Boy, sure has been a long time. Much too long. Feels like I neglected a good friend but it’s been one heck of summer.
Let’s see, where do I begin. Well, in the last couple of months, we moved cross country from the East Coast back to the West coast. Moving was such a pain this time. The military usually moves us when hubby gets a new assignment but this time we moved ourselves since it was our choice to move back to be closer to family. The moving company we went with was terrible. We had one problem after another with them. You know how you send out bids and then fall for the lowest bid you get – yeah, that was us. I know, I know, we should have known better. But we thought we did our homework, check the reviews online, check BBB etc so we thought we were safe. Anyway, lesson learned, even though it was a very expensive one.
Thankfully, we do have all our stuff now even though we ended up paying double what they originally quoted. It felt almost as if they were holding our stuff for ransom until we paid what they wanted so we decided to just cut our losses and pay them just so I can have all my furniture. We did get everything pretty much in good condition. Everything, that is, except for the piano. The legs on our brand new piano broke during the move so I’m waiting for my claim with the moving company to come through. All in all, it’s a big pain in the you know what trying to deal with this company. Ga’o le kiga ai fua o le faiai i le kele o le kuluku o gei kagaka.
A couple of weeks after we got settled in our new place, hubby left for Iraq. He’s deployed there with his unit for a year. We’re all trying to be strong and to do what we need to do, but it’s hell being separated for so long. I’ll write more about this experience and this whole Iraq thing later…
The good thing is the boys are doing good since their cousins are around. They all go to the same schools now so that really helps them. They all hang out after school, my high schooler is on the varsity football team with his cousin and he’s reconnected with other friends so its great. Anyway, school has been in session for them since the second week of Aug so they are settled in and adjusting well.
What else have I been doing? Well, we had to make some trips up north to check our home. It’s about a 5 hour trip from where we live now. We chose to come live down here for now because most of my family live around this area but we have a home that we’re renting out right now up north. To make a long story short, my tenants pulled a number on us and broke their lease early and left owing me two months rent. When they left, we found some problems with the house that we had to take care of so we had to go there a lot to take care of all that. The good news is I’ve got new tenants in there now. The property management company that takes care of the property for us tells me this family has excellent credit and references so I’m hopeful we won’t have to go through this kind of bs again. Oh, and btw, I’m going after the previous tenants for rent owed even though there’s no guarantee I’ll get it.
Ok, guess that about catches us all up. I’ll try not to be too long about the other post:-). Have a great week everyone. Fa for now.
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