Weekend Wrap-Up {7/28}

Today is a special day!  Not to toot my own horn, but to totally toot my own horn, I'm the featured blogger for this week's Monday Morning Gossip, woot woot!  So stop by and check out Kimberlee and Leeann (and the other folks who link up).

My weekend kinda started on Thursday because I was off work for the movers to come and pack up all my things and take them away.  Friday I was off to accomplish repairs/painting while there was minimal furniture in the house and for the arrival of Teh MD Adult Roomie's stuffs.  Then it was weekend!

PS.  August 4th, Brittany@Stories, Songs, & Praise and Emmy@Love Woke Me Up This Morning and I are starting a Music Monday link up.  There will be more details posted within the week, so stop by talk about your jams with us!

THURSDAY

I didn't have a break down, but I did post a running commentary blog.  Sadly, there was no bubble wrap to molest, but I did get a bit jealous of the dogs and tested out the stack of dog beds.

Pretending to be like Phil and marinating my brains.

This is my "roach."
I think Olive and Meri do it better, but don't tell them.

We enjoyed the "open floor" concept on Thursday night.

My bedroom looks HUGE without any real furniture.

FRIDAY

Friday morning I had intentions of going on a run and then realized that Teh MD Adult Roomie and I were going to be doing some significant cleaning, so I decided to save my back and clean instead of run.  I learned that literally washing the walls is a thing in real life.  Apparently, it helps to take marks off and gives them a generally cleaner look.  Also, if you weren't aware, Magic Erasers are magical.  Seriously.  They removed so many marks on the walls, saving me from a lot of paint touch-ups in the future.  I had learned this when I moved out of the apartment, but it was a nice memory jog.

After wall washing, it was vacuuming.  The rags we were using were old cut up t-shirts and I was scrubbing so hard that I was putting holes in the shirts, which was causing little white balls of shirt to fall on the floor.  Ugh.  Everything but the stairs had been vacuumed within the prior 24 hours, so I vacuumed the stairs.  YAY for my Shark vacuum (ok, Teh MD Adult Roomie's Shark, but whatevs, same model, different color)!  I even broke a sweat I was so serious about the stair vacuuming, so there was my workout.

Teh MD Adult Roomie left to get Teh Teenager and empty out her storage unit.  She came back with 2 trucks and 2 SUVs full of her stuff.  They were able to get everything from the storage unit into the house in an hour.  Setup of the furniture only took an additional 30 minutes.  Friends are awesome.

So our "open floor" concept was short lived because we filled the house with boxes, but it was totally worth it.  Friday night was a stay at home and sort through boxes and get rid of things that are no longer needed night.  It was nice to just have some down time after being so occupied for the last 48 hours.

This also happened on Friday and was a life dream come true.

I love being me.

The biggest news on Friday was when the realtor called me to tell me that we got the house we applied for!  WOOT for having a place to live in SC!  I had lied told the moving company the address for the house we had applied for on Thursday because I really didn't want my stuff to sit in a warehouse in MD and then not make it to Charleston by the dates that we wanted it delivered.  I'm glad I didn't jinx it.

Now we just have to schedule the delivery date for stuffs, sign the housing paperwork, find a washer/dryer, and move-in.

SATURDAY

Saturday, Teh MD Roomies were busy until the afternoon.  Since I had no real plans and I hadn't done a long run all week and because I was feelin' fat and guilty and because it was under 80°F, I went on a long run.  It felt long and it was long.  11 miles long.  Those last 2 miles were excruciating.  I had to walk some because I was just achin'.  I did actually remember my super awesome hydration belt, which definitely helped, except that I ran out of water about 1.75 miles from the end.  At least there will be water stations during our half marathon, so I'm not too worried.  I had my water bottle waiting for me in Yurtle, so it was just more motivation to get back to the car ASAP.

After my run, I headed home and showered and headed out to watch Teh MD Teenage Roomie at her last event that I will probably be able to attend before I move down to SC.  While there, I received a message from Mr. Mystery that he had arrived back in the US!  WOOT!

Eventually, we headed home and regrouped and headed out for a girl date at Red Robin (our undoubted fave) and a shopping challenge.  I call it a challenge because we were couponing.  It was our goal to save as much money as possible.  We hit up Target after our early dinner and did pretty good with coupons and Cartwheel and in-store savings ($5 off a purchase of $15 or more in hygiene products?  I got you).  After Target was Kohl's where we practically stole a Keurig (ok, Teh MD Adult Roomie only paid $68).  Then we headed home to purchase flights and laziness (me) and sorting (Teh MD Roomies).  During our shopping session, Mr. Mystery clarified some dates for me so I finally have vacation dates!

