... When No One Else is Watching

'tis done

The house has been purchased, and the previous house has been sold, now we are only waiting on our furniture which is to arrive tomorrow. I can't complain about not having furniture yet because 1) we are surprisingly still welcome at my mom's house and have a nice bed to sleep in and 2) I figure I can't complain about waiting a few paltry days for my furniture to arrive when my dear friend, Susannah, once had to wait about three months for her furniture. Life is definitely not bad!

Once this weekend is done and everything is put in it's place I dare say life will return to normal, at least for eleven weeks that is, then our lives get turned upside down by a new tiny human being! Oh, that reminds me, maybe we should buy some nursery furniture so our child doesn't have to sleep in a dresser drawer! Yeah, that's a good idea!

The only good thing,,,

about having my husband away on business is the fact I don't have to worry about what's for dinner. Have you noticed how husbands always want to eat three meals a day? What's with that? Three meals a day,,, EVERY DAY, and sometimes a snack! I'm still adjusting to this phenomenon and as you can see it's nice for me to sometimes have a break from all this eating. Tonight I think I am going to do the un-thinkable and maybe just have some cereal for dinner or maybe an orange or maybe nothing! See, the possibilities are endless!

We're getting close!

We are so close to closing on our new house I can taste it! We are due to close on Wednesday at 12:30pm and should have everything recorded so that we can take ownership by that evening, that is, if everything goes well and the way we've planned. We are still a little skittish about everything because, as most of you know, selling and buying our houses have not been the smoothest of processes but we are truly excited to get this all done with. On Thursday we plan on going to the house in the morning and completely cleaning it so it's ready to move into. Because the house has sat empty since it was built and it's in a new area where so many homes are being built, the amount of dust in the house is incredible. The cool thing out of cleaning the house is I get a new vaccuum cleaner out of the deal! A new vaccuum cleaner may not be a great thing for some people but for me,,, awesome! Once the house is clean we will start moving all of the stuff we moved into my mom's house over to Casa Johnston. On Friday we have movers coming to deliver all of our stuff!!! I am sooo happy I can hardly stand it, I'm so excited to have our belongings back and to be able to make a home for us again. It's incredible to realize how much I have missed being in my own home! As for the time being, tomorrow I get to call all the utility companies and get everything set up for Wednesday and I also get to go to my bank and have an obscene amount of money removed from our checking account and wired into somebody elses,,, that's the one part of home ownership I don't like,,, paying for it!

You Don't Say

Funniest thing said in our house last night (and possibly the funniest thing said by my husband ever.) "I don't think I make a good mentor." This may not be funny to most people but if you knew my husband and his intolerance for lack of personal motivation this would totally have made you laugh! He is definitely the "let me do this so I know it's done right" kind of guy. And he may not make a good mentor but he makes an awesome husband!

Ch,ch,ch, Changes

I just came home last night from visiting friends in Phoenix. We had some close family friends from England come to the US and wanted to see the Grand Canyon so my mother, sister and I went and met them in Phoenix to spend some time with them. While I was flying back last night I realized this would be the last time I would be flying until after the baby is born, and then I started thinking about how so many things will be changing in the next few months. I know so many things will be for the better and this child will bring us more joy than we have ever known but wow, when you realize your entire existence is going to change it's a little overwhelming, I just removed the paper bag from my mouth to stop the hyperventilating! Do you realize how much my life is going to change,,, no really, DO YOU REALIZE?! I have always lived my life without a lot of structure, I am definitely a fly by the seat of my pants girl and think spontaneity really is the spice of life so when I think that I can't just plan a trip to Napa Valley with my husband on a whim or run off and hike the Himalayas (mind you, two things I have never done, but hey, you never know when the urge might hit) it really freaks me out. Now family and friends are mentioning the words "structure" and "schedule" and I am sad to say I am freaking out a bit. How will I handle this new way of life and oh my goodness, WHAT IF I LIKE IT?!?!? We're in for an interesting few months,,, oh wait, it will actually last far longer than just a few months. GRRREEEEAAATTT!!!

The Drama!

After ten days of complete drama, tension and many, many curse words our house in Texas has finally sold. There are way too many situations that were crammed into these last ten days to write about here but I will summarize it by saying that when people who want to buy a home quickly and force the sellers (us, the usually sane Johnstons) to hurry up and move out and then two hours before closing say that the report on the roof (which is only 18 months old) is not good enough and they want to have their own roofer inspect said roof even though they have had two weeks to do so only to have sellers find out that the request of delay of closing which was declined by sellers was not about the roof at all but because the buyers (the insane Flores' and their equally insane realtor) don't have their finances in order and tried to hide a second lien on an investment property from their mortgage company, don't expect the Johnstons to be very happy, especially when we've been made out to be the bad guys because we wouldn't bow to the buyer's every whim! I know that sentence is a run-on sentence and doesn't make a whole lot of sense but that shows you how my brain is functioning at this point. I have finally started to have rational thought process and am now just so happy that everything is ready to go where the purchase of our new home is concerned. The only thing we have to do where the new house is concerned is sign the papers because we, people, do not have second liens to hide and have our finances in order, this is how buying a home is supposed to go, smooth!

With my new rational thought process has come clarity and that clarity has told me to use the gift certificate to the spa my sister lovingly gave me for my birthday! I am on my way to have a massage and pedicure because dammit, I deserve it!

Tragedy

No, I am not going to get all political or soap-boxish on everyone, just felt the need to say how horrified I am every time I turn on the television. I truly can't believe the images appearing on all the news programs showing the utter devastation going on in the Southern United States. I feel the need to drive down and distribute water, food, money and anything else I possibly can, but obviously cannot do so. I can, however open my pocketbook and donate to a charity of my choice and pray it will get to the people in need. I hope you will do the same.