Category Archives: Health

…and then you’re gonna crash.

More dental work today. Appointment two of three on the current round, which started with the cracked and missing tooth & extraction back in June, just before the move to Hesperia. Relatively little pain today, but plenty of stress, plus the drive 2 hours down and almost 4 hours back up.

One last huge loose end in the move to finish up, getting everything out of storage and up to the new house. Since we were down anyway, it was a good opportunity to meet with the pro movers we used to get out of the house in July and have them finish up what I started last weekend. Starting out exhausted from that, plus still plenty sore from my accident yesterday trying to start unloading at the new house.

‘Tis done. And there’s a big chunk of the expense budget eliminated. Excellent progress.

Tomorrow for the spooky holiday we’ll try to get the telescopes out as we hand out candy in the new neighborhood. If it weren’t for needing to do that, I swear I would sleep for the next 72 hours straight.

I finally found the bathroom scale in the mountain of boxes.

I was hoping that all of the activity from the last couple of weeks would have a positive effect. I’m down about eight pounds! NOT a program I would recommend.

My Apple phone has noticed!

Interesting times lead to a need for flexibility. Today’s our 24th wedding anniversary, but there was no nice dinner or evening out. We’re up to our asses in alligators with the packing and prepping and OH!, YEAH! I needed to put a few hours in for my job, so we’ll delay the anniversary celebration for a couple of weeks and then find something to do in our new hometown.

Our mortgage loan funded today, so all that’s left to do is close escrow and record everything. That should happen first thing tomorrow, and by noon tomorrow we’ll have keys and be homeowners again. And heavily into the task of UNpacking at the other end. It’s all a little bit unreal, but I’m grateful that we’re just a day or two from the point where it truly will be all downhill from there.

While our new home doesn’t have a pool or jacuzzi (might have been nice, but not a deal breaker at all) it does have a nice jetted tub. I’m bruised from head to toe and feel like I’ve gone twelve rounds with Mike Tyson, so come Thursday night when I’m at the new house, this will get used regularly!

Happy Apollo 11 Moon Landing Anniversary!

In the here and now, we’re getting down to the final stages of our home purchase and moving adventure. We signed loan documents on Friday, and the escrow company should have all of the wet-signature and notarized copies Monday morning. The mortage company is supposed to fund early Monday, so early Tuesday we should close and record. Right now we’re on schedule to spend Tuesday in the new house dealing with utilities and the first stages of unpacking, with the PODS units going up on Wednesday and the movers on Thursday.

The packing and preparing for the movers while loading as much as we can into the PODS units has been exhausting for days. We’re taking damage…

Sometimes when trying to push large objects (in this case, a large shelving unit) they might stop suddenly and have blunt objects (a leg) sticking out that jabs HARD into my arm. Thirty-six hours later, it’s tender but not terribly painful, but the purple and black coloration is impressive.

“You should see the other guy!!”

More practically a pain, my Apple watch got knocked off of a counter onto the tile floor and what started as a couple of small cracks in the corner has now turned into a much larger web of cracks. Like a crack in a windshield, it’s gradually spreading and growing, while continuing (for the moment) to work. I don’t think that SafeLite comes out and repairs this. If/when it stops working, I’ll probably have to bite the bullet and buy a new one. This one is about five or six years old and I sort of depend on it a lot, so just going without isn’t realistic at this point.

At least it’s not my phone that’s dying.

Thirty-five hours, thirty-three minutes and counting to home ownership.