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August 14, 2006

Traffic, Locked In, Rain, Locked Out, Back Pain, Laundry & More Traffic

Well, that about sums up my weekend. Thursday night there was a massive wreck on 635. They had the freeway shut down and were diverting traffic all over the place. It took me over 2 hours to get home that night. I was supposed to have started packing everything Thursday night, but instead I spent the evening in my car watching the red lights on the car in front of me.

I left work early on Friday so I could get out to theCountry and pack up everything. I got stuck in traffic again and I was losing my temper. I finally made it home and we had just about finished loading the car when the call came in that MRF's car was fixed and we had to go get it. So after an hour-and-a-half break, we finished packing and then went to eat at Waffle House for dinner.

After WaffleHouse we headed to the storage shed. There were a few items we needed Friday night, like towels, sleeping bags & the shower curtain. Our storage shed has an access panel on each side of the gate. We went in, crawled around on top of boxes for a good 45 minutes, loaded the car to the point I was sitting on the sleeping bag (in the drivers seat) and started to leave. This process took about 30 minutes.

First, my key didn't want to go into my ignition on my car. After giggling with it for a little while we finally got the key in and the car started... and while the engine was still running, the keys fell out. I guess I have to go get the ignition switch thingy fixed now. Then we pulled up to the acess panel and I put in the code to leave. The panel came back and said... "Sorry, this area is closed."

After putting the code in about 15 times, honking to try to wake up the lady that lives there and calling the front office, she finally answers the phone. She said... "We're closed, come back tomorrow." I'm like... "I'm not trying to get in, I'm trying to get out. I'm NOT spending the night in here." I guess it's nice that they have a code on the inside so an intruder can't just drive off with all of your stuff, but it sure isn't funny at 11:00pm when you are thinking you are going to have to sleep in your car all night because the gate won't open. She finally walked downstairs to the office to press a button so we could leave.

We then drove to my new place and unloaded the car. And unpacked everything.

Some of you may remember me complaining about all the teddybear stuff in my old apartment. I had bought everything Fingerhut offered in the CountryBear collection when I was 19 and moving out of the dorm and into an apartment. They were cute back then but being that I am going to be 32 in 3 days, I really wanted to get rid of those "kiddie dishes, appliances, trashcans, cupboards, etc."

So, about a week ago I finally bought myself new dishes for my birthday. The new dishes were on clearance at Pier One and 50% off so I stocked up. Because they were on sale, I had to drive to four different Pier One locations to pick up all the pieces we could find in Dallas and then Carrie picked up the salad plates for me down in Houston. I hope to get down there soon to visit and get them, but if not, she said she would bring them with her to Blog Blowout in October. Thanks Again Carrie!

The plates are burgundy, the pasta bowls are terra cota, the salad plates are ivory, the cereal bowls are hunter green, the coffee cups are palm green & the serving bowl is gold. Then I bought all new Tumblers, StemWare, Pitcher, Canisters & Cake Stand to go with my multi-colored new kitchen. I absolutely can't wait until I have everything set up so I can have a dinner party.

About 2:30am, I finally took a break and took a nap in my new garden bath tub. It was so wonderful. After I got out of the tub, MRF took a bath and I started hooking up the computer and the dsl. He came out of the bathroom and said he was hungry and I said, well let me finish this and then we can go find something. Ten minutes later he was asleep, on the floor.

I stayed up till about 4am, and then attempted to create some sort of pallet to sleep on. At 6am, MRF's alarm clock on his cell phone started going off and I started cussing. Then at 7:30am, my alarm started going off. We went and ate breakfast, went and got my dolly from my friends M&S who had borrowed it back in December and then drove out to BFE to pick up the UHaul.

