Happy Friday everyone! Today was a day of staying home and unpacking! David is off every other Friday from work (one of the many perks we like about his new job) and it was great to have him home fixing things, putting things up, and taking dumpster runs to the local apartment complex (seriously, if you haven't thought of taking all your boxes to a dumpster, think about it now because we have a tiny trash can that would take WEEKS of filling over and over to get rid of our boxes!) Our city doesn't have special hauls so this works for us.
I unpacked a really good portion of the kitchen and I am finally figuring out where things should go. It is a big happy moment in a woman's life to unpack her kitchen and put things where she thinks they should go. I close my eyes and think, "Where am I going to look for...." It has worked out pretty well so far!
I got my oil changed today and loved it! Where we used to live in a place called Brea, California, they had the most amazing oil change place called Oil Can Henry's. They would let you stay in your car and give you a bottle water and a USA Today newspaper. I LOVED changing the oil with baby Joel because I didn't have to get him out of the car and entertain him...he stayed in the car and played with toys for the 20 minutes it took to change the oil. Well, they have a place here similar to that where you can stay in your car, they will give you water or a soda, pump air conditioning into your car while you sit and wait, and let you watch any channel on a large screen television! I did have to go in while my car was being inspected and inside the place they had a free soda fountain, newspapers, and TVs...I am in LOVE with that place!
Later on this afternoon we finally got my car registered here in Texas with Texas plates. We found out I can get special plates like I had in California so we will be looking into that soon!
After the car place, we headed to dinner to an Italian restaurant we found online and oh my was it good! I was feeling a little sad about not being able to find a decent Italian restaurant around here (yes I am a food snob because I am British, German and Italian by blood....can't help loving the food I love!) This food was delicious and the marinara sauce was an actual tomato sauce that had cooked tomatoes right in it! We had a cannoli for dessert and it was fantastic! (You can tell really good Italian restaurants by the taste of their cannoli....little hint for you out there)
After dinner, we went and visited a Cabella's for the first time. What a neat place! We found a lot of neat things in there including organic Boisenberry jam! It is so sad that the jams at the grocery store are loaded with corn syrup these days. Not this jam! Sugar, berries, and pectin woo hoo! We also went to the local organic grocery store to pick up some more fruit and Sasparilla (my husband is hooked on the stuff lol).
We headed home, the boys are in bed, and David is working on putting up one of the two TVs that did NOT go missing from our moving van. It is the smaller one, but who cares? At this point I am grateful for what we have. Still hoping we will hear something back from the moving van people though...hopefully Monday. Well, have a fantastic Friday night all! So happy to be in my home, on my couch, typing away. Looking forward to sleeping in tomorrow and unpacking some more! The goal is to have the kitchen mostly done so I can cook a nice meal for us on Sunday...fingers crossed!
I unpacked a really good portion of the kitchen and I am finally figuring out where things should go. It is a big happy moment in a woman's life to unpack her kitchen and put things where she thinks they should go. I close my eyes and think, "Where am I going to look for...." It has worked out pretty well so far!
I got my oil changed today and loved it! Where we used to live in a place called Brea, California, they had the most amazing oil change place called Oil Can Henry's. They would let you stay in your car and give you a bottle water and a USA Today newspaper. I LOVED changing the oil with baby Joel because I didn't have to get him out of the car and entertain him...he stayed in the car and played with toys for the 20 minutes it took to change the oil. Well, they have a place here similar to that where you can stay in your car, they will give you water or a soda, pump air conditioning into your car while you sit and wait, and let you watch any channel on a large screen television! I did have to go in while my car was being inspected and inside the place they had a free soda fountain, newspapers, and TVs...I am in LOVE with that place!
Later on this afternoon we finally got my car registered here in Texas with Texas plates. We found out I can get special plates like I had in California so we will be looking into that soon!
After the car place, we headed to dinner to an Italian restaurant we found online and oh my was it good! I was feeling a little sad about not being able to find a decent Italian restaurant around here (yes I am a food snob because I am British, German and Italian by blood....can't help loving the food I love!) This food was delicious and the marinara sauce was an actual tomato sauce that had cooked tomatoes right in it! We had a cannoli for dessert and it was fantastic! (You can tell really good Italian restaurants by the taste of their cannoli....little hint for you out there)
After dinner, we went and visited a Cabella's for the first time. What a neat place! We found a lot of neat things in there including organic Boisenberry jam! It is so sad that the jams at the grocery store are loaded with corn syrup these days. Not this jam! Sugar, berries, and pectin woo hoo! We also went to the local organic grocery store to pick up some more fruit and Sasparilla (my husband is hooked on the stuff lol).
We headed home, the boys are in bed, and David is working on putting up one of the two TVs that did NOT go missing from our moving van. It is the smaller one, but who cares? At this point I am grateful for what we have. Still hoping we will hear something back from the moving van people though...hopefully Monday. Well, have a fantastic Friday night all! So happy to be in my home, on my couch, typing away. Looking forward to sleeping in tomorrow and unpacking some more! The goal is to have the kitchen mostly done so I can cook a nice meal for us on Sunday...fingers crossed!
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