A Little Rambling

After a week and a half of being covered in dust and leaping over a massive pile of cardboard boxes in order to get into the kitchen, we are officially unpacked!  We're still waiting on a couch and my pretty porch plants, and a few things need to go up on the walls, but other than that, things are set.  It's a nice feeling.  (oh, and I still need a bed) This is what it looked like for the first couple days...boxen everywhere! As of about an hour ago, we even have internet, which makes it feel even more settled.  I've been loving having a pool to use whenever I want, and I REALLY love not having a half-hour drive home from every event.  I can have people over for dinner, spontaneously.  :)  Even the cats are adjusting, though Fiyero's favorite place to sleep is deep in my closet, under my shorts. So yes, I'm excited to be able to blog again, as I've had many thoughts and no ability to post them this week.  We're having our housewarming party t...

The house hunt has officially ended (alas!), and the great apartment caper of 2012 has begun!  In a little over a month, I will hopefully be moving to the East Valley with Chantel and Sicily (and Dallas and Fiyero), which will cut down on my gas bills considerably.  I spent this afternoon running around to seven different complexes that all theoretically met our qualifications for living spaces.  Four have been stricken from the list, one is teetering, and two are actually pretty darn nice.  Hopefully we'll all agree and move in soon. Here are a few things I learned today that might make apartment hunting more endurable. Don't go alone.  It's waaaay too boring, and you have no one to bounce ideas off of or compare notes with.  Nate was gracious enough to accompany me and save me from losing my mind, since Chantel and Sis are out of state. Don't go in summer if you live in Arizona.  (whoops.)  If you do, complexes that have a/c in their mo...