Every Three Years!?!?!?!

First off...in my excitement over Kelly's acceptance to UT I completely forgot to mention the other good news in the family, not because it is any less exciting, but because I found out on Saturday and I wrote the last post on Tuesday...how quickly my mind wanders. Anyway, Dad was offered a job with Southeastern Financial Credit Union! Woo hooo!!! He began working for them in February on a 3 month temporary contract. The three month contract kept getting extended month by month until finally he was offered a full time position in the business loan department. He will be working in the office 5 minutes from home (3 minutes, he says)! So a big congratluations to dad, he started the new job on Monday!



And I asked in my last for you to have hopes for a car and furniture...and you must have had high hopes! I didn't want to ask for prayers...because furniture and an extra car really aren't prayer worthy...just hopeworthy!! But the furniture arrived on Friday!!!!!!!! Woo hooooo! It was a crazy, but great day!



We have a cuboard that is issued from the military that was sitting in the basement when we moved into the house. The cuboard is not useful to me in the basement...but would be much more helpful in the kitchen to store food, a microwave, and serving platters. I've been trying to figure out for 2 weeks how to get the thing up the steps into the kitchen. It is so incredibly heavy I can hardly even slide it on the tile floors! Well a friend came over the other day and told me that her cuboard was brought inside in two pieces...so the beast DOES come apart! In the excitement of finding out our furniture was arriving, I decided we needed to move the cuboard that night! I informed Taylor, (he was thrilled) actually his words to me were, if you can get it apart, I'll move it with you. So I borrowed a screwdriver from our neighbor and went at it. I actually couldn't get it apart...but Taylor gave in and got the top half off the bottom. Sadly, the beast was STILL realistically too heavy to move. But it sure didn't stop me from trying. We muscled the top half up the stairs and I thought I was going to die. There was no way the bottom was going...I even tried taking out all the shelves to make it lighter...nope didn't help. I woke up the next morning with bruises ALL over my thighs (I'm talking 11-12 bruises!!!) from resting the top piece on my thighs on the way up the stairs because it was hurting my hands so bad. All that work and hurt and I just had to wait until the movers came the next day anyway with a rolling cart to move the piece up to the kitchen. All that for NOTHIN!



But I'm happy to say it is now in my kitchen and it is just as great as I imagined it would be! Not only is that in my kitchen, our house is now full of furniture! Most of it fits very nicely with a little room to spare...but our living room is a bit tight! Taylor and I have been arguing for about 4 weeks over the size of his living room furniture...turns out he was right. There...I said it.



I didn't remember it being as big as he kept claiming, but it is. It is an American size couch and chair in an Italian size living room...but it actually works. I freaked out a little bit at first thinking it looked ridiculous. And I know the Italian movers understood enough English to understand our arguing...I bet they get a lot of that in their job. Moving doesn't always bring out the best in everyone! But with a little moving and rearranging it works just fine. And at the end of the day we survived our first move and were still speaking to each other, actually we even still liked each other!

Now we're onto the unpacking portion...NO FUN! It is getting done slowly, but surely. The kitchen is done and our living room is coming together. It is really nice having the basement, because I can put everything I don't know what to do with down there until I'm ready to hang it, put it away, or throw it away. Mom has been laughing at me saying I am much more like her then I am willing to admit...and I see more and more of it coming out. It is much more noticable when we're not living in the same house together!

I have my portion of the closet organized and I have done more than half of the battle with Taylor's portion...I have no doubt he will have finished putting all his clothes away by the time I make it back home today-or if he was smart he would!!! And I swear, that boy has more clothes in his unaccompanied baggage coming from Korea, then I have in my whole wardrobe! There are still 4 boxes marked clothes in the basement that were stored in North Carolina all year! All he wears are t-shirts, work out shorts, and an occasional collared shirt!

Next we're hanging pictures...we really are having our second, first year of marriage! Mom says she can't hang pictures with dad because he gets too exact and picky about it...we'll see if I can hang pictures with Taylor, because I do it mom's style! The smart thing to do is hang them all when he's at work, but I don't have anyone to help me, so it makes it difficult. I already rearranged the living room furniture while he was at work, good thing he's not too picky!

I'll put up pictures when I can get the house put together!

Yesterday I went down to Nove with Jenni and her little boy Brandon. Nove is a city about 2 hours away where they make all of the ceramics for many of the major brands: Williams Sonoma, Tiffanys, Lenox, etc. They have tons of factories with lots of stores all over the town. Many of the stores are inside the factories selling the dishes for very discounted prices, it was really neat and we got LOTS of Christmas presents. I'm not sure why I bought dishes before I got here! It was a fun trip...minus the trip home when the GPS took us waaay out of the way. It's tough not knowing an area and depending solely on the GPS...I know...maps would be smart, but it's so tough in all these small towns!!!

Anyway, I have lots more to get done today...I'll post again later!

Ciao!