The Nomads

OK, so today is Tuesday, December 20th and we have not had power/heat since Thursday, December 15th at 8am when a lovely little ice storm it us like a freight train. Our neighborhood (as does the rest of Greenville) looks like Bosnia with all of the snapped trees and damaged cars, houses, and roads. Needless to say we are not all chipper and in the holiday spirit! We have bunked with my family in Columbia till Saturday, Bryan's parents in Simpsonville Sunday and last night we stayed with Bryan's business partner here in Greenville. We all have colds, Heath is afraid we are going to leave him somewhere, and I have a upper back ache like no body's business...Apparently in between getting married and having 3 children I can no longer sleep on a blow up mattress. Lewis and Clark, I am not! :-)

So the good news? MMMMmmmmm.... we are officially in our new house and have officially sold our old house as of yesterday. Bryan is smiling all the way to the bank right now as I write. We made a substantial amount on the sale of our old house, but before you come knocking on our door for a loan, I plan on using a chunk of that to renovate our new house then the rest is going towards the mortgage to get that paid down...

The renovations are at a standstill due to the whole power thing...apparently workers need power to run their power tools...imagine that! We did order the cabinets which is what this whole project is hinging on right now...eta on those are January 23rd...here's hoping the cabinet business is slow and they crank those babies out. Let me tell you if you are looking for a profession to get into, cabinetry might be the ticket as its the biggest racket I have ever had the pleasure of dealing with!

Bryan mentioned that we might want to go ahead and purchase a Christmas tree....ya think? So let me tell you that sucker will have a couple of strands of lights and 50 candy canes on it and that will be the extent of my decorating if we are only going to have it for a few days! The Martha Stewart award will have to pass me by this year! I have also decided that everyone will be getting happy new year cards this year...because the thought of cranking out 80 Christmas cards this year makes me want to curl up in a ball with a bottle of vodka and drink myself silly! Of course this was the year that I was going to be so on the ball and I ordered several sheets of those cool Christmas stamps from usps online. Good one Christina! Oh well that will mail the Happy New Year cards just the same now wont it??!?!?!?

Well, here's hoping the next time I write we have power and some semblance of normalcy in our lives...my friend, Shelley says this builds character, and I think my smart ass remark back to her in an email was something like, "my character is already built, thank you, I am ready for the damn power to come on!" I will tell you this...I will be buying some kick butt gas logs for our new house, some french doors for the den so we can heat just that room, and lastly a little generator to keep our fridge and a couple of lights going. Live and Learn! I can be taught! Merry Christmas!