The World Through Annie's Eyes

So, yes, we're moving...again.  I don't even want to tell you know many times I've moved now...it's too depressing.  Buying your own house only adds to the stress of moving, since you have to worry about escrow, insurance and loan stuff ontop of the "dear god, will the movers break my daughter's crib?" thoughts that go rambling through your head.

Busy busy busy today, getting the last of the house deal paperwork done.  It seemss all I've done this last month is put out one emergency after another with this house mess.  Now that we're 2 days away from signing our lives away, it's calming down a bit.  Just a lot of phone calls to follow up on all sorts of stuff.  My poor cell phone.  I think by the time we move, it's going to start screaming for mercy.  ANd don't get me started on the cell BILL!

As it stands, "the day of signing our life away" will not be the end of the chaos.  I've got rug cleaners to schedule (done...they come on the 1st) and search for a locksmith that doesn't want my arm, leg and first born to rekey the locks on the house.  Add on packing and moving and unpacking and...well, see what I mean???

The carpet in the house is in good shape...it just needs to be seriously cleaned before we move in.  I mean "seriously".  The last people abuse the daylights out of it and really, we were hoping to put it out of its misery but we can't afford it.  So until the money fairy visits, we have to put up with nasty carpet.  I'm hoping the chem-dry people will be able to do something with it.  *keeps fingers crossed*

The locksmith mess...oh boy!  The selling real estate company gave out keys to every agent in the valley, trying to sell that place.  I don't like the idea of so many people having a key to my place, so I'm going to have the locks rekeyed the moment we have the original keys in our hands.  We don't need to add burglary or vandalism to our list of messes to clean up.  Of course, from what I can tell, most places want half a paycheck to do a simple job like rekeying.  *sigh*  The search will go on.

I did get the measurements done for the curtains, something else that's big on my list, along with installing smoke detectors and beating myself over the head with something heavy for ever thinking of buying a house.  The place has a lot of windows, none of which have any sorts of window coverings.  I don't even want to THINK about the cost of having them all professionally covered, so my sewing machine and electric drill will have to get to work.  I'd like to get them up BEFORE we move but I may just be wishing on a very far-away star.

I remember, when pregnant with W, I had insomnia...pregnancy induced insomnia.  Add on the stress and chaos if buying a house and I seem to be up until 12 midnight everynight, which is of course making me a bear to live with all day.  *sigh*  I can't wait until this is over with....

Today was the 1st day in a very very long time where the cell phone didn't ring once.  The real estate agent left me alone, the financial guy didn't call and the insurance quotes have finally stopped harrassing me.  Oh, it was SO NICE!!!

You know you've folded many a load of laundry in your life when you can outfold your husband.  Rob offered to help me fold the 3 loads I just finished washing this weekend.  We sat down side by side made quick business of the pile...but I realized I was more efficient when I could fold 3 items in the time it took him to fold 1. 

I need a maid...or atleast a laundry person! LOL

I can tell when I'm really sick when all I want to do is sleep.  Came down with a nice virus overnight and was so out of it this AM, I didn't even hear W when she started screaming at 4:30 AM.  Hubby got up with her, fed, juiced and changed her before laying her back down.  Only upon her 2nd screaming fit did he finally wake me up.  Yeah, thanks dear.  It took me a while to get my body to wake up and listen to my brain, which was screaming, "GET UP AND GET THE KID!". 

Ugh...I hate being sick.

I did finally get W back to sleep around 6:30 (she was cranky as hell too and just needed to go back to sleep) and i crashed on the sofa for 3 hours.  3 HOURS!  Wow.  Woke feeling even worst.  Nothing like having to change a poopy diaper when you're feeling sick. 

Languished on the couch while W played, until it was time to lay her down for her afternoon nap, and that's when I crashed again for about 2 hours.  Ahhhh...blessed sleep.

Hubby came home to a sick wife, cranky kid and messy house, since I hadn't had the energy to even clean the kitchen or load the dishwasher.  I think he knew I was feeling really really bad when he saw last night's dishes still sitting in the sink.  He packaged us all up into the car and took us to Chili's for dinner, where I was fed a swiss-mushroom burger and lots of diet coke. 

Upon return to the house, I took a hot shower and returned to bed.  Woke an hour ago, feeling slightly better but THIRSTY.  Now that I've had some water and decaf iced tea, I'm heading back to bed.

