry about the mess in our garage...we had less than 1 hour to get to the cable company before they closed.  Good to know we have our priorities in order...ya know....Maslow's hierarchy of needs:  food, clothing, shelter.  I'm pretty sure Maslow intended for cable tv/internet to be included in the shelter part!!

Photo 5.17.12: Office or Daycare?

5 year olds behave better.  Temper tantrums, whining, helplessness, throwing things, making messes and not cleaning up after themselves.  And then there's this...

What's wrong with this picture?

Hint. Hint.

Check out the chair and drawer.

2 minutes prior it looked like this.  Until someone sat down for a minute to write out an envelope.

So here's my question?  Do you really think that chair and drawer are going to miraculously put themselves back!!!!  Pretty sure closing file cabinets all day and pushing in chairs was NOT in my job description.

C'mon people....grow up!  This is not daycare and I'm not your momma.