Day 28: Packing, Movies, and Videos, oh my!

Today was a flip flop of yesterday - healthwise.  My fever is gone and I'm feeling fine, but Eric spent the first half of the day rather hungover.  We spent the morning and afternoon packing and organizing things to take to storage and things to sell at a garage sale or donate.  We rented a 5x10' storage unit and it's packed to the ceiling about 3 feet deep.  Eric joked that I should have said to the rental guy "5 by 10 by whaaaat?"

These are all of our boxes, stacked to the ceiling.

The result of 5 carloads of stuff, only about 3 feet deep!

We've also watched episodes of Drawn Together, The Proposal, and now we're watching Drop Dead Fred.  Today we had a talk about how we're movie people and he would call it a hobby.  Netflix is really a great investment for us, $8 per month for tons of TV and movies.  Sure, we don't get to choose from 300 channels and get to watch current shows, but we're also saving $92 month!

Finally, I finally got around to uploading some videos on YouTube.  Enjoy!







There's more, but you can just search for more videos by user if you want to see them.

Day 27: It Can Only Get Better [knock on wood]

We discovered today that the guy who has been rented our apartment isn't interested in any of the other properties.  So we have 2 weeks to find a new place to live.  BUT!  We really have to wait until Monday to start applying because there is still a chance we can stay.  There is someone in a 3 bedroom apartment moving out, and someone in a two bedroom apartment that wants a three bedroom apartment.  If they can both move early, then the guy who has our place will be given the two bedroom that would then be vacant.  We find out if this is possible on Monday.

We drove to DeSoto and found the perfect apartments, lots of space, washer/dryer hookups, close to the highway, and only $499 per month!  Turns out it is low income housing and. without even combining our incomes, I make too much for us to qualify.  The other apartments in DeSoto are a total dump - it's a white trash playground with street names like Sunshine Lane, Strawberry Road, and Blueberry Ave.  I'm not kidding.

In the afternoon, Eric went to work and I had Ashley come over to help me start packing and moving things to the storage unit that I just rented.  In ended up hailing while we were filling out paperwork for the storage unit, and Ashley got hit on the way to her car and ended up with a welt on her arm.

There was a really nice rainbow after the storm was over.

If you look at the very center of the picture, you can see her baby hail welt.

The evening went lots better.  I was sick, throwing up and a fever over 100, but we carried out our plans for a surprise "pool" party for Eric.  Lots of people joined us at The Pool Room for drinks and billiards.  I ended up going home sick after just a little while, but from what I hear everyone had a great time!

Eric's special shot

 Me losing, but only by one ball!

Day 26: Eric is 23!

We started out the day by waking up 2 hours late to join Tera at the Mass Street Sidewalk Sale, oops!  Luckily, she also woke up 2 hours late.  We ended up puttering around the house and watching Memento, which is a cool movie about a guy with no short term memory.  We all met up at the sidewalk sale later in the day - we got free water, I got my "Pay Heed All Who Enter: Beware of the Phog" banner [which semi completes my wall display], we bought Ashley a "I've got problems" t-shirt with a picture of a math book, and Tera and I both got KU championship hoodies for the UNHEARD OF price of $4!  Then we had the uber amazing lunch of Buffalo Wild Wings, having our usual - teriyaki wings with potato wedges.

Eric employs the "stab and pluck" method of eating wings and potato wedges.

Now I just need something to go on either side of the Pay Heed banner.

We did more hanging around the house and then went to visit Alison, Rob, and Zach to check out the size of their apartment, as their complex is on our list of potential homes.  Then we went to my families house to play with Mom, Ashley, and Andrew.  We played a few rounds of Apples to Apples and then went home.  Ah, no apartment drama today!

Andrew was collecting the cards for us :)

Day 25: New Super Mario Bros.

Tomorrow is Eric's 23rd birthday!  Woo!  To celebrate, I got him the New Super Mario Bros. for Wii.  He often wants me to play 2 player games on the PS3 with him, but I'm not terribly interested in the games.  I got this for him as a game that he wanted, and a way that we can game together! 

I wrapped it in a bunch of packaging and made him guess along the way...

A board game?

 A feather duster?

A movie/game?

As we were playing through, we both got a Yoshi and were very excited.  Then I sadly killed my yellow Yoshi.  A minute later in the same level, I found a PINK YOSHI!  And boy was I excited, I think Eric would describe my voice as shrieking "IGOTAPINKYOSHI!"

My pink Yoshi!  On the right

We also broke out the Eat Well Save Big Cookbook - we made Weeknight Ravioli Lasagna, priced at less than $2.15 per serving.  It's a layer of sauce, ravioli, more sauce, spinach, mozzarella, more ravioli, more sauce, and more mozzarella.  Delicious!

Day 24: Even Worse!