Thank god for husbands!  ;-)

My long lost uncle (father's brother) came for a visit yesterday.  Now this is a major treat, considering that 1) I haven't seen him since I was 12 year old (ages ago!) and 2) he rarely is ever travels to the west coast.  He usually spends his vacation time traveling to see 1 or more of his 6 brothers.

After they arrived, we sat in the living room and shot the breeze for a while (a good 2 hours) before we decided it was time to find food.  Went out to Mimi's Cafe (always good food, always mediocre service), where we ate a hearty meal and gossiped some more.  They dropped us off at the house, where we stood outside for a few minutes and said our goodbyes.  All around, a great visit!

The only thing that got on my nerve is my neice, Dani.  For one, while we were sitting in the living room, talking, she decided to sit in the office area at the computer and instant message with a friend.  When Uncle tried to drag her into the conversation, she gave a short answer and went right back to the computer.  Hmmmm....yeah, that's nice.  She barely spoke a word through dinner, nevermind smile or do anything but sit there and look like we dragged her with us against her own free will.  And to top it all off, she disapeared while we were saying our goodbyes outside.  After they left, I walked into the house to find her reattached to the computer.  How rude!!!

Really pissed off the Hubby last night.  I quit being his go-between between him and the real estate agent and the funder.  I have had enough.  I can't take him coming home anymore and bitching me out because I didn't ask the right questions or didn't have them expound on this or that.  I don't need to freaking stress...not ontop of all of the other things I have to do AND being pregnant.

I QUIT!

Now i can go back to cleaning up after 2 pigs and a toddler.... *sigh*  I can't wait until D moves out.  She's and her mess are driving me up the wall.

If I wasn't pregnant, I think I'd be on Prozac by now.

Wow.  Over 2 months since my last visit here.  No excuses, really.  Busy with the kid, house, vacation and morning sickness.  Now that 2 of those things are over with (Thank God!), I can get on with my life.  Things will still be a bit sporatic, since my only blogging time these days is when the Kid's asleep and the chores are done.  If you ever need to see if I'm alive, visit the family blog.  I do try to keep that up.

Energy is so freaking low these days.  It's a battle just to get the kitchen clean in the morning, neverless the rest of the house.  I mean, it's nice that the MS has almost disapeared but can it please take the "dead tired" away too???  I had 2 loads of CLEAN laundry sit in the laundry room for a week an a half becuase when I had the time to do it, I was just too darn tired.  Hubby actually dug them out and helped me one evening once W went to sleep.  Bless his heart.

W's been sick with a stomach virus the last couple of weeks.  a 14 month old with diarreah.  YUCK!

Today is going to be the 1st time I'm getting out of the house and having adult conversation with other people since we returned from our vacation on June 19th.  Joining up with the hiking group for lunch.  I can't do the moderate to hard hike they have planned...but I can help them eat lunch!  LOL  Kid is staying home with her Dada.  Yeah for non-mommy time!

If I wasn't around, W would wither away.  I had to run back to Costco this morning to return some bad meat we had just bought, so I asked hubby and D to feed W lunch while I was gone. 

I called them when I finally got out of Costco (god, I hate the return line there!) to find out that they had fed her snackies (cereal and puffs) and nothing else. 

"Anything protein-ish?" I asked.

"Nope."

"Can you find her something with protein to even out the lunch and give her some fruit?"

"What?"

"I don't know.  Find something."

"Any ideas?"

At this point, as I'm walking back to the car in the hot hot sun after waiting in line for half an hour, I wanted to snap off his head.  But I caught myself and said, "I'm not home, dear.  I don't know what's there."

Thankfully, by the time I drove the 15 minutes home, he had made her a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

I swear....*sigh*

I've been working on a scarf for my niece Mars for like...forever.  Well, more like 2 months.  It's taking so long because, really, I can only knit (and concentrate on counting) when I don't have a child hanging on me.  That means I can only knit when the child's asleep and I'm able to sit for more than a few minutes.

It's a nice basketweave (pattern found at http://www.digitalthreads.com/knitting/dktech/dktech5.html ) done up in Knitpick's Wool of the Andes (color = tomato), which is 100% Merino wool.  In its skeins, it feel great, but knitted up, it's a bit rough.  I'm hoping that it'll soften up after I wash it.  The edges are curling up so I need to add a simple border when it's done. 

Here's a picture of it....don't know why the camera hates that color...it doesn't look that bright in life!  LOL