Would you be in my wedding?

Saturday, February 26th has finally arrived.
Last night, Friday night was easy, fun and fast!
Tonight... emotional, difficult customers and overall very distracted!

I asked Amanda to be a bridesmaid in my wedding next summer! She's so nice, caring and thoughtful; a true inspiration in my life as she juggles her life with the appearance of such ease -- I'm sure it isn't easy. Positive.  But she does a perfect job of making it look simple.

How I did it? A request inspired by a Rainer Beer bottle cap!
Clue #1 (a): A picture of a tree with an arrow pointing at the trunk. She guesses tree, stump, bark. So I try again with another..
Clue #1 (b): A picture of 4 palm trees making the shape of a "W" ... like in that movie Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World where they are racing around for the money.. she guessed things like... palm tree, paradise..
So I try with..
Clue #1 (c): A picture of a wood chuck, a minus sign, and the word CHUCK. She guessed correctly: WOOD! Perfect.

Clue #2: A picture of a U and a picture of her.. she guessed immediatly.. you!

Clue #3: picture of a bee (I think?)

Clue #4: a hole and an arrow going in it

Clue #5: A very detailed picture of me with my uniform on, my badge number, and a birthday cake... so of course she guessed it right away!

Clue #6: A picture of a wedding with all the bridesmaids and groomsmen all together with an arrow pointing at one of them

.... Then she had to check "yes" or "no" if she wanted to. She checked yes

Movers Pack The House

Its SNOWING like crazy! Been up all night packing the house... as I had been doing all week after work.

Movers came and packed up the house in a big truck.
They wrapped up all the furniture in big blankets and tape.. boxes, boxes, and more boxes! They also packed all the art work and kitchen.

As our "binding contract" from our in home estimate was a specific amount.. we were not-so-delightfully surprised by the ONE THOUSAND DOLLAR increase when we went to sign for the paper work.

My patience went immediatly out the window with my lack of sleep, long day of packing and cleaning as things went out the door...

Reason for the upgrade: More stuff in the house than before. False, there was actually less stuff.

We haggled, got mad, got even and split the difference. It was still less than the other moving companies, so we were happy in the end.


The movers will be driving our posessions to Georgia in 3 months.