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Bella-Belly's Journal
Ok, I have an addiction. My office is in the loveliest downtown spot, really the town square in the beautiful tiny town I grew up in. There are antique shops, and the sweetest little cafes and old fashioned drugstores with soda counters and an amazingly beautiful historic hotel called Hotel Alice. And they have a cafe inside. And in that cafe is loaded potato soup which I will call from here on out as my drug of choice. It is truly truly amazing and I have eaten it for lunch every day of this gloomy, rainy week. It has been my one saving grace. That, and sweet tea.
Guess what I'm having for lunch today?
So, life is pretty good. Much slower, but still a little to fast for what I need. The days just FLY by down here in Mississippi, too.
I'm cooking dinner tonight for everyone-- and I am a little nervous because I am kind of winging a recipe I have done only a couple of times before without the actual recipe because my recipe books are still packed up.
And I'm cooking at my mom's house, because my appliances are still sitting in boxes on the side of my kitchen BECAUSE MY FORMICA STILL HASN'T COME IN, so therefore I have Topless counters to go with doorless cabinets that are only primed, not painted. Anyway. I know you're thinking Formica, EW-- but I don't have a NY salary anymore, and the formica I chose just happens to be the most amazing beautiful Madras Indian Slate with a honed finish that WON'T SHOW STAINS OR SCRATCHES, and thats the most important thing to me anyway, considering my apartment in New York had WHITE FORMICA. Enough about formica.
My girls are coming up from H-burg. So there should be plenty of giggliness all around. I think that we may try to watch Napoleon Dynamite (again, but we haven't watched it TOGETHER, which will make it all the funnier). My husband says that he must find somewhere else to go, its all too much for him!
Anyway, we expect to actually stay overnight in our new/old house on Sunday night! Because our savings account sucking central heat and air unit is coming this weekend. We hope, anyway.
Other than that, the job is good, the family is good, and the restaurant next door makes the BEST loaded potato soup I've ever tasted in my entire life.
I can't tell you how happy I am and how wonderful life is here. After yesterdays post, I feel the need to share the GOOD things that are going on.
1. I have lost 75 pounds.
2. I have a wonderful job working with family that I love dearly.
3. I have a great flat screen computer at work.
4. My house is coming along beautifully, and if you want to see before and afters, well, you just have to e-mail me and let me know.
5. I have REALLY nice neighbors (even if they ARE on the rednecky side. ok REALLY rednecky. but REALLY nice.)
6. I bet you don't have stars like these at YOUR house. I really think we have the most beautiful starry view from my big front porch.
7. We have a peach tree too.
8. We have had 3 bonfires in 1 week.
9. I have a RED dining room. And a YELLOW living room and a GREEN kitchen. And they are ALL BEAUTIFUL.
10. I have the most amazing family and friends in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD... and I get to see them all whenever I want!!!
Too tragic, so I'll make it quick!
Did I mention earlier that the week before we moved our truck was broken into? and A computer stolen? My husbands work computer? well....thats only the beginning.
Things that went wrong with moving:
1. The Penske rental place in NJ did not have the car trailer we needed, so we had to go to ANOTHER one and we got lost. Twice. On the way.
2. MAJOR complications with clearing Military Post and housing, so we ended up throwing all of our stuff in the truck in like FOUR HOURS, and then leaving Fort Hamilton for good at 11 pm and driving to MARYLAND in HORRIFIC WEATHER and only getting 4 hours of sleep.
3. Somewhere in the middle of Virginia on a Saturday finding out that our CHECKING ACCOUNT-- you know the one where we transferred like, EVERY PENNY WE HAD because of our fear of being on the road with out much access to savings--being FROZEN. WITH NO EXPLANATION.
4. No one works at banks on Saturdays.
5. After finding this out, we stop at Wal-mart to try to figure something out (OH WISDOM OF WAL-MART, SAVE US!) and are so distraught that we think, "Hey, I know what will make us feel better, lets LOCK THE KEYS IN THE TRUCK!!! AND THEN STAND OUT IN THE FREEZING COLD FOR TWO HOURS UNTIL SOMEONE COMES TO UNLOCK IT!!!"
6. So, that's just what we did.
7. We were saved by one thing: FREAKINGLY, Michael's Debit card accessed our savings account (mine certainly never has, but he lost his and got a new one.)
8. Unfortunately, we only had 250.00 in savings...BECAUSE WE TRANSFERRED IT ALL INTO CHECKING!
9. That was enough for gas, but not enough for a hotel, so......
10. WE DROVE STRAIGHT FROM THE MIDDLE OF VA TO SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI IN ONE NIGHT! (all night--and it was MISERABLE).
Ok, so that wasn't short. But the good news is-- our house is coming along beautifully, its warm here, I have a great new job, and the dogs are so happy here. So, in a way, I guess it was worth it.
