FYI...I'm not dead
Just so you know I haven't fallen off of the face of the earth. Life being what it is has kept me incredibly busy. The house is officially on the market and we've been showing it for a week. We entertained one offer that wasn't great, but the corker was that the buyer wanted us out on the 31st and that was just way too soon for us. Right now I'm just busy keeping the house as neat as possible with three grubby boys and running around like mad with all of their activities. A few weeks back Craig and I ran in the Ice Breaker 3 mile road race which was a great experience! We also had a garage sale which was very successful.
In the mean time I was able to go through so much stuff. Almost ten years of accumulation was pared down over the past few weeks. It feels awesome to purge so much crap! The great thing about going through boxes you haven't looked at in years is finding treasured memories. I found a box of letters I'd saved and found some real gems! My favorites are the ones I found from my mom and brother who both died in the last couple of years. To read something that they wrote long hand and to hear their voice in your head after missing them these past few years really made me so happy that I'm a pack rat!!
Of course, I also read letters Craig wrote while he was out of the country during our engagement. He was so good about writing each and every day. He never left out how much he loved me and couldn't wait until we were married. Unfortunately, when you write each day, you do have a tendency to run out of things to say. So as I was reading several of these letters I had to laugh at the detail in which he wrote about the mess hall and how he meticulously described his meals.My trip down memory lane made all the pain in the ass of going through so much crap worth it. I'm ready to have some quiet time now. I just really want to sell this house, go into Escrow and veg out for the next few weeks. I miss blogging and checking out all of my favorite blogs, but you all know how it goes. Sometimes you're just too damn busy for even your favorite things.
In all of the craziness I also decided to have a Cinco de Mayo party. I'm not sure what kind of crack I was smoking because I was trying to prepare homemade Mexican food while leaving the house periodically to show it. We did have a ball and many margaritas were consumed. Craig apparently needed to blow off some steam because he kept pouring us shots of tequila which I, of course couldn't turn down. In spite of all the shots, we stayed up to get the house show ready and cleaned up all of the evidence of the reverie. The rest of the weekend was blessedly quiet. The first quiet weekend in quite some time. It was a welcomed change to our frantic pace.
In the mean time I was able to go through so much stuff. Almost ten years of accumulation was pared down over the past few weeks. It feels awesome to purge so much crap! The great thing about going through boxes you haven't looked at in years is finding treasured memories. I found a box of letters I'd saved and found some real gems! My favorites are the ones I found from my mom and brother who both died in the last couple of years. To read something that they wrote long hand and to hear their voice in your head after missing them these past few years really made me so happy that I'm a pack rat!!
Of course, I also read letters Craig wrote while he was out of the country during our engagement. He was so good about writing each and every day. He never left out how much he loved me and couldn't wait until we were married. Unfortunately, when you write each day, you do have a tendency to run out of things to say. So as I was reading several of these letters I had to laugh at the detail in which he wrote about the mess hall and how he meticulously described his meals.My trip down memory lane made all the pain in the ass of going through so much crap worth it. I'm ready to have some quiet time now. I just really want to sell this house, go into Escrow and veg out for the next few weeks. I miss blogging and checking out all of my favorite blogs, but you all know how it goes. Sometimes you're just too damn busy for even your favorite things.
In all of the craziness I also decided to have a Cinco de Mayo party. I'm not sure what kind of crack I was smoking because I was trying to prepare homemade Mexican food while leaving the house periodically to show it. We did have a ball and many margaritas were consumed. Craig apparently needed to blow off some steam because he kept pouring us shots of tequila which I, of course couldn't turn down. In spite of all the shots, we stayed up to get the house show ready and cleaned up all of the evidence of the reverie. The rest of the weekend was blessedly quiet. The first quiet weekend in quite some time. It was a welcomed change to our frantic pace.
posted by WarriorM @ 6:30 PM
1 Comments:
At 9:07 PM,
Rosie said…
Hey! You left out the magaritas when you told me about the party. I haven't had a magarita in far too long. I'm counting the days to the IRONMAN. We've gotta lot of catching up to do!!
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