Sunday, August 15, 2010

moving right along

well i have learned that there is nothing like major life changes, a broken laptop, and a broken air conditioner to suck the blogging air right out of you. but i have decided to move on and live in the present (at least on the blog.)

remember how in my last post i mentioned the a/c guy was coming the next day between 8 and 11? yeah, well he didn't. he came at like 2:00 and he said the whole thing was broken. that was monday. we then continued to live the entire week in hell (and i really mean hell) as we tried to figure the whole mess out with the owner, the warranty company, as well as the contractors that were assigned to replace it. it was a huge mess. we moved into a hotel and spent two days there watching t.v. and playing with the phones. in the end, josh's boss heard about our dilemma and called a guy and it was fixed within two hours.

it's all about who you know i guess.

so we're back and ready to finish moving in. and more importantly, i'm ready to start blogging again! we've got exciting things happening! this is no time to shirk! our laptop is still broken so josh has reluctantly kindly agreed to let me use his work laptop until "my" laptop is fixed in the next millenium soon. i will just have to post all the loveliness about our drive from california to florida when i am able to retrieve those pictures. just know that those adventures include stitches and sitting on the side of the highway for two and a half hours.



so...



how about these little guys? my new best friends. i have seriously never had anything cause me to sweat and give me the chills at the same time as these lovelies have.


i've heard that they hiss.

3 comments:

Melody said...

Growing up in South Carolina, those bugs were the bane of my existence. There was once that I walked into a room at school and saw one that was the size of my fist. I am NOT exaggerating. It was all I could do to not let out a blood curdling scream! Cameron keeps telling me that the ones we see here in Utah are different and aren't nearly as bad... Shudder...

Angela said...

When we lived in a trailer in Florida down on the Church ranch outside Orlando, we either had those or the big wolf spiders, in addition to lizards, ants, frogs and who knows what else was hiding in the lovely dark blue carpet. I enjoyed my time down there, but I think it takes a braver woman than me to take up permanent residence there. You rock. Of course after living there, bugs everywhere else don't seem to bother me so much.

jamie said...

don't worry. the hissing ones live on another continent. i'm pretty sure...

i hate those as well - you described my feelings exactly. BUT i've found a way to get them withOUT getting near them. the broom. whack them enough times until they've had enough, then do what you've gotta do to get rid of them. i prefer flushing them. several times, just in case.

this is probably the best comment ever, huh?