Countdown is almost over!

It's Sunday. We move on Tuesday. I can't even begin to tell you how excited I am!!! Getting into our own house and everything - I can't believe this is really happening! I have a picture of it on my desktop, and sometimes, when I look at it, it just hits me - this is going to be ours! It will be our place, not my parents, not John's parents. Ours to do with whatever we like - plant whatever flowers we want, paint rooms whatever color we want... The list goes on. It's the coolest feeling in the world!
The packing and stuff really got to me last night. It hadn't been until last night, when I was looking around at all of the stuff we still hadn't packed yet, that I just went to John and told him that it was really starting to stress me out. But John got a lot of the kitchen packed, and I did a lot around my desk and doing some of my clothes and shoes and such. I didn't "pack" a lot of my clothes, but I left some out that are the ones that I'm going to wear for the next few days, basically making the rest of my wardrobe off limits. Though I am going to go through all of my clothes again today and weed out anything that I don't wear often enough to pack and take with us, so that way I can bring it over to Goodwill tonight. Convenient having a Goodwill right across the street.
My Pampered Chef business did very well during the month of May. I qualified easily, having one show that reached almost $1000 on it's own, then another the very next day that reached over $500. That was incredibly exciting!!! I earn a bunch of new free things because of it now! However, my bookings (the shows I have booked) for the month of June are non-existant. I'm running a catalog show, which is great, but I really need the sales for the month of June, and it's not looking like it's going to be a very strong month. So, if anyone is interested in earning some free and discounted kitchen items, please contact me!!! Catalog shows are the easist thing in the world to do, so if you live a ways away from me, that's no problem! Or, if you just don't have the time to do a cooking show, that's no problem either! If you're not interested, I appreciate referrals!!!
Okay, enough groveling now. Friday I chaperoned John's 7/8th grade band field trip to the Great East festival and to 6 Flags. The festival went so well - both the chorus and the band got gold medals, which was very exciting. The kids were all on their best behavior at the festival itself, so that was good. When we got to 6 Flags, the weather was decent, but after we got in the park, John and I went on a couple of rides, and suddenly the skies just opened and it started POURING. So we (and all of the other chaperones) managed to get all or most of the kids together, and say "okay, do you want to stay?" (Keep in mind, because of the weather, they shut down most of the rides.) Most said yes, some said no, but we waited it out, and said we'd all check in again at 5. That seems to have worked out, when we reconvened, again, most said "we want to stay!!" because they had opened all of the rides back up again. So finally we were like "Fine, but at 6:30, that's it, we're done." So that went over moderately well for the most part. There were some kids that were just soaked all day, and most of them didn't seem to care. I was freezing, but I was glad the kids were having fun. That's who we were there for, it was most of the Chaperones that wanted to leave early. So I was glad that we stayed until 6:30. That was only an hour earlier than we were scheduled to leave, so it worked out.
I should probably go eat some breakfast or something. We have all this food that we're trying to use up before we move, and there's an entire gallon of milk in the fridge that we have 2.5 days to use up. Oops. I guess we thought we'd go through it faster.
Oh, and *hugs* to Kim for being accepted onto SSI, I'm very excited for her. And thanks to her and Chris for coming up to help with the big move on Tuesday. We appreciate it guys!

Whew!

All I have to say is T G I F dude. I'm beat! Fortunately I was out of my training by 1pm, and I took comp. time for the remainder of the afternoon, which was good, because I really need to catch up on some sleep. Last night was my big night out on the town - small town girl driving down to Boston all by herself! It was great though. I went to Harpers Ferry to see my buddy Mike Previti's CD release show. If you've looked at my last few postings, you'll see that it's all I've been listening to. If you went out in bought it, you know why. =) If you haven't bought it yet, I'm not speaking to you again until you own it. And it has to be a legal copy. Don't try to download it for free. I'll beat you up if I find out you're doing that. =) Okay, not really, but you get the idea.

ANYWAY... I went to Allston last night, and the show was AWESOME!!!! Not that I would have expected anything less from Mike. But even so - I can't even begin to put into words how excited I was to be there, and to hang out with him and Mic and all of the rest of the guys in the band, and all this other stuff. Once I learn how to post pictures in this blog, I'll put some up from the show. For now, you'll just have to look at my Yahoo! Photos site.

