For anyone who was curious as to why I dropped off the map for about 2 weeks, I moved on the 15th and haven't been able to get my internet up until now! So I'm back and hopefully will be around a little more.
(warning: random rambling up ahead, my fingers kinda just started going and I couldn't stop them)
I had to fight with my wifi for about a week, because for some reason it was unstable until yesterday. First is was uber hella slow, like 0.4Mbps download and upload speed (that's about 3-7minutes just to load a single webpage) and then my husband who works for the company providing our internet was able to troubleshoot it on the backend and figure out what was causing our speed issues, but once he fixed it our router refused to keep the wifi up. So we bought wire holding clips and stuck them to the wall, then a uber long cable to run all the way upstairs, and about $50 later he tried the wifi once more and it works, so we kinda wasted $50 on the wires and the clips.... but considering the wifi will randomly disconnect I guess it's good to have a back up?
(I thought I'd stop rambling by now, I guess I was wrong sweatdrop )
But yeah, I'm kinda in the mountains now and it's really pretty but really weird to look outside and see mountains since I never lived in the mountains before. Also I can walk to downtown so I've been walking A LOT and there's a gym a couple blocks down so I went to a couple classes (and now my everything hurts, like my core muscles scream murder at me whenever I sit up), plus I need to get back to work soon so I will be on gaia but it will be limited. If I am not here I am probably out walking or dipping my feet in the river at the park that's 2 blocks away from my house, or at the gym, or working.
So, ummm, that's about it. Hi I guess? xD sweatdrop redface
edit: oh! I forgot the awesome moving story. ok here it goes.
So, our lease for our apartment ended on the 16th. We rented the truck and were planning to move on the 15th. We only had enough money to rent the truck for 1 day, and we're moving 2 hours away. We ran out of monbey to buy moving supplies, so we ran out of boxes to pack stuff in. Moving day, we wake up at 4am, we only have about 2/3-3/4 of our stuff packed, no more boxes to pack stuff in, and only one room is cleaned. So, we pack a little more, get food, and go for the truck. We get to the uhaul, pay for the truck and car hitch, and they pull up a 14ft truck, which is WAY too small to move all our stuff. The did not have a larger truck at that location, and we could not pack the truck with the suv on the car hith on the back, so we had to leave our suv at the uhaul, borrow a uhaul van to drive to another uhaul where they had the right sized truck, then drive that truck to our apartment, pack the whole thing and then drive back to the first uhaul to get the car hitch and our suv because we only have one driver. So, we do that, and get back to start packing the truck around 10:30ish. It was only me and my husband moving everything. None of my friends showed up, we had no help, and we had to pack the whole truck ourselves. So, after a very rushed and painful truck packing process, we ran out of room and out of time at then end and ended up leaving some stuff behind. So things that got left behind and are lost to us: our couch, our mini fridge, most of our untensils, a full tool box, cans of spray paint, a heavy duty car jack, a glass cake display holder and my plastic cake carrier, along with a few other random small things that slip my mind at the moment.
Ok, so then we need to get the cat and dog in the truck to go. I had locked my cat in the bathroom with her litter box in the tub, but apparently she didn't like that or something, because when I opened the door she had pee all over herself and a puddle of pee on the floor. I had no time whatsoever to clean her off, I just had to shove her in her carrier and go. So in the front on the truck we have my husband in the driverss seat, me in the middle with a stinky pee smelling cat in a carrier on my lap, the dog in the passengers seat, and some extra stuff on the floor in front of the dog. So we drive the fully loaded 20ft truck to the uhaul to get the car hitch hooked up and the suv on the car hitch, then finally we get on the road to go to the duplex at 8pm. By the way, by this time it had started raining and was just getting heavier. So we need gas. We pull off the highway to get gas, and my husband who has very little experience driving a truck this large could not get the truck in front of a gas pump without locking cars in, so he had to park the truck in a gravel parking lot next to the gas station, buy a 5gallon gas container from the station's store, and transport 5 gallons at a time from the pump to the truck in the pouring rain in the dark. He couldn't figure out how to work the gas container and ended up spilling about a gallon of it all over his hands before he fixed it. So, finally we get about 7-8 gallons in the truck before he gave up, and we get back on the road. Now, I have a stinky cat on my lap with no room to stretch my legs, and the carrier is on my thighs for most of this trip an my legs are getting very cramped and sore. I was able to get out for food at the gas station, but that was about it. Now we need to drive up the mountain in a complete downpour in the dark in a fully loaded 20ft truck. You could see the sheets of rain sweeping across the road, and could not see more than 5ft ahead. We finally got to the duplex at 11pm. The truck was due to be dropped of at a nearby uhaul at 8am. Luckily, they let us keep the truck for an extra day for a small extra fee, because it was dark, still pouring rain, and we were tired as anything when we got there.
So, the next morning we woke up at 4am again because we couldn't sleep well. It was still only my husband and I unpacking the truck. Now we have a problem that we did not have at our one floor apartment: the duplex is 2 floors. Also, come to find that my very beautiful computer desk broke it's leg during the move, so I now have a 3 legged computer desk. We got as much unpacked as we could that day, and still had about 1/3rd of the truck still packed by the end of the day. The morning the truck was due we literally just threw everything out of the truck onto the front lawn and my husband dropped the truck off.
Ok, so then we need to get the cat and dog in the truck to go. I had locked my cat in the bathroom with her litter box in the tub, but apparently she didn't like that or something, because when I opened the door she had pee all over herself and a puddle of pee on the floor. I had no time whatsoever to clean her off, I just had to shove her in her carrier and go. So in the front on the truck we have my husband in the driverss seat, me in the middle with a stinky pee smelling cat in a carrier on my lap, the dog in the passengers seat, and some extra stuff on the floor in front of the dog. So we drive the fully loaded 20ft truck to the uhaul to get the car hitch hooked up and the suv on the car hitch, then finally we get on the road to go to the duplex at 8pm. By the way, by this time it had started raining and was just getting heavier. So we need gas. We pull off the highway to get gas, and my husband who has very little experience driving a truck this large could not get the truck in front of a gas pump without locking cars in, so he had to park the truck in a gravel parking lot next to the gas station, buy a 5gallon gas container from the station's store, and transport 5 gallons at a time from the pump to the truck in the pouring rain in the dark. He couldn't figure out how to work the gas container and ended up spilling about a gallon of it all over his hands before he fixed it. So, finally we get about 7-8 gallons in the truck before he gave up, and we get back on the road. Now, I have a stinky cat on my lap with no room to stretch my legs, and the carrier is on my thighs for most of this trip an my legs are getting very cramped and sore. I was able to get out for food at the gas station, but that was about it. Now we need to drive up the mountain in a complete downpour in the dark in a fully loaded 20ft truck. You could see the sheets of rain sweeping across the road, and could not see more than 5ft ahead. We finally got to the duplex at 11pm. The truck was due to be dropped of at a nearby uhaul at 8am. Luckily, they let us keep the truck for an extra day for a small extra fee, because it was dark, still pouring rain, and we were tired as anything when we got there.
So, the next morning we woke up at 4am again because we couldn't sleep well. It was still only my husband and I unpacking the truck. Now we have a problem that we did not have at our one floor apartment: the duplex is 2 floors. Also, come to find that my very beautiful computer desk broke it's leg during the move, so I now have a 3 legged computer desk. We got as much unpacked as we could that day, and still had about 1/3rd of the truck still packed by the end of the day. The morning the truck was due we literally just threw everything out of the truck onto the front lawn and my husband dropped the truck off.
