Only FIVE MORE DAYS!!

My heart is fluttering with excitement and my grin is wider than a Cheshire Cat's as we are counting down the last few days until our move.  It is happening so fast, and yet not nearly fast enough!

Last night I finally parted with some of Ornery's hard earned cash to buy some new (green!) sheets for our bed and some dishes at JC Penney's. We ended up with six green large square dinner plates, ten small square salad/snack plates that are white with green leaves on them, and eight small square green bowls.  We first looked at Pier 1 Imports to see if we liked any of those dishes better, but after seeing them in person, the pattern I thought I liked from the photos online didn't appeal. I did find some fun table linens there that I might go back and pick up later, though.  Pier 1 has a lot of brightly colored things that appeal to me.

I didn't end up finishing the kitchen yesterday as I had planned.  I did get the water hook-up taken care of after wandering all over downtown Broken Arrow getting frustrated at the woman who told me where the utilities office was.  She said it was on Detroit, it turned out to be on Dallas, which is about four blocks away. The city provides four large rolls of trash bags for each house each year, but all trash must be bagged, so I guess they figured they should provide that for you... It's a nice idea.  They are much more restrictive about the trash they are willing to haul, which means you have to figure out some other way to get rid of things.

I am pretty sure after we get moved we will be trading in the heap Jeep for a pick-up truck. Every day when Ornery goes to work I cross my fingers that he'll make it there and back without incident and that we can trade it off before the thing falls apart completely.  The van isn't in much better condition, but it has about 1/2 as many miles on it, so we are hoping it will last another year or two.

My sister in AZ made an offer on a house and it was accepted last night, so they will be moving in 6-8 weeks, depending on when the buyer of their old house closes that deal. They hope to be able to lay some tile and do a few other things to it before they move in.  It seems like 2011 is the year for lots of people to shuffle their stuff!