So, now that I've talked about that... There isn't much more to write about! 11 days until we're into our house and I am so excited! We're having a "Load the U-Haul party" on Monday the 29th if anyone wants to come help us get everything into the truck. We're having an "Unload the U-Haul party" at the new house on the 30th, if anyone wants to help us get it all out again =) Okay, I guess thats about it for now. Again, Mike, awesome show last night - let's not wait another 6 years to do it again!

Rain, rain, go away

I am so sick of this rain! It's enough to make a woman crazy! They said the sun may come out for a few hours on Wednesday. For the first time in almost 2 weeks, I think that will make it. There's all this crazy flooding, and I'm going nuts waiting to hear from our realtor who was supposed to put in a call to the selling agent of the house we're buying. Half of Rochester was evacuated, and we're trying to find out what, if any, damage there was to our house! It's something I think we'd be entitled to know about.
Besides, the rain is just depressing. It's so hard to get up and go to work when it's POURING out.
Anyway, I've got to go switch the laundry. Again. Just wanted to make the 2 WEEKS AND COUNTING!!!!!!!!!! post. Because I'm so excited to be in our house!!!

Life or something like it

Things around here have been so busy, but generally in a good way. John and I are all settled into our new apartment. We have a couch (albeit very ugly - but yay for supervisors at internships who just happen to have couch slip covers in the back seats of their cars!), and a pretty decent apartment for the two of us. I've enjoyed being here in Concord, it's nice having everything sooo close by - we can walk to Shaw's! Granted, we do our grocery shopping at the other end of the street, but it's nice KNOWING we can walk to Shaws if we need anything. We haven't had any major fights since moving in, which has been a big relief, since Theresa told me that all she and Chris did when they moved in together was fight. I was really nervous about it! But John and I have been getting along fine, and it's been really nice knowing that no matter how long or crazy our day has been, we'll still get to see each other at the end of it.
The month of May was just an over all crazy month. We didn't have any free weekends anywhere, so we were pretty much dead by the time Memorial Day weekend rolled around. And even that was busy on Saturday!
I had my college graduation (FINALLY) on the 21st, which went alright. It didn't rain, so I guess that was a huge good thing. It was cold, though, but I guess you can't have your cake and eat it too. I have no idea why though! :-) So as of right now I have 8 weeks of school left until I can be granted my bachelors degree. Now I am just frantically trying to find a job either in the Rochester DCYF, the Concord DCYF or the Laconia DCYF. Heck, I may even say Manchester too, but I've heard crazy things about that office.
We haven't really done any major wedding planning lately, but we are getting back the response cards pretty regularly now. I'm starting to think about how I'm going to wear my hair, what the flowers are going to look like, and other stuff like that. We need to book the honeymoon too. Oops :-)! So we're going to work on that at some point this weekend. I need to call the florist and the hairdressers and set up appointments and all of that good stuff. I'm going to get my dress altered on the 21st, so that will be good too.
This weekend we're heading to my parents to have lunch, so I suppose I need to wrap this up and head out. I'm going to try to be better about updating now that I have more free time - like... lots more :-D

Packing and stuff

I'm so excited about getting into our new apartment, but I'm so sick of packing! I was telling John on the phone last night that it always amazes me how much stuff I have that I don't even realize I have until I have to pack it all! It's rediculous! So every time I pack I always try to weed stuff out that I can get rid of or whatever, but I hardly ever find anything! It's more difficult too, this time, but I have to absolutely have everything out. It's not like moving out of my parents house where I can leave some of it and get it when I want to. At least we can do two or three runs back and forth between Concord and here Friday night. I would like to be able to get it all over to Concord Friday night, then we can have Saturday to unpack (for most of the day), and some of Sunday. It would be nice if we could get a lot of our unpacking done this weekend too. Fortunately for me, I unpack a lot faster than I pack, because I like to get it all up and done. Again I'll put out my plea for help Friday night. We still have our recruit Chris and John's parents have said they would come over and help, but it would great if we could get at least one more person. Actually, what would be great would be if U-Hauls weren't so expensive!!!
Anyway, I suppose I should start getting ready for my day. I so don't want to go work for 8 hours today. I wish I could call in dead today and tomorrow so I could finish packing and stuff.

Dude!

John and I found an apartment today!!! We're moving to Concord on the 13th! I'm so excited! So if anyone wants to help us move, Friday night's the big moving party! We're looking for all the help we can get, especially getting me out of my apartment. At least with Johns stuff we have a little more time to get his stuff out of his parents house. So far we have one recruit, thanks Chris!
I can't wait!!! :-D