Finally.....a bed!

The big news for this week is that we have our household goods finally! Wednesday morning the moving company arrived and had the crates unloaded by noon! After that Toria and I set to unpacking everything. It was a huge mess! Anyone that knows me knows that I like my house to be very neat! So believe me when I say this place was a total disaster! I took pictures and I'll have to figure out how to post them on here so that I can show everyone, but I'm going to wait until everything is unpacked and decorated before I do that so everyone can see the before and after. Toria and I are so excited because our house is finally starting to look like a home! We are no longer living somewhere that looks like a bachelor pad! Toria has been a lifesaver too! We decided to wash all the kitchen stuff and clothes because they had been in storage for several months. Boy was that a task! She set to work washing the kitchen stuff and I started on the laundry. Unfortunately, I had to go back to work on Thursday so it's taking me a while to get through everything, but she has washed everything in the kitchen and put it all away! It's amazing! Our kitchen it fully stocked! My first priority on Wednesday was our bedroom though. I like to decorate the bedroom and get it all set up first because I think it's relaxing to have it all decorated and pretty when I go to bed and wake up. Unfortunately, our bedroom furniture was bigger than the room so our dresser had to go to another room, but with our bed, both nightstands and the addition on a small bookshelf, our room looks great! It felt so good to finally sleep in a real bed again! We moved into the house on 21 Dec 2010 and were sleeping on an airbed until Monday at which point I had to turn in the airbed and I could either sleep on a pallet on the floor or the couch. The airbed worked fine and all, but I'll just say that our bed is amazing! Last night Toria and I hung the pictures and such on the walls. We were so excited! Our house is really looking good! I was also able to contain the unpacked mess to two rooms upstairs! I was impressed with how everything survived the move. When it got here I was shocked at how poorly everything was packed! So I was very impressed with the minimal amount of things that were either damaged or broken. We actually had only three things broken, and about 5 things damaged. Not too bad really. The biggest bummer though was that they broke one of the legs on our couch. We had planned on putting our couch in one of the empty rooms upstairs with the other TV and making it a TV room. However with the couch leg broken we had to improvise. We still made it a TV room, but instead of a couch we put the cushions from the couch on the floor in the shape of a couch. Hopefully the inspector will come look at it soon and decide if they can fix it or if they will replace it. We'll see. I doubt it will be too quick, mainly because I have learned how the Army works.

So I never made it back to finish this last week, oops. So we have had our furniture for over a week now. It is so nice!  I really wish Reed was here to enjoy it all with me! It was nice not having him here at first so I could unpack and put everything away at my own pace, but now I'm ready for him to be home! Oh well, he'll be home soon enough. Anyways, this week hasn't been too bad really. We are really busy at the clinic, which is awesome. Usually it takes several months to build up a clinic to where you are really full and busy, but not us. We are already booked full almost everyday! It's amazing! I totally love working in the clinic setting and don't regret my decision to leave the hospital one bit. The weather this week took a turn for the bitterly cold earlier this week. Tuesday and Wednesday we had lows between -40 and -45. It was crazy! Now today we are positive 10. How crazy is that. I guess that is about all the news for this week.