Well, things are clicking along for me at the moment. I’m feeling better every day on the Lexapro. I just don’t stress like I used to and I get terrific sleep. I’d almost forgot what it felt like to wake up rested. The bad thing is that I don’t have the stamina to stay up with Eric until midnight. I’m up to bed about 10 wish and usually out before 11. I don’t know if Eric has noticed a difference yet but I have. I don’t have a million things going off in my head at once. You know the perpetual list of things to do running in your head. I don’t have that much any more. I don’t repeat the list a million times either. It’s like I’m OK with just being. I’m not coming home and running around cleaning, putting things away and then maybe sitting for a few minutes. I’m actually just sitting, hanging out and reading. It’s nice. Weeeeee….

I can’t believe it’s been almost two weeks that we’ve been in the new house. I love it. Everyday I love it more. It’s so cute and nice. I love that we painted before we moved in. We still have touch up to do but haven’t done it yet. If that’s any indication of things I’m sure we’d have the taupe walls if we hadn’t have painted. I’ve still got a few rooms to paint and jazz up a bit but I’ll wait until Eric is in Vegas in March. I’ll probably be up to it then. Speaking of painting last night Eric did the funniest thing… or said the funniest thing. We were getting ready for bed. Some how we got to talking about the ceiling and the painting. Eric said that one side of the inset bugged him because it wasn’t done right. I wasn’t going to say anything about the spots along one side of the ceiling where it had been taped too high and now some of the white curved onto the ceiling so the blue wasn’t straight and sharp. SO we started laughing because we were talking about the same spots. I guess it’s bugged Eric every night since we moved in. Every time he lays in bed he looks up at it, and I thought it was just me.

We’re almost done unpacking everything. I’ve just got about 4 boxes in the office to unload and some straightening to do. I bet if I got to it I could knock it out in a few hours but I don’t feel like it. I’ll probably do it when Eric and Ross work on the garage door opener. That should be interesting since neither of them have a clue what they’re doing. Oh well, it will be a learning experience for them both.

Oh, work… my new job is going well. It’s just different. Before I would get about 20-30 emails from the night before when I would log on the next morning. Now I’m luck if I get that many emails in a day. It’s like either feast of famine. I’ll take the famine though. It’s just weird. I’m working a lot on web design stuff and I’ll be learning a lot of things at the same time. By the end of this year I should be pretty good.

I was looking at my journal today and realized its been a while. Waiting for Internet access at home makes it tough to find time to post to my journal. Oh well, Wednesday we’re supposed to get it. I guess we’ll see.

So things have been going well. Eric and I got more things taken care of this weekend. The laundry in the hall is gone, all clean and the office is 1/2 put away. All we have left is to finish the office, fix the guest room and unload the storage unit. Not a lot to do. It’s nice to have a house. I love it. I can’t believe I haven’t done it sooner, Ok I can…

Last night we finally went and saw the last of the three Lord of the Rings movie. Eric really liked it. I thought it was a good movie but I wasn’t stoked about it, but then it was Eric movie, not mine. I still can’t believe that in the almost 2 years we’ve been together we still haven’t gone to a movie of my choice. I guess I’ll just start going with my friends. A friend of mine from work and I were talking about this very thing this morning. I think we’ll go see Mona Lisa Smile since our SOs won’t take us.

I’ve been taking the Lexapro for almost a week now and I feel great. I don’t think I’m so edgy and easily irritated (except when people talk during a movie). I guess we’ll see how things go. The Dr. said it should take about 10 days to build up in your system and I’ve been taking it for 5 so I’m half way there. One thing I’ve noticed is that I get better sleep. I actually sleep most, if not through the whole night. Before I’d be tossing and turning and lucky if I got 5 -6 hours. SO at least I’m getting that. It’s nice to wake up and feel refreshed.

OK, I’ve got to get to work. no more procrastination.

Well, the move is over, the condo is clean and we’re done! This weekend, Saturday, was moving day. Jennifer, Robert, Chad, my mom, Eric and I did the moving. I didn’t realize how much we had. I didn’t think it was that much since I’d been giving stuff to Goodwill all year but there was a lot of stuff. We got everything moved in a few hours and ended up having pizza afterwards. I was just glad it was done.

