June 3, 2010
Sorry about the blog not being done on Sunday, but it was right in the middle of our move. That's pretty much all we've done this week: cleaning and moving. Besides Memorial Day.
We spent all last week cleaning our old apartment and gradually moving stuff into our new place. We spent forever cleaning it top to bottom for a very strict cleaning check like our landlady said she'd do (including scrubbing the floor under the fridge, oven, etc), but when she finally came to check it, she basically just glanced into each room and said we did great. So it looks like we'll be getting back all of our deposit. We took probably around 10-15 round trips in total to bring all our stuff, including one trip that brought all the furniture. My uncle and our friend Chris helped us move stuff, which was super nice of them. My uncle and aunt also loaned us their table and chairs since our table isn't really very snazzy-looking. We want our new place to look as good as possible so that when people come to see it to see if they want to buy it, they won't be dissuaded by our crappy furniture.
So now we have a 3-bedroom townhouse to live in for about 2 months, so we decided we needed a couch. We managed to get one off of Freecycle.org (best site ever) that's black vinyl with tears in it that have been covered up with black duct tape. So much for not having crappy furniture. We are planning on covering it with probably a big afghan or something. Also, since the bed we had in our old apartment belonged to the apartment, we don't have a bed now. In the past week ish, we've been sleeping with one of us on the couch and one of us on a pile of folded blankets on the floor beside the couch. But we are planning on going bed-shopping on Saturday, when we will be able to make use of our friend's truck to transport a new bed. We would just borrow one from someone, but we figure eventually we will need to buy our own bed anyway, so why not now? I am quite excited to go bed-shopping. We have unpacked most of the boxes, but we've still got a few to go, and our new place looks SOOO big compared to our old apartment. It's a full 5 times bigger!
Our old computer died last week, to the point that repairing it would cost more than getting a new one. Fortunately all our files are safe on the hard drive. So we ordered a new computer (we got a great deal on it) and it just arrived about an hour ago. Christian is VERY excited about it (I consider it an early anniversary present since he can finally play his game I gave him for his birthday on it) because of the nice big flat screen monitor it came with, and the nice speakers and great graphics and other awesome specs that I won't even try to mention because I know nothing about them and I'll be sure to mess something up when I talk about them. He calls it his “new toy” and has officially named it the Mealey Master. Right now he is in the process of setting it up, and he keeps exclaiming over the big screen and the cool graphics. He will probably be playing his game and watching movies on it until I make him go to bed tonight.
On Memorial Day we went stream fishing with my grandpa, grandma, uncle, aunt, and cousins. It was Christian's first time to go fishing ever, and sort of my first time as well since I don't remember the last time I went. It was quite fun. We got to wear waders and everything. There was a nasty deer carcass decomposing in the water which my cousins were quite excited about. We strained some disgusting-looking bugs out of the stream with a big mesh cloth, and used them for bait. Here are some pictures of it all for your own personal enjoyment. Neither Christian or I ended up catching anything (actually, my grandpa was the only one who caught anything and he only caught 2 trout, one of which he let my cousin play with and release). But we had lots of fun!
Since in the process of moving out we didn't have time to go shopping much, we ate out a lot and consequently didn't have an opportunity to make a new recipe this week to share with you. We apologize and will try a new recipe within the next couple days so that you can have a new recipe soon.
We love you all!
Brittany and Christian
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