Soooo, I sent Eric to go talk with the apartment manager today and...we find out we're screwed.  They've lost the renewal notice that we signed and she claims that we never did - even though we did it at her desk, in front of her eyes.  This one lady losing a piece of paper mean that we are out on our asses in 17 days if we don't find a new place to live.  They have already leased our apartment to another family.

First - we've already bought checks with both our names on them [with my married name], and our new address.  Sad times if we have to spend another $10 on checks!

Second - apartment hunting sucks when you only have a week to find a place.  I say only a week because we have to move out/move in and get this place cleaned up by the 30th.  If we have to leave, we have to be out by the 30th.

Third - it may not be as bad as we think.  After I called and politely threatened to hire a lawyer, the manager called me back and said that they will be offering some other local properties to this family in place of our home.  Hopefully this family has some mercy on us and takes the offer.  We don't particularly want to live under such careless management, but we also don't want to leave our home.

Finally, this sucks.  That's it.  This sucks.

Second finally, Eric and I worked on our jug of wine tonight to ease the tension while we cleaned the house preparing for the worst... This involved lots of trash, laughing, and scrubbing.

Those are our "wine" faces!  And Mystic looks on stoically.

Addy refuses to participate in the fun without being forced to.

Day 23: A Tough Day

Nothing went terribly wrong today, but nothing really went right either.  I was hoping to change my name on my driver’s license and bank account today, but the mail with our marriage certificate didn’t come until after I’d left for work.  I got my new social security card in the mail on Saturday, and could have probably used just that.  But I was feeling ultimately tired and lazy today, so I didn’t get to it anyway.

That says Jessica Elyse Green!  

 Even though there are typos, we're still married!

I planned to order our thank you cards for the wedding this evening, but our photographer didn’t include the edited picture for it on the CD.  Along with that, I’m grumpy because some of the pictures I like have the tops of heads or bottoms of feet cut off, or the moment was missed [catching us right before a kiss and not during], parts are blurry, and most of the pictures are oriented horizontally and cut us off at the waist when I requested that they be vertical and catch us from head to toe.  Did anyone get a good picture of the “you may kiss the bride” kiss?  Because they didn’t.

 We reenacted the kiss, we're on the wrong sides because the picture is taken on a timer from the gazebo, so we were really on the correct sides.

We also found a “We’ll be inspecting your apartment on Wednesday to prepare for check out” note in the house.  We’ve now told them 3 times that WE AREN’T MOVING.  I have a copy of the signed notice that we aren’t leaving somewhere.  But in the craziness leading up to the wedding, I’ve got not a clue where it could be.

I also got an email saying that the letterbox that we placed on our wedding day is no longer where we planted it.  We're super bummed about that.  Lame.

 Sigh, no letterbox.  It should have been tucked in the bottom left corner.

Oh!  And I had Andrew’s clothes on the couch last night, and during the night Addy peed on them.  … and the pillow that I just put under my head.  I think I’m having her bladder removed.

FANTASTIC!  The State of Kansas spelled my godmother’s name and city wrong on the marriage certificate.  What the hell?  I may as well have Addy pee on this too.

In the end, Eric and I went out and confirmed that the letterbox is gone.  But we also went to Walmart and did some more talking about TV’s, it seems that we may be buying one on Thursday for Eric’s birthday!

Day 22: Shopping!

We were worried about hangovers and generally grogginess from celebrating Steven's 21st birthday, but Eric and I actually woke up pretty well.  We rushed out to Olathe to pick up my happy nephew, Andrew, and then back to Eudora so I could play and Eric could go to work.  Andrew and I played around the house for a few hours and then met Eric for lunch before going on a shopping adventure!

Andrew and auntie Jess!

Andrew and I returned duplicate wedding gifts and shopped for replacement gifts at Bed, Bath, & Beyond, Walmart, and Target.  I ended up getting a few things for my classroom, woo!  My new last name is Green, my favorite color is green, and...my classroom will be a little green.

I got a green rug for the tiny bit of floor I have, some green stackers to hold my pens and post its and such, a green fan because the room can get a bit stuffy, a green mirror to look at and to make the room look bigger, and a plan book and stickers!

When we got home, Andrew and I went for a walk.  About half a mile from home I started to feel sprinkles and started to walk faster.  It was perfectly sunny out, but that's because it was 7pm and the sun was shining UNDER the clouds that were about to pour.  Andrew and I made it home as the giant raindrops started pouring and the sky opened up.

Hard to tell in the pictures, but that's the sun and it's pouring outside!

Once Eric made it home we had some fun playing with Andrew before putting him to bed.  Then we made pasta and watched Zombieland, which I HIGHLY recommend.  It was very good!  Oh, and we also bought a 4 liter jug of wine yesterday, which is actually pretty tasty and went well with the pasta.

P.S. Gratuitous pictures of the cats!