gentlemen, please start your engines

Day 1

Rock Hill, SC to Ashville, NC
Total Route 127 miles 2 hrs 19 min

Day 2

Ashville, NC to Paducha, KY
Total Route 421 miles 7 hrs 1 min

Day 3

Paducha, KY to Mound City, MO

(Hi Mom & Dad!)
Total Route 507 miles 7 hrs 22 min

Day 4

Mound City, MO to Cheyenne, WY

(Bye Mom & Dad)
Total Route 546 miles 7 hs 55 min

Day 5

Cheyenne, WY to Orem, UT
Total Route 453 miles 6 hrs 34 min

someone please stop the world i want to get off

even if it's just for 5 min...i'm trying to pack today and my kids are both on one and driving me nuts, i can't seem to accomplish much of anything because they're both whinning and carrying on...this would go much more smoothly if they were off playing w/ someone...which i'm trying to get ahold of the nearest person to us, but her phone is busy!!!

well....crapola!

aj got a hand me down dress from someone at church, it was TOTALLY cute, a just darker shade than celery green and totally adorable on her, well...as usual she did not listen to me and got bleach on it (i was doing some heavy duty cleaning for the move and it involved bleach water)...so it was essentially ruined...until i got an idea, brilliant imo!

i found some rubber bands and did it all up like you do a t-shirt when you're going to tye dye it and then i dipped it in the bleach water a few times and hung it up to set, about 10 min or so later i came back to it and gave it a good rinsing, hopefully got the rest of the bleach out, and undid the rubberbands...not as cute as it was originally but it's actually quite cute in it's new sorta tye dyed look...so she can still wear it, i'm so excited, it hopefully will hold up now w/ the "torture" it's been through though

so what do ya think, brilliant or what?

and we have #7!

just looked in riley's mouth and #7 tooth has arrived LOL, so now she has the 4 front on top, her bottom center two and #7 is the tooth just on her right of center!!! YAY for teeth!

revealing

sometimes i put info in here that is probably way too revealing...ie the previous post...but i feel it is necessary at times for my soul to "run naked" just for a moment or two...hope you don't mind the streaking LOL

man am i stupid!

the girls were messing w/ some of my old stuff today and an old envelope/letter fell out (didn't even know i still had it) very non-descript...anyone else reading it would have no idea what it was for...but i know...and i feel so stupid that it still pricks my heart and causes me pain...i am happily married, i could not ask for a better man as my husband, no one else i ever dated even comes close to how amazing he is...yet i'm still hurt...the only thing i can think is that i never really got my closure...

oh, lol, i guess ya'd like to know what it was LOL...envelope just had my name on it very large (pretty much the whole front of the envelope) and then inside it said "i'm so sorry! we need to talk tomorrow. okay? once again, i'm sorry!" like i said, it doesn't say a whole lot, well...but this was from the guy i dated before i graduated from college...talk about pain...i invested way too much into him...the way i took care of the dork was almost like i was his wife w/o any of the benefits LOL needless to say this letter was prior to a talk where he wanted to tell me he needed a 2wk break to decide what he "wanted" which was just his chicken way...i was content to date him until i left college once i finally realized it was not going beyond where it was, looser still broke up w/ me though after the 2 wks...it was a huge blow to me, i didn't just cry, i wailed uncontrolablly for what seemed like forever...which is still so stupid because at that point i knew he wasn't going to marry me...i can only chalk it up to the loss of it and then of course no one likes being dumped...

now the envelope and letter are in the trash, but i will admit i still need some closure, it lacks because we actually did remain friends once all was said and done until i got engaged and then he dropped off the face of the planet...no good bye, nothing...

oh, and not that i think i'm all that and a bag of chips because i'm totally not, but he was so not worthy of me...

but can i tell y'all what a lucky woman i am to have my sweet husband, he is simply amazing and i'm not just saying this because i miss him terribly and won't see him until probably the end of next week making it almost a month since i last saw him...i'm saying it because it is totally true!

t minus 2 days, 17 hrs, and 42 minutes

until we leave that is...and that's if we don't get a wild hare and leave wednesday night and drive for a few hrs...which might be nice to do, but ya know...fil may very well be WAY too tired for such a thing as he will have gotten up very early wednesday to get here

things i still have to do

-pack kitchen

-pack clothes we'll not be using in the next week

-wrap pictures

-turn in cable modem

-deposit money from garage sale

-close bank account

-get rid of stuff that didn't sell

-pay comporium bill

-clean clean clean

-paint aj's wall where she colored w/ crayons

-take trash to dumpster

-get gatorade out of carpet that babysitter did not bother to clean up when aj spilled it (don't even get me started!)

-survive

i still need more dang it!!!

http://boards.babycenter.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?nav=messages&tsn=1&tid=5453&webtag=bcus11962

i need him asking and her saying yes or maybe even more...i'm not feeling my denouement is complete here!!!

magic wand please...

swish and flick and the following will be done

-rest of the apt packed other than the essentials needed

-all items sold for my asking price

-apt cleaned to level of sparkly

-wall painted in girls room where aj colored

-a/c magically to work in the car

if i can't have a wand, can i at least have a fairy godmother to come bippity boppity boo it all for me?