Plague of...grasshoppers?

Where have you guys been??

I miss you all so much!

Oh yeah, I'm the absentee blogger. Figures I can't blame it on everyone else...damn.

Well, here I am in Utah. It's hot, dry and there's some crazy grasshopper infestation. I'm not crazy about taking the credit for that, but it is the worst one in like, 10 years, I think...at least they aren't mutant, zombie grasshoppers!

or are they...?

Anyhow, I've been working like a crazy(er) person. I guess in the whole packing and moving in two weeks mess, I didn't really consider what it was going to mean to go back to work full time. That's a lot of damned hours. And it's much easier in theory than in real life. And there is a lot of crying (AJ too, it isn't ALL me)
I actually worked until 3am on Saturday night. Do you know how long it's been since I've been awake at 3am? A hotbed of excitement, I am not.

Hubby is still back in Oregon, packing up the house (poor thing, he got all the hard work). We are hoping he might be here by Thursday. He and the boy miss each other so much. We call him every night at bedtime and talk on the speaker phone. It's pretty sad. I don't think the boy is very happy about this long-distance family thing.

All-in-all, things seem to be going ok. I'm not super crazy about leaving my boy so much, but working is good, right? The adjustment will be easier when Daddy shows up...

Hows the reception from here? Do I sound different?

Awesome Giveaway! No, not mine...

I interrupt my regularly scheduled whine about moving, packing and relatives and the hell it is all causing my social bloggy life...to tell you about this...

A completely fabulous Mommy, The Meanest Mom is having a wonderful giveaway featuring one of the greatest products! Now, you all know I get excited over the smallest, shiniest things - -but this isn't even shiny! But it is recycled -and I love me some stuff that is "earff friendly".

Paper Culture sells 100% recycled cards and announcements and they are SO unique. I dare you to not find something you love (did ya follow that thought?).

I would make this all pretty with pictures of their cards and all - BUT go see Jana - all you have to do is leave a comment on her post to enter her giveaway... she has the real goods. And if you haven't been there before (which I find inconceivable!! Anyone else get a Princess Bride flashback, just now?) hang around and go through her drawers and read all her stuff. She is funny as hell!

(and if anyone is stumped as to what to get me for a gift...I'm totally digging those moving announcements with the school of fish!!)

Confessions of the easily distracted...

Well, Hello everybody!! (waving frantically)

Miss me?

You and me both.

Some of you thought I got lost in Utah. Some of you thought Donny Osmond carried me off (I looked everywhere for him, but he seems stalker proof - -ptthfff) **(Wait, am I the only one around here old enough to have had a huge crush on him, back in the day?)
Anyway, I suppose I owe all of you an explanation about what's going on...

While in Utah (thanks for coming with me, you guys! But I want my fuzzy sox back, Amy and Rambler- you left a bunch of bottles under the seat!! One was still full) my real-life BFF offered me a job. A real job. A full time job. Doing what I used to do before I gave up my job to raise my grandfather (and eventually my son). But that isn't the news. I've turned that job down plenty of times...

Hubby got offered a great job! It has been so hard for him, being unemployed. I know there are so many people in the same position, so many people unable to provide for their families. My husband is a mover, a doer. He hates sitting around. He hates that we have no insurance, that the future is uncertain. That, if he got hurt doing a side job, we could have a serious problem. So this job is a chance to take care of our family...it's a wonderful offer...

BUT:



We have to sell my house, leave my job, my family, my Grandmas...everything. (Yes. It IS all about me)
My beautiful kitchen, my garden, my roses, my fruit trees, my beautiful kitchen...sniff-sniff.

This has all happened so quickly. We got home from Utah last Sunday and signed the final sales agreement for the house yesterday. Not bad for a weeks work. I have had heartburn for days.



We are both exhausted, grumpy and stressed out. My bosses are freaking out, Gramma is freaking out, our future bosses are freaking out (maybe just a tiny bit) and my real estate guy sucks.

Moving back to Utah...yeah...I think I'm losing my mind. (and my mother is coming to visit. Tomorrow... help me...)

I guess my excuse for not writing is that I'm not really sure how I feel about all of this. My hubby is so very excited...he has family there. It's going home for him. It's leaving home for me, and I feel really guilty about leaving the Grammas. I just couldn't think of what to say...

I've missed you guys! We have a POD coming on Friday.

Anybody have any good moving advice?