These past few days have been insane. First off I was up at 2:30am on Friday morning. I ran out of packing tape around 6. There isn't a whole lot a girl can do when she runs out of tape and the boxes are completely broken down. I got the kids up and ready for school around 7. Had to haul butt to get them to school and head to ShampooBanana to pick up Firefighter. We had a little bit of time to kill so we walked around Target where I got this super cute sign for above one of the doorways in the Living room. Then over to Circuit City to wander about and see if any of the cameras were within in my small budget since the person I was supposed to buy one from off Craigslist had failed to contact me. I was at the register with a 40d and the guy calls. I politely ask the clerk to return the camera for me. I headed over to campus and picked me up a Canon 30d with a 50mm lens. I got it for cheap. It is pretty much new. He'd only had it a few months and just didn't use it. I'm in love with it and the lens. I have another lens on order right now along with a grip for the camera.
After that we headed home to finish up the packing. Shortly thereafter Pops showed up to help us out. He and Firefighter ran up and got us a very large Budget truck so that the move would be easier. Aunt T showed up next. We got everything packed up and in the truck by 4:30 or so. Headed out to our new house. We dropped off the truck and made plans to meet back up between 10:30 and 11pm to unpack.
Then came Firefighter's new toy. Firefighter, Aunt T, and I all went up north and picked up a pretty and shiny new to us 96 dodge ram long bed with very low miles for being a 13 year old truck. There was an ordeal behind this truck too. We had talked to the seller around 9am and confirmed that we'd meet up around 8:30 in Chi-town. Well we're headed up in that direction around 5:45 or so and Firefighter calls him, thankfully. The seller said oh well I'm getting ready to meet up with another person and sell it. Firefighter is LIVID as am I. We head back to ShampooBanana to get Firefighter's paycheck. We go get something to eat and contact another truck owner about coming to see it that night. We're in the drive through and the guy from the other truck calls. I got really crappy with him over the phone. He apologized profusely agreed to drive closer to us, by 45 minutes, and brought the price down a bit more. We got a stellar deal being that we got it for $1300 less than what the guy was originally asking :). Yup I'm awesome like that.
We got back home and started unpacking the truck. We had to have it turned back in by 9am or be charged for another day. We got done around 1 or 2 am returned the truck. Headed back over to the old house and try filled up the back of the truck with stuff from the garage. Aunt N helped unload the truck and picked up some stuff from the garage too and headed home.
All the while the truck is making a thumping noise in the drivers side front wheel well. We were watching it and being careful. Saturday morning we got back up and headed to P-town to empty out the garage. We made one full trip and on the way back for the 2nd trip I notice that the wheel is getting wobbly. I'm following in the van incase you're wondering how I saw that. We're approaching a bridge in town and the wheel was looking like it was going to pop off at any point. Firefighter pulls over and I look at it. One of the studs for the tire(where the lug nut goes if you don't know what I'm talking about) was broken off. All of the lugnuts were extremely loose. Had he gone much farther the wheel would've fallen off and it would've been ugly. He tightened all of them up and voila it was all better. No more thump. We think that someone didn't tighten it all the way with the work the previous owner put into it.
We then finish up the loading up and head it back over to the new house. We unload it all and head to Shampoo Banana since Firefighter had to work that night on call. We did a little shopping for the new house that night. Like curtains for the living room and a new tv stand. We also got new bowls for the kitchen and new glasses too.
Since then it's been nonstop unpacking and me trying to catch up on sleep since I hardly slept on Saturday night too.

We do have dialup right now and our good internet will be installed on Friday, or so it's supposed to be. Until then the updates with photos may be scarce. I totally plan on hitting up the backyard one nice day soon. Should've yesterday but didn't because I'd been unpacking.

I apparently don't even have the option to add photos right now any ways. That bites. I will have them up on Friday

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