Jamie
06-01-2009, 07:37 AM
hey ladies! i hope everyone is doing well. i know i have been gone for a long time now...but so much has been going on. even in the last week i've just got dumped with all kinds of bad news and stress.
over the last two months i have been searching for an apartment for derrick and i to move in to when he comes home. we found a very nice place with a great big living room and a dog park. i put down the deposit and signed the lease and everything. two weeks later they credited our deposit back to my bank account without telling me why and it was a big mess.
then i was in a rush to find another one. derrick and i came across a GREAT deal for an apartment in VA which is where we wanted to be anyways. that day i looked at it and decided it was perfect. i put down the deposit and all that. long story we were apprived and a month later, we're practically all moved in...check out a few pictures:
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anyways, it's absolutely gorgeous and i wish we could post more than just a few pictures because i'd show them all to you. obviously we're missing key furniture pieces but that's alright.
so anyways, last week i worked over 60 hours. i am short staffed [my opener got married last weekend and was on his honeymoon] i had been waking up at 3a everyday to open our gym by 430a. i was working almost 16 hour shifts every day. it was awful. on top of that i was moving and stressed from trying to transfer derrick's an mine car insurance title registration etc etc etc. and found out d's licnese had some issues so i actually had to go to court...it was one big mess and it's still not all cleaned up.
then friday came along and a fricken' bomb fell. i found out one of my employees was stealing from me and unfortunately he still works for us because HR is doing an investigation right now. i also found out that derrick is coming home 10 days earlier than i had anticipated. he was trying to surprise me but i ruined it. last friday i was NOT ready for him to come home. the apartment wasn't close to being ready and i wasn't ready mentally for him to come home and to handle the stress from military to civilian life for him...but then after i got home and i was ready to relax and done with surprises...my mom threw out the biggest surprise of all...she announced ever so bluntly that her and her husband of over 15 years [my stepdad] were getting seperated. I LOST IT!
this weekend i spent all day and night saturday moving everything else into the apartment. i don't want to be at my parents anymore and also derrick is home tomorrow so it needed to be ready. my mom and i got a uhaul and from 10a-1a the next morning we moved everything. just me and her. i have no idea how we did it. we drove everywhere picking up furniture from places hours away from eachother and then we moved two couches and the mattress and boxspring and all the other boxes and crap by ourselves up two flights of stairs and in an awkward opening called our front door. lol it was RIDICULOUS! no one offered to help but frankly i'm glad and proud we did it by ourselves...and i can't believe we did it. lol
so there you go. i'm exhausted and stressed and there's just so much going on. i was always happy that my parents split when i was 2yrs old and i didn't remember any of it. now at 20 my mom and stepdad are splitting. it's a very odd situation and i've got all kinds of feelings around it but i will post that later and maybe get some advice from you girls. derrick comes home tomorrow...and then we live happily ever after...i hope. i just can't wait to spend our first night together in our new home. it's all i've been waiting for this entire year he has been gone.
i hope all is well with you girls <3 i'll try and be on here and there...i'm sure i'll need some military girly time with derrick coming home and transitioning into civilian life and all that. i appreciate any responses from you girls. thanks for everything <3
over the last two months i have been searching for an apartment for derrick and i to move in to when he comes home. we found a very nice place with a great big living room and a dog park. i put down the deposit and signed the lease and everything. two weeks later they credited our deposit back to my bank account without telling me why and it was a big mess.
then i was in a rush to find another one. derrick and i came across a GREAT deal for an apartment in VA which is where we wanted to be anyways. that day i looked at it and decided it was perfect. i put down the deposit and all that. long story we were apprived and a month later, we're practically all moved in...check out a few pictures:
http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=974fd13e73&view=att&th=12195353f824e2a5&attid=0.16&disp=thd&realattid=f_fvdbw2ly15&zw http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=974fd13e73&view=att&th=12195353f824e2a5&attid=0.6&disp=thd&realattid=f_fvdbva2s5&zw http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=974fd13e73&view=att&th=12151225d5be2ee1&attid=0.1&disp=thd&realattid=f_fuufifg80&zw http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=974fd13e73&view=att&th=12151225d5be2ee1&attid=0.6&disp=thd&realattid=f_fuufiil25&zw http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=974fd13e73&view=att&th=12151225d5be2ee1&attid=0.8&disp=thd&realattid=f_fuufijwz7&zw http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=974fd13e73&view=att&th=12151225d5be2ee1&attid=0.4&disp=thd&realattid=f_fuufih1v3&zw http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=974fd13e73&view=att&th=12195353f824e2a5&attid=0.8&disp=thd&realattid=f_fvdbvewt7&zw http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=974fd13e73&view=att&th=12195353f824e2a5&attid=0.9&disp=thd&realattid=f_fvdbvgk48&zw http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=974fd13e73&view=att&th=12195353f824e2a5&attid=0.11&disp=thd&realattid=f_fvdbvkyz10&zw http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=974fd13e73&view=att&th=12195353f824e2a5&attid=0.12&disp=thd&realattid=f_fvdbvmrf11&zw http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=974fd13e73&view=att&th=12195353f824e2a5&attid=0.15&disp=thd&realattid=f_fvdbw0ca14&zw
anyways, it's absolutely gorgeous and i wish we could post more than just a few pictures because i'd show them all to you. obviously we're missing key furniture pieces but that's alright.
so anyways, last week i worked over 60 hours. i am short staffed [my opener got married last weekend and was on his honeymoon] i had been waking up at 3a everyday to open our gym by 430a. i was working almost 16 hour shifts every day. it was awful. on top of that i was moving and stressed from trying to transfer derrick's an mine car insurance title registration etc etc etc. and found out d's licnese had some issues so i actually had to go to court...it was one big mess and it's still not all cleaned up.
then friday came along and a fricken' bomb fell. i found out one of my employees was stealing from me and unfortunately he still works for us because HR is doing an investigation right now. i also found out that derrick is coming home 10 days earlier than i had anticipated. he was trying to surprise me but i ruined it. last friday i was NOT ready for him to come home. the apartment wasn't close to being ready and i wasn't ready mentally for him to come home and to handle the stress from military to civilian life for him...but then after i got home and i was ready to relax and done with surprises...my mom threw out the biggest surprise of all...she announced ever so bluntly that her and her husband of over 15 years [my stepdad] were getting seperated. I LOST IT!
this weekend i spent all day and night saturday moving everything else into the apartment. i don't want to be at my parents anymore and also derrick is home tomorrow so it needed to be ready. my mom and i got a uhaul and from 10a-1a the next morning we moved everything. just me and her. i have no idea how we did it. we drove everywhere picking up furniture from places hours away from eachother and then we moved two couches and the mattress and boxspring and all the other boxes and crap by ourselves up two flights of stairs and in an awkward opening called our front door. lol it was RIDICULOUS! no one offered to help but frankly i'm glad and proud we did it by ourselves...and i can't believe we did it. lol
so there you go. i'm exhausted and stressed and there's just so much going on. i was always happy that my parents split when i was 2yrs old and i didn't remember any of it. now at 20 my mom and stepdad are splitting. it's a very odd situation and i've got all kinds of feelings around it but i will post that later and maybe get some advice from you girls. derrick comes home tomorrow...and then we live happily ever after...i hope. i just can't wait to spend our first night together in our new home. it's all i've been waiting for this entire year he has been gone.
i hope all is well with you girls <3 i'll try and be on here and there...i'm sure i'll need some military girly time with derrick coming home and transitioning into civilian life and all that. i appreciate any responses from you girls. thanks for everything <3