i have primer all over my left hand where i had to hold the balloon while painting it.  you know, other people do this stuff and don't make the messes i do! :-)  i also primed their snow boots. they are yugi-oh (they are not into yugi-oh but they were brand new for $3 at a yard sale one year so that is what they've had for the past 3 years!).  i primered over the cartoon and then hope to paint them black to match the rest of the boot and then write NASA on them.  we'll see.

 

my nerve study wasn't so bad.  it was painful but not unbearable.  he had to shock the nerves and then went back and put a needle in my muscles that he said would let him 'see" the muscles - i'm not sure how.  it was 12 different places.  we talked the entire time while he did it about his kids and my kids.

 

i went shopping - the nerve study was quicker than i thought it would be.  i was thinking i had extra time but realized when i got home that i really do have a lot to do before i get the kids if we're going right to the library and then having a nice night with no "to dos" looming.  better get my list updated

How did the nerve test go, Joni?

 

Well, we are officially in the new house. I wouldn't say moved in as a good portion of our stuff is still at the old house. augh But, the big furniture is all here! yay! And, I have all appliances up and running though today will be the first test with the gas dryer... we ended up using our other 3 appliances cause their fridge and stove SUCKED.

 

I'd have to say, after this move, I do not want to move in a VERY long time. If we ever move, it will be to a house that I KNOW they've kept it clean. We actually may try to talk to the real estate lawyer because of all the issues we've had with this house... I have a hard time believing that they didn't have to disclose a leaking roof due to bad shingles (which they didn't repair), weeping tile issue which leaks in the spring into the basement, the mold... now, the first 2 major things, we heard that from our neighbour across the way. Sooo, we haven't experienced it though I can see painted water damage or mold or something 'off' where he said the water came in and caused mold. We got a house inspection... why weren't we told any of this!? He did point out the 'valley' of the roof looked weaker than it should be as it's only 11 years old. But, he did't see obvious water damage?! (the basement shower is awful and it's now totally obvious to us that it leaked and likely has lots of fun stuff growing under it and possibly in the drywall. You can totally smell the moisture in the basmeent and the kitchen.

 

Soo, we are replacing the counter... yeah, another expense but knowing that it's there while I'm making supper icks me out. Plus, the fact that I can smell mold tells me this needs to be taken care of ASAP. Sure, we could bleach the heck out of it but I don't think that's acceptable with the state it's in.

 

Our move and all that went rougher than planned. But, we know by the end of this week, we'll be done with the rental house. I'm hoping I'll have time to clean it out for them but honestly, at this point, if I'm unable to and would have to bust my butt, staying up super late Thurs. night to do so, it's not worth it to me. They are cleaning the carpets and likely will do cleaning up themselves anyways.

 

Dh has the day off work (though he went in for the morning to deal with stuff as that was their only request.) So, he's putting together beds, got my washer up and running (yay! I have dirty laundry coming out of my butt) and is hoping to bring over a good chunk of stuff from the old stuff. I have about an hour and a half left before I have to leave in the freezing cold, windy weather (we actually had some snow coming down this morning!) Timmy is sleeping on my lap which is why I'm on the computer... so I could rock him to sleep. So, I better go help.

 

Oh yeah, I won't even mention how much we've eaten out this past week... augh. And then today, dh brings home lunch for me an dhim and Timmy. augh! I gotta work on that.... it's so tempting still because my freezer and some of my kitchen stuff is still at the old house plus my kitchen is disaster zone with some cupboards still needing painting and set up. augh But, I have 2 containers of BLT soup out. I have bread too cause I don't think that will fill us up enough since no one is really big soup eaters so maybe I'll make grilled cheese or meat sandwiches as well.

 

My butt's falling asleep! Off I go!

sara, take a deep breath and stop being perfectionist about eating out!  it's okay.  it's temporary.  please please stop trying to stress about it.  we all go thru periods where we have to let things go and if there's ever a time in your life where spending a little money eating out is okay, this is it - two small kids, a toddler, and a baby on the way while moving and doing daycare and trying to clean up the old house and dealing with all the unexpected things at the new house.  you are not going crazy with eating out - you're not headed to restaurants every night.  if you're worried about veggies and fruit and stuff, just have some things like that around for snacks but if the kids get more junk than they're used to right now they'll survive.

 

sorry to hear about all the issues with the house.  if the neighbors knew about some of them, that means the people who owned it knew.  and here, at least, you have to have full disclosure when you sell a house - absolutely anything bad you know about that's not right in front of the buyer has to be written out and disclosed or the old owners can be sued.  don't try to take care of it yourself - get a lawyer.  i know it's a pain but think of when you sell the house down the road (you may end up doing it even though you think you'll be in it for a long time) - YOU have to disclose all this stuff when you sell it so it's not fair that the old owners didn't.

