leavin on a jet plane

I'm sitting in the Seattle airport. I've been here for quite some time and I'm going stir crazy.

My trip to Seattle was SO productive. I feel a lot more relieved even if I was teetering on the brink yesterday.

The second place I saw felt like "the one". I looked at a couple of places, but it's hard to find everything you want in one place. For us, we needed affordable rent, affordable parking, and a washer and dryer in the unit.

The place I like had bad reviews, but they were reviews like "pool closed for maintence most of summer" (We don't swim really) and "bad smell in shared hallways" (I've lived with things like that before). So I think this is going to be a good place. Plus it's close to public transportation which will be good for me (we will only have 1 car) It's also close to trader joe's and other stores, which is nice.

So, I feel like this trip was productive, and I was even a good wife and drove to forks just to buy Dylan a hoodie she wanted :)

a meme

I picked this up over at Carolines blog. Thanks for giving me something to blog about :D

Outside my window... 2 huge palm trees and birds eating bird seed

I am thinking.... I can't wait to visit Seattle tomorrow

I am thankful for... a loving wife, a roof over my head, and a loving group of family and friends

I am wearing... PJ capris and a thermal shirt

I am remembering... my last trip to Seattle

I am going... to work at being less stressed

I am reading... To Kill a Mockingbird for the umpteenth time!

I am hoping... for smooth traveling!

On my mind... everything I need to pack

Pondering these words... none really

From the kitchen... I've been suck a cooking slacker lately :( I'm such a bad housewife

Around the house... I need to declutter and start packing!!!

One of my favorite things... snuggling with my puppies!

Gah. I'm failing this month of blogging thing!

I have just been a giant ball of stress lately. I should be using this blog as a stress outlet, but sometimes even the thought of blogging makes me get even more stressed out!! How is this possible?!

Quite frankly, I'm really freaked out about us moving. I don't feel ready. I mean, I'm SO ready to leave California. I want the rain. I want the clouds. I WANT THE COLD. I mean, it was 80 degrees today! It's November! That's just not fair *pouts*

So it looks like *fingers crossed* I'm flying into Seattle this weekend to look at apartments. I have a top 5 that I really want to be as amazing in person as they are online. One of them is one of those neat live/work/play units which seem cool but who knows.

Originally we wanted to live outside of the city to save money, but now we really want to live in the city. So that's another stress too! GAH.

Almost missed today's post.

Today has been busy. The new Twilight film "New Moon" is coming out in two weeks and the orders have been pilling in. This gets me REALLY stressed. I just feel really overwhelmed. I've tried taking steps back to get a grip on things, but that almost stresses me out more. I just need to plow through things and get things done I guess.

We've decided on when we're going to Seattle. NEXT WEEK. We're leaving either Wednesday or Thursday. If we can get our friends to watch the dogs, Dylan will come with me. If not, I'll just go.

I think after finding where we'll live, I'll feel a whole lot less stressed.

So far, so good.

I've made it to posting two days in a row. If that's not an accomplishment, I don't know what is.

Today, I am feeling especially stressed. Our house was a mess, I couldn't concentrate on getting my etsy orders done, I had no motivation, and I woke up at 7am.

I got the two stamps done that I absolutely needed to get done thinking Dylan would be going to the post office early in the day to mail something that was supposed to be mailed two weeks ago. Wrong. Well, at least the stamps got done right?

I'm really stressing about our move. We're moving in a month and a half. This doesn't even seem real to me. A MONTH AND A HALF.

I'm really stressed because like the last time we moved, everything is up to me. Dylan is going to be studying for her finals, which leaves me to do the packing, the moving arrangements, etc.

What I'm currently freaking out over is WHERE THE HELL ARE WE GOING TO LIVE. WHEREEEEE?!

I want to fly up to Seattle one weekend and find a place to live. However that costs money. Money I thought I would have due to a back pay of unemployment. But now? I can't. I have to go to the dentist and have my wisdom tooth removed along with a filling that needs to get redone and it's going to cost me $1600. Awesome. Really awesome.

So, I'm a giant ball of stress and I feel like I'm just spreading myself too thin. Between the online communities I'm in, my etsy shop, moving, etc. It's all too much and I feel like I'm about to break!

Wow, am I bad at posting.

Another month has gone by and not a single blog post. When have I turned into *that* blogger. The one that NEVER updates. *sigh* Well, I'm here now and I'm going to work on it.

Partly, I feel like I have nothing worth writing about. I'm unemployed, I'm stressed out, and I'm going out of my mind.

Well, that sounds blog worthy.

So instead of signing up for NanaWrimo, I've signed up for NaBloPoMo. basically, I'll be writing a blog post a day. We'll see how this works!!!

Tomorrow- I'll write about the stresses I'm going through with our upcoming move!!!

We're moving in about 3 months. YIKES. How does time move so fast?

I'm getting stressed about it. We pretty much will have to pack everything up. Drive the 2 days to seattle, and find a place to live. A week before Christmas. UGH UGH UGH. I'm thinking we might have to work it so that one of us flies up there over a weekend or something to look at apartments, so we aren't going there completely blind. But then the issue of money comes up. We're so broke it's not even funny. Maybe it's something that can be arranged with my next paycheck or something.

Okay, so I just discussed this with Dylan and I think in a couple of weeks I'll fly up to Seattle on Southwest or something. It'll be cheap enough ($69 one way) and this way I can have the piece of mind of knowing at least options of where we can live without having to stay in a hotel there for an extended period of time. So I'll go maybe a Thursday-Tuesday type of deal so I can get the cheap flight rates. Rent a cheap car, stay in a cheap hotel, and maybe make a day trip to various places in Washington :)