You're not going to belive what happened now!

So, let me start at the beginning.........I was born%&^&#$@, wait that's too far back.
The fun(?) starts the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Lynn and I arrive home and get the mail which includes a letter from our Landlady(I won't write what we really call her)saying that as of Jan. 1st 2010 are rent will increase by $500! WHAT? We have 2 options......
1. we can sign a 6 month lease or
2. we can just go month to month and can we please let her know by Dec. 5th.

We went with option 3.......see ya!

So instead of celebration Thanksgiving, and decorating the house for Christmas(which we do every Thanksgiving weekend) we started packing the house.

We have lived there for the past 6 years so there is a lot of stuff to do.

1. we get a storage shed since we have to be out on the 31st and so far we have no where to move to, so start making boxes to go to the shed.
2. make a pile of stuff to give to goodwill
3. make a HUGE pile of stuff to just take to the dump

So we start looking for a new place....in December.....in the snow.........when no one is looking to move and there is not a lot of options for places.

Lynn is checking out Craig's list everyday and I contact a Mom at my school who is a real estate agent for some possibilities.

We are really stuck, we have some great friends who let us know that we could totally move in with them if we need to, but we still need to get our stuff out!
We got lucky and found a great place 2 blocks from Lynn's office! OK one problem solved! If it was only that easy, the couple living up there now bought a house so we can move in when they close on their house and move out. (cause that always goes smoothly). They were going to close two days before Christmas (we hope) but we still don't know if they are out or not.

Now in the midst(is that how you spell that?) of all this we had already planned to rent a car and head out to Wisconsin for Christmas with Lynn's family. Do we go? Do we stay? Do we start pulling our hair out? Did we run out of options?

Well, here is the plan as of right now.......we came to Wisconsin(I'll write about that trip later) Our house is all packed up. We leave to drive home today(Monday Dec, 28th) and we move Wednesday Dec. 30th.

I'm just sure everything will turn out just right and there will be no problems at all with the move or anything else..........

....as long as...........
the other couple has moved out..........
we don't get trapped by weather on the way home.........
we can't get moved............
my head doesn't explode!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So now that you are all caught up, is anyone else tired!

Nanner

P.S. Most of the trips to the storage shed have been done with the Honda! Only 7 or 8 boxes will fit in the Honda at one time. Fun times!