All of my fur babies have now found new homes. I’m glad I could get it done before we move and it’s wonderful not to have to worry about them, like I would have had I handed them to the SPCA. And to “celebrate” I’m posting pictures:

Lani <3

Ash

Ada

Xuxu

Batgirl

Alabastor

I hope they are all happy in their new homes and that they never have to be separated from their humans again.

So, it’s a known fact that I’m a total fat ass. lol (What a nice way to start a post right?) And any time I say that to people not close to me they are always, “aww no you aren’t!” Well I’m here to tell you, yes I bloody well am. I don’t look as heavy as I am, which is good, but I’m only five feet tall and I weigh 175 pounds.

Seven years ago when I got married I weighed 114 pounds. Since then cooking and baking and most of all stress and depression have sent me into the obese zone. And I’ve waited far too long to seriously work on losing the weight. I’d like to be down to 130 by the time I go to Japan, which is asking a lot but I think it’s possible. More than working out though I need to continue working on managing my stress, which is very hard to do all the time.

For workouts lately I’ve been making very good use of my Wii. Last week I kinda slacked off on my 7 day challenge and only did three days, but yesterday I started a new challenge at the higher level – the 21000 point one. Each day is 3000 points which translates roughly into about 720 calories. And seeing as the Wii version only tracks your one hand you could technically be burning a lot more. And I don’t slack with the dancing, cause I love it – all my limbs are moving with the video. (Proven by the fact that all my limbs are sore today!)

I also drank a full gallon of water yesterday and am well on my way to doing that again today. The water is actually harder than the working out, to me at least since I just have to force myself to do it. I really hope it will just become a habit but we’ll see.

Here’s to getting back in shape so I can confidently walk around my house naked again, ahahahahah!

That’s what life feels like these days, a series of hurdles. We’re in the last legs of our house selling and the last thing that needs to be solved is the lien holders. We have lawyers on it but  like all creditors, they are being a pain in the ass. They don’t seem to understand that there is X amount of money to split between the two and that’s all there is. And they seem to think we won’t just foreclose if they don’t figure it out (in which case they will each get a big fat ZERO dollars).

Assuming all of it gets worked out, we get to close at the end of the month. I have a few places that we can go check out for living arrangements between the sale and our move out of the area. Luckily some people actually responded after all those emails and such so I wasn’t left hanging out to dry. The next big hurdle is setting up all the moving stuff. It’s going to be a joy, I’m sure, since it’s gotta go through the military. They like to make everything a lot more complicated than it needs to be.

For instance, I apparently need to get a brown passport in addition to the blue one I have now -_- which is just dumb. You’d think my tourist one would be sufficient but whatever. Luckily that didn’t take much work and we’ll be finishing up the paperwork tomorrow.

Oh! And I’m happy to say that tomorrow the Navy Wives group is meeting yet again. The group doesn’t look very big this time from the RSVPs but there is one person who wasn’t at the last two so that’s good :) I’m glad this is becoming a weekly thing and that I’m getting to know some of them better. Sucks I couldn’t meet them years ago when I first started living here, but better late than never right? Hopefully I’ll be keeping in touch with them when I leave, we’ve already done the whole Facebook thing :P

Today a lady came and took Alabastor, my deaf cat. She’s taking him as a ‘trial run’ in case he doesn’t mesh with her cats but apparently everything went well and there are no incidents thus far. I’m really hoping she keeps him permanently. She has a cat similar to him that she had to put down recently so she’s dealt with cats with disabilities before, and she’s trying to fill the void that it left I’m sure. There’s another lady coming to see one of the other cats this week too so hopefully I’ll be down to just one by the end of the week!

I love my babies but they need homes, asap. I can’t take them with me and I want to make sure they get to good homes before I leave the area. Wish me luck eh?

Monday I had a great day, despite waking up at midnight. I played some Imperian and some Harvest Moon (yes, still addicted) until Joshua woke up and was out of the shower. I spent time with him helping him get ready for work and then set about cleaning the upstairs. I gathered up and washed dishes, swept and mopped the floors, vacuumed, and dusted/cleaned up all the surface stuff. Oh and I cleaned the litter boxes. Sometime in the middle of that I squeezed in an episode of Real Time for a break.

After all that I took a short breather, showered, and got dressed. At 10 I had a MeetUp with the Navy Wives group at one of the Starbucks down in Ghent. Seven of the nine girls that RSVP’d showed up, which is a pretty darn good turn out. We had a good time talking and drinking. After a bit people started leaving and it dwindled down to just me and two others. I ended up going to lunch at Panera with one, and her adorable 7 week old munchkin, which lasted quite a while. It was 3 before I got back home and settled.

