moving day: the back story

It is not only used to relieve stress, but is also known for increasing sexual vigor in men( like that was necessary!) viagra buy helps to maintain an erection THREE times longer as compared to other cialis. If you are suffering from these problems then sexual enhancement products can help you to sildenafil best price have better sexual desire, and there are some foods which help you to have better sex or eliminate some problems. These capsules are based on herbs, so it does not mean levitra online that can is consumable with caring about precautions. NWIL HEPAVIVE is a hepatic antioxidant supplement http://djpaulkom.tv/landmines-and-tanlines-tour/ buy cialis online that contains 100 mg strength of its dosage.
seriously, those two words strike fear in me. i HATE moving. i mean, let’s be real, it takes me a full day to pack for a simple weekend trip – now imagine me trying to pack everything we own up, taking into account that of course, that we can’t do simple moves where we simply box everything up in one house and move it to another, you know an easy “point a to point b” thing, you know, a move everything from one kitchen to another kind of deal.

no, we like to have our stuff in storage, in unused rooms, mixed in with other people’s stuff, etc. & then we like to move it to four different locations and spend time deciding what we do and don’t need and what’s going to all four different locations. oh, and don’t worry the locations are in two different states!

i swear, my head almost exploded last week. i am still recovering!

before i give all the glorious details though of the move, i feel that there must be some back story told for you to understand what went down and why i dislike moving so much currently.

here it goes:

in 2005 i moved home from college. two month after moving home i moved again to provo. three months after i moved to provo, i moved back home. then six months after that i got married and we moved into our first apartment, a super cute basement apartment that i absolutely loved. not kidding, we walked in and it was love at first sight but that’s a story for another time.

now remember when you got married? all the gifts you received and then all the stuff you bought for your first home/apartment – the vacuum, cleaning products, a red microwave (oh, wait that was probably just me, i love my red microwave!), dish towels, shower curtains, etc. remember all that?

ok, keep that in your mind. now envision that 6 months after you move in you are offered the opportunity to house sit for a couple while they are on their mission for a year and a half. they have a fully furnished home that they want you to move into and it’s huge & gorgeous. you still pay rent but it’s no more than what your paying for the basement apartment. the only catch is – all your stuff goes into storage bins in the garage other than clothing, school books, etc.

yep, that was us. six months after we moved in, we moved out and everything went into storage bins. after all, it’s only for a year and a half right? we can live without “our” stuff for 18 months. no problem.

that’s what we thought. we did move a year and half later but we moved in with my mom and grandparents for what was supposed to be just 6 months (a short transition move) but ended up turning into close to 2 years & when we moved i was 8 months pregnant so the move was very unorganized & chaotic. more stuff went into storage and yet again we thought “what’s 6 more months of our stuff in storage…?”

yep, 6 months turned into two years, but there was always a light at the end of the storage tunnel, because we thought for sure when we moved for med school we would be in our own place. we would have our own apartment again. i would again have a need for my red microwave or my eight storage bins full of halloween decor.

we thought wrong.

you see, we just moved in with my in-laws and will be here for at least 2 years, maybe even 4 years. so the storage saga continues. what was just going to be just a year and a half, and then just six months, and then just another year or so, has now all added up, and will be combining with another 4 years for a grand total of 7 years. yes, when this is all said and done our stuff will have been in storage for 7 years – and that’s if we do indeed get our own place after this. who knows, maybe we’ll add on more years just for the fun of it, for kicks and giggles! 😉

now don’t get me wrong, we have been very blessed in the housing department through all of this so putting our stuff in storage was a small price to pay. we have never payed more than $550 a month for rent including utilities and have lived in a very nice area the whole time, as all three places in utah were in the same city. we have never had to do the whole starving student, college housing, roach infested, scary neighborhood, apartment thing – and for that i thank my lucky stars. i don’t do scary very well and i don’t do penny pinching broke very well either because all our money is going to housing – so we are very appreciative of all the people who have loaned us their homes!!!

i’m only relating why it’s been so tricky to move & make moving decisions. i think the biggest problem is we kept thinking “just” – it’s just six more months… ha ha!

never ever think that – i’m telling you – no good comes from it! we have learned from experience. although, i think our situation is rare, maybe? anyone else out there have your stuff in storage since 6 months after you got married? can anyone beat us for time spent in storage?!? please do share. i’m talking like everything you own other than your clothes, books, toiletries, etc.

or are we the only crazy ones who would rather live with other’s or with other’s things in order to save money?!? one thing is for sure, we’re both getting to know our in-laws really well. broc just finished his turn and now as he puts it, “it’s my turn to do the time!” oh, good times all around!!! i tell him it’s gotta be better than being flat broke because we’re paying $1200 a month for a tiny two bedroom with an income of less than $2,000. i don’t care that people says it’s “those” times (meaning the early, no moola years) that bring you closer together & that they grew the closest when they had only two pennies to rub together – save it! i’m not buying it. you can have your two pennies – i’ll take living with family to save money any day of the week! 🙂

coming up tomorrow: the actual move!