Well, the first weekend in May we had a garage sale at my brothers house, trying to make some money off what we were getting rid of instead of just donating it all to the mission. Yeah, that was a flop. The $115 we made from 7am-3pm were not worth the insane sunburn I received from it! This is 3 days later... notice how red I still am??? It was NOT fun. Decided against future garage sales. So my wonderful friend Angela got the majority of stuff that was in my house, a few people bought some of the bigger items like beds, washer/dryer, dressers, entertainment stand (with electronics) and bookshelves.... plus I sold some stuff through an online "garage sale" on Facebook, so we did make some money, but still... a ton of stuff was donated. :)
Two weekends later was my brothers wedding. We did the rehearsal dinner on Thursday evening because of some conflicts on Friday evening, so Thursday was nuts... I did all the decorating of the church for the dinner, then had to run some errands that we needed done (since we were on a limited time frame before we moved out), plus I needed to get my eyebrows waxed for the wedding.... which turned into the little lady going "Oh honey... You need whole face done! Coarse.. ver ver coarse hars.. Lemme do this.." and me going "Um, ok?"... which was followed by a massive breakout from a reaction to the wax.. Oh well, live and learn right? So anyways, here's some pictures of my decorating:
(I'm having issues with adding pictures... bear with me! It's my first time trying this..)
Then Saturday, May 18th my brother Michael married his sweetheart, Amanda. It was a very pretty wedding. :) I'll try and add a photo here, but I don't know how well its going to streamline..
Then Saturday, May 18th my brother Michael married his sweetheart, Amanda. It was a very pretty wedding. :) I'll try and add a photo here, but I don't know how well its going to streamline..
Well somehow that worked nicely... Hm. Oh well. Anyways, they made a handsome couple. :)
So then, after the wedding, it was "hurry hurry hurry!" to get everything packed and sold and given away so we could move in with my folks and then scrub the house from top to bottom. This is where having a large family comes in very handy. See, enter my dental emergency.. I'd been having a toothache, and I managed to get in to see the dentist before our insurance was cancelled (since Frank had already quit work), and come to find out what was just a small cavity before was now a completely eroded tooth... Not sure how that works, but you get the idea. Anyways, I had to get over to the oral surgeon to have it pulled (which is so much worse than getting it extracted, as the standing joke in my family goes!). So the day we were cleaning the house, I had a tooth pulled. And sure enough, my fears were well-founded. "Caine" drugs don't seem to work on the people in my family. Jonathan had an entire vial of lidocaine used on his hand after his chain saw incident, and he still felt every stitch that they did... Plus he and Michael both had had really bad experiences with dentists and novacaine.. So I was completely terrified that novacaine wouldn't work on me. Well, it worked mostly.... but they gave me over twice the normal amount that they give to people. Still felt the pain and my cheek never went numb. Oh, and the dentist goes "Don't worry, with as much as we gave you, you should stay numb for 3 hours or so." Hah! Less than an hour and it had all worn off. Hurt like a mother-trucker too. So here I am, gauze in place and in terrible pain, trying to clean my house. In comes the troops! Mom, Jonathan, Thomas, Evelyn, Elisabeth, and Julia all swarmed the house (Daniel stayed home to watch a baseball game.. See where I stand? lol), and then Michael called asked if Frank could play a computer game that night with him.. to which I said that he could, so long as the house was completely finished. About twenty minutes later, Michael and Amanda showed up to make sure it was finished. Hehe. :) Anyways, it all got taken care of, we finished cleaning, and I went home and collapsed into bed with pain medication. (Come to find out, I have a wisdom tooth that "could" come in over the next couple of months, as the dentist said... Only then it started coming in that weekend. More pain!)
So then, here we are. Having said our goodbyes, we made the loooong trip to Dallas... but praise the Lord, we didn't have to go the long way through Lousy-anna, and we managed to avoid all the policemen. No incidents to speak of! (We have HORRIBLE luck driving through that state.. hate it with a passion!) So we arrived at 2220 at the hotel that is going to be "home" for the next 13 weeks. A very helpful concierge loaned us a laundry cart to unload our van with because the loading carts they have seemed to have been misplaced that night.. which worked out well for us, because the laundry cart was bigger and had sides to it, so it took less time unloading. Then we spent Sunday resting and venturing out to get a feel for the area. Yesterday (Monday), Frank had computer training to do for this new job; so he spent 14 hours on the computer, not getting into bed until nearly 3 am. And then he had to wake up at 0730 to get back on the computer for a "live" audio training session with a lady (who's voice I'm hearing through his headsets). So we're both relatively exhausted. I spent yesterday doing some arranging in the room.... The kitchen area looks more like a real kitchen with my coffee pot, toaster oven, knife block, and utensil holder on the counter, plus the teapot on the stovetop. I also put up pictures... Gram Amnott is over the fridge (can't put holes in the wall) with a picture of us from Frank's pinning, a picture from our photo shoot with Jessi Field and the "hang in there" cat Gram made are on Frank's bedside table, a collage of photos from the Jessi Field shoot are on my bedside table, and our wedding picture is on the counter by the sink. We bought a mattress cover to put on the bed since it was so horribly uncomfortable, we put our own sheets on the bed and are using our own pillows, we put our own towels in the bathroom, and I put out my tart burners with some of my favorite tarts from Sea Breeze Scents and Things (check her out on Facebook!! Amazing all natural tarts) to make the room smell more like "home". Plus we went grocery shopping and have some cereal, milk, bread, juices, fruit, sodas, and some Bluebell ice cream. So its coming together. Right now I'm waiting on the clothes to finish drying in the laundry room... I hate coin laundry machines. Ugh.
