Life in Havasu!
So much has happened since we got here I don't know where to even start! I got my job with CVS, able to transfer. Tuesday 6/14/11 we all converged on Lookout and Parkview. So many friends showed up to help pack up the truck. They started at Mama's and got her stuff then came to our house. Kenny B. did a LOT of the truck packing to make sure that there would be enough room for our stuff later!
After much deliberating and cantankerating and arguing and trying to be patient we got mostly everything in. We had an AWESOME pasta dinner at Mike and Holly's. Let's see, there was, Roger W., Jonathon C., Paul and Kristine M. and Vickie. Jennifer and Justin V., Brent S., Joe A., both Grammas, the OTHER Paul M., Alexia Y., the Zacharias Family, and Shelly S.
All of Mama's cats peed themselves on the way to Lookout. So they all got baths immediately. I was surprised at how well they all did for never having had baths before! Even Jassi, though she took out her anger on Mama the next morning by stabbing her in the legs and arms! Bad girl!
So we left Ohio Wednesday 6/15/2011, I had to be at new CVS Wednesday 6/22/2011! Roger W. and Jonathon C. drove the moving truck and hauled Mama's car behind them and Nick and Mike drove the van with all the elctronics. Mama and I drove the Jeep and had all SIX cats with us.
Mike and Nick drove all if Wednesday thru the night and most of Thursday. Roger and Jonathon and us all stopped 2 nights. We found that La Quinta hotels are VERY pet friendly, (THANK JEHOVAH), and so we (Mama and I), made it to Tulsa, OK the first day. Twenty hours out on the road, about 16 actual hours driving. The cats were a bit cranky for the first couple hours but they slowly resigned to the fact that this was how things were gonna be. So they settled in. Bella and Brammy had the biggest crate because Brammy is my achy boy and Bella is fat. LOL. Chelsie and Fidget had a medium crate and they did fairly well other than a couple grumbles early on each day. Puddy had the picnic basket style carrier and Jassi had the small crate. Jassi was UNHAPPY!!
That first night I was SO tired I was about fit to be tied. We got a room with a recliner for Mama to sleep in and that was fine but the cats hadn't been out all day and poor Fidget climbed up next to her and relaxed and peed right behind her in the chair. SIGH! So we hurried and got a chucks pad and sopped it up and cleaned it best as we could and put another chucks pad down under Mama upside down so she could sleep there. Got everyone as settled as possible and just died. Next morning we got showers and checked in with the guys. Mike and Nick were WAY ahead and Roger and Jonathon were just a bit ahead. We got everyone packed back into the Jeep, but only after I had to extract Jassi from behind the bed and about lost a hand. I was already exhausted but we made it to Albuequerque that day! Sometime that day the trailer on the van blew a tire so the guys had to change it. Thankfully we weren't far behind so we came up and had our blinkers on for them so they could work safely. Then later the fuel pump acted up. That night we had a HUGE room but a crappy recliner. I slept like a rock but Mama hardly slept. I papered the floor corners with disposable chucks pads in case any cats thought the corners would be good places to pee. The next morning we ate leisurely. I was too tired to hurry.
ALL the guys had stopped that night but Nick and Mike had started out at like 4AM. Roger and Jon left about 6 or 7 AM. We didn't leave till almost 11AM. Up till then we did really well keeping up in spite of the fact that I was the only driver and THEY all had someone to spell them. So we didn't roll into Havasu till almost 10 PM. We were all exhausted. They helped me carry all the babies in and their heavy litter box. We stayed in a rental house for 2 weeks.
Then started the getting the carpet out of OUR house. And trying to get some kitchen stuff put in so we could eat. Nick was here for a few days and he helped us choose paint. Roger and Jonathon helped as much as they could. We did have fun though. We all went swimming.
Then Roger's daughter Rachel and her boyfriend and baby came up from Maricopa to visit. I have missed her!! We swam again!
I started my new job. Whew! Nick and Jonathon and Roger went home that second Friday 6/24/11. Nick still didn't know what we was gonna do about a job. He started on getting the house ready to sell.
Mike and Mama and I moved into our house 7/4/11. There was still no carpet because we hadn't found anything cheap enough that was GOOD carpet. So we camped out on concrete. I made a bed for me out of 2 memory foam mattress toppers and 4 comforters. Mike and Mama used 2 of the recliners. I dug out the TV and tried to hook up the DVD player, but it only played in black and white. Turns out I had it hooked up wrong. DUH! We didn't have cable or internet yet. So we watched Burn Notice in black and white till I figured out what I did wrong, then we watched somemore in color.
I got cable and internet later that week and we had ordered carpet from Lowe's. But it wouldn't be here for a couple weeks. Sigh.
Saturday 7/16/11 we took a "Funday" and we went to Oatman and Laughlin and some places in between! We got some cool pictures!
I still keep on working. I like it fairly well here but we do anywhere from 200 to 700 RX's a day! We were only doing 100 - 130 a day in Akron! Nick heard from Best Buy, HE got the Covert Ops position. So he can work from home!! But he had to train first. So....
Two days ago Nick started the training for the job. And today 7/20/11 we are getting carpet! Finally after today, we can unpack! A month here and we can finally start settling. The carpet guys are here right now which is why I have enough time to sit and think and write like this. I am so tired and SO MUCH has happened in the last month. We missed the convention this year. It was last weekend. But Nick will go to the one in Ohio this weekend. At least one of us will get it! So I am signing off for now because I have to work this afternoon/evening and I need a nap. Which I think I'll take while these guys work. Then I can get ready for work. Whoohoo.
