Hurrah! The move is over! So we actually moved like 3 weeks ago but its taken awhile for me to get comfortable with the condition of the place to actually sit down and write a bit.
The move it self, was hell. We procrastinated big time on getting a U-haul so there were none on the Saturday of the move, but we were able to get one for Sunday. Saturday then, was spent driving back and forth all day with our cars delivering boxes, and we didn't even get them all finished like we had hoped. Sunday, our friends who owed us a move came over and Jason helped load the u-haul while Sarah who is pregnant, and can't lift over 10lbs was designated throwing the random things around the house into boxes, then to vacuuming the house. We ended up doing 3 runs with the truck cause we had a small 14-footer. We have way to much crap. Oh and this whole weekend we had the cats in the Pet Hotel in Petsmart for their sanity/safety and ours.
By the end of Sunday, we had two freaked out cats, a garage full of boxes and a townhouse full of random furniture/boxes. We now live in a gated community with an actual guard house with security people. But with new communities are the dreaded Home Owners Association, and they have some truly frustrating rules. For example: the townhouse that we live in has no drive way it goes straight from the street to the garage, which fits two cars. In the HOA rules, residents are not allowed to park in the visitor parking lots. We had to get special permission to have one of our cars parked in visitor parking since we were moving in and our garage was packed with boxes. the security people made it known to us that this action is not tolerated by the HOA and that they were being gracious and that we should be very thankfully that they let us park in the visitor parking. Fast forward to today: this weekend we're going to Costa Mesa for a visit to the ocean (we'll be bummin on the beach all day Sat Rayna if you're interested in visiting) and a trip to Ikea Sunday so we're renting a pick-up cause our cars are too small for furniture. Anyways, today I asked if i could park said pick-up truck in the visitor parking for 2 hours while waiting for Justin to get home and they said NO!! PARK ACROSS THE STREET AT THE CASINO, NO PARKING ALLOWED!!
Never live in a HOA community! The neighborhood may look nice but individuality is not allowed. Ok..venting is now over.
So for the last couple weeks we've been slowly getting things to where they need to be and it's starting to look pretty good.
In other news, Justin has a new job. He's working at the hotly debated Yucca Mountain Project. Yucca Mountain is the possible future home for a nuclear waste depository. The test tunnel has been completed and now they are getting ready to start making the real tunnels. So what Justin is doing is a field geologist at drill rigs, so when cores come out from the drill rig hole he does a quick field identification of the rock strata then boxes it up and is goes to the lab for more detailed identification. Once the drill rigs hit the desired depth ~1000 feet, seismic detectors will be placed in the holes so any movement can be detected. Me, I'm doing the same thing with no interesting news.
