It's Only Fair

Because I spend a portion of every computer visit checking out several blogs to catch up on the lives of other people, I think it only fair that I update more often. Do you agree?

In any case, I am struggling to come up with interesting stuff to write.

Like: Bill got an apartment in Alabama.

He's been living at a hotel for weeks and the company isn't going to reimburse him any longer, so we figured he should get a short term lease on an apartment. Now he has an address to send Sprint to show that he really is in a location that gets absolutely no (Sprint) reception. They wanted to charge us $200 for switching to Verizon, which we all know really is everywhere. And I could switch too, if I wanted to buy a new phone. Verizon has a neat camera based phone that I might be seduced by, but I really love my current (Sprint) phone, it is so petite and cute and has a nice mp3 player. The Verizon one probably will play my music, it's all on a memory card, but I may just wait as long as I can.

And: We are trying to get someone to paint the trim on our brick house for under $6000. The first estimate was way over $8000!!! I am working on getting a third estimate soon so that we can put this house on the market.

And: I am going through tons of boxes of junk to throw out all the outdated junk that I have been saving (like old closed bank account statements...).

And: We gave about 10-12 boxes of books (mostly old Sci-Fi) to the library and we still have tons of books left. (Don't tell Bill that I ordered some new ones from Amazon and EBay)

And: We actually got people to take away most of the furniture from the storage unit. K & Sem took the bookcases (yes, we really did give away book cases!), a bureau, the vanity and the purple desk (well, Sinclair is sposed to get it for his daughter) and something else I think but don't remember. A co-worker picked up the bunk beds for her kids. I sent a kid sized table and chairs to CA for Sam (much to Annika's delight. Sam loves it and uses it often) Mom is supposed to figure out how to pick up the twin beds and springs to take to Laura (I am not going to lift a finger to get them to her, if she wants them she needs to do some of the work...) so that may mean she'll be down to visit in a couple of months. Meanwhile, we may tuck some of the extra junk from the house away to make it presentable to show and maybe actually sell.

So, if I think of any other activities, I'll try to post more often. Meanwhile, I need to prepare for the weekend arrival of my sweet husband who is driving many hours to get here for a day and a half before he returns to Alabama with a car load of stuff for the apartment.

ttyl