Friday, 03 April 2009

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    So it's been FOREVER since an update, and for good reason.  We've been crazy busy.  I'll start with this weekend and work backward.

    This previous weekend was Moving Adventure 2009.  Matt and I, as I'd mentioned a few posts ago, were approved to rent a little one-bedroom condo about 2.5 miles south of our apartment.  The property was privately owned, so we end up saving between $50 and $75 a month because we won't be paying any utility bills; just electricity, cable, and internet.  Because we've been so busy in the last few weeks, we didn't get as much packing done as we'd hoped.  Luckily, we have wonderful friends who were able to help us with the heavy furniture.  We were able to get into the condo on Wednesday, so we went in and measured the space.  On Thursday we were hoping to start moving some boxes in our two vehicles, but Colorado was hit with a spring snowstorm that dropped over 15" of snow.  The wind was blowing, making it blizzard conditions, so I was sent home early from work (around noon) and we decided not to risk it.  Instead, I spent the afternoon calling our bill companies and changing addresses, getting cable/internet hookups scheduled, and so forth.  The only few things left, I believe, are car registration and insurance.  Saturday was a worthless day, as I worked till noon and Matt worked 1 to 6, so we just packed up boxes and piled them in the living room.  Finally, Sunday, we got our moving truck and loaded up everything we'd gotten packed and all our furniture.  We also had to drive it way up north to 120th to buy a dining room table set ($65 for a five-piece set on Craig's List - whoo!) and then by 64th to buy a 3-piece patio furniture set from my co-worker ($50!).

    We took over a few boxes at a time as we were able, but have felt completely overwhelmed the last three days by the amount of stuff we have.  We decided that, as we unpack, we'll be making a pile of Goodwill/Craig's List items.  We love our new place, though... we were there in the middle of the day Saturday and the hall was SILENT.  Last night around 10:30, there was no techno, no kids shouting and running up and down the hallways, no barking dogs, nothing... we've met some of our neighbors, all of which have been very polite and friendly, welcoming us and so on.  We have the cutest little neighbor across the hall, a little girl about 6, I'd guess, with little glasses...!  Anyway, we'll post pictures of our new place as soon as we get settled.

    The weekend before last, Matt and I took our much-anticipated trip to Boston.  Unfortunately, Matt and I were both very ill... which sucked, but we made the most of it.  You can see our Facebook albums here and here.

    We arrived on Friday and went to the Liberty Hotel, where my friend/cousin/former boss Brian currently works.  He'd gotten us a sweet deal on a room and took such good care of us.  We had a gorgeous room, with a full view of downtown Boston.  He'd set up a six-pack of his favorite beer in our room... it was so wonderful.  We did a lot of historic and tourist-y things, but also tried to rest a lot.  Matt had a head cold and I had a nasty chest cold, making us sound like a lovely pair...  but we walked the Freedom Trail, took in some restaurants, and had a wonderful time.  We hope to go back sometime when we will have more time to spend sightseeing and exploring. 

    Unfortunately, while we were in Boston being sick, poor Mirabelle was in Denver being sick.  She had some sort of "bacterial imbalance," causing her to have a very small appetite, vomiting, and diarrhea (yuck!).  We felt so bad, as Dan and Joe were taking care of her while we were gone.  When we arrived back in Denver on Monday, we took her straight to the vet and got her on some probiotics and some special diet food.  The vet thought it was probably caused by the stress of a teeth cleaning the week before, us packing up boxes, then going on vacation.  She seems fine, now.  While we had the moving van Sunday she spent the day at Doggie Day Care and had a good ole time.  I just hope she gets used to the new place sooner rather than later, I'd like to avoid any accidents (she has a habit of "marking her territory" in new places... anytime we take her to my parents' house in MN she always marks and it makes me so mad!).

    The second week of March my cousin Katie and her girlfriend Kat moved to Denver, and there was much rejoicing.  Kat got a great job at the university medical center doing research assisting (I think!) and we just found out that Katie got a job at a hotel downtown.  We haven't seen much of them, but hope to in the near future as we become less busy.  We hope to do some honest-to-god sightseeing/touring with them, take them to the museum, etc... perhaps now that we are done moving we will have more free weekends for such fun activities. 

    In other news... work has been more of the same, though the stress of it all is starting to hurt quite a bit.  It's hard because I'm doing more work for no additional pay, and doing jobs that I have been just barely trained for.  I keep getting in trouble for things that I was never taught how to handle.  The guys in the shop are stressed, too, so we are all short-fused and it is starting to show.  Because of these "tough economic times" we are trying to do way more with way less and it isn't going so well.  I'm terrified of summer.  I don't know what I'll do.  In the meantime, Matt's still working only part-time at Apple and is looking for something else.  He likes working at Apple, as far as I can tell, but it seems to be a bit dead-end, from what I hear.  I just hope that we can get things settled soon.  I'm still hoping to find some part-time or volunteer work at Littleton Town Hall Arts Center, but I'd like for our finances to stabilize a bit before then.  We'll have to wait and see, I suppose.  In the meantime, I'm still working once a week at Caribou... the tips have gotten miserable (a shift that used to bring me $20 now brings about $4, and my busy shift on Saturday brough me a whopping $6) but I guess it is another sign of the times.  I'm trying to remain positive, as the whole "be thankful you have a job" thing is always in the forefront.  It could always be worse, or as the most depressing fortune cookie once said, "It could be better, but it's good enough."

    Upcoming attractions: my friends Maggie and Laura are coming to visit over my birthday in May, and WWE Raw will be at the Pepsi Center again for my birthday this year (on Memorial Day!).  In June, Matt and I are flying to MN for a few days while Angela is on leave from Iraq for her brother's wedding.  Then it'll be a busy summer at work, and who knows from there?

    I guess that's all for now.  Matt and I didn't get cable or internet till today, so we have several shows to catch up on (Lost, Heroes, HIMYM...) and with an impending second snowstorm headed our way, we should have plenty of time for watching... hopefully it won't be too bad tomorrow, so we can finally go buy some groceries...

    That's it for now - go away!

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