Back online...but without a couch and tv :( They are both in the garage...why you ask?? Well the couch doesn't fit through the door and our tv is SO old-school it takes 4 bodybuilders to lift it...so the creation of the "Man Room" begins...or so hubby thinks! heh heh
Seriously, other than those two things and now living in chaos and being tired, the move did go well...it was quick and rather painless (says the one who didn't do much heavy lifting!!). I do however understand that when "they" say Moving is one of the biggest traumas a person goes through I believe it...Little Miss is all out of sorts, Diesel dog runs around whimpering because he cannot find a good place to chill out (dude, you and me both...where's our couch?!!?!) but it's building character...right?!?!
Oh and add to the mix, the Little Miss and I leave hubby next week for three weeks as we fly up to Canada...sorry hubs, guess you'll have lots to keep you busy though, right?? Oh and did I mention said flight is about 6 1/2 hours and I'm going to be doing it with an almost-2 year old on my lap?? Don't get me started!!!!!
Sorry for the negativity! But now that I've dumped it, I will get a cup of joe and start my day fresh...right after I trip over this damn drawer in the middle of the room...HUBBY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
xo
CaliAlly
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Friday, July 24, 2009
Top 10 Things I'll Miss about 1126...
...I promise the nostalgia will stop...but I just want to put this stuff down in a place where I can find it (!!!) and that I can look back and read :)
10- Pool and Hot Tub 2 doors down...and around the corner...and down the street (okay there are like 8 pools here and about the same, if not more hot tubs!)
9- Starbucks on site
8- The big green space in the middle of our neighborhood...boring for kiddos, but a nice place to stroll around (I wonder how many of those loops I've done!)
7- Not more of our family and friends back home got to see where we call home - it's really gorgeous! Resort-living to the max!
6- Everything was new when we moved in...the carpet is still so plush, the walls still so bright, the gorgeous granite counters, well gorgeous!
5- Big Pantries (albeit no cupboard space!!)
4- The counter/bar we have in our apt...I love entertaining and having guests sit up at the counter/bar...and loved making my cup of coffee in the morning and sitting up at the bar doing work.
3- Hubby coming home at lunch because he works next door, sorry not right next door, but on the other side of the Orange Grove (yes the orange grove).
2- Big, bright patio that the Little Miss has just started to enjoy!
1- The Memories (moving to USA, planning our wedding, pregnancy, bringing Little Miss home, etc)
Give me a week or so and I'll probably have the Top 10 Things I LOVE about 815!
CaliAlly
xo
10- Pool and Hot Tub 2 doors down...and around the corner...and down the street (okay there are like 8 pools here and about the same, if not more hot tubs!)
9- Starbucks on site
8- The big green space in the middle of our neighborhood...boring for kiddos, but a nice place to stroll around (I wonder how many of those loops I've done!)
7- Not more of our family and friends back home got to see where we call home - it's really gorgeous! Resort-living to the max!
6- Everything was new when we moved in...the carpet is still so plush, the walls still so bright, the gorgeous granite counters, well gorgeous!
5- Big Pantries (albeit no cupboard space!!)
4- The counter/bar we have in our apt...I love entertaining and having guests sit up at the counter/bar...and loved making my cup of coffee in the morning and sitting up at the bar doing work.
3- Hubby coming home at lunch because he works next door, sorry not right next door, but on the other side of the Orange Grove (yes the orange grove).
2- Big, bright patio that the Little Miss has just started to enjoy!
1- The Memories (moving to USA, planning our wedding, pregnancy, bringing Little Miss home, etc)
Give me a week or so and I'll probably have the Top 10 Things I LOVE about 815!
CaliAlly
xo
3 years...
...Hubby and I both just realized our teeny tiny, San Jose apt is the longest place we've lived since we moved out of our parent's houses....and for me it would be the DDO family home, since I was only in Beaconsfield for two years or so...wow...we moved out of DDO when I was 17...
wow!
wow!
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Packing Day...Birthday
First off...a little happy birthday shout-out to my fantastic hubby...sorry babe, you are no longer considered early-30s...you have just entered mid-30s :) . Happy Birthday my sweet, I love you very much.