After all the boxes were gone through, I helped Teh MD Adult Roomie "tetris" the outside storage with her boxes and containers.  We made all the extra boxes fit!  WOOT!  She was worried that they weren't all going to fit, but she knew that she had me as a secret weapon against the boxes and I was confident that they were all going to fit since that's one of my life skills.

The dogs were super pumped about the boxes being gone through since Olive's toys got put out.  Meri and Phil had a turn with Lamb Chop.

Yes, her butt is on my pillow.  It's really a good thing I love her.

We worked on our new puzzle for a bit before heading to bed.  I've become a puzzle addict.  I blame Teh MD Adult Roomie for bringing the first one home.  The first one was "the worlds smallest puzzle" or some crap and it was really little pieces and a difficult photo since it was a sketched type painting thing.  I feel like since we started out on the hardest puzzle ever, this new puzzle is super easy.

Our super awesome puzzle "table" featuring Phil and Meri.
The top of Olive's crate on top of 2 plastic containers.
#movingishard

SUNDAY

Sunday morning, Teh MD Roomies headed out early and I skipped a run to sleep in a little bit.  Messages from Mr. Mystery roused me from bed and then it was time to get ready and head to church.  After church was a trip to Target to pick up a forgotten item and then home for lunch.  After lunch, the dogs peer-pressured me into taking a nap.  I spent the remainder of the evening reconnecting the TV to all the things and putting together puzzle.  When Teh MD Adult Roomie returned, we had dinner and did more puzzle.

Despite how busy the weekend was, it has been one of the best weekends of the year.  Many, many things that I've been waiting for answers to finally clicked into place within a matter of days.  I get very stressed out when things are up in the air and I don't have concrete dates/details.  I could tell my stress levels during my runs when my shoulders would hurt from being so tight all the time.  I felt like I couldn't relax at all, even after too much some rumsy-rum.  So praise Allah that things are falling into place.  It's such a relief after several months of needing wanting answers to so many questions.

The forecast of events for the next bit:
VACATION!!!  I'll fly to CA to meet Mr. Mystery's family and help him make the cross-country drive to SC.  My things will be delivered and I'll help Mr. Mystery get setup.  I'll fly back to MD for a little over a month to finish out the rest of my MD time.  Maybe I'll get to have a visitor over Labor Day weekend, but that's not been decided yet.  I'll do my half marathon with Ms. Motivator and complete the handful of activities that Teh MD Roomies and I have planned for DC/MD.  My terminal leave should start in the beginning of October, at which point, I'll finally be making the official move down to SC with all the stuff the movers failed to pack and that I set aside and the dogs.

In the meantime, I'll still continue to job hunt and beg and plead with the job gods that I'm actually an excellent candidate and totally trainable and I just want to make my car payment and take care of the dogs and maybe help pay some bills or something.  All prayers, well wishes, good luck, and other associated positive vibes/offerings are accepted on the job front.  I think I'm going to need all the help I can get!

YAY for plans!!!!

PS.  I may have spent an hour looking at Grey's gifs.  Not even sorry.



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The Movers are HERE!!! (MD edition)

-We're off to a great start.  They were only 45 minutes late of their 2 hour arrival window because "the truck wasn't working properly and they couldn't go very fast."  I'm still not actually sure what that means, but whatever... they made it.

All this was waiting on them, whatever time they arrived:

-I never thought I'd be so excited to hear the sound of packing tape being rolled out again.

-The house is going to be so barren, it's going to be soooo exciting!

-I feel the worst for the dining room packing guy.  There's sooo much stuff in there.  Oops, my bad.

-It feels weird to have strange men going through all my things as they pack them, but I'm just really glad I'm not having to do the packing.

-I started watching Between Two Ferns while waiting on the movers to arrive.  Zach Galifianakis rocks, and not just because he went to NC State.

-I feel so bored just watching them.  At least I turned on musics!

-Boooo they won't let me packout my car wash stuffs.  I'm going to have to have help for MY move down to Charleston.. I can already feel it.

-YAY more strange men in my house!  The delivery people came to deliver Teh MD Teenage Roomie's furniture set.  It's sooo pretty!

-The packers definitely missed all the stuff in the drawers.  Sorry I'm a hoarder and have so much stuffs dudes!

-Ok, they won't let me pack out anything that could explode.. except that lotion isn't really one of those things, so yeah, just pack that out buddy.

-They definitely tagged the dog food and trash can for being packed out.  I don't think Teh MD Adult Roomie or the dogs would approve!  Glad I caught that.

