Whirlwind...............

For the past 10 days it has been a whirlwind of information around here. It holds a bunch of uncertainty. Changes from day to day. Caused a lot of insomnia as well, because I couldn't shut down my brain, too many things to think of. Why? you must be thinking..........well. It seems that come September my dear hubby will no longer have his great paying job here in Florida. BUT, there are a bunch of jobs going to be posted in Utah.............some 2200 miles away.

So, I told him I will start packing, lets go. This means I have to finish remodeling the rental house. The one that as of this moment has no kitchen, no bathrooms, no flooring, no paint, no light fixtures, no doors, no molding etc..... It is basically a box with sheetrock walls that aren't even finished being mudded yet. This also means, fixing up a few things around our own house as well. Also, going through and packing up a 3600 sq foot house. Getting BOTH houses sold. All in a matter of about 9 months! Also, Putting in for and getting a transfer for my job. Then moving 2200 miles with 4 BIG OL CRAZY DOGS! Oh yeah, did  I mention, have to get my daughters Jetta fixed, and sold. Gotta get a boat fixed and sold. When we move we have a travel trailer that we are using to move there, camping our way across country, I mean come on, have you ever seen anyone in a hotel with 4 BIG OL CRAZY DOGS???? Also 2 motorcycles gotta get across country too, and I told me husband it is his choice what he is doing with his 69' Mustang that is in about a million pieces in the workshop.

We have been wanting to move almost since we got here, almost 18 years ago. First we were really serious about it before 9-11. Then that happened and the job market sucked. Then he couldn't find a GREAT paying job to replace the one he had. Then the girls reached high school, and we told them we wouldn't move them once they reached high school. Well they are both graduated now. He has found another place that pays GREAT. It just happens to be a very beautiful place too. Within a 10 hour drive you can get to about 75% of the USA. So we are going to do what we can to make this happen. All he has to do is get the job in Utah and I think we are gone. I will definitely have my work cut out for me, But it will be SOOOOO worth it in the end.

He thought I was crazy as can be, had fallen off my rocker or something when I told him I would start packing. He is one that has to be grounded.......you know have a job, a place to live, everything in place before being able to hop on over to it. ME....hahaha! I jump with both feet, hope for the best, and pray there is something for my feet to land on when I land. We have been married for over 24 years now, and my way has never let us down yet. What do we have to lose? Life is all about the journey and adventures along the way. This will be one more wonderful one to add to the story books I am sure.

Look at that view!!!! I would love to live close enough to that to go whenever I wanted to. Did I ever mention, we love to camp. We love to go Jeepin too. We love to go on all day motorcycle excursions. Where better to do it than in a state that more than 75% of the state is a HUGE playground for people like us. So I will be spending a lot of time in the very near future purging every closet, drawer, box, nook and cranny, even more ruthlessly than I have been. Dividing things up of keeping, getting rid of if we move. Trashing, well I will just trash it now and be done with it, and if we don't move oh well. Already have a realtor sending me listings. Checking into POD type of moving costs. I already know which pieces of furniture are going and which ones aren't going. That was the easy part, got rid of half the house already :D (moving is a great way to get that new furniture you wanted) My oldest daughter can't wait for the day we move either, she will be getting most of the stuff we don't want. Don't know if she is too happy we will be 2200 miles across the country or not. I told her she was welcome to move to the same town as us, wouldn't bother us a bit.

Some people have asked..........You do know it snows there right? OF COURSE!!! I am counting on it! I am a yankee that has been transported to the south, and I don't do heat too well at all. For the past 12 years I have bugged my husband about wanting to move to Alaska, well Utah is close enough and probably as close as I am going to get, so I will take it.

When it snows it is just as beautiful, and there are even more things to add to the never ending list of things to do. We will enjoy ourselves even more. and I think even the 4 BIG OL CRAZY DOGS will love it too. I mean, maybe this will be them shortly after we get there. They have never seen snow before............

But I do know, as soon as it starts to snow Reesie will be in all her glory. She jumps at bugs at night time in the spring and summer when she sees them flying around. The other 3 snap at them too. Reesie goes nuts when you blow bubbles, so imagine her joy when there is snow falling like crazy too.

Needless to say, I haven't even seen my sewing room since my last finish, because all this came about the very next day. I need to put a label and a sleeve on it for the quilt show, and I have about a week left to do that. So that is top priority after work this week. Now that I am back to normal there too, been teaching the past two weeks, and that messes everything else up as well.

 Now that I have everything in chronological order in my head of what needs to be done over the next few months, I will be able to sleep more now too. That past 10 days have been exhausting. Also we got to see our best friends last night that moved away last year, and they are happy and are looking forward to flying out to Utah and visiting us. There are direct flights from Atlanta to Salt Lake City, yippeeeee! Well I have been up for the past 2 hours (in the middle of the night, again) So I am back to bed, so I can get up and get some things done today.