"wow, amanda is actually posting!"
that is probably what you all are thinking after over a month of not posting. well, october was a bad month(needless to say after the lack of postage on this thing!) we moved three times! yep, three. we found a place in september and moved from the hotel that the company was putting us up in to a basement suite on oct 1. well it didnt quite turn out how we thought or were told it would. here is a list of bad things that happened there:
1. over the first few days the land lady who lived upstairs let her little annoying dog run around the whole house and it seemed to find a favorite spot in our living area to pee every day. jo-ben stepped in it and she refused to clean it up for us and it was pretty nightmareish.
2. she decided to raise the rent on us about 4 days after we moved in, what were we sposed to do? say no? we were already there!
3. her mother (grandma) stays there four nights a week to help take the land ladys 7 year old daughter to school every morning, we werent told this initially but her room was right beside ours in the basement suite! not so great for a semi newlywed couple.
4. the 7 year old kid upstairs hates school. big deal your thinking? well that equels her standing at the top of our stairs screaming at 7:45 on the dot every morning, not so great for night owls like myself.
5. we shared a kitchen which i thought i could live with at first but i simply cannot. i LOVE to cook and i really tried to be in the kitchen when they were not but the ONE TIME in a month that we were there that grandma and i happened to be in there together she got so stressed and basicly freaked out at me.
finally 6. one night i came home from work (at moxies, more about that later) and i had worked 3 split shifts in a row (translation: leave the house at 9:30am and get home around 11 pm) and i had two more the next day and the day after and my uniform REAKED. i smelled like garbage as my husband so affectionatly informed me and b.o. so i decided to put my uniform in the wash on the very shortest cycle as to not wake anyone up. also to let you all know the laundry room was in the basement in the right corner of the house and land ladies room was on the top florr on the opposite side of the house. anyways, grandma was still up in her room (beside ours btw!) and as soon as she hears the washing machine she comes scurring into the laundry room and reems me out becuase i was going to wake up her daughter and shes a single mom and i have no repect and so on and so on. at this point i was SO tired from work the past few days and just wanted a clean uniform but i hate confrontation so i just turned the washer off and i told her i would wake up early and turn it on in the morning. THEN after all of that she has the audasity to ask me if im using my own laundry soap!!!! WHAT!? as if i am staying there, paying to stay there by the way, to ruin everybodys lives and steal from them. i was so mad. and to top it all off jo-ben was in calgary (3 hours away) for a class all that week and wasnt comming home for two more days at that point. the kicker was i set my alarm and woke up the next morning to turn on my laundry and it was already on cause grandma turned it on for me. now tell me this, if i was down stairs only a few rooms away from the laundry room and i couldnt hear it and it didnt wake me up how on earth would it have woken her daughter up!?!?! asldfhqwe*#$)(#YIOFNIO3uy54237854ui2enrIO@*$*#()@$!. i was so mad! oh AND THEN! i took my laundry out and i had accidentily put thrown in a new pair of orange underwear and a few other things and because it sat all night long in that hot water it wreaked some of my tank tops!!!! grrrrrrrrrrr.
so when my husband came home a few days later we decided to move which didnt make the land lady happy but we paied her for another month and just left because we couldnt stand it there anymore. we moved all of our stuff to our friends place who are also in the middle of packing and moving (i felt horrible but they are good friends and didnt mind at all, we are really lucky and blessed to have such good people in our lives here!) and a week later we moved into our basement suite which we are in now.
we werent sposed to move in here till the 15th because they wanted to paint but tehy heard our sob story and let us move in (they are our friends parents)
its so great. private enterance. way nicer house. big living/eating area. common room with a pool table. super nice kitchen (all to myself) and HUGE bathroom with clawfoot tub and nice big bedroom with a king sized bed which we love and french doors leading into the living area. its just perfect for us right now.
i am going to be so glad when our townhouse is built and we get it all finalized and buy it cause i really really want a place of our own. no more renting hassles. although this will be a nice place to stay in untill the townhouse is finished because i cant forsee any type of hassles in the future, i think its a great fit for right now.
now, no more moving around for a while!!!
other than that craziness, life has been awesome. here are a few random facts about whats been going on in our lives:
1. i started work at moxies classic grill. i love it, the girls are all great and i am a good server and im making killer tips. last night i averaged 27 dollars an hour with my tips so its a good thing to support my shopping and salon habit. and joben love having someone to call to bring home foood whenever.
2. i died my hair brown. i love it alot, pictures to come when i find my camera, we still havent fully unpacked everything.
3. joben took a class in calgary for his pipline x-raying stuff and he got 97%- top of his class! woot woot! i am SO PROUD OF MY HUSBAND!!! he is really realyl smart so i knew he could do it but we heard that it was an intense course and i wasnt expecting top of the class so i was and am pumped.
4. my sister is comming to visit us!!! i am SO EXCITED. we havent seen any family since august so im very excited....we are most likely not going home to bc for christmas too so we are going to have christmas early together here, its going ot be alot of fun.
5. my parents jsut got back from mexico and celebrated their 26th wedding anniversary i think... i can never remember what year it is. yikes!
and finally 6. we are getting a new vehicle, i think maybe a for explorer sport trec. i think thats what its called. we are looking at a tundra, an f 150 and an explorer. we are albertans now so we need a truck. joben is hunting for one so hopefully he finds a good one!
oh also - as i stated above i painted our whole new place, i never really knew how to paint very well before but my friends mom showed me a bunch of tricks and i turned out to be really good at it. i think the place looks great!
well there are some updates about our lives... i will be posting pics soon... when i dig out my camera ill take pics of our new place and of my hair and hopefully some snow here soon. it snowed near halloween and then we got a chinook and it was nice and warm out but i looved the snow, it was really dry not like in bc so if it wasnt icey you dont need to scrape your windshield it just floats off when you start driving. really pretty snow flurries. well, i am off to make some honeygarlic meatballs for when my man gets home from work. blessings to you all!