-Just watched the movers bring down the boxspring for my bed.  They didn't even touch the ceiling over the stairs.  I was amazed that was even possible after moving in and seeing how much destruction there was from trying to get it UP the stairs.  Siiiiiiiiiigh.

-I feel obligated to sit on my couches for as long as possible knowing that Teh MD Adult Roomie's couches and dining room table aren't going to be delivered in the next week.  YAY for camping chairs with drink holders, a rocking chair, and a beanbag!  College style livin'!

-HOLY SHIT!  Teh MD Adult Roomie moved so fast I had NO idea what was going on.  We heard a crash and then she was jettin' it to the dining room and slammed the door closed as the brown dogs made their way to the bottom of the steps!  They had knocked over the baby gate keeping them in doggy jail!  NEVER seen her move so quickly.  I've said it before and I'll say it again, in this house dogs and food are our #1 and #2 priorities (in no specific order from day to day).  Proof was definitely shown today through her actions.

Doggy jail!

-Dogs released into the yard.. after it's been raining.  Meri's paws are covered in mud from doing zoomies.  Bath time for Meri!!

-Quickest bath she's ever had!

-Ok.. so maybe it wasn't the boxsprings that caused the problem.. It was my massive ass headboard to my bed.  I had to sign a waiver for them to use some "force" to get it down the stairs.  Turns out, they just didn't understand when I was trying to say they needed to angle it just the right way, and they didn't actually have to use that much force.  Being right is difficult.

-OMG RAIN!  And all the boxes were outside the truck... At least I'm awesome and helped moved the boxes in the truck.  #likeaboss #nbd

-Oh, sweet, sweet packing tape.  I love the sound of progress.

-Doggy dinner delivered upstairs!

-I can SEE the mosquitoes swarming me.  I'm not sure why the door had to be open all.day.long. but good talk guys, good talk.  I was pretty proud of myself earlier in the day when I smashed one in my hand.

-I have officially set up the new living room.  YAY camping chairs!  Time for dinner.

-Hehehe, huge rolls of saran wrap make me giggle.. and think of working in the backroom at Target.  Goodbye couch and loveseat!

-OMG whhhyyy do I have so much stuff?  We just keep finding things.  A lamp here, a wind chime there, a mirror there, 2 wall hangings there, a curtain and rod there.  These poor guys will never get to leave (it didn't help they didn't arrive until 11 when I was waiting on them at 08.. just sayyyinnn').

-Oh, bye-bye dining room table!  I'll miss you!  See you soon!

-Tipping movers, not an expense I expected.  But they were awesome and they carried in Teh MD Roomie's new entertainment center in from her car and they stayed till 7:30pm and there was lots more stuff than they expected and they were careful with everything.  Worth it.

Overall, it wasn't a bad moving experience.  They were super late getting here, I was hoping they would be finished by 5, but that definitely wasn't the case.  It was 4 dudes from JK Moving (and every time I'd pay attention to their shirts that said "JK Moving," in my head I'd say, "Just kidding moving!" and have a self-giggle.

After the movers left, Teh MD Adult Roomie and I worked at getting some of her new items set up.  We set up her entertainment center and lamps and end tables.  She went to pick up Teh MD Teenage Roomie while I finished up end tables and vacuumed up all the styrofoam pieces from all the things.  BTW, I hate the stryrofoam particles, they make me rage for serious.

Despite how much I sat around for most of the day, the day was exhausting.  The house is empty-er.  Teh MD Roomies started moving stuffs in last week, so it wasn't completely barren in our house.

Humpday Confessions #14

My packout is tomorrow.  I feel like I might have a breakdown confessions session from that alone.  Stay tuned for more information...

Also, Brittany, Emmy, and I are putting ourselves out there and starting a Music Monday linkup on August 4th.  Stay tuned for more information on that too...

Confessions:

-How to know something is wrong with Teh Megan:
1.  She won't stop sleeping.
2.  Sleep is a preferable activity to anything else.
3.  Sleeping doesn't make her problems go away.

-When I can't afford to is when I want to eat out the most.  Oh, I just spent $200 on Amazon?  I should probably eat ramen (with egg) tonight.. but OOO Chinese!  OOO Wendy's!  OOO anything not in my cabinets!  I have a similar dilemma when I go to the grocery store.

-Wanna know what isn't sexy?  Backne.  Running has given me the worst backne...  and I'm the worst for picking my bumps (maybe that was TMI, #sorrynotsorry), which doesn't help.  They make me feel like I have a horns on my back.  I can only imagine what people see (what with them being on my back, I don't really have a super good view and I'm too lazy to do that double mirror trick) when I'm running in a spaghetti strap top cami (because that's what Kohl's calls them, so I'm going to call them that too).

