Only in Texas

Do you find a bridal shop next to the gun shop......

Tips for Moving Cross Country

1. When the movers show up with only half of the people they said they were bringing, complain immediately. Don't figure they know what they are doing.

2. When the consultant tells you the movers will disrupt your life as little as possible until the 3rd of 3 days, don't believe them. Do believe they pack your kitchen first, take your living room furniture immediately, and pack your washer and dryer the first day. The bed does get left!

3. When the truck driver forgets to show up on the third day...take it as a bad sign.

4. When 7 pm on the last day passes and they aren't done, be sad.
When 8 pm on the last day passes, get restless.
When 9 pm on the last day passes, get angry...
When 9:10 rolls around and they are winching your mattress onto the back of the truck, get wary
When 9:20 rolls around and it takes 4 guys to shove the doors of the 18 wheeler shut, start thinking about what new stuff you want to buy
When 9:30 rolls around and the fussy driver realizes he is going to have to drive cross country with a 4 foot tall stuffed dog in the passenger seat, laugh your butt off

5. When traveling with cats, realize that every flight will be delayed and an extra 4+ hours with cats in carriers gets old pretty quickly.

6. Know that when you get a whiff like a dirty diaper, but you don't have a kid, your cat has been in a carrier too long.

7. Two people can fit in an airplane bathroom and you can clean your cat and his carrier in there as well.

8. Don't assume that the room you get put in at 2 am in the morning has hot water.

We are in the new house

Hi all,

So Kel will update you soon on the "interesting" trip we had down here and everything up to now.

Currently however we have moved into our house and our furniture is here. We are currently working on unpacking boxes in the evenings.

Yesterday was a record breaking day weather wise. I guess it hit about 110 degrees (that is without the heat index which made it feel like about 120 I guess). Still no rain. The news said they have gotten .35 inches since May 1st. So our grass is not so happy. I have been watering it in the morning a bit.

Just wanted to give a quick update.

Hope you are doing well.

Home is being packed up

So the moving people showed up on Wed to pack up the house. Today is technically the day that they will finish getting everything into the truck. They estimates 18k pounds of stuff when they did an initial walk through, they are now saying it is about 21k pounds. We have a lot of stuff ;)

We will be in Houston on Sunday evening (plane comes in around 9pm). And Kelly starts her job first thing Monday Morning with orientation. I will work remotely from the hotel.

The house should close next week (it better as our furniture is showing up on the 20th or 22nd). Once we are in it things will hopefully start to settle down a bit :)

Hope everyone is well.

It has started!

So....it has started. They came to get the Jetta on Friday. It is loaded and already on it's way to Houston. The moving truck comes on the 10th. Only a million things to do between now and then! Got them all on a list and am trying to just keep checking them off.

Here is the schedule for now:
Monday 8th - Sign Lease for Loope St
Tuesday the 9th - Going to see Up! the movie- Cats go to the vet

Wednesday the 10th - Movers come and pack
Thursday the 11th - Movers continue packing (18,000 lbs of stuff they tell me)
Friday the 12th - Movers load stuff onto the truck
Sunday the 14th - Fly to Houston.


Not busy at all.....