Sunday, mom and I went to Ikea. Ikea is like Costco, I’m always glad if I can walk out and have spent $100 or less. This time I spent WAY more but I had planned on it since I was buying the furniture for the master bedroom. My mom and I had her car filled to the brim with boxes. The last thing we had to pick up was the box with the entertainment unit in it. We had to drive to the furniture pick up to get it. As I’m moving boxes around and trying to figure out the best way to put this new box in my mom was standing there and helping try and figure out the best way to do it. She went to take a step back and began tripping on the yellow curb thing and began to fall backwards. I was sure she was going to get hurt until she ended up falling on her bum on the cart (box was still on it) and it began to roll away. We laughed so hard. What were the chances of something like that happening? When we got back from Seattle Jennifer and Robert were over watching football with Eric. I’m glad someone enjoys that stuff. I just don’t like football. I can handle basketball and baseball fine. Anyway, I started putting the entertainment unit together and was so rude to everyone. I knew I was tired but by that time I was afraid to stop. I ended up going upstairs around 8ish, (after we’d put the new bed frame together, to take a “short” nap. I ended up sleeping until 9 am the next day. I was amazed how tired I was. I knew I was tired, I just didn’t know I was THAT tired. I even missed saying goodbye to my mom when she left. Sorry mom 9 This weekend just really made me appreciate the people in my life that they would tolerate my being such a B*#ch and be so helpful. I don’t think I could ask for anything more. Tomorrow I go back to work?. Yeah me?.

It’s been forever since I’ve written… how bad am I. Last week there was so much snow every where that Eric only had one day of classes. he went the first day and then the rest of the week was cancelled due to the weather. I didn’t go to work Wednesday and Thursday…things are getting sort of crazy. This weekend we boxed a lot of stuff and took it over to the new house. I love the new house, but I HATE MOVING… I don’t know how many times in this process I’ve wished I could just wiggle my nose and it would all be moved and in the right place. but … such is not the case… We got quite a bit moved over. I was glad about that. The hope is to get most everything moved over except for furniture and then on Saturday move the furniture and be done with it all. I’m hoping we can do that…I just want it all over. It’s the little things I’m looking forward to, like the fact that in the new house the whole house is the same temperature. In the condo the downstairs is almost 10 degrees cooler… why, because the furnace they put in the place is too small for the square footage…I can’t wait to have the fireplace again and the kitchen in the house is HUGE. I’ll be a baking/cooking maniac. My mom is coming down on Friday to help with the move and I’m taking M/TU off next week so I can put everything away before I go back to work….cross your fingers that everything goes well.

A day home. Today the roads were way worse than yesterday. I didn’t even try to go to work today. It was a sheet of ice out there. Did I stay home? Of course not, I conned Eric into going to the house and finished painting the office. When we first got there we started to walk over to Greg and Hollie’s to find out where the mailboxes are since we now had the key. The snow on the ground was covered with this thick crust of ice so I was trying to step hard so I could crush the ice layer and actually walk as opposed to slide all over the place. We got about half way and I took a HUGE nose dive. My hands broke through the ice layer and in a matter of seconds I was on all fours in the middle of the street. Eric tried to help me up but I was being a snot and didn’t want help. I was so mad I felt and hitting the ice with my hands and breaking through it hurt so bad. It was like putting my hands through glass and hitting a million needles. My hands stung so badly and I got a cut and started bleeding. After being angry for a while I walked back to our house because I didn’t want to fall anymore.

We got all the painting done, things cleaned up and I think we’re ready to go. Now we’ve just got the curtain rods and blinds to hand up and the grout to seal. I’m hoping the weather will lift soon and everything will melt away so we can take stuff over to the house, unload it and get everything moved but the big stuff. I don’t know if that’s going to happen. I’m really anxious just to move and have it over.

The fact that I haven’t been able to get to work, or when I do no one else is there makes getting those activities done. Eric and I have quite a few boxes packed and ready to take over to the house but, again… the weather isn’t helping the situation. I have a feeling that tomorrow isn’t going to get any better since we’re in another 36 hour winter storm warning. Keep your fingers crossed that everything will work out well and we’ll get moved without incident.