-Camis are the only tops I can find to run in that aren't racer-back that don't cost a mabillion dollars.  I kinda feel like a super slut with my "big ole titties" (as they have been referred to by others) bouncing around for 5+ miles 2-3 times a week, but #tanlineproblems are real.  This wouldn't be a problem if I didn't have such big boobs to begin with.  Then I could wear normal sports bras, with the racer-back, buttt noooo, these huge honkers require $50 worth of sports bra with underwire support and regular straps to be happy during a run.  Without these boobs, I could have that super cute racer-back tanline that screams I'm an athlete and I do outdoorsy things (or that I wear a lot of sports bras, whatevs man).  Instead, I have the tramp stamp of tanlines from thick sports bra straps and spaghetti strap tops camis.  I guess the alternative is the forever sexy farmer's tan.  The struggle is real, Gentle Readers.

Tramp-Stamp tanlines in the making.

-Miley left on Friday night.  It broke my heart a little.  She had been mopey since her dental last Wednesday.  I kept telling her she was gonna have a great family, but obviously she understands what a great family she already had here with Teh MD Roomies and I.  We could NOT adopt her due to our own life circumstances, but oh how we wanted to, which doesn't help in anyway.  I'm sad because I can't adopt her and I'm sad because she's sad I can't adopt her.  We did snuggle all night on Thursday night, which was awesome, so there's that gem.

"Why did you stop petting me?" - Miley

-I love the pack dynamic with just Olive, Meri, and Phil.  They just know things to do.  They know which bowl to go to at feeding time.  They know the first thing is the morning is to step on toes go outside.  They know that when I say, "Let's go bye-bye," to go to the door to get collared.  They know when I start yelling to back away.  They know when we grab the water bottle to GTFO of the kitchen/space.  They know us and they are such good dogs.  This is why dogs are awesome.

-Teh MD Teenage Roomie got an Edible Arrangement fruit basket thingy for her bday last week and she let me eat 85% of it shared it.  Why have I never received one of these babies before?  They are amazing!  Pineapple, cantaloupe, watermelon, strawberries, chocolate covered strawberries, and grapes were all in this one and the pineapples were in the shape of sunbursts and I just loved bitin' off little rays of sunshine (no they didn't help make me nicer).

-I printed out my medical record.  It took over a ream of paper.  I can't imagine how many reams it would have taken if I'd have decided to stay in and retire in 14 more years.  It also had stuff in it that isn't accurate.  For instance, I do NOT have the downstairs herpaderp.  NOPE.  EVER.  NO NO NO.  I have a different skin condition (that is NOT a STD) that I will not share with this audience because I care, but I do NOT have the herpaderp.  There are also a few instances of "fear of unsubstantiated medical condition" which make me want to go back and find that doc and punch them in the face for being a moron.

-Jana said I have to show you this:


Teh Step-Sister, Teh Sister, and Teh Megan

She also told me to tell you that you can obtain your own hot mess footie/onsie pajamas at the ever classy Wal-Mart and sometimes Target has them during the colder months.  I honestly can't believe I hadn't posted that on Teh Blog before now.  I feel relieved having gotten that off my chest.

-When I see particular people sign on FB and not chat with me, I get unreasonably upset.  It makes me wonder if they realize other people can see when they are online and how long ago they were active.

-When individuals who are retired from the military/Navy use their rate/rank in their signature block with (ret) at the end, I want to punch a baby.  You are retired.  Let it go.  You aren't a YNC anymore.  Let it go.  You're a CIVILIAN.  Go watch Frozen and learn from Elsa, LET IT GO! 

-I did ZERO packing Monday and when Teh MD Adult Roomie mentioned that maybe I should definitely pack on Tues/Wed it took me a minute to realize that my packout is THURSDAY... tomorrow Thursday, not next Thursday.  Shit.

-Someone called me "Teh" when they commented on last Friday's blog.  I just couldn't deal with it.

-I spent an hour plucking Meri Monday night.  She looks like a different dog.

-When my noodles look like they have antennas, it makes me giggle.

-I may have taken a break from packing to gif this post up.

-And my final gif for this post because consistency is important...

Fashion doesn't agree with me... #58

Weekend Wrap Up {7/21}

FRIDAY

First thing I did Friday when I got to work was print out my medical record that I had picked up on Thursday.  I used over a ream of paper.  Yeah, this girl is brrrrroken.  I could have saved a tree if the VA didn't actually require a paper copy and just copied the disc to another disc to send, but nooo since we're still in the 1990's they require a paper copy.  Le sigh.  I just wish the VA wasn't so difficult and I've barely even had to deal with them yet.