Unfortunately all the cleaning and then biking in the cold air made my asthma go bonkers. I don’t usually have issues with it but those are two things that cause it to act up and I combined them. So my lungs were very unhappy. I ended up taking a nap to try and fend it off but that didn’t work. By the time it was bedtime I was wheezy and miserable. (I really need to get an inhaler…)

Then yesterday I was just sore and ick all day. My eyes were itchy and raw, my lungs were still angry, my body was sore from pushing it on the bike, and my back was killing me (caaause I’m in lovely PMDD time now). So really nothing got done yesterday until Josh came home and took me to the store for groceries and whatnot. The only thing I did was shave my cat’s neck/shoulders and bathe her to get rid of these flea bites. And I gave them a new dose of Advantage last night (and bought a little hoody for my shaved cat cause she is so tiny and always cold! She seems to be quite happy wearing it too lol).

I really, really hate this whole flea thing. I cannot get rid of them and we’ve tried everything but bombs. :(

Anyhow, I’m feeling a bit better today. I woke up around midnight again (I still can’t get more than 5 hours at a time) and I’ve been working on a bunch of different things since then. I have laundry going and I took out the huge amount of recycling – which filled the whole container. I have dishes to wash and a load of towels after the clothes are done. After that I’m done for today.

I need to vacuum and sweep downstairs but I’m saving that for tomorrow. We have the home inspector coming tomorrow afternoon and I’m keeping my fingers crossed that nothing comes up that would get in the way of our house sale. We’re in the very last steps of the process and I swear I’ll go mad if something pops up to make it take any longer >_< I mean, it would be convenient to stay in the house till the end of March (cause then I wouldn’t have to move out till I move to Texas) but I want this house sold already.

We’re doing the coffee meetup again next Monday, cept we’re going to Panera instead since Starbucks is way too small and Panera is a much better venue. And I have knitting group tonight, where I’ll be working more on my Geisha cross stitch. So I happily have things outside the house to do so I don’t turn into a crazy hermit again.

So, things are calm on the exterior but in my head everything is a whirl. I have so many things to do it’s just not funny. On top of that I’ve been keeping an awkward schedule because of my current inability to sleep longer than a couple hours at a time without either tossing like a mad man or waking up feeling like someone microwaved my brain. And try as I might, forcing myself to keep a schedule hasn’t worked because I get frustrated trying desperately to go back to bed.

We are in the final stages of selling our home. The bank now has everything they need, or so I’ve been told, and they should be finished with their end of the matter soon. While the close date isn’t “scheduled” to be till the end of February, my Realtor says mid-February is more likely. The man buying my home is in a rush and has already had to wait longer than he wanted because of the endless paperwork. But it should give him enough time to flip the house before Fall, which is  prime time for renting to new students.

In the meantime… I have to find a place for Joshua and I to live till April. A very short time span to be quite frank but there are places around here that do month to month, one in particular I am interested in checking out – which I should set up this weekend. In addition to that I have to get things figured out for what we want to put in long term storage, whatever paperwork we may have to fill out with the military to do that properly, and figure out the other moving stuff for the items we are taking with us to Japan.

I have to move three times essentially. I have to move out of this house and into an apartment, then move from there to my mom’s, and then from my mom’s to Japan! And when I get there I’ll be in a hotel/lodge for hopefully only a week or two before we find accommodations off base. And no, I’m not at all scared or worried about living out in Japan :) In fact I’m absolutely trilled to have the opportunity.

Also…. MY SISTER IS FINALLY GETTING MARRIED!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now, I say finally because it’s taken her a long time to find Mr. Right and she’s eight years older than me. In March I am celebrating seven years of marriage and in May I will finally get to be my big sisters maid of honor! And guess where the wedding is going to be?! On a cruise ship to the Bahamas! WOooooooOOoOOo!! I’ve never been on a cruise and it’s going to be so much fun to spend a whole week with all my female family (poor big bro doesn’t get to be there cause of military training, bah!). My sister picked out her wedding gown Monday, which she reported was a very lovely experience with my mom which is always good to hear :) I wish I could have been there but I got text messages and pictures so it’s okay.

What I’m really glad about is being able to spend good time with them doing fun things before I leave the country. Being on the East Coast while they were elsewhere has been hard enough so I can only imagine what it will be like to have half a continent PLUS an entire ocean between us.

Anyhow, I am waiting for my husband to wake up so I can join in on the showering (which is mostly sitting there half asleep normally, lol) before I lay down and take a nap. I am going to force myself to wake up at a decent hour (8 or 9, so 4 or 5 hours rest) so that I can run some errands. I have to go get my INH meds from the pharmacy near base and I’m going to see about having my eyes checked (I’m pretty sure they’ve gotten worse) and then it’s down to the dentist to pick up a new tube of toothpaste (special kind, obviously) and make an appointment. All that will take most of the daylight hours since I have to ride the bus up to the base for my meds and public transportation around here takes forever. Thankfully for the eye doctor and dentist I’ll have my bike.

I’m also horribly addicted to Harvest Moon on the Wii now. I borrowed it from my friend and I’ve been playing it a few hours every night lately. I’ve also gotten back into Imperian and WoW, and of course I’m still playing League of Legends too. Luckily it’s not interfering with anything. It’s just keeping me occupied when I can’t sleep.