Poor Puddy. He's crying. They are all unhappy. All 6 are locked up in the laundry room. :( Poor kitties.
OH and BTW! I got my hair cut! Its short! Not as short as I've had before, but short.
Here's some pics!!
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After much deliberating and cantankerating and arguing and trying to be patient we got mostly everything in. We had an AWESOME pasta dinner at Mike and Holly's. Let's see, there was, Roger W., Jonathon C., Paul and Kristine M. and Vickie. Jennifer and Justin V., Brent S., Joe A., both Grammas, the OTHER Paul M., Alexia Y., the Zacharias Family, and Shelly S.
All of Mama's cats peed themselves on the way to Lookout. So they all got baths immediately. I was surprised at how well they all did for never having had baths before! Even Jassi, though she took out her anger on Mama the next morning by stabbing her in the legs and arms! Bad girl!
So we left Ohio Wednesday 6/15/2011, I had to be at new CVS Wednesday 6/22/2011! Roger W. and Jonathon C. drove the moving truck and hauled Mama's car behind them and Nick and Mike drove the van with all the elctronics. Mama and I drove the Jeep and had all SIX cats with us.
Mike and Nick drove all if Wednesday thru the night and most of Thursday. Roger and Jonathon and us all stopped 2 nights. We found that La Quinta hotels are VERY pet friendly, (THANK JEHOVAH), and so we (Mama and I), made it to Tulsa, OK the first day. Twenty hours out on the road, about 16 actual hours driving. The cats were a bit cranky for the first couple hours but they slowly resigned to the fact that this was how things were gonna be. So they settled in. Bella and Brammy had the biggest crate because Brammy is my achy boy and Bella is fat. LOL. Chelsie and Fidget had a medium crate and they did fairly well other than a couple grumbles early on each day. Puddy had the picnic basket style carrier and Jassi had the small crate. Jassi was UNHAPPY!!
That first night I was SO tired I was about fit to be tied. We got a room with a recliner for Mama to sleep in and that was fine but the cats hadn't been out all day and poor Fidget climbed up next to her and relaxed and peed right behind her in the chair. SIGH! So we hurried and got a chucks pad and sopped it up and cleaned it best as we could and put another chucks pad down under Mama upside down so she could sleep there. Got everyone as settled as possible and just died. Next morning we got showers and checked in with the guys. Mike and Nick were WAY ahead and Roger and Jonathon were just a bit ahead. We got everyone packed back into the Jeep, but only after I had to extract Jassi from behind the bed and about lost a hand. I was already exhausted but we made it to Albuequerque that day! Sometime that day the trailer on the van blew a tire so the guys had to change it. Thankfully we weren't far behind so we came up and had our blinkers on for them so they could work safely. Then later the fuel pump acted up. That night we had a HUGE room but a crappy recliner. I slept like a rock but Mama hardly slept. I papered the floor corners with disposable chucks pads in case any cats thought the corners would be good places to pee. The next morning we ate leisurely. I was too tired to hurry.
ALL the guys had stopped that night but Nick and Mike had started out at like 4AM. Roger and Jon left about 6 or 7 AM. We didn't leave till almost 11AM. Up till then we did really well keeping up in spite of the fact that I was the only driver and THEY all had someone to spell them. So we didn't roll into Havasu till almost 10 PM. We were all exhausted. They helped me carry all the babies in and their heavy litter box. We stayed in a rental house for 2 weeks.
Then started the getting the carpet out of OUR house. And trying to get some kitchen stuff put in so we could eat. Nick was here for a few days and he helped us choose paint. Roger and Jonathon helped as much as they could. We did have fun though. We all went swimming.
Then Roger's daughter Rachel and her boyfriend and baby came up from Maricopa to visit. I have missed her!! We swam again!
I started my new job. Whew! Nick and Jonathon and Roger went home that second Friday 6/24/11. Nick still didn't know what we was gonna do about a job. He started on getting the house ready to sell.
Mike and Mama and I moved into our house 7/4/11. There was still no carpet because we hadn't found anything cheap enough that was GOOD carpet. So we camped out on concrete. I made a bed for me out of 2 memory foam mattress toppers and 4 comforters. Mike and Mama used 2 of the recliners. I dug out the TV and tried to hook up the DVD player, but it only played in black and white. Turns out I had it hooked up wrong. DUH! We didn't have cable or internet yet. So we watched Burn Notice in black and white till I figured out what I did wrong, then we watched somemore in color.
I got cable and internet later that week and we had ordered carpet from Lowe's. But it wouldn't be here for a couple weeks. Sigh.
Saturday 7/16/11 we took a "Funday" and we went to Oatman and Laughlin and some places in between! We got some cool pictures!
I still keep on working. I like it fairly well here but we do anywhere from 200 to 700 RX's a day! We were only doing 100 - 130 a day in Akron! Nick heard from Best Buy, HE got the Covert Ops position. So he can work from home!! But he had to train first. So....
Two days ago Nick started the training for the job. And today 7/20/11 we are getting carpet! Finally after today, we can unpack! A month here and we can finally start settling. The carpet guys are here right now which is why I have enough time to sit and think and write like this. I am so tired and SO MUCH has happened in the last month. We missed the convention this year. It was last weekend. But Nick will go to the one in Ohio this weekend. At least one of us will get it! So I am signing off for now because I have to work this afternoon/evening and I need a nap. Which I think I'll take while these guys work. Then I can get ready for work. Whoohoo.
Poor Puddy. He's crying. They are all unhappy. All 6 are locked up in the laundry room. :( Poor kitties.
OH and BTW! I got my hair cut! Its short! Not as short as I've had before, but short.
Here's some pics!!
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