The very first UPDATE!!!!!!!!!!!

alright, so i guess its time to update this blog. I guess ill start it where all the fun began :) 


Sept 16th - (seems forever ago doesn't it?) This is when i consider all the fun began, my mom and I flew out from Colorado to the very humid North Carolina to find us a new Home, at this point all I knew was that Steven would be coming home anytime between the 26th of September to the 1st of October, which was a little nerve racking, not having a time or even a day. So we spent most of the day that Thursday on the plane with about an hour layover in Charlotte, the flight wasn't bad it really does go by faster if you have someone with you! we looked around at a few places after we got settled in, but didn't find anything we liked until Friday, i had stayed up really late online looking for places that were both affordable and not really gross with a bunch of bugs and mold, mold is the biggest problem out there/here. its so humid that it is nearly impossible to find a place that doesn't have any. Any way we found a place, i pretty much fell in love with it the second we drove up, guess what color it is... you guessed it PINK! haha, It is a 2 bed 2 bath duplex with a garage and a really nice kitchen and a pretty spacious living room too. we have a small back yard but it isn't fenced in. and we practically have a forest in the back yard. I'm sorry i don't have any pictures yet, i hadn't really had the time to take pictures but i'm sure i will when we get back. 
Our rental company is Town and Country, and let me just tell you now, I do NOT like them at all, they were very friendly when we went to look around but when we found a place their face suddenly changed from "i'm nice and will do anything you need" to "I don't care who you are or where your living all i want is your money and thats it" . It took alot of working with them to be able to move in without Steven. Because Steven is the Fishy who makes the money in our little family they wanted documents of his LES which is pretty much a statement that says who he is getting paid from etc. And of course I didn't have that, I also didn't have power of attorney so i couldn't sign his name on the lease or any papers or try to find his LES to give to them. And with that they pretty much said no sorry, you cant move in. After arguing and playing phone tag with them for an entire day, I finally got them to let me in, but with a catch, they had me pay double the security deposit, AND, 2 months rent in advance along with the pro-rated rent for the month, all up front. YUCK!. oh and get this, they wouldn't accept, checks or credit/debit cards , or cash... huh? so i had to either get a cashiers check or money order in the next day, because it was a Friday, and they wanted the money on Saturday, but thats not so hard right? wrong again, we bank with Wells Fargo, and they don't have any of those our in north Carolina, so our best bet was to take a trip down to the next town over and find a Wachovia bank,(wells fargo bought them out a couple years ago). when i got there they told us that they could do it , but then it took about 45 min for them to figure out how to get me a cashiers check from my account because... dun dun dun.... North Carolina is the very last state to be transfered from Wachovia to Wells Fargo so once again we hit another speed bump but finally got it all figured out, it just took, a very long time and a whole lot of driving around. Thank goodness for rental cars right? I don't know if i would have been able to do all of that and keep my head on straight if my Mom wasn't with me, she couldn't do much because all the papers and what not are in my name but she was my support system and kept me from going crazy! and to think I managed to get all of that done in about 3 days, whew!  
now for the more relaxing. kinda.
Saturday- My mom and i woke up bright and early and signed the lease at about 10 am. we then managed to move all of our stuff in a storage unit to the new house by ourselves except a book shelf and a Christmas tree, and get this, we moved it all in a little PT Cruiser haha. it took about 10 trips but we got it all! :) then we went shopping for some furniture. I ended up getting a Queen Size mattress with Box Springs for only $199 !, granted it isn't a pillow top or anything fancy , it is comfortable though, and bran spanking new, the reason it is so cheap is because it is a crazy quilt mattress, it is half mattress material and the other half is funny patterned quilt looking material. but who cares, you cover it in sheets and blankets anyway. And i got a nice black futon for the same price, they were delivered the next Monday. After shopping i took my mom to the beach, it wouldn't be fare to drag here all the way out there just to help me move and not show here the beach when its only 25 min away. She really had fun, we collected seashells and ended up getting soaked, we weren't wearing proper beach attire, oops. 
Sunday- I took my mom to the airport in the morning, and started unpacking all the boxes we moved the previous day, that took most of the day. 
The next week or so was pretty boring, i spent my time home alone unpacking, cleaning, laundry, homework, laundry, playing with the stray cat by our house, and yet more laundry, who knew that Steven and i combined had so many clothes and linens, all of which smelled pretty funny after being in a storage unit for 8 months.