Reentering the Twitter world!

It has been awhile since I blogged or twitted! ...in case you didn't notice. haha
Just thought that twitter maybe a good place to have my countdown!

Back to the west coast. Step one...

It's time! I'm so excited that we are getting ready to put our house on the market. There will be work; there will be stress; but it's all good.

Severe Homesick

I have been getting very homesick this past month..... we feel like we are too far away from everyone and everything. I mean everything..... We have been here for over 2.5 years now. Things are going good for both Stakit and I. Not to mention, the weather is nice; grass turned all green all of a sudden; flowers are blooming; sky is almost always blue; the neighborhood we are in is not bad; and we are fairly happy with this house..... Somehow.... this picture is not perfect.

I was playing my iPod today and Michael Buble's "Home" came on. I don't know what it was; my tears just start rolling down my cheeks and wouldn't stop. Yes, I know it's not a first but today my tears just would not stop.... Even with my sunglasses on but still. I had to quickly rush back to my car and had a moment to myself.... a very long moment.

We really didn't anticipate this will be this hard for us. 2.5 years! Why couldn't we just "get over it"? Why? I simply don't have the answer.

First day of Winter

Has it been crazy or what?? We have been checking Northwest weather. Burrrr! I'm sure they don't feel like this is only the first day of winter! On this corner of the country, it's been high 70s for a good while. However, the next 2 days will drop down to only high 40s and 60s and gets pretty cold at night, in the 30s!!!!

Since this is the new mark of the "new season", let's talk about what's going on last season, Fall (+ Summer... maybe Spring!).

Things for us finally started to look better. Physically, I started feeling normal at the beginning of Fall. I was able to reactivate my gym membership and started exercising. By October, I think I was pretty much all healed; I felt great and Strong!

Fall was also the time we mentally started to feel better! As some of you know, we had a very tough year. Even without our depressive feelings from the relocation, I don't think that it would have been easy. You may notice not only that I quit updating this blog here, Stakit also was not super motivated to write a little something here either. Sorry :( There are times we felt better, like when Cindy & John, in-laws, and Andrea and Andy came to visit us. Additionally, phone calls and emails from some of our friends really helped us out a whole bunch. (Correct, we didn't want to talk much, please don't take it personally.) Boy, we just really don't need to go back there! We are glad that we have moved on.

As far as the house, Fall was also when we figured out there's no way we're willing to lose a very big load of money selling this house and move to anywhere. We know we will be in this house for a L-i-t-t-l-e-W-h-i-l-e. Oh well, it is what is it. It's funny how once someone's attitude / expectation changes, their perspective completely changes. We allowed ourselves to enjoy Florida, to do stuff with new people (w/o seriously looking for friends), and to get a Wii.

In Fall, I also become a new auntie. I was very fortunate to get to meet my new niece and took a bunch of pictures of her for later days. She's a sweet little baby girl.

Let's come back to 'now', we are enjoying our mild winter here. I am very excited that I have Christmas this year! Last year was a scam, I barely could function. In-laws were here to spend Christmas with us but I felt like they ended up taking care of me. I felt bad. This year I sure will enjoy My Christmas with my family. My in-laws are on the way here and I am so looking forward to spending some good time with them!

Hope that's the last box

We have been in this house for over a year now. Some rooms are painted; our rooms have been rearranged for hundreds of times; we are half way through changing out all the light fixture; this past week, out of the blue, I had this idea. I wanted to turn one of the rooms in to an art / project room. Before I do anything, I want to clear out all the Stuff in that room. We have managed to piled a number of things in this room (we barely can touch the wall). This evening we were uncluttering and we were getting almost to the wall! There was a box sitting in the corner....still taped! An Unopened box from the move? You gotta be kiddin' me.

I was hoping it was something good in this box. No, just some stuff from my old busniess that I had been looking for. I hope that's the last box.