After picking up the UHaul, we met my parents, who had rented an SUV and driven up from TheArmPitOfHell, back at the storage shed, started loading up the UHaul, and reorganizing the stuff that was staying in the storage shed. My dad, wasn't much help while we were at the storage shed because whatever they had for breakfast had disagreed with him. He spent a majority of the time we were there sitting in the car with the AC on high. Afterwards, a quick drive to the combination Shell Station / Subway for lunch and then we drove back to my new place.

On the way back, we got stuck in traffic AGAIN! A pickup truck carrying a horse trailer somehow managed to flip onto it's side and the horses were out in the middle of the freeway. We finally made it to my new apartment about 3:50pm and started unloading my car and the rented SUV. My dad picked up the last box and as I was closing the back door to my car, the sky opened up and we had the best rain I have seen in months. It was so nice to see rain, but humidity following it felt like saran wrap on your skin the minute you walked outside.

The four of us sprawled out all over the living room floor and took a nap while it rained. And then once it stopped we unloaded the UHaul and made sure at least all the furniture was put in it's place. About 7:30pm, it was definitely time for dinner. We drove down the street and found a new restaurant, TinStar. Well, actually, it isn't *new*, but we'd never been there before so it was new to us. Four orders of Chicken Fried Steak with Jalapeno Gravy (although my mom had to send her's back because the gravy was too spicy for her), Mashed Potatoes & Corn on the Cob later... we were stuffed.

A quick trip to CVS Pharmacy for a few necessities and back to the apartment. My parents headed back home and MRF and I decided to go swimming. The pool is right in front of my apartment and it had looked so good all day long, that we were disappointed when the pool gate code wouldn't work. I feel asleep on the couch and after a little while MRF heard people in the pool so he woke me up and we went out and asked them to let us in. Turns out that we were just going to the broken gate, and the other one was working fine.

We only got to stay in the hot tub / pool for about 30 minutes before the maintenance man came and ran us out of there because the pool "closes at 10pm" and when they say it "closes" they mean it. They disable the gate codes and put a chain lock around all the gates. Now, if I had to get locked in somewhere, how come it couldn't have been the swimming pool and not the storage shed?

Sunday morning, we went back to TinStar for breakfast and then returned the UHaul. MRF's back was killing him so we didn't get much unpacked before it was time to drive him back to theCountry. I packed up my laundry (since I currently can't even get to my laundry room for all the boxes) and after a slow, relaxing & delicious dinner at RedLobster, complete with 2 dozen Oysters on the Half Shell & 2 Ultimate Feasts... we drove the rest of the way back home.

This has not been a good month for cars at MRF's work and while we were returning the UHaul yesterday morning, his boss & friend called and asked if he would come stay at their house and drive them to work the next morning. I stayed in theCountry, finished all my laundry for the week, watched FoodNetwork all night and fell asleep on the couch.

This morning, my last morning having to drive the 62-miles from theCountry to work, I got stuck in traffic again. There were two major wrecks on 635, one in each direction, and of course once I passed the West bound wreck we had to slow down again because of all the nit-wits with crooked neck disease that thought it was more important to look at the overturned dumptruck on the East bound side than to actually DRIVE.

In a few hours I will leave work and I will only have to drive 18 miles home instead of 62. I need to run a couple of errands tonight, like Lowe's, HomeDepot, SatanCo (aka MallWart), SuperTarget, the grocery store, the drug store, etc. I don't think much unpacking will actually occur tonight, but we will see. It's only been 3 days but I'm already sick and tired of the sight of corrugated boxes.

My goal is to have everything unpacked before my birthday so that I can go out to dinner Thursday night and not have to worry about that stuff when I get home. But I seriously don't know if I can get it all done that quick.

To add even more work to the task of unpacking, one goober, otherwise known as MRF, was my main helper when I was packing everything up back in May. But, as I realized yesterday... the goober didn't label any of the boxes. So now I get to open up everything and see what's what.

Well, I think this post is probably longer than an entire page, so I guess I can stop rambling now.

Posted by FutureFoodTVStar at August 14, 2006 02:38 PM

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