It's Friday the 21st. I don't have a lot of online time, but since I've started updating my blog again I don't want to fall too far behind. My computer took another sh** this week. It is so frustrating. I just bought it last month. I took it in Tuesday morning, it just all of a sudden quit working on Tuesday night, right before I was getting ready to book our return flight. Yep. That cost me a LOT more money. They went up considerably. They thought I would get it back that day, ha! I picked it up after they closed last night and that was only because I whined and pleaded with them. I had flights to book, plus my other flight and hotel reservations to print, plus I needed to get copies of our pay stubs to the apartment complex we're trying to rent so that we can move Chad in Tuesday and not have to pay for 2 weeks worth of hotel rooms. If they had to call and verify everything he said that would take several days and we would have to wait for the next available apartment, there was one that just opened up yesterday that someone backed out of we can have if everything checks out soon. I hope so, that will be one less thing to worry about.

Mom and Dad came to town Tuesday. I didn't even know they were in Oregon. Mom was thinking about flying in to care for the kids so they could stay in school while I went to Texas. They were thinking about already coming to Oregon, but Mom didn't want to be tied down for a week here (actually Dad didn't want to). I guess they did come to Oregon. They came in Tuesday morning and left Wednesday morning for the Coast. It was a nice visit. Dad spent most of his time getting tires for the truck and RV. Ha ha.

It worked out for the best that the kids are coming with me to Texas. We're flying to El Paso early in the morning. Chad will pick us up and then we'll stay in EP for the night and head to NM on Sunday. Chad graduates Monday and then we'll all make the 9-10 hour trip to our new city. We're looking forward to being together as a whole family again. This will give the kids a chance to take in everything and know what exactly they're moving to instead of it being all a surprise when we move. We plan on visiting their schools plus just take in everything so it will be a little familiar when we move.

Well, I am off to finish packing and getting the house in ship shape before we leave.

Ack! I just now realized that I've been tagged! I was tagged by Heather. All right, I've read the rules, here they are: I must post the rules, then list 7 random things about me and then tag 7 others to do the same by leaving them a comment.

1. I LOVE love love animals! Kitties especially.
2. I love anything Disney, Mickey is my favorite. I even did Derek's room in a baby Disney theme when he was a baby.
3. I love heels. It seems I'm becoming more addicted to them everyday. I actually am dreading the cold weather, just for the fact that I can't wear my heels with my jeans. I guess I'll have to get a nice pair of boots with heels. There's something about them, I feel sexy in them.
4. I ride a motorcycle. Whether or not I'm riding it depends on what I feel like wearing that day, and yes, I DO take a pair of heels with me to change into.
5. I am addicted to organizing. I love it. I salivate at the Container Store. It is probably a good thing that the closest one to me is 6 hours away. I love the bins section at Target and W-Mart.
6. I am moving to South Texas. I'm kind of excited, sometimes wary, sometimes I'll think "what the heck were we thinking?". I was just realizing that I've never lived anywhere out of the Pacific Time Zone.
7. I changed my diet this summer and have gone down several sizes. I am now a size 4. I cannot tell you how freeing this is. I really feel like my old self again. My good old self. I feel like ME finally.

Here is my 2nd entry in the "This is me" blog. This one is challenges us to do a "In My Honest Opinion" page.

I did my first layout in the "This is me" challenge album. This is my cover.

I survived! I took the loooong trip from Oregon to El Paso, TX and survived. I drove Chad's truck to him in New Mexico, (had it loaded to the top of the canopy) by myself. After work on Tuesday the 28th, the kids and I drove the 3 hour drive to Bend where I dropped them off at their grandparents. I stayed the night there and then left on my own the next morning at 6:00 AM sharp. I stayed that night in Provo, UT. It was so difficult finding a place to stay, as all the University and college students were arriving with their parents that week. I drove around for over an hour before I finally found something available. It happened to be a ritzy expensive pad, but at that point it was after 8:00 and I really didn't care I was so exhausted. There was a lot of road construction and stalled traffic for over an hour in SLC and I was just ready to be done.

I left there at 6:00 AM Thursday. I met my parents for lunch in Farmington NM which is only 45 min. from where they live in CO. That took a couple hours out of my time, but there's no way I could miss not seeing my parents when I was so close. Thankfully I'd already arranged a hotel room in Roswell, so I didn't have to worry about finding a place to stay when I arrived. I got there right after 9:00. I couldn't meet with Chad until 4:30 Friday, so I had the day to kind of relax and play. I still got up early, but went in the hot tub for a while and then just relaxed and watched tv in my room. I checked out at noon and then headed for the mall. It's not a mall by my standards, but they don't have a many choices in Roswell. They have only a few department stores. I went to Penney's and Beall's and found a few clothes on sale. I hate having to pay sales tax, I'm not used to that, but it wasn't bad with the clearance sales. I went next door to Hobby Lobby, never been in one but I managed to purchase a couple of things. It's not a lot different than Michael's, has some better sb choices though. After that I went to self car wash place and washed the truck, tried to de-bug it.

I decided it was time to be on my way to see Chad, so I drove the 45 min. to the center and then had to wait in the visitor's parking lot. He finally arrived at about 4:45. It was so good to see him, it had been 3 months. He has lost a lot of weight. He lost the majority before he left but now he is all toned and muscular and still managed to lose 2 pants sizes. He was so shocked to see me. I have lost a lot of weight too and am now almost to the size I was before kids. I didn't tell him, so it was really a surprise. It's great being told I'm "hot" by my husband. Of course, after not having been together for 3 months I would have been hot anyway. Hee hee. I wasn't allowed a visitor's pass until 5:00, so we waited until then. I toured the campus a bit, went with him to his room, met one of his roommates and waited while he packed for the weekend. I met his buddies and then I drove his buddy to El Paso so he could catch an early morning flight. We stayed the night there and just toured El Paso and goofed off there the next day. We stayed the night again and then on Sunday drove to Carlsbad Caverns in NM. We toured that and then got a room in Carlsbad. We ate out and then just chilled at the motel. Monday rolled around way too quickly. Back to El Paso we went. We ate lunch and then it was time to drive me to the airport and say our goodbyes.

A few hours later I was home again. I went the next day to Bend and picked the kids up and we drove back home. Exhausting. The kids started school the next day and now have been in school for just over a week.