Okay dokay, so we are moving in two days...and really, the apt isn't that packed up! I lay in bed last night thinking how I had this fantastic plan to purge and de-clutter the apt and only bring what we "need and want" to the townhome...well, it looks like it's all going to get moved and we'll purge and de-clutter at the townhome while unpacking!
We are only moving less than a 10minute drive away so my thoughts, are to pack up the SUV today and tomorrow and move drawers, bins of stuff (like kitchen) that can be unpacked immediately and then minimize the unpacking...dear birthday boy hubby's thoughts??? Pack everything into boxes - even what is in the drawers and line everything up against the wall and we'll move nice neat boxes to the townhome!!
Love it...as someone who strives to be organized and on-top-of-things, I love it...as a Mum of an almost two-year old, fighting some kind of horrible virus (me not Little Miss) that has my muscles, spine and joints in agony...yeah I'm thinking not so much...argh! So of course the argument of all arguments ensued last night as we both tried to figure out the best way to move...yes two days before moving!
Verdict? We went to bed! And well, let's be real...I'm the one that has to do all of the prep and packing, etc...the one that needs to occupy the Little Miss all day and well as the blog states...All-Things-Ally ;) You know I'll be doing my best to move over everything I possibly can over the next two days...organizing it neatly at the townhome - because I seriously think my way is best!!!
Oh the joys of moving...good thing Hubby and I do love each other so much...this could be the beginning of the end otherwise ;)
See you in Milpitas,
CaliAlly
xo
Okay dokay, so we are moving in two days...and really, the apt isn't that packed up! I lay in bed last night thinking how I had this fantastic plan to purge and de-clutter the apt and only bring what we "need and want" to the townhome...well, it looks like it's all going to get moved and we'll purge and de-clutter at the townhome while unpacking!
We are only moving less than a 10minute drive away so my thoughts, are to pack up the SUV today and tomorrow and move drawers, bins of stuff (like kitchen) that can be unpacked immediately and then minimize the unpacking...dear birthday boy hubby's thoughts??? Pack everything into boxes - even what is in the drawers and line everything up against the wall and we'll move nice neat boxes to the townhome!!
Love it...as someone who strives to be organized and on-top-of-things, I love it...as a Mum of an almost two-year old, fighting some kind of horrible virus (me not Little Miss) that has my muscles, spine and joints in agony...yeah I'm thinking not so much...argh! So of course the argument of all arguments ensued last night as we both tried to figure out the best way to move...yes two days before moving!
Verdict? We went to bed! And well, let's be real...I'm the one that has to do all of the prep and packing, etc...the one that needs to occupy the Little Miss all day and well as the blog states...All-Things-Ally ;) You know I'll be doing my best to move over everything I possibly can over the next two days...organizing it neatly at the townhome - because I seriously think my way is best!!!
Oh the joys of moving...good thing Hubby and I do love each other so much...this could be the beginning of the end otherwise ;)
See you in Milpitas,
CaliAlly
xo
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
I'm dreaming of a ...
...well if you know me well, you are probably expecting me to talk about how much I can't wait for Christmas...it is less than 6months away, you know! But what I'm really dreaming of is a ... holiday!
And not the kind of holiday I have coming up in August where we go home and visit family and friends...I mean a holiday where we go to new places and speak a new language...maybe hang out on a beach! Yes that kind of holiday. I think I feel like I need to re-charge my batteries and of course living so far from our family, usually means that vacation time is taken up by visiting with them and not somewhere different!
Pre-California, we went hiking & camping to different parks...Varadero, Cuba...Cartagena, Columbia...yes some fun and exciting places! I miss that...
But I am also incredibly excited to get hugs from my family and a cup of coffee with a few of my precious girls back home...so instead of whining about needing a holiday and some change, I will make it my mission to do lots of touristy stuff while back in Ottawa...I bet there's a ton that has changed and MANY MANY things I've never done or places I've never been or sights I've never seen.