Work was fairly busy and my patience for house hunting everything in life was at it's lowest point.  Despite how awesome the weather was outside, I didn't bring the right bra for running (cause yes, that's a thing) so I went to the gym to get my elliptical and arm workout on.  I came home and cleaned up Miley's pee spots and showered and read a bit and decided on a nap that was interrupted and interrupted and interrupted and when I finally got up, I was so ragey.

One of the interruptions was Miley being picked up.  She was super excited to see the guy who was driving her to meet her forever family which helped me be ok with letting her go.

When I got up, it was to take Teh MD Teenage Roomie to practice.  I wasn't very pleasant and that was compounded when I found Olive's crate with poop in it when I went to get her food bowl since it was feeding time.  After dropping off Teh Teenager, I swung by the grocery store and headed home to make dinner to curb my hangar.  When I left to pick up Teh Teenager, I decided not to crate Meri and Olive since I wasn't going to be gone for long...

I came home to another pile of poop in the floor, which I didn't step in.. so that was a plus.  It did mean having to reassemble and dirty up the carpet cleaner, which had been staged for the packout.  Thanks dawgs dogs.  On the other hand, I had a moment of clarity where I realized why being a housewife wouldn't be such a bad thing..  I could stay at home and clean all the things and drink adult beverages and it would be totally acceptable.  Cause I was definitely puttin' a hurtin' on some Sailor Jerry while cleaning the carpet.

I might have been a wee bit intoxicated when I decided to keep a FB chat going, which wasn't to my detriment surprisingly enough.  It was completely ineffective at getting someone to try and have a conversation and I ended up going to bed extremely pissed off.

SATURDAY

Saturday was productive day.  I could have went on a run, but the decision of which cereal to eat for breakfast was too overwhelming, so running far distances was just too much brain power to exhort.  BTW, the cereal choices were Marshmallow Fruit Loops or Rice Krispy Treats Cereal.  It was definitely a toss up, but the fruit loops weren't opened yet, sooo Rice Krispy treats it was.

Since Teh MD Roomies had a birthday party to attend, I went over to Teh Monopoly and Mr. Kilt's house to hang out with their new spawn (and them).  After I had gotten my baby quota filled, I headed back home where Teh MD Roomies were starting the process of packing me out.  We took a break to head into town to pick up the remaining items of Teh MD Adult Roomie's move-in list.  After a trip to Bed Bath and Beyond and Lowes, we hit up Texas Roadhouse for dinner and then made a stop by Walmart before finally heading home with ALL THE THINGS!

I may have had a caramel disaster at TRH where all of my food ended up with some caramel sauce on it.
It's hard to be me, but Teh MD Roomies definitely enjoyed me spazzing out when the caramel started going out of control.

I found this at Walmart when we were checking out, so I felt obligated to document it.
I don't drink either of these sodas, so I left them for the next Meg.

Meg sodas!
Also, can we talk about my awesome Woot shirt?
It's so full of win.

When we got home, we proceeded to move all my things out of the kitchen and started the process of washing all Teh MD Roomies's stuffs so they were usable.  YAY for sheets and dishes and curtains and pots and pans!  So my dining room looks like this until Thursday:

Remember when I said I have a clothes problem?
Maybe I just have a stuffs problem.
Sorry not sorry.

SUNDAY

Teh MD Teenage Roomie went to church with me while Teh MD Adult Roomie went and cleaned my stuff out of her storage unit and brought it back to the house so it can be packed up on Thursday with minimal hassle.  Sunday was spent doing more dishes and more laundry and getting things mover ready, like taking the TV off the entertainment center and sorting more of my stuff.  We also made Teh MD Adult Roomie's birthday cake and sang happy birthday to her over a lighter that she got to blow out since all the candles were lost on the dining room table (#movingproblems).

Mixing in the dye

Making a "tye-dye" cake (the lazy, less messy way)

NOMNOMNOM

The biggest news from Sunday was that I received an email back from one of the jobs I applied for last week!  The 2nd biggest news from Sunday was that the friend in Charleston who is house hunting for me found a place that seems pretty awesome and I put in my application.  Hopefully Monday will also hold super awesome emails from all the places regarding places to live and jobs and my future!

Once the house situation falls into place, so many other plans can be made... like packout delivery and vacation dates and plane tickets and my brain will finally be able to shut down for more than 30 seconds at time.  I can't even wait.  

So yeah.. Marshmallow Fruit Loops or Rice Krispy Treats cereal?

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