We have been crazy busy, I don’t even know where to begin. But before I do anything I have got to do an entry. It has been way too long and my brain is swimming. I’m hoping that it will help me get my thoughts together…..so be warned, I may be listing.
We spent 2 days going cross Portland to get our camera cleaned, we are so tired of the spots that have ended up on otherwise stunning scenery pictures. They only had it for 1 days so that wasn’t bad, what sucked is that they said that they would call and when we looked at the ticket it said 30days!! We were like no way, then couldn’t get anyone to answer the phone or respond to our voicemail. So that stressed us out.
Harold did find a shop that sells nothing by swimwear and will modify the cuts. So we head to the NW part of Portland to Popina, because of my other suits are several years old and I really need a something that looks fresh and makes me look good. So we wanted a bikini and I needed a 1 piece for snorkeling, the one piece I figured more then likely the basic black, just easier instead of some of the ugly patterns. But I got lucky, I got a one in a vibrant purple….grin They are even able to make me a bikini top to fit me!! And it is all within reason. So I’m pretty happy about that.
Then we had 2-3 houses that we wanted to locate and drive by in Portland, since they weren’t available for looking at yet. We found one that was ok looking, but had a great location. So our thinking was since that they are under one rental property company we wanted to get ourselves preapproved so we know where we stood if we liked one of the houses. Now you normally have an application fee, no big deal…NORMALLY if you going through 1 company you just need to pay 1 fee and it applies to all properties. Not this one, we would’ve had to have paid for all 3 of them! That is a bad as holding us up by gun point. That just pissed us off.
That is how our week started on Monday….it did not bode well. We have been totally stressing looking for a place to live. We can stay here, but we want something different….like more sunlight. We really wanted move more into Portland, to be closer to our friends, closer to shops that we can walk to and not have to drive, maybe start taking the bus or get a scooter.
But we noticed that the more we keep trying to move into Portland, the more road blocks we keep hitting. Makes us truly wonder if we aren’t suppose to be living in the city. We have lived in towns and the outskirts of cities, but never in a city.   But I’m thinking we are just not meant to be. =(
On Wednesday we went a saw a townhouse that just got listed the night before, it is a little town outside of Portland and it is in Multnomah County. It is about 2 blocks from the historic downtown that is being revitalized, with a few little shops and within walking distance to part of the Columbia River Gorge and it right off of 84, and since we don’t normally drive during rush hour, we can just jump on that to I-5 to get to where we want to go without all the stop lights.
We are lucky that Harold contacted her when he did, she has been getting emails and calls all day. Got to love Craigslist……..lol
The owner has to move across the state for her job on short notice and is looking for long term leasers and she is a cat lover, has 2 of them herself. So that is one less stress, in fact I think ours behave better then hers……lol The bedroom has a small deck facing the street and gets the morning sun and the back, even though partly shaded by trees, gets the evening sun…..perfect! It has a patio in back, with a bigger yard then we have…not much, but still bigger and it has better appliances then this place. The living room is more square, not like this one that is long and makes it difficult on arranging things. The bedrooms seem a bit smaller, but makes up in more closet space. The only thing is that there aren’t any blinds……icks. But the owner is cool with people putting them up.
We like it so much that we did the application and put a deposit down, now this is the part that is screwy. We find out this morning that our landlord won’t release our information without permission, ok, that is cool.  But then found out that we need to give our 30day notice before they release it AND it had to be in written….ok, that is freaky. We did not want to give our notice unless we had a place to live without question. So Harold called the other lady back and found out that the place is ours we just need that last bit, basically saying that we don’t throw loud parties, cause trouble and pay on time…..that was a huge stress reliever. And found out that it is one things that is done in Oregon to help prevent ID theft. We had never encounter that before. But I end up rushing to do that written note, thankful that I got our scanner to communicate 2 nights before for the fax, while trying to do some work before we left for the gym.
We were totally off balance starting the day off. Didn’t help the office girl with our current landlord is annoying….gggrrr Everyone else is fine, but she sounds like she is constantly whining…icks We get to gym and Harold forgot his iPod. There is no way that you can go without it. The days with my trainer is the only days that I go without, can’t handle it otherwise. He ended dropping me off, since it was a trainer day and headed home to work on things. If you get off of routine and off balance it really, really messes up your workout.
I spent the workout frustrated as hell.  Everything seemed harder then usual and made me feel week and it was pissing me off. Didn’t help that my ass muscles were still hurting from Wednesday and Thursday I was in a “I want to hurt people mood” when I hit the treadmill (I get very irritated when pms’ing and have no patience….beating people sounds fun in those moods…..sadly). I did get a good laugh at my trainer, he was hurting from over doing his legs the day before……..grin….he just busted out laughing due to my enjoyment in that. =) Then find out at the end, that he was screwing with me all day. He is always messing with my weights and he really did today…..uuuurrrrgggg I had a hard time lifting my arms to wash my hair!
After the gym, we had some running we needed to do, including buying boxes for the move. And I really wanted to get my belly pierced. This is something that I’ve wanted to do for a long time, but always figured that I need to lose more weight before I do it. Well, screw it, I’m working out, losing weight and I might as well get it done. Of course, I’m a pussy so I’m mental messing myself up. But I did it! And it didn’t hurt that much. It does help the rest of my body is hurting like hell from the gym…….lol You know what is messed up, I was scared of the pain from that, but I think nothing of going to the dentist. I’ve sleep through my root canals………lol
Now there is where I’m going screwy on my post…..I’m totally stressing about how we are going to handle everything in Aug.
1. We have my brother-in-law Diesel and his family coming down Aug 7-9, which won’t be that stressful other then the boxes everywhere…….grin I am so totally looking forward to seeing them and taking them sight seeing…..been missing them.
2. We have to start packing for the move.
3. We move on Aug 15th. Which is a HUGE day work wise for me.
4. We leave for Curacao Aug 20th-25th.
5. Then we have to get this place cleaned for the walk through on the 29th, since the 30/31st is a weekend.
The biggest issue, is that we have been running around and so off balance this week that I can’t even get my mind organized to know where to start!
What I’m thinking for this weekend, my poor private messages that have been neglected. I have some work to do, if I can keep it to about 2-3 hours a day that would be good and the big thing, start packing and figuring out how to do it….icks.
All I want to do is enjoy the few days with our family and the Curacao trip and skip the rest of Aug. =)
And on that note, I’m going to work on some laundry…………it is better then screaming…….lol
