Things are happening way faster than I thought they would. From a casual conversation on Saturday it has turned into us probably moving to Cali in August. Yesterday his dad made sure G'ma Laura was cool with it, confirmed a rent of 900 to 1000 and put a call into the lawyer to make everything final...
Holy Crap!
Obviously it's super exciting, but it's happening SO FAST! We have to put the house on the market, get rid of all our crap that won't fit into the cabin, get new jobs.(that will prove the most difficult, more on that later.) and get all of our stuff moved to California. Those are just the obvious things. I hate to think of all the little loose ends that need to be tied up other than those.
Last night we cleaned the kitchen. Not a down to the bone scrubbing but just washing the counters off and mopping the floor. It was getting pretty hideous. But it reminded me that we will have some serious SERIOUS work ahead of us to get the house in any shape to sell it. I'm talking about the kind of cleaning where I have to take a week off work and only do that 24/7.
We are going to have to get rid of so much stuff too. We have our large size house filled to the gills with stuff and we have to make all our stuff fit into a little one bed one bath cabin. In our house we have our bedroom/computer room, the front room which is mostly storage at this point, the living room, the dining room, the kitchen, the utility room, the smoking room and the shed. The cabin has a bedroom, kitchen and living room. That's pretty much it. Of course there is the upper house but most of the grandparents/parents stuff is still in there. Last night Rob called Alan at work and let him know that if he wanted any of the stuff we were giving away he could have first dibs if he wanted. Namely the stand up arcade games and Rob's motorcycle. I then called DD to warn her what Alan was promised. ;-) I also asked her the huge favor of driving me in one of our vehicles to California so I wouldn't have to do it if we paid for her ticket back home. She agreed so PHEW!
So I've only told a few select people here at work in case it falls through and all. That and I really don't want to get short-timers syndrome or give anyone insentive to fire me before I can quit sort of dealie. I did get an email yesterday that Saturday overtime was mandatory from 8 to 4...I had to chuckle because hopefully this will not be something I have to deal with in the near future. *crosses fingers and knocks wood*
So getting a job will be the hardest thing I think. Rob has been scouring Monster and Hot Jobs and all those online places and not coming up with anything that he is qualified for *and* would like to do. in the area that we are willing to travel to.
My head is swimming with the thoughts of all that needs to be done if we expect to move by August. I don't even begin to know how to put a house on the market...
I have the urge to start boxing things up tonight just so that we have a better idea how much we'll have to do. We have so much stuff that we don't really use a lot but will probably take with us so I could start getting that done. At least it will make me feel like I am accomplishing something towards our goal. I feel antsy right now here at work because I could be home doing something to prepare for the move. I called my mom on Monday night to warn her that this might be a possibility and she just took it weird I think. I'm sure a lot of it has to do with the fact that we probably won't be able to make the week long trip in August to Vegas that she has already booked her flight and hotel room for. I don't know what her deal was. She mentioned something about Shawn moving and she hadn't heard from him in two months and I said, "Yes but you never heard from him when he lived in the same state as you. I live 3000 miles away and I call you at least once every two weeks!"
*shrug*
I can't believe I am sitting here when I could be at home trying to find a job on Monster or packing up the house. AND we are supposed to put in overtime the rest of the week.
12:26 p.m. - 2005-06-15
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