Thursday, January 17, 2013

Lyk, omg. Facebook suxxorz

I'm so tired of Facebook. I'm obviously addicted to it (because, who isn't?), but damn, I wish I could quit it. Before this past Presidential election, it was a barrage of "OBAMA'S TAKIN' OUR JORBS! DOWN WITH OBAMACARE! DID YA'LL KNOW HE'S ONE A DEM MUZLIMS?" Then everyone settled down for a minute. Now it's "OBAMA'S TAKIN OUR GUNS! ERMAHGERD!"

It's either relentless political crap that most of the people posting are too stupid to get right, or "look at my sick kid", "look at my kid taking a shit on a toilet", "look at my kid sticking jelly beans in his nose", "look at my kid's first mugshot". Seriously? No one cares. Build a handy blog like this one, so if I want to read about your kid pooping, I have to go searching for posts related to that, versus it being front and center every time I open my newsfeed.

Now I will proceed to tell you about my own little terror. He's getting a cold, which is making him a little mentally slow, and attitudinally (made-up words FTW) belligerent. He shit in his big boy panties tonight after I spent 5 solid minutes begging him to not do that. Then he lost his mind when I put him in the bathtub. Then he bargained with me to get out of bedtime, "mommy, I watch ONE more Bubble Guppies, den it's time for bedtime." And I caved, because letting him watch that 23 minute cartoon made him tired enough to not fight me when it was finally bedtime for reals. He made me read 3 books, then sing 2 songs before I could leave his room.

And now I'm writing this, avoiding Facebook, surfing Reddit, and feeling like a terrible person because I should be in my living room Wii Zumba-ing my fat ass off.

(Oh, also... we got a house in a suburb of Cleveland! My last day at the Pharm is Feb 2, and we'll be loading up all of our stuff on Feb 9. Hooray!)

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Cleveland Rocks!



So um... we're moving to Cleveland. Basically, Dan had to move on from the company he was working for in Bryan. Nine days later, he got a job offer at a company in Bedford Heights, Ohio, which is a suburb of Cleveland.  Defiance is about 3 hours from there, so we're moving. YAY! .... sort of.

I'm getting excited for the whole, finding a new house/daycare/starting a new job thing, but I also hate all of that stuff. Packing up all of our crap again may put me over the edge, into crazy-town. And I've talked to so many daycare centers, I had to make a spreadsheet to keep them all figured out.

We keep finding houses/condos via Craigslist. Some of them have been beautiful, some have been dumps. Some have been $1100/month, super old, "meh" houses in beautiful neighborhoods. Some have been 2-bedroom townhomes with a NO CATS policy. Some have been gorgeous 3-bedroom townhomes with a cats-are-welcome policy, finished basement, pool on the premises, posted on a Friday morning, discovered Friday night, sniped out from under us Saturday morning. But I'm not bitter.  We're just so used to having no problem getting into a place we want because we have awesome credit and live in tiny towns where practically no one rents but us.

As of 11:20am, there have been 214 rental apartments or houses posted to the Cleveland Craigslist page today. That's kind of a lot. Hopefully we can find something soon and get this show on the road.