OK.  So.  Update time.  Except… there is a whole shit ton of updating that could be done.  I mean, an entire WEEK filled with packing up, two day road trip, unpacking, etc. etc. etc. - all that has yet to be immortalized in blogarita.

And although I have been agonizing for the past few days about how to fill you all in - do I simply tell you the funny stories about rednecks and traffic and holy hell did you know the pervert capital of the world is in Georgia?!  and they have SIGNS?!  Or do I fill you in, once again, on all the fear and the crying and the doubt and the sudden urges to get in the car and drive home?  and how “home” is nowhere near here?!

Unfortunately, there is just too much ground to be covered, and I won’t feel like I’m able to resume normal blogging until I get the list of shit in my head out.  So.  You get bullets (along with, quite possibly, the longest introduction to a bullet post ever)…

• I still have no furniture.  And honestly?  I was starting to freak out about it because no furniture means no place to sit and watch TV, but it also means no place to put loads of stuff away.  Hence - a “great room” still full of great big boxes.  Besides, I don’t even have some college left over I can “make do” with in the mean time.
• I am planning to go buy this furniture today.
• I haven’t taken any pictures to send back to anyone yet - and I didn’t take any on the road - because I discovered my battery was dead.  I bought new ones yesterday at the Target (which is not the same as a Super Target. At all.), but I still haven’t put them into the camera.  I will.  Soon.  I promise.
• I know where the Target is!  And the Super-Walmart, Home Depot, Lowe’s, China Star, Winn-Dixie and Devin’s school.  I also know how to get directly to Adam’s house.
• That is pretty much ALL I know about how to get anywhere here.  I’m terrified to leave my house because of it.
• The kids were good as GOLD on the way down here.  Seriously.  Barely a peep out of them (except for the projectile vomitting from Emma, which was really very quiet as well) and no complaining or whining the entire way.  Two days in the car and they were PHENOMENAL.
• Now?  They are being total and absolute shits.  Both of them.  One with the arguing and the not listening.  The other with the CONSTANT whining and crying.  Dear. God.  If they make it through the weekend I should get an award.
• I FINALLY have lights.  In the living room, our bedroom, and one of the other bedrooms.  I spent over $500 on fucking CEILING FANS - which was less than I expected but still feels like a holy shit hell lot of money for fans and lights.
• I do not, however, have a fucking REFRIGERATOR!  Yeah.  Brand new fridge, doesn’t work.  People coming to fix it? Ohhh… maybe Friday.  An entire WEEK after we’ve moved in.
• Honestly, I’m not that upset about the fridge.  We’ve been eating out a ton, and it would be nice to be able to grocery shop and feel a little more “normal”, but whatever.  I’m way more annoyed by my cheap ass dishwasher that blocks all the fucking cupboards and the stove when it’s opened.
• Oooh - speaking of appliances.  I got a new washer and dryer.  I can’t find an exact picture of them online but they are LG front loading fancy schmancy shit ones.  I am SOOOO stoked because I wasn’t planning on spending enough money on a washer and dryer to get anything fancy or remotely high end.  But there is this awesome place here (apparently they are more than just here) called Appliance Direct and we got the entire set for less than $800!!!  I saw my washer across the street for more than that, for JUST the washer!  I’m so stoked.
• That reminds me, I need to do laundry.  I probably won’t watch the spin cycle this time.
• I cried like a baby when my best friend and little brother left.  I still can’t picture my brother’s face without tearing up.  It feels like my heart has been ripped from my chest and is just out there, wandering around in the world somewhere and I never know when it’s going to be nicked next.  I really hope he comes to visit.
• I am still terrified.  By the overwhelming sense of loss that hangs out just at the edge of my mind.  By the ginormous unknown that still looms ahead of me.  By the nagging question of doubt, a looming fear that I made the wrong choice.
• However, last night Avitable picked me up after the kids went to bed and drove me about a half an hour to the edge of the world.  We stood on the beach in complete darkness and squinted towards the horizon, trying to figure out where the Earth stopped and the Heavens began (well, that was mainly me - I think he was trying to see down my shirt).  It was odd to think this was where I lived.  In fact, what I kept thinking was “this is a pretty cool vacation”.

So.  There you have it.  You’re pretty much up to speed and hopefully tomorrow will be another step towards normalcy with a half ass normal blog post.

We shall see.

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