Hmm...off to browse the ottawatourism.ca web site...and yes for all you O-town peeps, I did work on this web site when I was in advertising, and no I still didn't visit any of these new "activities or places"!!
xo
CaliAlly
And not the kind of holiday I have coming up in August where we go home and visit family and friends...I mean a holiday where we go to new places and speak a new language...maybe hang out on a beach! Yes that kind of holiday. I think I feel like I need to re-charge my batteries and of course living so far from our family, usually means that vacation time is taken up by visiting with them and not somewhere different!
Pre-California, we went hiking & camping to different parks...Varadero, Cuba...Cartagena, Columbia...yes some fun and exciting places! I miss that...
But I am also incredibly excited to get hugs from my family and a cup of coffee with a few of my precious girls back home...so instead of whining about needing a holiday and some change, I will make it my mission to do lots of touristy stuff while back in Ottawa...I bet there's a ton that has changed and MANY MANY things I've never done or places I've never been or sights I've never seen.
Hmm...off to browse the ottawatourism.ca web site...and yes for all you O-town peeps, I did work on this web site when I was in advertising, and no I still didn't visit any of these new "activities or places"!!
xo
CaliAlly
Thursday, July 9, 2009
"Upstairs" to Bed
Woohoo! We get the keys to our new place tomorrow. We are so excited :)
I'm definitely going to miss this little apt of ours, but it will be so nice to have more space and wait for it....I finally get to go "upstairs" to bed! It's a sillyness of mine I've had since I moved out...I don't feel settled unless I have to go upstairs to go to bed...obviously living in apts for the last 14 years has not been great for me...and even our house back in Ottawa...all one level!
So tomorrow I get my dream...it's the most vertical townhome ever (heh heh) with a million stairs but I will have to go to a different level to go to sleep...and oh how nice it will be if someone pops by and the laundry is on the bed to be folded, we don't have to run over and close the door! So nice!
So tomorrow we get the keys and then we have until the end of the month to move so we'll take our time. I'm so very excited...but there is also a sadness about moving. Leaving behind the place we loved so much in 2006 when we arrived in California. Our house back home was being renovated and in quite the state when we left it and we moved here to this gorgeous apt community (known as Resort Living) with over 12 pools, hot tubs, fitness center...etc It was wonderful...but we've just outgrown it. And another reason to be sad to leave, the place we brought Little Miss home from the hospital will be no longer.
Apt 1126, you've given us some fantastic memories and as much as I'm excited about the Townhome, I will definitely be sad to leave you.
Ooo but did I mention each room has it's own ensuite FULL bathroom?!?! That's a lot of cleaning, but I don't care...pack your bags and come stay Chez Ws!!!
xo
CaliAlly
I'm definitely going to miss this little apt of ours, but it will be so nice to have more space and wait for it....I finally get to go "upstairs" to bed! It's a sillyness of mine I've had since I moved out...I don't feel settled unless I have to go upstairs to go to bed...obviously living in apts for the last 14 years has not been great for me...and even our house back in Ottawa...all one level!
So tomorrow I get my dream...it's the most vertical townhome ever (heh heh) with a million stairs but I will have to go to a different level to go to sleep...and oh how nice it will be if someone pops by and the laundry is on the bed to be folded, we don't have to run over and close the door! So nice!
So tomorrow we get the keys and then we have until the end of the month to move so we'll take our time. I'm so very excited...but there is also a sadness about moving. Leaving behind the place we loved so much in 2006 when we arrived in California. Our house back home was being renovated and in quite the state when we left it and we moved here to this gorgeous apt community (known as Resort Living) with over 12 pools, hot tubs, fitness center...etc It was wonderful...but we've just outgrown it. And another reason to be sad to leave, the place we brought Little Miss home from the hospital will be no longer.
Apt 1126, you've given us some fantastic memories and as much as I'm excited about the Townhome, I will definitely be sad to leave you.
Ooo but did I mention each room has it's own ensuite FULL bathroom?!?! That's a lot of cleaning, but I don't care...pack your bags and come stay Chez Ws!!!
xo
CaliAlly
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