Thursday, March 04, 2010

Yard Sale

Hey y’all, I know I’ve been pretty lame about updates recently, and as much as I’d like to say I’m redeeming myself, I’m actually just going to use this blog as a little promo space today.

We’re having a YARD SALE this SATURDAY, so come by (please!) and take some of this stuff off our hands so we don’t have to pay to store it!!!

A few of the items being sold:

Furniture: hide-a-bed couch, TV stand, bookshelf, etc.
Home Décor (art, candles, knick-knacks, curtains, etc)
Kids’ clothing and shoes – boy and girl
Toys, games, children’s books
Baby gear
Adult clothing (including maternity)
Kitchen items: cookware, dishes (Mikasa!), glasses, serving ware, party trays, equipment
Crystal
Exercise equipment
Purses & Bags (including Coach, Pierre Cardin, Guess, others)
CDs, DVDs, books, cookbooks
Electronics
Holiday Decor
Lots more! (Seriously, I can’t believe how many folding tables I’ve had to borrow from friends.  Thanks, friends!)

No Junk! (Well, ok, maybe a little junk, but most of this stuff is really in great condition)

Most items are gently used, but some are new, like my Coach purse with the tag still on, or the Tommy Hilfiger sandals Kaelin never wore.

Please come see us between 8am and 2pm, even if you don’t plan to purchase anything.  It will be a long day and we could use the company!

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Light

It’s 9:15pm and it’s light outside.  It’s very strange.  I don’t know if it’s the streetlight reflecting off all the snow, but the sky seems too bright to just be that.  It should be pitch black outside but you can see absolutely everything, with a yellowish tint.  Bizarre.

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Changes

You might notice that it looks a little different around here. You might also notice that it’s almost Valentine’s Day and it took me this long to get rid of the Christmas layout.  Judging by that timetable, I decided against the Valentine’s or even Spring layout, since it would probably be the 4th of July before I took it down.

So you get the generic.

It’s supposed to snow here Thursday.  I don’t mind the snow itself, but I do mind the way the whole city shuts down because of it.  We probably won’t have Mother’s Day Out because people are too afraid to drive in those “hazardous weather conditions.”

This morning it was 29° when I dropped the kids off and I kid you not, people were slowing down to 5 mph to go over a 3-foot patch of ice in the road.  The straight, flat, road, I might add.

Speaking of ice and snow, we’re seriously considering moving to Alaska.  Yeah, I know.  We’re probably insane.

If all goes according to plan, we would arrive in Homer, Alaska by the beginning of April and stay for at least a year.  There are a lot of factors that the move is dependent on, though.  For instance, we need to rent our current house out for a 1-year term at close to the same price that we’ll be paying for the rental house in Alaska.  Does anybody need a 4 bedroom house with a game room, media room, study, and sun room?  If so, let us know!

There’s also the matter of actually GETTING to Alaska.  We’ll have to drive, because we will need to take some of our belongings, but there’s no way the kids, pets or our current vehicles could survive a 7-day road trip through the desolate mountains of Canada.  So we have to figure out some way to fly the kids and pets there, in addition to trading in our current vehicles for something that has low mileage and 4WD.  I never thought I would drive a Hummer, but it might come to that.

So IF we get the house rented and IF we scrape together the funds to make the drive and flights, THEN there’s the pre-move yard sales, boxing up everything that’s left, and putting it into storage.

Chances are, we’re going to be very busy over the next couple of months.  If you don’t hear from us, that’s probably why.

Saturday, February 06, 2010

Toe Woe

I’m not entirely certain, but I think I may have just broken my toe.

I was chasing Kaelin around with a night shirt (Um… does anyone else’s daughter throw a total fit about what she wears to bed?  Kaelin told me point-blank that she no longer thinks t-shirts are “cool” enough to be part of her wardrobe.  Not COOL ENOUGH?  It’s a NIGHT SHIRT.  Who is she trying to impress in her SLEEP???  Anyway...) and I smacked my little toe on a chair.

It really hurts now.

Ow.