4 posts tagged “vacation”

We're down to the wire here, only 1 more week til D-Day! The 15th is the son's last day of school and then we're free and clear to head out!

The hubby suprised me last night by picking me up a Gisteq GPS for my camera since we're going to be driving cross country and I know for a fact that there is no way I am going to remember every remote stop we make across the way to take pics. I have wanted one of these for soooo very long! I just hope that it gets here in time and doesn't delay our leave date hehe.

So nothing else new here, with all the packing going on I have not even wanted to pick up the cam nor edit any pics I already have, let's hope that this changes once we get un-packed in Arizona!

And that is about it. Coffee is starting to kick in and if I don't get off my behind and start working I will lose my motivation for the day!

Arizona or Bust!

I think I may be MIA til around the time of the move, I am really getting down to the wire with the move time about a month away. I still have so very much to pack and it is not going to get itself done. My list is growing daily instead of shrinking!

We have to get a whole new septic system, it failed the inspection. More $$!!
In order to do the new system, we have to clear out back patio of all our summer furniture
Have to pull up the very pretty brick patio so they can dig out the old septic *sigh*
We have to have the garbage company come out and move the dumpster
We have to empty out the trailer that the hubby uses for his woodworking cause it is sold
Find a plumber to replace the toilet and sink in our bathroom
Have to rake one acre of woodsy land of all the leaf litter and clean up downed limbs and trim bushes
Have to mow said one acre of woodsy land.. fun fun
Call the pool company and have them set up the pool for the year
Have to completely redo front for curb appeal $$ ugh
Have to repaint inside of house, the dark colors of my walls are soooo not going to sell
Two attics to go through.. yes 2 full attics of 30 years of memories
Get listings together for the local freecycle group
Clean up stuff going to freecycle
Load all of our stuff into our little van and drive it load by load to the storage units.

Yeah my kids are really starting to hate me heh. Thankfully I have sugared strawberries to bribe them with though right? lol

So that is my schedule for the next month. I took a bit of a break yesterday and played with some old macro extension tubes that I had bought when I first got my canon. I am thinking I may like these better then the macro coupler I just bought!

Enjoy and may you all have a wonderful month! Hopefully I will have time to check in now and then :)

And, it is raining... has been since I got home pretty much. Did I need anymore reason to want to move you ask?

I am also just blah, so just going to post the pics I edited today and turning in early, will try to write something witty tomorrow... I think the sun will be out also, they are calling for a gorgeous weekend!

2 days, well technically 40 hours and counting. Arizona is calling me... Home!

Well my soon to be home that is.

I cannot wait, 2 weeks of gorgeous, glorious warm weather and I will actually be able to see sunsets and sunrises again! *Something I sorely miss living in the midst of these huge mountain ranges here* Not that there is a thing wrong with the mountain ranges here, I absolutely adore the region, but there is like nowhere within reasonable driving distance of me to get a good sunrise/sunset over the horizon view!

I am praying that we find *THE HOUSE* that we're wanting to live in for quite a while to come, (in reality I know we are only going to be there for maybe a decade at most, I love moving!) But it is nice to fantasize about living in the same house for years and years. Sitting on the front porch in matching rocking chairs as old age claims us. That is just so not me though, I can't wait to get older and buy one of those funky winnebago's and just drive all over America, then when we have been coast to coast and seen all there is here... Off to Europe it will be!

I don't think I have ever lived in any one home for more than 5 years in my whole adult life. Some might consider that sad, but I look at it as exciting in a way. I never get bored with where I live thats for sure! Maybe some day I might finally settle down, perhaps in some Italian villa, or hmm maybe a yurt in Kathmandu or... maybe my bones will be dug up ten thousand years from now in some Scottish bog ;)