Sea of Boxes!

Wow - time flies! I can't believe it's been almost a week since I last blogged! A lot has happened since then. First off, the plumber replaced the leaking, cracked toilet tank in the guest bathroom, so that's all done. Ashley Furniture delivered my magnificent new bedroom furniture and they will be stopping by tomorrow morning to deliver the last nightstand since the first one came in damaged. Yay! I also have a garage door & garage door opener that will be installed in the next week or so, and then I should be done with that kind of stuff for a while - woo hoo!

The movers arrived on Wednesday morning with all of my earthly possessions (I have never longed to hear a big diesel semi tractor engine so much in my life!). It was like Christmas when you are 5 years old and you are just sure that there's a Barbie doll in one of those boxes under the tree! For me at 30 years old, I just wanted to see those boxes labeled SHOES. :) And of course, they are all unpacked and organized already. There are literally boxes up to the ceiling in the living room and kitchen right now - it's sooo overwhelming! But I am trying to tackle one room at a time - I have finished my bedroom, bathrooms and then cleaning supplies/household stuff. The kitchen stuff is very daunting, but that's my project for tonight so that I can start cooking the groceries I bought. This weekend I'm staying at home all weekend to unpack everything. My internet and cable TV were hooked up on Wednesday afternoon, so I'm soooooooo excited to get back to my favorite shows. I'm so TV deprived that I have the TV on all the time when I'm home - upstairs and downstairs so I can hear it when I'm running around and unpacking at all times!!

**Note - I dug through my 'office' boxes and found my camera cord too! I will post some pics this weekend when I get my camera and computer synched up. :)

We had a few tornados and SUPER heavy storms come through the southern metroplex (which is where I live) the other night, so I had to manually maneuver my garage door (the broken one) so that I could squeeze my car in the garage to avoid hail damage. And when I say 'squeeze', I mean SQUEEZE. I have so much crap out there in boxes still that isn't organized that it almost took a contortionist or a gymnist to get the car in the garage and dig through the stuff to get back in the house! But my car was safe from the storm. :)

**Confidential to future visitors - Important news flash - I went to my new favorite store Garden Ridge and bought 4 big fancy water noodles for the pool, so come on down and bob in the water with me!

**Confidential to Stacie - I tried Whataburger for the first time - it was average, nothing to really write home about. I know you mentioned wanting to try it out - I just tried it to say I've tried it because their buildings are so obnoxious. It's just another burger joint with chicken sandwiches. Also - is Ice Road Truckers Season 2 going to start up sometime soon???

Random Texas Observations:

1. Dr. Pepper is headquartered or has some big plant in Frisco or Plano here in Texas and so it's a big deal and it's EVERYWHERE. It is standard to have Diet Dr. Pepper in most of the fast food restaurants - on tap! WOO HOO!!!!! Why didn't I move down here years ago?!?!?!?

2. If you are from the north, you are called a "Yankee" down here - I've been called one several times. Haven't we moved past the civil war yet? Really?? Yankee??

3. Apparently crazy fundamentalist religious cults like to settle here and make 13-year-old girls get married to gross old men and have their children. Ewwwww.

More to come this weekend......including some pictures!