So that's about it. If you made it all the way through, I'm impressed! You must be family. ;) I'll write more later this week... it'll be easier to keep up with now that I don't have anything else to do or anywhere else to be! TTFN!
So then, after the wedding, it was "hurry hurry hurry!" to get everything packed and sold and given away so we could move in with my folks and then scrub the house from top to bottom. This is where having a large family comes in very handy. See, enter my dental emergency.. I'd been having a toothache, and I managed to get in to see the dentist before our insurance was cancelled (since Frank had already quit work), and come to find out what was just a small cavity before was now a completely eroded tooth... Not sure how that works, but you get the idea. Anyways, I had to get over to the oral surgeon to have it pulled (which is so much worse than getting it extracted, as the standing joke in my family goes!). So the day we were cleaning the house, I had a tooth pulled. And sure enough, my fears were well-founded. "Caine" drugs don't seem to work on the people in my family. Jonathan had an entire vial of lidocaine used on his hand after his chain saw incident, and he still felt every stitch that they did... Plus he and Michael both had had really bad experiences with dentists and novacaine.. So I was completely terrified that novacaine wouldn't work on me. Well, it worked mostly.... but they gave me over twice the normal amount that they give to people. Still felt the pain and my cheek never went numb. Oh, and the dentist goes "Don't worry, with as much as we gave you, you should stay numb for 3 hours or so." Hah! Less than an hour and it had all worn off. Hurt like a mother-trucker too. So here I am, gauze in place and in terrible pain, trying to clean my house. In comes the troops! Mom, Jonathan, Thomas, Evelyn, Elisabeth, and Julia all swarmed the house (Daniel stayed home to watch a baseball game.. See where I stand? lol), and then Michael called asked if Frank could play a computer game that night with him.. to which I said that he could, so long as the house was completely finished. About twenty minutes later, Michael and Amanda showed up to make sure it was finished. Hehe. :) Anyways, it all got taken care of, we finished cleaning, and I went home and collapsed into bed with pain medication. (Come to find out, I have a wisdom tooth that "could" come in over the next couple of months, as the dentist said... Only then it started coming in that weekend. More pain!)
So then, here we are. Having said our goodbyes, we made the loooong trip to Dallas... but praise the Lord, we didn't have to go the long way through Lousy-anna, and we managed to avoid all the policemen. No incidents to speak of! (We have HORRIBLE luck driving through that state.. hate it with a passion!) So we arrived at 2220 at the hotel that is going to be "home" for the next 13 weeks. A very helpful concierge loaned us a laundry cart to unload our van with because the loading carts they have seemed to have been misplaced that night.. which worked out well for us, because the laundry cart was bigger and had sides to it, so it took less time unloading. Then we spent Sunday resting and venturing out to get a feel for the area. Yesterday (Monday), Frank had computer training to do for this new job; so he spent 14 hours on the computer, not getting into bed until nearly 3 am. And then he had to wake up at 0730 to get back on the computer for a "live" audio training session with a lady (who's voice I'm hearing through his headsets). So we're both relatively exhausted. I spent yesterday doing some arranging in the room.... The kitchen area looks more like a real kitchen with my coffee pot, toaster oven, knife block, and utensil holder on the counter, plus the teapot on the stovetop. I also put up pictures... Gram Amnott is over the fridge (can't put holes in the wall) with a picture of us from Frank's pinning, a picture from our photo shoot with Jessi Field and the "hang in there" cat Gram made are on Frank's bedside table, a collage of photos from the Jessi Field shoot are on my bedside table, and our wedding picture is on the counter by the sink. We bought a mattress cover to put on the bed since it was so horribly uncomfortable, we put our own sheets on the bed and are using our own pillows, we put our own towels in the bathroom, and I put out my tart burners with some of my favorite tarts from Sea Breeze Scents and Things (check her out on Facebook!! Amazing all natural tarts) to make the room smell more like "home". Plus we went grocery shopping and have some cereal, milk, bread, juices, fruit, sodas, and some Bluebell ice cream. So its coming together. Right now I'm waiting on the clothes to finish drying in the laundry room... I hate coin laundry machines. Ugh.
So that's about it. If you made it all the way through, I'm impressed! You must be family. ;) I'll write more later this week... it'll be easier to keep up with now that I don't have anything else to do or anywhere else to be! TTFN!
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