Killing time.

So, I wanted to stay out of the house today since it’s a huge mess and I didn’t want to clean it. Also, we are pretty much running out of food and I don’t want to buy anymore, so there is nothing to eat in the house except mangos, cherries and rice. So Vince, Edda and I spent the day at Mc Donalds, Walmart, Barnes and Noble. It was a great day, cloudy, not too hot.

I exchanged emails today with Jame Derossitt, a friend of mine from UTAustin days. He’s doing well, living with his wife Katie and their 3 doggies in Memphis.

The kids were in a good mood throughout the day, only really grumping out at dinnertime when Jeremy was home to help navigate the bad mood. Dinner was pretty lame since we were having spaghetti without the proper spaghetti sauce, now we are down to canned tomatoes and spices, it really didn’t taste like a sauce and Vince was not convinced.

We’ve also found a good home for our gas grill. Our gas grill has been dragged around with us on so many moves and we don’t really use it, so I put it up on freecycle.com and 15 people emailed me back wanting our grill. I’m giving it to a person who works in a group home and the state funding got slashed this year and so no grills were approved for purchase. They are getting our grill! Go hamburgers!

Moving cubes…

Just moved cubes today. It’s now about 30 feet closer to the bathroom and the stairs. Wheee! I managed to somehow get the inside corner cube. I thought Alpana, the senior programmer, would take this cube, but she ended up taking the smaller one for some reason or another. Not that I’m complaining! laff. but anyways, I need to work more since my boss now has to walk by my office to get anywhere… doh!

Pool time and IKEA time.

Had a nice day at the pool – the apartment complex had the regular tot time today, but instead of the regular programming, we had a pool party! The kids had a great time playing in the shallow tot pool. Laurie, the apartment complex activites coordinator, had prepared snacks, crafts, lunch, everything. The moms talked about getting pregnant, potty training and sex, the regular mom stuff… Vince and Edda had a blast.

Once we got back from tot time, we headed down to NJ to IKEA where we picked out furniture for our apartment in SGP. I guess IKEA just opened a shop in SGP and our realtor said that we could pick our furniture out from the SGP IKEA catalog, so Jeremy looked through the catalog and we went to NJ to look at our furniture. My first reaction was that I had pretty much outgrown IKEA furniture, which I regard as first apartment post college furniture, and I just can’t image Vince and Edda jumping on any IKEA furniture and it lasting a microsecond. Some the IKEA stuff is really crappy – so basically we looked at the most expensive thing to get (which is still really cheap when you compare to Crate and Barrel or Room and Board). I think it will be durable enough. It’ll be great, Jeremy even put linens and dishes on the list, we’ll see how it goes.

IKEA is a great place for kids, they have free babysitting for 60 minutes, they have a place to eat, Edda loves the swedish meatballs, and thoughout the store, they have little play areas, like doll houses or ball rooms. It’s pretty fun.

Made it home again.

Jeremy’s a bit sick, so I spent most of the time driving home from DC. It took us longer to get home than coming down on Friday, but it was fine. Jeremy’s tummy is still upset, hopefully a bunch of 7Up will help it settle down.

We took full advantage of the (surprise!) DVD player in the minivan. Now our souls are sold to the devil and our children have become quiet zombies in the back of the car. It’s pretty amazing how roomy the minivan is and yet, we still manage to fill it up with CRAP!

There was no traffic on the way home, smooth sailing the whole way though.

Now that we are home and the kids in bed, we just have to start doing our punchlist for moving out of this country!

Back to Dresden

Our friends, Martin and Patricia and their two children, left today to go back home to Germany. We had a lovely 4th of July dinner last night with them, complete with steak and apple pie. This is the toughest thing about moving, our friends are never really close by.

Litian, our friend from graduate school, is in NYC because her husband sang in Carnegie Hall on Monday night with the San Bernadino choir that he’s in. Apparently they have been preparing for this concert for over 5 years and he just joined last year, so he got to go. I was hoping she could come up for dinner, but it’s just too rushed and hectic.

Tonight, I have to pull together the paperwork for the 2 cars and figure out how to do long term storage for the cars (at least for Jeremy’s) and also think about bringing 8 snow tires down from the attic. Ugh.