 

i'm kind of stressed here.  i still haven't finished the costumes.  this is one of the harder costumes i've made because it's mechanical.  most of my costumes are hard but i'm making an alien kidnapping an astronaut for braeden and not only does it need to look right but he's going to have a harness, fake legs in front, and a control board on the front of his shirt and all of that needs to be comfortable and not fall off when he's walking.  and most of it i'll have to do last minute because he needs to be in it for me to finish it.

 

we woke up to pouring down rain and high winds.  right now it's just high winds.  the kids were disappointed - braeden went to school with red eyes from crying.  i hope we can do trick-or-treat tonite - it really sucks that our new scout pack has no halloween party.  this will be their only chance to wear their costumes otherwise.  and braeden's afraid that even if the rain isn't so bad we can't go that it will ruin his paper mache alien head.  ahhhh. 

 

i'm also a little down because both my friends decided not to come.  the one said she just didn't feel like driving.  it's a little hurtful, not because i'm resentful about that but it says to me it's just not worth it to come here which makes me think that the fun i have with them trick-or-treating isnt' shared by them.  oh well - i know that whenever they have a party i am always hopeful we have something important going on so i can say no and not drive down.  it's just that she sounded like she wanted to come and then yesterday said nah, no thanks.  the other one has a kid braeden's age that's mean and obnoxious - he has an audition for an orchestra tonight so i don't feel as bad about them not coming.  scott hates her kid - he always has something mean to say about our homemade costumes (his mom spends a fortune on the best costumes you can get) so he's thrilled they're not coming. hopefully my sister can still come.

 

hopefully scott will get home at a decent time and help me figure out how to get the legs of braeden's costume to stick straight out like i want.  the instructions have them just limply hanging but i put coat hangers in to give them shape and look like the astronaut is struggling against the alien but now i can't figure out how to get them to not just hang down with their shape but instead stick out. 

 

i'm making myself nuts!

Wow, that costume sounds VERY detailed! I hope it turns out exactly like you hoped!

 

We do trick or treating on Hallowe'en here and so far, all I know is that they both want to be Hannah Montana. We have wigs and I'll do sparkly make-up for them but what else will they be wearing? Good question... I have a possibility for Em but no clue for Delaney. Shoot, and she will be dressing up tomorrow at school!!! AHHH I guess a trip to Value Village is in order tonight. Me and all 3 kids. yippee.

 

I'm really dragging today. I skipped a dose of my medicine. Besides feeling kinda slow and tired, I didn't start feeling dizzy until the time I'd have to take my dose for today (which I did.) So, that's awesome!! I'm going to try weaning off of this though the way I'm feeling right now is blah. Thankfully, my head isn't spinning and I'm not puking like I was about a month ago when I tried. The bad thing is though I put my head down on my bed to snuggle up with Winnie and ended up falling asleep. Yikes. This was at 11am today.

 

My house is trashed... because my kitchen isn't done, I can't put away everything nor do I know where to put it all away. Timmy spilled Winnie's food and there's crumbs everywhere. augh I'm stressed about the old house. We have so much more to move out of there PLUS clean.

 

My goal for tonight is to do a quick pancake and cut up apples supper. Then we'll cut up pumpkins. Dh has volleyball so after that, he'll likely have to leave. Then me and the kids will head to get milk and value village, looking for Hannah Montana-ish outfits. After that, I'm hoping to go to the old house, bring down the odds and ends that are left upstairs and put them in the living room. I'll have to take some things off the walls. Then I'm going to wipe walls quickly, clean the bathroom and vacuum the carpet. So, the upstairs will be DONE! I'm hoping I can do that quickly with the help of the girls so then I can try to move some more stuff from the basement up to the living room. I'm hoping to bring a small-ish load over of kitchen stuff and food. Yikes, hopefully I'll get this all done.

 

I'm definitely going to talk with a lawyer about the hosue stuff. This is crazy. augh

 

Aw man, I hope the weather clears up for you guys! We had about an inch of snow on the ground! It's pretty much melted here but it's chilly. That sucks about your friends not coming :( I hope you guys still have a blast!!

 

I have about a 1/2 hr before I have to head out the door so going to try to do a quick tidy of my main floor, maybe take a tylenol and get the table set up for snack. Clementines and pretzels but my table is pushed into the corner and has some papers on it.

 

Hope you're not stressing out and having a good day, Joni! I'll try to check in later tonight or tomorrow with an update on how my plan for tonight goes. We can't find our tv rabbit ears so I haven't been able to plop myself in front of the tv so I'm getting a little more done at night but now that th ecomputer is up and running, I may find myself down here tonight...