So, We're PACKED! With the exception of a few items needed to make it throught the next few days, like the computer, television and some paper plates. Oh and lamps.
Its a great feeling... we can definately use some time this week to enjoy "ONE LASTS" in New York.
Chrissy, John, Dana and Robert threw us a suprise dinner last night. It was really good. But I almost sabatoged it without even knowing it, because I kept hanging around them all day (Chrissy and John had asked us out to dinner, so I was just thinking we would be doing that!). But Dana was rushing around cleaning (it was at her house) and Chrissy was trying to do all the cooking and I kept calling her!!! The dinner was great fun, and we played card games afterwards. They are so sweet. I'm really going to miss those guys.
I cannot believe that in 5 days I will be making that trek from New York to Mississippi for the last time! I'm so happy about it, but it just still seems so far away.
I just realized that a post asking for prayer for Tsunami victims, should not be titled "hands on your knees, hands on your knees." My apologies people, I named it before I wrote it.
Well! We are 80% done with the packing. I am sitting at my computer that is perched on a filing cabinet and my keyboard is on my knees! We put our dilapidated computer desk out by the street and someone actually took it!!!! That makes a dresser, chest of drawers, and a mirror that we threw out, and someone apparently named Mr. Fix IT and took them.
My apartment is so empty that when the dogs bark the sound bouces off the walls and vibrate my brain into oblivion. And I can't yell at them to shut up because then I fry my eardrums with my own shrillness. Boomerang yelling KILLs, people. Believe me.
We now have mattresses on the floor too! Last night we slept in the livingroom and watched Fox News-- Bill O'Reilly to be exact and I said he should be nicknamed Bill O'RilesEmUP! because people get SO PISSED at him on his show. I think it is because he is an interrupter (insert MOO! here) and no one likes to be interrupted on television. Yes, I know, I'm so funny. And punny.
I just sent my husband to the Shoppette with a baggie of quarters to buy newspapers so that I can finish up with my everyday dishes, and he said he was going to steal the newspapers because they were full of propaganda. I told him not to because he would go to hell. I told him just steal the FREE newspapers, and buy some only as a last resort. Do you think he'll go to hell for that?
So we have 9 more sleeps until we leave, and the packing is pretty much done. Maybe we'll have some time to enjoy the city a little before we leave. I'd like to go to Chinatown and buy some fabulous fake purses and some sparkly shoes. And I'd like to go see Wicked again. It was that good.
Now, since I've been so worldly and self centered in the above paragraph, I'd also like to say thank you to all the bloggers out there rounding up donations for the Tsunami victims and their familes. You guys are amazing. I will be making my donation as well, but if you are the praying kind (as I am) don't forget to lift these people up. Miracles can happen as quickly as tragedies. Don't forget our servicemen and women over there helping out too. It must be devastating to SEE that, but so rewarding at the same time, to know that you are helping to preserve life for these people.
My prayer pledge is this: Everytime I take a drink of water, I will thank God that I have it and pray for those who don't. The same with bathing and flushing the toilet. And doing laundry (now, you know this is major, because to be grateful to be doing laundry? is something that DOES NOT HAPPEN IN THIS HOUSE!).
Wanna join me?
So, this has whats happened in the past few days:
Packing
Sick Husband
Packing
Sick Husband
Movie-- Blade Trinity***
Packing
Sick Husband
Another Movie-- The Aviator
Busted Car Window
Stolen Lap-Top (a government issues one)
Police Report
Much Crying
Financially Responsible as insurance refused to pay for it, because it wasn't "ours" even though we are financially responsible.
More Crying
Packing
Remembering that I HAVE a temp blog and didn't tell anyone.
Sick Husband
*** It was the only thing playing at the time so we went to see it and LO AND BEHOLD it had PARKER POSEY in it and she was hilarious, and also? the popcorn was excellent.
So, I couldn't stay away from some semblance of blogging. You know, I just have the overwhelming NEED to SHARE.
So, this is what has been going on with me, if you're interested.
We bought a house. On 23 Acres. In Sweetwater, Mississippi. And did 85% of the remodeling work in 1 week.
We will be moving there in 2 weeks from New York City.
I am happy happy about this.
I have lost 64 pounds since my lap-band surgery on June 19th.
Now, this next thing was a big secret, and still is if you are anywhere remotely near to Mississippi and may know someone who knows or is related to my mother. Or grandmother.
But...
We are trying for a baby. Or, rather, in our busy circumstances have decided NOT to try NOT to have a baby. If you know what I mean. But we have a hard time remembering to DO it when I'm ovulating.
So, lots of stuff, and thats why l wanted to stop blogging for a while. But then I just missed it. And I lurked around. So, this is my temporary blog until I can get a bella-belly dot com thing going.
So anyway! I'm back! and tell me, how have YOU been???